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At the 7th World Workshop on Oral Health & Disease in AIDS, participants considered the effects of HIV on the mouth and the challenges it places on oral and general health care and accepted that: people with HIV are doubly disadvantaged with respect to oral health; first, because oral disease is a cause of considerable morbidity in people with HIV, and second, because the infection acts as a barrier to all aspects of health care.
Oral health services play an essential role in promoting and maintaining the general and oral health of people with HIV. However, the Workshop was concerned about shortfalls in the provision of oral health care to this population group and calls for it to be enhanced, in accordance with the following principles.
Principles and goals
- Oral health care for people with HIV should:
- Be made universally and equitably accessible;
- Be free from prejudice or discrimination;
- Be based on evidence-based, socially acceptable methods and appropriate technology;
- Be efficient and affordable at a cost that the country, community and individuals can afford;
- Be designed – and where necessary re-oriented – to focus on its capacity to deliver health benefit;
- Engage the full participation of the individuals and communities it serves in a spirit of empowerment and accountability.
Actions and responsibilities
These goals lay responsibilities on oral healthcare workers to ensure the appropriateness of care and act as advocates for the oral health of people with HIV. In common with all healthcare workers, they are responsible for ensuring prevention of HIV infection in the population at large.
In view of the shared determinants and common risk factors between HIV and other diseases, both infectious and non-communicable, it is imperative that oral healthcare workers work in partnership with colleagues in other disciplines. All healthcare professionals must be made aware of the contribution that can be made by those who work in oral health.
Dental professionals have a responsibility to identify and address gaps in knowledge and ensure the dissemination and implementation of effective interventions to improve health and health care.
Dental organizations, regulators and Governments have additional responsibilities to demonstrate leadership and advocacy for the oral health of all individuals and populations by recognizing inequalities and taking appropriate action.
"it is imperative that oral healthcare workers work in partnership with colleagues in other disciplines"
SJ Challacombe1,2, AR Tappuni1,3, K Ranganathan1,4, PG Robinson5, DM Williams3, NW Johnson6
- Co-Chairpersons of 7th World Workshop on Oral Health & Disease in AIDS;
- King’s College London, UK;
- Queen Mary University of London, UK;
- Ragas Dental College, Chennai, India;
- University of Sheffield, UK;
- Griffith University, Australia
Oral Diseases (2016) 22 (Suppl. 1), 7 doi:10.1111/odi.12427 © 2016 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd All rights reserved

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Manufacturing of India's Dhanush artillery guns has begun with the receipt of bulk production clearance (BPC) from the Indian army.
The total worth of 144 Dhanush guns is estimated to be of $19.8 million with an option to acquire up to 414 guns based on operational performance, The Indian Express reported today.
Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur plans to supply 6 guns within 6 months, another 12 within 12 months and another 36 guns within 24 months. This was decided at the OFB’s General Managers’ strategic conference held last month. However, it raises questions about the army’s plans to get all 144 guns from the OFB within three years.
The Ordnance Factories Board (OFB), an industrial organisation that functions under the Department of Defence Production of Indian Ministry of Defence, has started the production of indigenous artillery gun. It had been waiting for the BPC from the army to start production after Dhanush successfully passed evaluation by the Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA) and the Maintainability Evaluation Trial.
As per its Field Artillery Rationalisation Plan, army needs to buy 2,820 artillery guns of various types to replace obsolete guns and equip new units.
OFB stated that the indigenous howitzer is better than the original Swedish gun in range, accuracy, reliability and ‘shoot-and-scoot’ capabilities. Bofors is a 155 mm/39 calibre gun, whereas Dhanush is a 155 mm/45 calibre. The enhanced calibre imparts a longer firing range.
Dhanush gun is based on the design and manufacturing technology obtained from Bofors in the 1980s.
Indian Army is expected to receive 114 upgraded version of indigenous gun Dhanush in three years for an approximate US $251 million (1600 crore). “The Armys quest for new artillery is nearing completion with the indigenous gun upgraded by the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) clearing trials
Indias indigenously designed and manufactured 155mm x 45mm caliber artillery gun, Dhanush has successfully met all technical parameters during the winter and summer trials, Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar told at the Parliament today. Informing the Members of Parliament of the Consultative Committee attached to his Ministry, the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said
India has successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable ballistic missile Dhanush, from a naval ship off the Odisha coast on Saturday. During the testing, conducted as part of a navy training exercise, the surface-to-surface missile was test fired from a location at the Bay of Bengal, while the DRDO provided all logistic support to track the missile's flight path, according to The New Indian Express
The flying exercise missions of Indo-UK Air Exercise Indradhanush began today i.e
Dhanush, India's first long-range artillery gun is undergoing user trials in Himalayas. A total of six guns are being tested by the Indian Army under the aegis of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps and the Leh-based 14 Corps
India will start manufacturing the 155mm towed howitzer, Dhanush by year end and will be better than Bofors gun, Indian Defense Minister said. “For 36 years there was no gun prepared for India
Indias indigenously-developed 155mm artillery gun ‘Dhanush is set to be handed over to the army in November. This would be the first artillery gun to be inducted since the Bofors scandal of 1987
The Indian Army is likely to place a US $190 million order for 114 upgraded version of indigenous Dhanush artillery gun under the first phase if results of confirmatory trails are positive. “Dhanush has entered confirmatory trials that will last till early next year
Kineco Kaman Composites India (KKCI) has successfully delivered 20 Composite Mission Consoles to BAE Systems for the Boeing P-8 maritime patrol aircraft. The Joint Venture Company between Kineco Group of Goa and Kaman Aerospace Group USA had earlier completed First Article Inspection phase of the composite console paving the way for this serial production
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Now that 2020 is over, and vaccines are available to everyone in the US, and about half of the population is already vaccinated, we’re all beginning to relax just a little bit more. Seeing bare faces is becoming the norm again and it’s nice to be able to gather with friends and family to celebrate all of life’s seasons. Knowing your COVID risk could have a serious impact on how you congregate.
While this return to normalcy isn’t entirely unwarranted, we must be aware that the fight against the COVID virus is still ongoing. In fact, just in March of 2021, COVID cases rose by 20% across the US. This may partially be due to a misunderstanding of what vaccines can actually do for us. Considering this strand of disease and these vaccines are still fairly new, it’s unknown whether or not vaccinated can still pass on the virus. Not only that, but it will take months and a 70-85% vaccinated population to ensure herd immunity.
With these limitations to even the best vaccine, many epidemiologists are predicting that first generation vaccines will be ineffective against mutated strains of the virus by 2022. They’re predicting that a new round of altered vaccines will be required before we truly have herd immunity.
This all may sound like more doom and gloom, but there is another path we can take to squelch the virus, in addition to getting vaccinated. That path is to become educated as to the risks we face as individuals, and to follow recommended precautions accordingly.
Since the onset of the pandemic there have been certain factors that inherently increase the risk of contracting severe disease for certain individuals. Some of these factors are chronic lung disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and dementia, among other things. Knowing our individual risks will give us the ability to use more or less precautions based on the amount of risk we are personally willing to take.
Unfortunately, many individuals have been miscatagorized regarding their risk levels, but now there’s a COVID risk assessment kit that can be taken at home, with results and a detailed report returning in 5-7 days. It’s important to remember that our individual actions are still making an impact on the “herd.” Do you know your risks?


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CircleCi, a software company whose products are popular with developers and software engineers, confirmed that some customers’ data was stolen in a data breach last month.
The company said in a detailed blog post on Friday that it identified the intruder’s initial point of access as an employee’s laptop that was compromised with malware, allowing the theft of session tokens used to keep the employee logged in to certain applications, even though their access was protected with two-factor authentication.
The company took the blame for the compromise, calling it a “systems failure,” adding that its antivirus software failed to detect the token-stealing malware on the employee’s laptop.
Session tokens allow a user to stay logged in without having to keep re-entering their password or re-authorizing using two-factor authentication each time. But a stolen session token allows an intruder to gain the same access as the account holder without needing their password or two-factor code. As such, it can be difficult to differentiate between a session token of the account owner, or a hacker who stole the token.
CircleCi said the theft of the session token allowed the cybercriminals to impersonate the employee and gain access to some of the company’s production systems, which store customer data.
“Because the targeted employee had privileges to generate production access tokens as part of the employee’s regular duties, the unauthorized third party was able to access and exfiltrate data from a subset of databases and stores, including customer environment variables, tokens, and keys,” said Rob Zuber, the company’s chief technology officer. Zuber said the intruders had access from December 16 through January 4.
Zuber said that while customer data was encrypted, the cybercriminals also obtained the encryption keys able to decrypt customer data. “We encourage customers who have yet to take action to do so in order to prevent unauthorized access to third-party systems and stores,” Zuber added.
Several customers have already informed CircleCi of unauthorized access to their systems, Zuber said.
The post-mortem comes days after the company warned customers to rotate “any and all secrets” stored in its platform, fearing that hackers had stolen its customers’ code and other sensitive secrets used for access to other applications and services.
Zuber said that CircleCi employees who retain access to production systems “have added additional step-up authentication steps and controls,” which should prevent a repeat-incident, likely by way of using hardware security keys.
The initial point of access — the token-stealing on an employee’s laptop — bears some resemblance to how the password manager giant LastPass was hacked, which also involved an intruder targeting an employee’s device, though it’s not known if the two incidents are linked. LastPass confirmed in December that its customers’ encrypted password vaults were stolen in an earlier breach. LastPass said the intruders had initially compromised an employee’s device and account access, allowing them to break into LastPass’ internal developer environment.
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Six of the eleven types of Falcons found in North America have been spotted in Alaska. Four of these are regularly occurring (common) and two are rare or accidental species in the state. The common types are Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Gyrfalcon, and American Kestrel.
Falcons are small and incredibly fast birds of prey that have the honor of having the fastest and the smallest bird of prey in North America. The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest bird of prey and the American Kestrel is the smallest bird of prey. Also, the Gyrfalcon is the largest falcon in the world and it also lives in North America.
So there certainly are some top birds to spot if you like birds of prey.
With species of falcons on every continent, except Antarctica, these birds are a bird to be reconned with. They have amazing characteristics which make them unique.
Falcons have thin, tapered wings that enable them to fly faster than a cheetah and turn with immense speed. Their beaks have a special tomial ‘tooth’ that they use to kill their prey, instead of their talons like most birds of prey.
Falconry is the name given to hunting with captive-trained birds, which has been practiced for thousands of years. A common bird to use is a peregrine falcon.
Falcons are different than hawks as they belong to different families, hawks are Accipiter genus and falcons are Falco genus. Also, falcons are usually smaller and they have long thin wings rather than wide short wings like those of hawks. Falcons hunt in open spaces but hawks are often found in woodland.
Falcons in Alaska all year: Gyrfalcon
Falcons in Alaska in summer: Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, American Kestrel
Rare or accidental Falcons in Alaska: Eurasian Hobby, Eurasian Kestrel
So what are you waiting for, see how many falcons you can spot in Alaska.
6 Falcons in Alaska
Merlins spend the breeding season in Alaska but a few stay all year along the southern coast. They are recorded in 2% of summer checklists submitted by bird watchers for the state.
Merlins are small but fierce falcons that have as many as nine subspecies, three are in North America and the rest are in Europe and Asia. In North America, these three subspecies have varying degrees of coloration depending on their geographic location.
The Black Merlin, Pacific Northwest or Coastal Forest Merlins are very dark blue almost black with white or brown-streaked undersides. The Taiga Merlins have intermediate coloring and Prairie Merlins are the palest of the three.
They are all darker on the back and paler on the underside, but this may range from white to brown. They have small hooked bills and yellow skin at the base of their dark bills and around their dark eyes.
- Falco columbarius
- Length: 11 – 13 in (28 – 33 cm)
- Weight: 7.4 oz (210 g)
- Wingspan: 23 – 26 in (58 – 66 cm)
Merlins breed in Canada, Alaska, and northern US states before migrating into the rest of the US, and down into northern South America. They also breed in northern Europe and migrate to southern Europe and the Middle East for winter.
You can find Pacific Northwest Merlins in coastal areas, Prairie Merlins in open areas with shrubs, and Taiga Merlins near forested openings near water. Merlins are slowly moving into urban areas too.
Merlins are usually on the hunt for small birds, whichever has the most supply in their habitat. They attack from the air, chasing their prey at high speed until their prey becomes exhausted.
Breeding pairs also hunt together, with one bird flushing out prey from the ground and the other catching the disturbed prey from above. They will also supplement their main diet with other animals like insects and reptiles.
Nests of Merlins are mostly in cliffs and tree cavities without the adults adding any material to them. Sometimes, they will use abandoned birds’ nests. What’s important for Merlins is that they be able to see over their territory. The female lays four to five eggs and will incubate them for about a month.
Fun Fact: Merlins were once known as “Pigeon Hawk” in North America.
2. Peregrine Falcon
Peregrine Falcons are most common in Alaska during the breeding season from April to October but a few of them are also spotted along the southern coast all year. They appear in 1% of summer checklists.
he Peregrine Falcon holds several distinctions. It is known as the fastest bird in the world, the fastest of all animals, and it is also the world’s most widespread raptor.
Peregrine Falcons are dark on the back and lighter underneath and they appear to have dark gray to black hoods on their heads. Their tails are bluish-black with bars, a black tip, and white rims. They have yellow legs and feet.
They have predominantly dark heads with bright yellow earrings, yellow ceres (base of the bill), and gray-to-black hooked bills. Their backs and wings are bluish-black with faint barring and black wingtips. Their underwings, flanks, bellies, and thighs are heavily barred with black and white.
Their throats and breasts may be all-white but sometimes they are spotted or barred.
Females are larger but similarly colored as the males. Juveniles generally have brown coloring and they have heavily streaked underneath. Their eyerings and ceres are also bluish, instead of yellow.
- Falco peregrinus
- Length: 16 – 20 in (41 – 51 cm)
- Weight: 52.91 oz (1499 g)
- Wingspan: 43 – 46 in (109 – 117 cm)
Peregrine Falcons are widespread throughout the world. In North America they breed predominantly in the arctic and migrate to coastal and southern states.
You can find Peregrine Falcons anywhere in the world except Antarctica. They prefer mountain ranges, open landscapes with cliffs, along rivers and coastlines, and more recently, in urban areas. Generally, they will stay in habitats that have an abundant supply of prey.
Peregrine Falcons are expert hunters, dive-bombing birds, practically any size, at extremely high speeds. Their typical prey include ducks, pigeons, jays, larks, ptarmigans, and starlings. On occasion, they may kill and eat bats and sometimes steal prey like fish and rodents from other hunting birds.
Peregrine Falcon Call:
Nests of Peregrine Falcons are usually on cliff ledges, up to 1,300 feet high. In urban areas, they are mostly found on skyscrapers and tall bridges. In other regions, they use tree hollows for nests.
Typical nests are scrapes where the female “scrapes” a depression in the earth (either soil, sand, or gravel) and where she lays two to six eggs. Both parents take turns incubating the eggs for as many as thirty-three days with the male taking the day shift and the female at night.
Fun Fact: The Peregrine Falcon was considered an Endangered Species from the 1950s to the 1970s because of DDT poisoning. When this pesticide was banned, the species began to thrive again. Today, it’s considered a species of Least Concern.
Gyrfalcons are spotted all year along the coast of Alaska but they are most common from mid-May to November.
Gyrfalcons are the largest Falcons and are apex predators of the Arctic, where they snatch birds from the sky or dive at great speed to catch unsuspecting prey from the ground.
Their coloring varies greatly but generally has three morphs – white, silver/gray, and dark. Silver/gray is most common in North America
The silver/gray morphs are heavily banded gray and white on their upperparts but some are mostly gray without obvious banding. Their underparts are evenly spotted and white at the throat. Juveniles have solid dark heads and are browner overall.
The White morphs of Gyrfalcons are white with brown/black barring on their upperparts with dark wingtips and a white tail. Some birds have barring on their tails and spots on their breasts. Juveniles are similar but have more barring on their upperparts but have faint streaks on their underparts.
- Falco rusticolus
- Length: 20 – 25 in (51 – 64 cm)
- Weight: 41.6 oz (1179 g)
- Wingspan: 48 – 64 in (122 – 163 cm)
Gyrfalcons breed in the high arctic of Canada before migrating south across Canada and northern US states, those that breed further south in the arctic remain all year. They are also found in Europe.
You can find Gyrfalcons in one of the harshest places on earth, the arctic tundra. They usually stay on cliffs near shorelines or rivers and with a vast open space where they can easily hunt prey. When they migrate during the winter, they stay in areas with plenty of birds for them to hunt, like coasts, reservoirs, grasslands, farmlands, and river valleys.
Gyrfalcons primarily hunt ptarmigans and waterfowl but they also hunt and eat songbirds. Their diet is not limited to birds since they also prey on hares, ground squirrels, and arctic foxes.
They may hunt low by cruising near the ground to scare birds and animals and immediately grab them with their talons. When hunting while flying, they usually strike down their prey from above and let them fall to the ground. They will then retrieve it.
Nests of Gyrfalcons are often found on cliffs. They don’t build their own nests but instead make use of abandoned nests of other birds. The female lays up to five eggs and she incubates them for as many as thirty-six days.
Fun Fact: When the chicks aren’t able to finish off their meal, the female Gyrfalcon will keep or store their leftovers behind some vegetation to retrieve for later.
4. American Kestrel
American Kestrels are recognized as regularly occurring in Alaska and are spotted during the breeding season in the southeast of the state, mainly from April to September.
American Kestrels are the smallest and most colorful falcons in North America. Males and females have different colors and markings.
Adult Male American Kestrels have dark gray heads with varying amounts of rufous on the crown, white throats, blue-black bills, and unique vertical slashes on their white faces – one under their eyes and another behind their eyes. This is significant because most falcons only have one.
Their bellies and breasts are orange with brown spots, their backs are red-brown, their wings are blue-gray with white spotting, and they have yellow legs and feet. Their underwings appear spotted. Their tails are reddish-brown with one broad black band and a white tip.
Female American Kestrels share similar traits with the males – rufous crowns, gray heads, white faces, and two black vertical slashes on the face. They also both have two black spots at the back of their heads that deceives potential attackers when hunting from the rear.
However, female American Kestrels have a general rufous coloring, particularly on their backs and wings, and their barring is more pronounced. They have white bellies and breasts with rufous streaks. Their tails are also reddish-brown with many bars.
- Falco Sparverius
- Length: 9 – 12 in (23 – 30 cm)
- Weight: 3.9 oz (111 g)
- Wingspan: 20 – 25 in (51 – 64 cm)
American Kestrels are the most common falcon with seventeen subspecies living in varied environments and habitats across the Americas. With many subspecies, American Kestrels have plenty of regional variation in their coloring, markings, and vocalizations.
American Kestrels are found in North and South America. Those that breed in Canada migrate south for winter, but the rest remain resident all year.
You can find American Kestrels mainly in open areas without dense cover as they prefer viewing their whole territory from a single perch.
They typically live in grasslands, pastures, plains, meadows, agricultural fields, deserts, and even urban environments. You may see them perched on fence posts, lone trees, and low shrubs.
Since American Kestrels can inhabit a wide range of environments, they can also have a diverse range of prey. They can hunt and eat grasshoppers, crickets, cicadas, beetles, and dragonflies. What they do is sit and wait on a perch. When they have their prey in sight, they either catch it on the ground or while in flight.
American Kestrels can also hunt by hovering while scanning for prey on the ground.
They may use this strategy when hunting mice, voles, lizards, frogs, and small birds. American Kestrels only attack when they’re sure that they will succeed.
American Kestrel Call:
Nests of American Kestrels include abandoned nests of woodpeckers or other birds, their own tree cavities which they’re reusing, their old nesting sites along cliff ledges and tops of buildings, and tree holes or cavities in cactuses. They also make use of artificial nest boxes.
Female American Kestrels usually lay up to seven eggs. Incubation begins only when all eggs have been laid. The female incubates the eggs for about a month. During this time, the male hunts for food and feeds his bounty to the female. He may sometimes assist in incubation to let the female hunt on her own.
Attracting American Kestrels to your backyard is possible if you put up nest boxes that are within their preferred habitats. They need a perch and open area and preferably with no outdoor pets.
Fun Fact: American Kestrels can see using ultraviolet light which comes in handy when trying to hunt their prey. It is especially handy when seeing the trails of urine that are left by voles that allow the American Kestrels to pinpoint their exact location.
5. Eurasian Hobby
Eurasian Hobbies are extremely rare in Alaska and are considered accidental species in the state. They were last spotted around Shemya Island in 2021.
Eurasian Hobbies are small falcons with slate-gray crowns, backs, and wings. They have a distinct black stripe below each eye, a yellow eyering, thin white eyebrows, and white throats.
Their breasts and bellies are white with heavy black streaking. Their thighs and undertail coverts are plain orange/rufous and look like they’re wearing pants when in flight. Their tails are finely barred and dark-colored.
Adult Eurasian Hobbies look similar but Juveniles have dark brown upperparts, heavily streaked underparts, and are without the orange “pants”.
- Falco subbuteo
- Length: 11 – 13 in (28 – 33 cm)
- Weight:7.2 oz (204 g)
- Wingspan: 29 – 31 in (74 – 79 cm)
Eurasian Hobbies, or simply Hobbies, are widespread in Europe and are also resident across Asia and parts of Africa. They are considered vagrants to the United States with sightings in Alaska, Washington State, and Massachusetts.
You can find Eurasian Hobbies in many open and semi-open habitats like farmlands, woodlands, grasslands, and savannahs with scattered trees. Areas with rivers and wetlands with scattered trees and even rows of fences are ideal environments for Eurasian Hobbies.
Eurasian Hobbies often prey on large insects like dragonflies, and when that’s not available, will often eat small birds like swallows, house martins, larks, sparrows, and swifts. Eurasian Hobbies are fast and powerful when flying and will often grab their prey with their talons and eat their prey while in flight.
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Nests of Eurasian Hobbies are often old and abandoned nests of other birds, usually in a tree. The female lays about three to five eggs and incubates them for about a month.
Fun Fact: The Eurasian Hobby’s name “subbuteo” became the trademark of a tabletop football game when its owner, Peter Adolph, was denied permission to name the game “Hobby”.
6. Eurasian Kestrel
Eurasian Kestrels are accidental species in Alaska. They are extremely rare in the state and have last been spotted around Adak Island in 2012.
The Eurasian Kestrel, also known as the Common Kestrel, is the Eurasian counterpart of the American Kestrel, but it is larger. They are widespread in Europe and Asia and look very similar to American Kestrels.
Male Eurasian Kestrels have gray heads with black mustache stripes under their dark eyes and have bright yellow eyerings. Their ceres (base of the bills) are also bright yellow as are their legs and their bills are hooked and dark.
They have spotted reddish-brown upperparts and buff brown-streaked underparts. Their wings are long with their primary (outer) flight feathers blackish with rufous spots.
Their tails are long, and colored black with a blue-gray band, a black tip, and white rims on the back, and their under tails colored white with a black band at the tip.
Female Eurasian Kestrels have light brown-streaked heads, napes, and underparts. Their backs and wings are rufous and heavily spotted, much more so than the males. Their tails are brown with black bars, a black tip, and white rims.
Juveniles resemble the Females but with a much heavier barring on their upperparts and tails and the streaks on their underwings are much wider.
- Falco tinnunculus
- Length: 12 – 16 in (30 – 41 cm)
- Weight: 6.6 oz (187 g)
- Wingspan: 27 – 30 in (69 – 76 cm)
Eurasian Hobbies, or simply Hobbies, are widespread in Europe and are also resident across Asia and parts of Africa. They are considered vagrants in the United States with only a few sightings.
You can find Eurasian Kestrels in open habitats with a lot of places for perching. These areas are usually in lowlands like fields, shrublands, marshlands, and agricultural lands. They are also seen in semi-forested areas like woodland edges and are adapted to humans so they may be around suburban areas and urban parks.
Eurasian Kestrels mostly eat voles, shrews, and mice and may also eat small birds like songbirds. When available, they will eat bats, swifts, lizards, earthworms, and other large insects like beetles and winged termites. They hunt from a perch, when hovering and flying low to the ground to ambush animals.
Eurasian Kestrel Call:
Nests of Eurasian Kestrels are usually in cavities in cliffs, trees, or even buildings. They will reuse abandoned nests of another species and modify them with added sticks and other materials. The female lays three to six eggs and she incubates them for about a month.
After the eggs hatch, the female feeds the young while the male delivers food to them. The young take thirty to forty days to fledge.
Fun Facts: Eurasian Kestrels also hang around fires and wait for an opportunity to snatch the animals that may be fleeing from the flames.
How Frequently Falcons Are Spotted In Alaska In Summer And Winter
Checklists are a great resource to find out which birds are commonly spotted in your state. These lists show which Falcons are most frequently recorded on checklists on ebird in summer and winter in Alaska.
Falcons in Alaska in summer:
Peregrine Falcon 1.8%
American Kestrel 0.4%
Eurasian Hobby <0.1%
Eurasian Kestrel <0.1%
Falcons in Alaska in winter:
Peregrine Falcon 0.4%
American Kestrel 0.1%

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Boil water, if you do not have bottled water. Boiling is sufficient to kill pathogenic bacteria, viruses and protozoa (WHO, 2015). If water is cloudy, let it settle and filter it through a clean cloth, paperboiling water towel, or coffee filter. Bring water to a rolling boil for at least one minute.
Why boiling is the best method of purification of water?
Boiling only kills pathogens and does not remove turbidity or chemical pollution (e.g. arsenic) from drinking water. So prior to boiling, water can be purified by settling or filtration method.
Is boiling water the best way to purify water?
Boiling water is the safest method of purification. Whether you’re out camping, in a country with under or un-sanitized drinking water, or you fear your local water supply has become contaminated, boiling water kills germs and parasites.
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The impurities are literally “boiled away” in the form of vapor. Water vapor is then routed away through a thin passageway where it is permitted to escape through the boiling chamber, leaving only the pure content behind.
Is it better to boil or filter water?
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What are the advantages of boiling water?
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Is Boiling Water Effective?
Boiling water is a simple but effective way to purify water at home or in the wilderness, as the high heat can kill harmful bacteria. … Specifically, water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, whereas most microorganisms cannot survive in water above 160 degrees Fahrenheit for more than 30 minutes.
Does boiling water make it taste better?
Water Taste and Odor
When the water is boiled, the dissolved air leaves the water and the result is a flat taste. After boiling water, aerate the water by pouring it back and forth a few times between two containers. This adds air to the water and it will taste better.
What is the best way to purify water at home?
4 Methods to Purify Your Water
- 1 – Boiling. Boiling water is the cheapest and safest method of water purification. …
- 2 – Filtration. Filtration is one of the effective ways of purifying water and when using the right multimedia filters it’s effective in ridding water of the compounds. …
- 3 – Distillation. …
- 4 – Chlorination.
How do you purify well water for drinking?
Shock chlorination is the process by which home water systems such as wells, springs, and cisterns are disinfected using household liquid bleach (or chlo- rine). Shock chlorination is the most widely recommended means of treating bacterial contamination in home water systems.
Does boiling water make it more pure?
Does Boiling Tap Water Make it Pure? While boiling water ensures that no bacteria is present in the water, it does not make the tap water pure. … Other contaminants such as heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, insecticides, other organics, and inorganics are not removed through boiling water.
Does boiling stagnant water purify it?
Boiling is sufficient to kill pathogenic bacteria, viruses and protozoa (WHO, 2015). If water is cloudy, let it settle and filter it through a clean cloth, paperboiling water towel, or coffee filter. Bring water to a rolling boil for at least one minute.
What happens if we boil RO water?
Does not remove odor and bad taste from water – Boiling water does not remove foul smell or odor from water. This can only be removed through a carbon filter often found in RO or UV water purifiers. If your water tastes bad, boiling it cannot enhance the taste of it. You need a RO water purifier to sweeten it.

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L. Knife & Son, a Kingston-based beer distributor, recently opened its new bottle and can recycling facility to bring cost-saving and environmentally friendly solutions to its empties. The facility also uses solar energy to cut its heating costs.
A local beverage distributor has given new meaning to the term “green beer.” L. Knife & Son, a Kingston-based beer distributor, recently opened its new bottle and can recycling facility to bring cost-saving and environmentally-friendly solutions to its empties.
But glass and aluminum won’t be the only things recycled there. The new 27,500-square-foot facility, located next to the company’s headquarters on Elder Avenue Extension, features a SolarWall transpired collector surface that collects and reuses solar heat.
Installed along the building’s south side, the SolarWall surface consists of a black metal skin with perforations that collect heat from the sun. The solar energy generated from the wall preheats the outside air, which is then sucked through the building’s gas furnace, allowing it at times to run without burning gas, thereby reducing the company’s heating costs.
“It’s like when you leave a black car out in the sun and it gets really hot,” said Michael Brophy, corporate facilities manager for L. Knife & Son. “We’re not burning gas to heat the facility so we are not polluting as much and we are using a renewable resource.”
The SolarWall surface is expected to produce 550 million BTUs of heat per year while preventing 44 metric tons of carbon dioxide greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere. This amount is equal to the energy generated by three and a half homes or eight vehicles per year.
The recycling facility will also enable L. Knife & Son to crush the bottles and cans it receives from its clients. This will reduce the number of dump trucks the company needs to deliver its crushed glass to Waste Management’s facility in Lakeville.
Upon arriving in Lakeville, the crushed glass is then shipped out to Saint-Gobain’s plant in Milford, where new bottles are created. L. Knife & Son returns its crushed cans to vendors that melt them down and transform them back into beverage cans.
“You can send out one truck of crushed glass for every four trucks of whole glass that you have,” said Brian McGuire, L. Knife & Son’s vice president of operations. “Because of our new facility, we are now able to send out 750 fewer trucks out each year. It’s more efficient and cost-effective for us to process these bottles in house, and it’s certainly a lot better for the environment.”
L. Knife & Son recycles about 15 million pounds of glass a year. Glass and aluminum are 100 percent recyclable and both materials can be used indefinitely to make new beverage containers, McGuire said. The company also recycles about two million pounds of aluminum and one million pounds of cardboard each year.


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There are a lot of promises being made about care of the elderly in the current election campaign. A particular concern seems to be that people do not have to sell their houses to pay for residential care, as this is seen as unfair. The alternative, which is currently favoured, is for the State to fund such care through taxation. To a large extent this means working population supporting the retired population.
This is not new – it is essentially how the State pension system works. However, to avoid placing an intolerable burden on the tax-paying population, such an approach requires a high, stable old-age replacement ratio, the ratio of those above retirement age to those of working age. Even in this case you are effectively setting up a “population Ponzi scheme”, relying on there being a large enough future working population to pay for the retired one. However, the current direction of current old-age replacement ratios is such that the burden will become ever more onerous – the chickens from the State pension leg of this particular Ponzi scheme are already coming home to roost.
So far, so grim. But what solutions are there? Well, we could encourage people to have more children, to keep the Ponzi scheme going. However, it would be a good couple of decades before they were able to make a contribution to tax revenues, whilst being an additional expense in the meantime (in the nicest possible way, of course).
We could encourage higher levels of immigration, boosting the working-age population. However, the effect of migration on the replacement ratio has been trivial so far, and immigration is an even more politically sensitive issue than care of the elderly.
How about raising the retirement age? Now we’re talking. This would of course also help with the broader pension problems faced by the public and private sector. It would also be deeply unpopular; but then again so is national bankruptcy.
There is, though, another solution. As I mentioned, the promises made so far are aimed at letting people keep their homes when they need care – but why should people not sell their homes, either in one go or through equity release? Obviously this is just what people are trying to avoid, but it is worth looking at the economic consequences of not selling. The main objection to funding elderly care through the sale of the home is that people want to leave a bequest to their children, and the biggest bequest is usually the family home. However, this bequest would still be used to pay for their old-age care – it’s just that the payment would be indirect, through the higher taxes paid by their children. In aggregate, the younger generation is in the same position whatever happens – the only difference is that people whose parents do not leave them large houses are subsidising those whose parents do. Now is that fair?


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- Frank Slootman became CEO of data cloud company Snowflake in April 2019.
- Rumors that he’ll soon leave have been circulating since April, when a major stock package vested and Mark McLaughlin joined the board.
- But Slootman tells Insider that such rumors are completely false.
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman tells Insider that ongoing rumors that he could soon step down are completely untrue.
Insider heard rumors of Slootman’s departure from multiple industry sources, and reached out to ask Slootman if he was leaving soon.
“You are wrong on all counts. You are regurgitating competitive FUD,” Slootman told us in his famously direct, no-nonsense style. FUD, or fear-uncertainty-doubt, is a favorite old-school tech acronym.
Talk of Slootman’s departure from Snowflake started circulating shortly after Mark McLaughlin, the former CEO and chairman of the board of Palo Alto Networks, joined Snowflake’s board of directors in April, sources close to the data cloud company told Insider. Two people familiar with the company said they believe that McLaughlin would be the one to step into the CEO role if Slootman departs soon. McLaughlin flat-out denied it.
“I can tell you definitively this rumor is totally inaccurate,” McLaughlin told Insider.
Snowflake also denied speculation that Slootman is leaving the company.
“Frank Slootman is not leaving his position as Chairman and CEO of Snowflake,” a spokesperson for the company told Insider.
This speculation is so widespread that various anecdotes involving the people involved are being widely shared. Insider won’t repeat them, as Slootman has rebuffed the notion of his departure.
Slootman joined Snowflake as CEO in April 2019, ahead of its IPO in September 2020. His initial package of nearly 14 million shares of Snowflake vested over four years, according to an offer letter filed with the SEC. So as of April, he was fully vested.
Slootman joined Snowflake following then-CEO Bob Muglia’s sudden departure after five years leading the company. At the time, insiders suggested that Snowflake tapped Slootman because of his track record of public market debuts. Before Snowflake, he took two other tech companies public — ServiceNow in 2012 and Data Domain in 2007.
As previously reported by Insider, Slootman is known for being hard-driving and politically conservative. Snowflake has grown considerably under his leadership, with annual revenue ballooning from $264.7 million for fiscal 2020 to $2.6 billion for fiscal 2023, which ended on January 31 of this year. However, his reign has not been without controversy. For instance, in 2021, Slootman was criticized for his public comments suggesting that diversity shouldn’t “override” merit in hiring decisions. He later issued an apology.
From 2011 to 2018, McLaughlin served as CEO and chairman of the board of Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity firm. He resigned as vice chairman of the board in December. Prior to that, McLaughlin held several executive roles at VeriSign. He is currently chairman of the board at Qualcomm.
Snowflake’s annual conference, Snowflake Summit, began Monday in Las Vegas, and runs through June 29. Slootman is scheduled to deliver the keynote.
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Alberta government to open office in Ottawa
Alberta is opening an office in Ottawa to help promote the province.
The office will help the provincial government communicate "key positions" on "priority issues" to the federal government and strengthen relationships between "key contacts."
It will also "communicate the positive work being done in the province."
"We are entering a new era where co-operation with the federal government will be of unparalleled importance," said Premier Alison Redford.
The office should allow Alberta to get its message out more broadly and especially the "Ontario press corp," said Joe Oliver, federal minister of national resources.
The office will cost $850,000 per year, with start-up costs of $50,000 and will report to the Deputy Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations.


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Join the journey to celebrate our nation’s 150th birthday. Get out and get active – and then watch the kilometres covered in local activity on the large map inside the Alder Recreation Centre. The goal is to see how far Orangeville residents and visitors can travel across Canada in 150 days.
From June 1 to October 28, 2017, track your participation each time you walk, bike, hike, swim, or are active, and submit your distance travelled to the Parks & Recreation Department. The first leg of the journey will be Terry Fox’s route, from Newfoundland to Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Tracking sheets are available at Alder Recreation Centre and Tony Rose Memorial Sports Centre or can be printed from the Town’s website. Submit the form at the two centres or post your activity distance on the Orangeville Parks & Recreation Facebook page. You can also submit your activity distances to [email protected]. Prize draws and special initiatives will take place throughout the journey. For more information, call 519-940-9092.
“It’s a fun initiative to keep us active and celebrate Canada 150 as we make the visual trek across the country,” says Councillor Don Kidd, chair of Orangeville’s Recreation Committee.
Get ready to map your activities in distance across a map of Canada over 150 days, from June 1 to October 28. Visit a recreation centre in Orangeville to get your tracking sheet or from the Town’s website or post to Orangeville Parks & Recreation Facebook page --- and let’s get moving. Join the Cross-Canada Journey to mark Canada 150 – and enjoy the benefits of being active. Summer camp staff members Christine Ryner, Kodey Hewlett, and Nicole Desaulnier are excited about putting your kilometres on the map at the Alder Recreation Centre.

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CCG Expo is coming!
China International Animation Game Expo (hereinafter referred to as CCG EXPO) is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television, Shanghai Oriental Media Group Co., Ltd. (SMG) and (Shanghai) National Animation Games. The comprehensive exhibition of animation and games, jointly organized by the Industrial Promotion Base, has been successfully held for seven sessions so far. In 2011, Shanghai Toonmax Exhibition Co.ltd., established by Shanghai Toomanx Communication Media Co., Ltd., SMG’s and International Animation and Game Development Center, Waigaoqiao, Shanghai, strength the brand of CCG EXPO. The organizer committee take advantages of various new media resources and targeted activities to achieve full impact coverage throughout the year. To grasp the momentum of the rapid development of the cultural industry, combine the national conditions and the characteristics of the animation and game industry to build a display, exchange and trading platform for domestic and foreign enterprises. While helping enterprises to become deeper, stronger, and bigger, they will also integrate various mitigation in the industrial chain, promote the healthy and sustainable development of the industry, and play a role as an instructor and leader in the rapid development of the national animation industry
The 15th China International Animation and Game Expo (CCG EXPO) will be held from July 4th to 8th at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center. The professional section will be held at the InterContinental Shanghai Expo from July 2nd to 4th. The organizing committee announced the highlights of the exhibition. This year’s exhibition hall will be expanded again. The exhibition area will be increased to 60,000 square meters. It will be divided into four major exhibition sections: Brand Enterprise Pavilion, Interactive Entertainment Pavilion, Trend Culture Exhibition and Boutique Activity Hall. Disney and Bilibili, Tencent vedio, China Literature, Shouwu, Heima comics, etc. have been confirmed. The exhibition will also bring together large-scale IP clusters, through the review of China’s animation industry, key exhibitors, etc., to let the audience get acknowledge of the unique Chinese animation styles such as ink and paper-cutting, and at the same time show the current animation products, “let the exhibition become the first window to an animation industry with Chinese characteristics”
As the only animation exhibition in China that has set up a screening unit, 100 will be participated in screenings of animations this year, and will enter the public libraries’ cultural centers and universities in Shanghai. “Life is like summer flowers” COSPLAY Global Classic, “Young Flower Age” dance contest, “Great British” dubbing contest and other veteran events have been launched during the exhibition.
For anime game fans, buying the relevant “products” is one of the most anticipated trips of the show, especially the limited edition. CCG EXPO has confirmed cooperation with Japan’s Bandai Nanmeng Palace and Shouwu. Bandai will launch the latest Gundam model at the show with limitation of 600 pcs; Japan’s Shouwu will launch a global limited-color version of the dead waiter with limitation of 500 pcs.
Marvel also confirmed cooperation with CCG EXPO. At the 2017 exhibition, Disney announced for the first time that the superhero created by four Chinese comic authors officially joined the “Marvel Comics Main Universe” news. This year, Marvel Comics has been established for 80 years. In addition to announce the latest news of Marvel’s Chinese heroes, the list of the first Chinese painters selected for the Marvel China Cartoon Talent Discovery will be released.
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Buongiorno, everybody! For today’s post, imagine you’re in Venice, in a gondola, with your best friends, snacking on fresh strawberries and peaches from the market, floating through the water in the sunshine looking and listening to all the sights and sounds around you…
Easy for me to imagine, that’s exactly what I did in Venezia! But hold up, wait a minute, let me back up a little bit. After some explanation, you’ll understand why we 100% deserved that overpriced gondola ride.
It all started at the train station in Venice. We took a train from Rome to Venice and after a nice little nappy-nap, we arrived in Venice well-rested and ready to go. Mind you, we were a little hungry at this point but we thought, “oh, we will be to our hotel soon…let’s go drop off our things and then go to dinner.” And so it begins…
It’s close, they said. It’s not far, they said. Don’t take a water taxi, walk and enjoy, they said. The train station people lied. A HALF MARATHON LATER WE MADE IT TO OUR HOTEL, barely in one piece.
Looking back on the walk from the train station to the hotel it probably was less than thirty minutes and wasn’t that bad. In the moment, however, it was a whole different story! Lugging around our huge suitcases and bags with jeans and cute clothes on over cobblestone roads with a million and one bridges and a million and two stairs in between made the walk pretty miserable I’m not going to lie. I thought about throwing my suitcase into the Grand Canal many a times but then thought “I feel like I’ll regret this moment.” Well, my suitcase made it to the hotel and so did I. After looking as though we had jumped in a swimming pool with all our sweat-laden clothes and faces, we made it to our humble abode. If I remember correctly, a huge halo was surrounding the hotel with fireworks going off in front of us and a bedazzled “Welcome Brinkley, Megan, Rachel, and Emily!” sign right out front…or maybe that was a mirage….either way, I was the happiest girl in the world. But of course the hotel didn’t have an elevator and of course we were on the fourth floor. What a few more flights of stairs after the walk we just conquered, right? Ugh. At this point our tiny hunger had turned into a monstrous hangry (hungry+angry=hangry) and we treated ourselves to some delicious Italian pizza…at a place very close to our hotel so there was minimal walking and absolutely no way we’d get lost on our way back. However, on the jaunt back to our place, we walked through Piazza San Marco and listened to a live orchestra play outside of Cafe Florian, the oldest cafe in Venice. It was beyond lovely and so soothing. We eventually mosied back and needless to say, we slept well that night.
The next morning, we all woke up a little sore. Ha! But the day proved wonderful. We walked around the city wandering through all the alleys, looking in all the shops and taking tons of pictures and tasting little sweet treats here and there. It all led to the wonderful gondola ride we enjoyed in the afternoon. So relaxing. I propose to flood the Texas and make gondola rides a thing…I’ll start a petition next week. Yes, no, maybe??
Venice is stunning…the buildings, the canals, and the bridges made it everything I imagined Venice to be. I thoroughly enjoyed it but spending one day there was more than enough time, mind you. It’s quite touristy an while I like to engage in some touristy things, the hundreds of tourist shops around every corner take away some of its charm. But if that’s the worse thing, they’re doing alright in my book. Props to Venice: your kind people, good food, and gondola rides definitely made up for the walk across the earth to get to our hotel. Ciao for now, Italia!
After “The Walk”…we hide our sweat and hunger quite nicely, no? Or was this after we had food…you’ll never know…
From Rialto Bridge, The Grand Canal
St. Marks Clocktower, Piazza San Marco
Piazza San Marco
4 Girlies on a Gondola!!!
Gondola Selfies…yes. And Tony, our gondolier, even made one! Interesting fact: Tony is a fifth generation gondolier. Runs in the family, huh!
Now, you all, stop daydreaming and get out of the gondola! Eat one last Italian gelato because next stop: Vienna!


Our latest signing Confidence Man from Australia recently released their debut single for Heavenly, ‘Bubblegum.’
“One taste and you’re infected. Symptoms include sassy sing-talking, howling and boogie fever.” – Triple J
Andrew Weatherall has remixed the track, which you can download for free. It’s premiering over at Clash Magazine:
Australian four-piece Confidence Man are already cult heroes in their native land, part of a new wave of groups with psychedelia running through their veins.
Freshly signed to Heavenly, Confidence Man have unfurled their new single ‘Bubblegum’ and it’s a chewy sensation that comes packed with flavour.
Out now, legendary producer, crate-digger and explorer of fresh aural dimensions Andrew Weatherall has stepped in on remix duties.
An expansive, baggy-tinged exploration of the connections between indie and electronics, it’s a trip in every sense.
The nagging guitar line and playful vocals recall Tom Tom Club, while the acid-tinged synth work builds into something entrancing.


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US Court System Just Another Extension Of The Government's Ongoing Opacity Project
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FBI director James Comey and Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance say we’re “going dark.” Others more attuned to the vast amount of data generated by everyday life say the opposite. But US magistrate judge Stephen Wm. Smith, writing for Just Security and speaking from firsthand experience, says there’s a real darkness out there, but it’s government-generated and it’s obscuring the inner workings of one of the few checks against government power.
Over the last 40 years, secrecy in all aspects of the judicial process has risen to literally unprecedented levels.
It’s not just the FISA court — which, in contrast, is probably more transparent than it’s ever been. It’s the regular court system where criminal prosecutions are pursued. Documents which used to be easily accessible by any member of the public are now withheld by the request of the government with alarming — and increasing — frequency.
That traditional aversion to court secrecy has been overcome in the last few decades. To take but one example, the case name In re Sealed Case first appeared in 1981; it is now the most common case name on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals docket.
The same law that gives the government warrantless access to citizens’ electronic communications — the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — also gives the government the privilege of preventing service providers from disclosing any information about these requests to targeted users. This blanket opacity is a problem for several reasons (First and Fourth Amendment concerns), not the least of which is no one — not even Congressional oversight — can provide an accurate accounting of these requests and their accompanying gag orders.
How large is this secret ECPA docket? Extrapolating from a Federal Judicial Center study of 2006 federal case filings, I have estimated that more than 30,000 secret ECPA orders were issued that year alone. Given recent DOJ disclosures, the current annual volume is probably twice that number. And those figures do not include surveillance orders obtained by state and local authorities, who handle more than 15 times the number of felony investigations that the feds do. Based on that ratio, the annual rate of secret surveillance orders by federal and state courts combined could easily exceed half a million. Admittedly this is a guess; no one truly knows, least of all our lawmakers in Congress.
The courts may be acting as checks against government power. Or they may be acting as rubber stamps. Given the number of gag orders and sealed documents, it’s impossible to make that call. The courts are supposed to act as a check against government overreach and the only way to verify they’re actually performing this function is to allow the public to see warrants, orders, motions, responses, and other court documents. But the government has pretty much destroyed this part of the accountability process by abusing a multitude of transparency loopholes — most of those linked to “national security” or protecting law enforcement means and methods.
The government far too routinely — in far too many routine criminal prosecutions — deploys gag orders, sealed documents, ex parte presentations, in camera submissions and other tactics like parallel construction to ensure the judicial playing field is never level. These same tactics also prevent the public from seeing what’s being done in their name and with their tax dollars.
Smith also points to the inevitable consequences of the government leading by example: the desire to treat public forums as somehow private arenas has bled over to civil litigation as well.
The same FJC study found that 576 civil cases filed in 2006 were completely sealed, meaning that the public was denied any information about the case, including the docket sheet. Rationales for the blackout varied from weak (“the parties wanted them sealed,” “to protect physicians reputations,” “to protect a party’s credit rating”) to non-existent (“17 pro se actions,” “30 habeas corpus and prisoner actions,” “33 forfeitures and seizures”).
Many of those listed still have a government nexus, but even cases that have no government intersection other than the use of the court system will still routinely contain sealed documents.
Even the most mundane employment suit will have a docket sheet littered with “Sealed event” entries.
As Smith notes, the numbers provided by the study are far from comprehensive. To fully tally the number of civil cases with sealed documents would take an examination of nearly every suit filed in federal court. Redacted dockets and sealed documents are apparently just as common in the civil arena, a large number of which can also be attributed to direct government intervention.
It’s not one administration or one branch. It’s everyone and it’s been trending towards opacity for over 30 years. The government desires power without responsibility. The worst part is that the courts appear to be allowing it.

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The UK’s fresh fruit and vegetable supply system is vulnerable to water-related risk. Cranfield University’s Chloe Sutcliffe and Tim Hess introduce a new GFS-funded project investigating this issue.
To celebrate the 2021 UN International Youth Day, on Transforming Food Systems: Youth Innovation for Human and Planetary Health, GFS presents blog posts from young people involved in transforming the UK food system. Jacob Rosenberg, member of Bite Back’s youth board, discusses the importance of the environments that shape and influence the food young people buy and eat.
- Date: 26 July 2021
Coinciding with the 2021 United Nations Food System Pre-Summit (26-28 July), the Global Food Security programme has published its new multi-stakeholder dialogue report. The report was selected to feed into the official UK Member State Dialogue for the UN Food System Summit.

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The meaning behind this creature varies depending on the reader. I woke up to the bright sunlight seeping through my window, and I knew today would be a Christmas I would never forget.
Next, the coach comes out onto the roof, and descends into the mansion's back yard, where Jack -- in the red-and-white garb of Sandy Claws -- and Zero greet them once again. Above all, practice empathy.
Every year we have tons of fun giving and receiving from others. Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus and a widely observed holiday, celebrated generally on December 25, by billions of people around the world.
Oh, the wicked unethical trio were delighted Happy holidays, everyone. Halloween and would happily do anything for him One could see Santa Claus as a reverse trick-or-treater, visiting down the chimney instead of at the threshold, and leaving gifts instead of taking them.
Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled down for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the


The actual process begins with a cluster of thunderstorms moving across the surface of the ocean. When the surface water is warm, the storm sucks up heat energy from the water, just like a straw sucks up a liquid. … If wind conditions are right, the storm becomes a hurricane. This heat energy is the fuel for the storm.
How is hurricane formed?
Hurricanes form when warm moist air over water begins to rise. The rising air is replaced by cooler air. This process continues to grow large clouds and thunderstorms. These thunderstorms continue to grow and begin to rotate thanks to earth’s Coriolis Effect.
What is the main source of energy in a hurricane?
A tropical cyclone’s primary energy source is the release of the heat of condensation from water vapor condensing at high altitudes, with solar heating being the initial source for evaporation.
Where do they form and why hurricanes?
Warm ocean waters and thunderstorms fuel power-hungry hurricanes. Hurricanes form over the ocean, often beginning as a tropical wave—a low pressure area that moves through the moisture-rich tropics, possibly enhancing shower and thunderstorm activity.
Where do hurricanes form the most?
During the peak season, hurricanes form in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. The most active period in the Atlantic starts from mid-August all through to late October.
Why do hurricanes spin?
As Earth travels from West to East, air moving from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere gets pushed to the right, causing hurricanes originating in the Northern hemisphere to spin in the counter-clockwise direction. Something similar happens in case of the southern hemisphere.
What do hurricanes need to form?
Thunderstorms, warm ocean water and light wind are needed for a hurricane to form (A). Once formed, a hurricane consists of huge rotating rain bands with a center of clear skies called the eye which is surrounded by the fast winds of the eyewall (B).
What causes hurricanes to strengthen?
Hurricanes start simply with the evaporation of warm seawater, which pumps water into the lower atmosphere. … As long as the base of this weather system remains over warm water and its top is not sheared apart by high-altitude winds, it will strengthen and grow.
Why do hurricanes not form near the equator?
Observations show that no hurricanes form within 5 degrees latitude of the equator. People argue that the Coriolis force is too weak there to get air to rotate around a low pressure rather than flow from high to low pressure, which it does initially. If you can’t get the air to rotate you can’t get a storm.
How did Hurricane Katrina form?
Katrina formed from the interaction of a tropical wave and the remnants of a previous tropical depression. … The depression became Katrina August 24 when it was located over the Bahamas. Katrina was the 11th tropical storm of the 2005 hurricane season. Katrina turned westward on August 25th, toward Florida.
Why do hurricanes form off the coast of Africa?
Because of the circulation of the atmosphere over this part of Africa the wind tends to blow from east to west. The flow of the air essentially gives the showers and storms over Africa a ride, directing them westward toward the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the worst hurricane in history?
The Galveston hurricane of 1900 remains the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
Why do hurricanes turn north?
By the time a hurricane reaches North America, it generally curves into a northerly direction, as a result of the Coriolis force (which forces a counterclockwise rotation) and steering winds at higher levels. Normal storms, on the other hand, move west to east due to the strong jet stream.


A render of an alleged LTE-enabled Micromax smartphone leaked earlier today, hinting at a release that might be due soon.
With LTE on the emergence, Micromax would hope to be among the first to cash in on the market. The device that just leaked is purported to come with the NVIDIA Tegra 4i chipset on board, besides the aforementioned LTE support. Having the Tegra 4i would also give Micromax a bit of a margin over its competitors, most of which are still shipping phones with MediaTek chipsets with outdated Android ROMs.
The render we speak of has the device running the Android OS in Russian, which suggests that it will be the Russian market which gets the 4G Micromax phone before the maker’s home country, India. Micromax has been quite aggressive with its marketing in Russia, so it really wouldn’t be a surprise to see the phone launch in Russia before India.
Gizchina News of the week
On why we think you might already have seen this device before — if you have a sharp memory, this leaked render will remind you of the previously launched Wiko Wax. Micromax and Wiko have shared OEMs in the past as facts suggest, and this might just be another addition. If it is true, the 4G LTE Micromax phone will have a 4.7-inch HD display, 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM, an 8 mega-pixel rear camera, a 5 mega-pixel front camera and run Android v4.3 Jelly Bean.
The Wiko Wax goes for €200, you can expect the Micromax version to cost equally as much or possibly lesser.Source, Via]
LOL! RIP Photoshop! No reflection from the screen on the MMX device! Now you know how their devices are. 😛 JK!
Looks like a new twitter account! Maybe a false leak.


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The settlement was broadly in line with the June barge contract, which was agreed at an increase of €14/tonne earlier this week.
Despite a €11/tonne fall for feedstock benzene this month, the styrene contracts have been supported by a firm spot market amid some short covering for the first half of June.
While several producers have come back online following the turnaround season in Europe, supply for prompt material remains an issue as units slowly build up production output.
The contract was agreed on a free carrier (FCA) Rotterdam basis.
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Gill’s songwriting, guitar playing and impressive vocals along with Hannah and Heather’s instantly recognisable rhythm section has produced a winning formula
You would think that in the hazy afterglow of the post New Year hangover, the last thing anyone would want to do is keep the party going
‘Pervert Alert’ is my favourite and has the attitude I am looking for in a female rock band. It has the right message and I may have to download the song on to my phone and use it next time its needed
I think, now feel quite at home being part of this super young band that plays hard rock , with passion and energy throughout their entire set.
Zebrahead, Black Spiders, Yuck & more confirmed for Camden Rocks 2016, Escape The Fate & We Are The Ocean Cancelled
With a UK tour in full swing, support coming from Ireland’s own ‘The Amorettes’, Danko Jones took time out before the Dublin show to speak to MGM reporter Brian Boyle to discuss all things DJ and why it’s been a while since we’ve seen them on this side of the pond;
It didn’t long for this freezing and snow pelted crowd to get warmed up, Scottish rockers The Amorettes doused the Dublin audience with their high octane brand of rock n roll. The all girl trio made up of Gill Montgomery(guitars/vocals), Hannah McKay(drums), Heather McKay(bass) used their 30 minute set to maximum effect, belting out tracks from their debut album Haulin Ass and latest offering Game On including a ear splitting Hot n Heavy.


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The Missouri Times is proud to bring to you this year's 30 Under 30 class. From lobbyists to Capitol staffers and more, the 2023 honorees work tirelessly around the clock to make Missouri a better place.
Posts published in “Jefferson City”
Recognition events in honor of more than 200 of Missouri’s recent donors will occur today in the Capitol and the Harry S. Truman State Office Building and will conclude with an evening candlelight vigil and moment of silence in the Governor’s Garden.
Students, teachers, administrators, and families from around Missouri gathered at the Capitol last month to celebrate the arts.
To celebrate the 337th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, Karen Bretz will play his music on the piano in the Missouri Capitol rotunda on March 31.
Chief Justice Paul Wilson delivered his State of the Judiciary address with a tone that was aspirational and bipartisan.
On Monday night, a large collection of Missourians are hosting a reception in Jefferson City to celebrate America’s relationship with Israel.
The Missouri Times honored Senator Roy Blunt with its annual Statesman of the Year award on Feb. 23, 2022.
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said the program will be committed to including minority farmers in the partnership program.
It’s been a week of proposed rule changes in the Senate.


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To put it in the corniest possible terms, artistic progression can be a stairway to heaven or a slippery slope. The Beatles in the 1960s, David Bowie in the ‘70s and Prince in the ‘80s are gold standards of artists leading audiences to places they didn’t know they wanted to go — occasionally alienating fans and making the odd misstep but confidently charging forward, following the muse with self-awareness and self-assurance that it would all make sense in the end. Of course, the line between a beckoning hand and a middle finger is a fine one: Neil Young’s all-electronic album “Trans” and U2’s irony-laden “Pop” are classic examples of the muse leading the artist toward (if not over) a cliff.
The situation gets even more complicated when one of the world’s biggest rock bands seemingly grows tired of being a rock band — witness U2 in the 1990s and Radiohead in the early 2000s — which is apparently where Montreal’s Arcade Fire finds itself with its fifth album (and first through Columbia), “Everything Now.” Produced by the band with Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Pulp’s Steve Mackey and longtime associate Markus Dravs, it finds the group pushing against the boundaries of its template, trying on various styles — mutations of ‘70s pop, R&B, even dancehall — that sometimes work gloriously but often hang awkwardly on their anthemic sound like an ill-fitting new outfit (especially frontman Win Butler’s awkward attempts at rapping).
Yet if the only fruit of this collaboration were the album’s sparkling title track, it would have been worthwhile. A blatant tribute to Abba’s “Dancing Queen” (with a little bit of Yvonne Elliman’s disco-era hit “If I Can’t Have You” thrown in), it’s gilt and glittering and gorgeous, with a soaring, piano-driven hook and a swooning orchestra underpinning the surprisingly restrained verses. Sublime and sumptuous, it’s one of the year’s best singles.
Elsewhere, the fast and manic “Infinite Content” recalls the band’s shout-along earlier material before it segues abruptly into an acoustic arrangement reminiscent of their 2010 album “The Suburbs”; “Put Your Money on Me” combines a pulsing electronic bassline with a chorus that also evokes latter-day Abba; the closing “We Don’t Deserve Love” is a haunting ballad with a cascading keyboard melody loping over gentle acoustic guitars.
However, the forays into new terrain largely fall flat. “Signs of Life” starts off like an early ‘70s funk song (a la The Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”) with handclaps and a driving bassline and a distance police siren, then morphs into an ‘80s funk workout that recalls Blondie’s “Rapture,” with some spectacularly stiff rapping from Butler. “Creature Comfort” begins promisingly with a hot, buzzing beat but is marred by unsettling lyrics apparently about a suicide (“Some girls cut themselves, saying, ‘God, make me famous. If you can’t, just make it painless’”). “Electric Blue” has a strong groove and a zooming bassline but is hobbled by a screechy lead vocal from keyboardist Regine Chassagne. And the nadir comes with “Chemistry,” which has an awkward dancehall lilt in the beat and horns, a singsong melody and, heaven help us, more rapping.
“Everything Now” is the uncomfortable fusion that many feared Arcade Fire’s last one — 2013’s sprawling “Reflektor,” a collaboration with dance-rock avatar James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem — would be. But where that album found Murphy integrating a beefier bottom into the group’s familiar sound, this collaboration is a trickier fit. While the production throughout the album is stunning and Bangalter’s fingerprints abound — from the pulsating rhythm tracks reminiscent of Daft Punk’s recent work with The Weeknd to the soaring string arrangements that are a hallmark of their 2013 Grammy Album of the Year winner, “Random Access Memories” — the irony and deep references inherent in Daft Punk and Pulp’s work jars against Arcade Fire’s ingrained earnestness; the elaborate electronic rhythms clash with their anthemic, large-print hooks; and humor is a hat that this band wears uneasily. It would have been far worse had Arcade Fire played it safe — yet it remains to be seen whether this challenging and potentially polarizing album will inspire their rabid fanbase to follow pied-piper style, or resist like a dog being dragged to the vet.


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Fonds consists of records pertaining primarily to the professional activities of Elisabeth Mann Borgese, focusing on major organizations and projects with which she was affiliated from the beginning of her North American career in the 1940s. The collection includes correspondence, publications and drafts, administrative records, conference materials, sound and video recordings, research materials, photographs, and other materials.
Fonds consists of Leslie E. Haley's materials regarding his professional activities, researches, and involvement with the Science Council of Canada, the Gambia project, Nova Scotia Department of Education's Biology Task Force, and the Summer Science Institute. Fonds includes reports, correspondence, financial records, booklets, and other textual records.
Fonds consists primarily of Florence Jessie Murray's personal records regarding her career as a medical missionary in Korea, including correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets and photographs. There is also a small volume of records that originated with her brother, Alexander Murray, and father, Robert Murray, including correspondence between Alexander Murray, Florence Jessie Murray and E.J.O. Fraser; Reverend Robert Murray's correspondence; and records regarding his involvement with the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes.
Fonds consists of Patricia Monk's records regarding the research and writing process of her book The Gilded Beaver: An Introduction to the Life and Work of James De Mille (Toronto: ECW Press, 1991). Fonds includes photographs, correspondence, research notes, transcripts, and other textual records.
Fonds consists of a Hector Pothier's medical school diploma, a Dalhousie song book (ca. 1912-1913), photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, election paraphernalia, invoices, and speeches made to the Nova Scotia Legislature.
Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.
Fonds consists of Richard Lewis Evans' records regarding Dalhousie Law School's applications for the Emil Gumpert Award of the American College of Trial Lawyers, including the applications submitted for the award, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and related news releases and periodicals.
Fonds contains records relating to Susan Kerslake's writing and personal life, including manuscripts of published and unpublished work; correspondence, early writing and schoolwork, photographs, awards, articles and books reviews, and materials from events she attended.
Fonds comprises records documenting Alexander Myers' work as a pastor and writing on the subject of religious education. Record types include diaries; correspondence; manuscripts; published works; research files and class notes; scrapbooks; and photographs.

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Aug 5, 2020|
The 1st JD-PharmExpo Witnesses Wide Range of Cooperation Agreements
by Vivian Yang
The inaugural “JD-PharmExpo” was held online from August 3rd -5th under the theme of “Open, Sharing and Accessible”. JD Medicine Procurement (药京采), the pharmaceuticals wholesale trading platform under JD Health is the main host of the event. Over one million people from the pharmaceutical industry watched the opening ceremony online.
During the expo, JD Health signed a number of cooperation agreements with partners within and across the industries, which can be categorized into four cooperation types.
First, JD Medicine Procurement inked several agreements to support the digital transformation of traditional companies in the pharmaceutical industry, such as Kyuan Xinhai (Beijing) Medical Products Trade Co., Ltd., the famous Chinese laxative brand Xiang Dan Qing (香丹清)，and Jiangsu Garea Health Technology Co., Ltd.
Second, JD Medicine Procurement reached an agreement with Tomorrow Health Care (尚医智信), a leading software provider for hospital services management with strong internet solutions. Both sides will work closely on promotional channels of SaaS system for hospitals.
Third, for more coordinated development of health services and health insurance, JD Health and Allianz JD reached an agreement to build up a closed-loop system to provide seamless service solutions for governments, enterprises and individual users.
In addition to the cooperation with external partners, JD Health also took the opportunity to integrate and optimize its internal resources. During the expo, JD Medicine Procurement signed agreements with several of JD Health’s departments that manage non-drug products including medical equipment, nutrition, and healthcare products. This helps to form a more integrated supply chain model that can effectively handle all kinds of pharmaceutical products no matter whether they are sold online or offline, through retail or wholesale, and from whichever warehouses, greatly improving inventory turnover and reducing logistics costs.

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Documentation of the one-woman show of jewelry and metalwork
Dunlop, Genevieve G.
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The following work is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree at Northern Illinois University. The work was produced between June, 1977 and July, 1982. It was presented in an exhibition from July 28, 1982 through July 23, 1982, in the Graduate Gallery of the Visual Arts Building, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois.


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[영어에세이] My Neighbor Totoro 이웃집 토토로 - 미야자키 하야오 감독 일본 애니메이션 영화 감상 평론 비평 영작문 자료입니다.
If I have my son, I will make sure that My Neighbor Totoro is among the first films they ever watch. This is one of the purest, most untainted children's movies, bursting with the kind of wonder and curiosity that few people can hold onto. I'm guessing that Hayao Miyazaki is one of those people. He has yet to produce great animations, but this one may prove to be the most valuable film through all his work.
만약 나에게 가족이 있어 아들과 같이 영화를 보게 된다면 이웃집 토토로가 그 첫 번째가 될 것이다. 성인들은 느끼지 못하는 어린이들만의 호기심 어린 감성을 그 자체로 잘 보여주기 때문인데 감독 미야자키 하야오는 그간의 작품들을 통해 거장의 반열에 올랐지만 개인적으로 이 작품을 최고로 평가한다.
The story follows the standard hero arc, but in a much more subtle way. This movie follows a few days in the lives of two little girls, in which they experience growth as symbolized by the growing of plants in the film.
이야기는 전형적인 영웅담처럼 보이지만 나무가 자라듯 성장해가는 어린 두 소녀가 겪는 사건들에 대한 영화이다.
The story is about young sisters, Satsuki and Mei move into a new house in a rural district that seems locked in a simple time. Sister's mother is ill and has been moved to a local hospital. And their father who is a professor of anthropology is kind and open-minded man. The house is one that every child should aspire to live in: unpredictable and unsafe enough to be fun to them. They encounter ghosts. That's not western style ghosts to harm innocent people, but these spirits are not the souls of the dead, but rather a part of the local environment itself. Actually there are no monsters and dangers in this world.