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If you love neutrals, but want a hint of colour, this scheme could be the one for you. A soothing eau de Nil feature wall behind the bed adds character to the space without overwhelming it. Pale peachy-pink tones on the table lamp provide a gentle contrast, while being versatile enough to go with anything. The key is choosing similar tones of each shade.
Tone a bold palette with elements of white to maintain a balance. If your furniture isn’t already white, don’t hit the shops immediately. Painting over wooden furniture is a good way to repurpose it for a new scheme. Leaf-print bedding has been carefully chosen to complement the wall colour and brings a natural touch to the space.
This Image This room makes use of light wooden slats with an interwoven pattern. This achieved by a lighter pattern, so that the darker wood and pattern stands out. In this room the slats adorn only the top half of the wall, a contrast to the pristine white walls. These particular slats match the base of the bed, and taper down to meet panels made of the same wood. A framed picture complements the entire look.
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Looking for a way to make juicy and tender roast pork in air fryer? Check this air-fried pork neck stuffed with slices of apples and garlic. The combination of pork, garlic, and apples comes out of this world. It is so good! Give a try to this easy and great midweek dinner.
2.5 lb Pork Neck
2 cloves Garlic
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper
1 tablespoon Honey
1 tablespoon Mustard
1 tablespoon Olive Oil
1 piece Apple Medium
Clean and slice the apple and garlic.
1 piece Apple, 2 cloves Garlic
Make cuts in the meat with a small knife, and insert into cuts the apple and garlic slices.
2.5 lb Pork Neck, 1 piece Apple, 2 cloves Garlic
Season the meat with oil, salt and pepper.
1 teaspoon Salt, 1 tablespoon Olive Oil, 1/2 teaspoon Black Pepper
Preheat the air fryer and cook the meat for 6 minutes at 400°F (200°C) to get a nice crust.
After the crust has formed, reduce the temperature to 300°F (150°C) and cook the meat until it internal temperature reaches 157°F (69°C). In my case, it took about 35 minutes.
Take it out from the air fryer, and grease the meat with mustard and honey glaze.
1 tablespoon Mustard, 1 tablespoon Honey
Cook the pork for another 2-3 minutes.
Let the meat to rest and you can serve it.
Use a piece of meat that has a uniform thickness.
For the best results, use a meat thermometer to check the internal temperature. If you do not have a meat thermometer, check the color of the juice inside. It should be transparent and not contain blood in it.
Let the meat rest for half of the time it was needed to cook it.

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Pfeiffer University announces that it is one of a select group of 21 institutions across the nation chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) to receive a grant in the amount of $13,000 to implement an Intergenerational Connections: Students Serving Older Adults program. The one-year grant will be used to enhance connections between undergraduate students and older adults in the community.
CIC launched this new initiative with support from the AARP Foundation to encourage colleges to create or extend programs for which students help low-income older adults tackle key life challenges. These typically include hunger, safe and affordable housing, income-generation and social isolation. The 21 colleges and universities will be part of a new network of colleges that the AARP Foundation hopes will help establish best practices for engaging students in meeting the challenges of older adults in the communities surrounding their campuses.
“CIC hopes this pilot project will serve as a first step toward the development of a national network of programs on independent college and university campuses that promote intergenerational interaction between students and community members,” said Richard Ekman, CIC president.
With its CIC grant, Pfeiffer will implement Growing a Legacy: Students and Seniors Serving Together to Combat Hunger Among Elders, a program that offers Pfeiffer students, senior citizens, and youth and community groups opportunities to serve side-by-side in Pfeiffer’s Hunger Relief Garden. An intergenerational advisory committee will be created to bring together students, community partners and local seniors to plan programming and create a blueprint for adapting the garden so it can be fully utilized by people with a wide range of skill and ability levels. Funding makes possible options such as creating wheelchair accessibility, heightened vegetable beds, wider paths between beds, seating and more.
“Seniors in our community possess a great deal of knowledge and experience to share with younger generations,” said Kelly Misiak, director of service scholars for The Francis Center for Servant Leadership, which is managing the project. “Through this project, we aim to give them an opportunity to shine through service that is accessible and adaptive—and for each volunteer to take home up to five pounds of fresh produce weekly from the garden.”
Pfeiffer will work with longstanding community partners Stanly County Senior Services and Stanly County Meals on Wheels to identify seniors interested in participating. Student interns will be employed to help Francis Center personnel administer the advisory committee and evaluate program effectiveness. Last year, the Hunger Garden produced more than 400 pounds of produce that was donated to local nonprofit organizations that serve impoverished populations and communities. Last winter, the garden was relocated from its original spot on campus to another that will allow its growing capacity to increase by more than 400 percent.
Intergenerational Connections: Students Serving Older Adults (2017–2018) grant recipients include Bay Path University, Bridgewater College, Caldwell University, Campbell University, Coe College, Dominican University, Dominican University of California, Elizabethtown College, Goodwin College, Hilbert College, Holy Names University, Jarvis Christian College, Meredith College, Our Lady of the Lake University, Pfeiffer University, Rust College, Shenandoah University, Springfield College, Wheeling Jesuit University, Whitman College and Wofford College. For more information about the project and the participating institutions, visit www.cic.edu/programs/intergenerational-connections.

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The woman looked at her husband during lunch and announced, "I spent all the money you gave me for food and still didn't buy half what we need." At lunch the day before, another housewife complained that the price of meat had more than doubled in the three months since the fighting here stopped.
The talk is the same in most Beirut households these days: the spiraling cost of food and other goods during Lebanon's postwar inflation, estimated at 70 per cent since November.
Some basic commodities have gone up as much as 120 per cent and transportation costs increased 100 per cent, independent economists here estimate.
"The only things that haven't gone up are whiskey and cigarettes, and that's just because they are still being brought into the country without paying customs duty. There is no government yet to collect them," said Deeb Itani, a strest-wise resident of Beirut.
Because of Lebanon's tradition of a free enterprise economy, the government has been reluctant to impose price ceilings. Premier Sal im Hoss, an economist, has refused to order increases in the minimum wage while warning that the inflation will get worse.
He said increasing the minimum wage -- which in turn boosts everyone's salary would only mean that prices would go up more since merchants here, like some in Washington when U.S. government employees get a pay raise, will increase their prices even more than the salary boosts.
The rampaging inflation here means that Lebanese are spending more money on just living and have less to invest in rebuilding their country.
One family, for example, decided they cannot afford to take a low-interest government loan to repair their war-damages.
"We can't afford to pay it back," said Mohammed Salim, "its not in our budget."
The high cost of building materials, most of which have to be imported, is also holding back Lebanese reconstruction efforts.
But the greatest effects of the inflation are felt in households. One food merchant, Patrick Ogden-Smith, estimated that food costs will continue to increase by 2 1/2 per cent a month for the rest of the year.
One woman complained that she spent $17 one morning buying food for a light luncheon for four people and adding a few staples to her larder.
As examples on how food prices have gone up since the fighting stopped, lamb now costs $2.75 a pound, compared to half that in the fall. It costs about $1 a pound in Damascus, Syria, about a 3-hour drive from here.
A carton of 30 eggs cost $3.70, double what it used to. Potatoes have also doubled in price, to 60 cents a pound.
The greatest personal hardships here, though, come from the huge worldwide increase in the price of coffee, which now costs about $5 a pound compared to $1 a year ago. Lebanon is a nation of coffee-drinkers. No business meeting can be held without innumerable cups of sweet, strong, black Turkish-style coffee being passed around, and the Lebanese insist they cannot cutlurally switch to tea as they are being urged to.
Prices are higher now in much of Beirut than they were during the fighting because the alliance of Moslem leftists and Palestinians who ran Western Beirut set up an informal system on price controls.
They closed a number of stores that were gouging customers and made sure that goods were allocated throughout the area.

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4 of the most Eminent Pakistani celebrities have made it to this year’s prestigious ‘100 most beautiful faces’ list nominees, released by TC Candler.
Pakistani actor Mahira Khan, Fawad Khan, Imran Abbas, and singer Momina Mustehsan are this year’s included nominees.
TC Candler is professional film critic and creator of the Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Faces of the Year from all around the world.
Imran Abbas has made it to the list for the second time.
THE INDEPENDENT CRITICS is being published since 1990 in which the celebrities from across the globe are put on the basis of grace strength, passion class, and originality.
The 100 most beautiful men and women nominees by TC calendar have been shared on Instagram.
The results will be announced after the voting process is completed for the ranking of nominated men and women in the list.
The list also features Hollywood artists Tom Cruise, Daniel Radcliffe, Luke Evans, and Chris Hemsworth.
Bollywood celebrities which made up to the nominations include Salman Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif and Shah Rukh Khan.


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Estevan F. Austin and Baron de Bastrop Signed Land Grant[Old Three Hundred]. Stephen F. Austin and Baron de Bastrop Land Grant Signed. Four integral pages, 16" x 13.25" (height varies), in Spanish, San Felipe de Austin, August 9, 1824, conveying one league of land and one "Hacienda" in Austin's Colony to James and Rebecca Cummins, members of Austin's Old Three Hundred. Austin has signed "Austin" a second time after the top line which reads: "Sello 2° 12 rrs. Habilitado pr la Nacion Mexicana pa el año de 1824" ("Second Seal 12 reales through the Nation of Mexico in the year of our Lord 1824"). The "second seal" or Sello Segundo was given to the recipient indicating that this copy belonged to Cummins and his wife. Countersigned by David McCormick and Samuel M. Williams, also members of the Old Three Hundred. Docketed numerous times on page 4. Heavily toned with chipped edges. Folds are weak and detached through all but one (the uppermost horizontal fold). The signatures of both Austin and Bastrop are placed directly over this fold with only minor separation through each name. Some of the text in the body is damaged along the folds, mostly from fading due to water damage. Loss of paper at the intersections of the horizontal folds with the vertical. Several small holes in the paper from ink burn. Despite the spots of fading, the text is especially bold and bright.
James Cummins (circa 1773-1849) moved to Texas from Arkansas sometime before June 1822, settling on the Colorado River with his wife, Rachel, where he farmed and raised livestock. Beginning in 1823, he served four years as the alcalde of San Felipe de Austin and was active in the affairs of the colony. He did not take part in the Texas Revolution due to his age, but had assisted in the suppression of the Fredonian Rebellion ten years earlier.
Samuel M. Williams (1795-1858) came to Texas in 1822. Fluent in Spanish, he was hired by Austin to serve as an interpreter and clerk as well as postmaster and secretary. His fund raising activities in 1835 to oppose Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna forced him to briefly leave Texas, but he continued his activities to finance the Revolution in Texas. One of the founders of the city of Galveston, his negotiation in Baltimore in 1838 for the purchase of six ships led to his moniker as Father of the Texas Navy.
Dutch by birth, Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop (1759-1827), was actually Philip Hendrik Nering Bögel, collector general of taxes for the province of Friesland, who fled Holland when he was accused of embezzling tax funds, adopting the title Baron de Bastrop. He arrived in Spanish Texas in the early 1800s where he was permitted to establish a colony, settling in San Antonio in 1806. He is attributed with influencing Governor Antonio María Martinez to approve Moses Austin's project to colonize Texas in 1820. In July 1823, he was appointed commissioner of colonization for Stephen F. Austin's colony with authority to issue land titles and served as the representative to the legislature of the new state of Coahuila and Texas in May 1824. His fictitious noble pedigree helped him gain the trust of the Spanish nobility, and likely anyone else he encountered. Little did they know that he had escaped to the New World to avoid charges of embezzlement.
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PREMIERE: Tim Clark Has The Perfect EDM Valentine’s Song In “Forgiving Hearts”
Released with Warner Music, Tim Clark returns to drop his first release on 2023, this time hitting us all right in the feels with “Forgiving Hearts.” Check out the song here first, as it premieres on The Nocturnal Times.
The single follows up a cheeky handful of singles he dropped in 2022, which went on to collectively garner over 500k streams, which is no easy feat. Clark is bringing forth the future rave vibe once again with “Forgiving Hearts,” boasting a squeaky-clean, high quality production with a buttery-smooth arrangement to top things off. The single is in honor of his wife – him and her having gone through challenges in their time together.
“‘Forgiving Hearts’” was written as an open love letter to my wife. The only way to be able to have success in a long-term relationship is that both [people] have to have ‘Forgiving Hearts’. Now, I wrote the song to leave the reasonings open to anyone’s interpretation. In my case, it was about a battle with addiction: my wife had had an issue with gambling and she was able to beat it. I’m so very proud of her because it took its toll on our family. But, we have forgiving hearts and better days are ahead of us.” – Tim Clark
Tim Clark has been a DJ for decades, but now is focusing more on his branding and production chops. He boasts music videos on his YouTube channel and has a clear definition to his sound when it comes to his direction. This man is on his game. Check up with him on his socials to see what he does next, Tim Clark is a man of action and “Forgiving Hearts” is the next step in the process.
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China Beige Book Says Economy SlowingBloomberg News
China’s economy slowed this quarter, with industries including retail and mining showing weaker revenue growth while loans through non-traditional channels became more expensive, according to a private survey.
Even with the moderation, the labor market and wage growth were little changed from the previous quarter, according to the China Beige Book survey, published by New York-based CBB International.
The report adds to signs that Premier Li Keqiang may face difficulties reaching an expansion target of 7.5 percent this year without stimulus. The State Council, or cabinet, said this week it will speed up construction projects and other measures to support the economy after data showed moderating growth in industrial production and investment.
“The pace of Chinese economic expansion has plainly slowed,” Leland Miller, president of survey publisher CBB International, said in a statement with Craig Charney, director of research and polling. “A weaker retail performance is the principal driver of the aggregate trend.”
The Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.8 percent today as of the 11:30 a.m. local-time break. Chinese stocks listed in Hong Kong also rebounded after yesterday entering a bear market as the yuan weakened and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its forecast for the nation’s economic growth.
The report, modeled on the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Beige Book business survey, is based on responses from about 2,300 executives and 160 bankers from Feb. 10 to March 3, and 27 in-depth interviews conducted from March 10 to March 14.
CBB International began releasing the China Beige Book reports in 2012. The previous survey showed the world’s second-largest economy strengthening in the fourth quarter, while official data showed a slowdown from the third quarter’s pace of expansion. The China Beige Book report for July-to-September indicated a slowdown, compared with government data showing a pickup.
The world’s second-largest economy will expand 7.4 percent in the January-March period from a year earlier, based on the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey conducted over the past week. That would be the weakest pace since the third quarter of 2012. A majority of economists forecast a cut in banks’ reserve-requirement ratio by the end of the year.
The proportion of retailer respondents reporting revenue growth fell 7 percentage points from the previous period to 54 percent, according to the CBB survey. There was a 7-point drop, to 39 percent, in the proportion of mineral producers reporting increased sales. Fewer companies in services and real estate said revenue rose.
Sales gains were reported by 56 percent of manufacturers, down 1 percentage point from the previous quarter and up 5 points from a year earlier, according to the survey. Fewer manufacturers reported revenue declines, it said.
“Stable first-quarter growth in manufacturing confirms our long-standing thesis that it is no longer the economy’s bellwether,” Miller and Charney wrote.
The average interest rate on bank loans fell 16 basis points from the previous period to 6.33 percent, while the rate on non-bank loans rose 26 basis points to 8.39 percent, according to the report. That’s the widest spread in a year, China Beige Book said.
Companies reported labor availability, hiring growth and wage gains that were little changed from the previous quarter, according to the survey.
— With assistance by Scott Lanman

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BackstorySeasoned asparagus makes a great side dish for almost any main course. Basil, oregano and lemon peel accent the fresh flavor.
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- 1 1/2 pounds asparagus, ends trimmed
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1 teaspoon McCormick® Basil Leaves
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|09 December, 2016, Denia (ESP)
BMC Racing Team’s preparation for the 2017 season is officially underway with riders and staff gathering in Denia, Spain for the annual pre-season training camp.
BMC Racing Team General Manager Jim Ochowicz said the camp is a good opportunity to reflect on the 2016 season and get ready for the upcoming year of racing.
"The 2016 season was another successful year of racing for BMC Racing Team, and we rounded out the year with 30 wins, 12 of which were at the UCI WorldTour level," Ochowicz explained.
"Three of our riders, Rohan Dennis, Manuel Quinziato and Philippe Gilbert, became national champions. Greg Van Avermaet won a stage at the Tour de France and wore the yellow jersey for three days, and Richie Porte showed his potential as a Grand Tour leader with fifth overall. Jempy Drucker won a stage at the Vuelta a Espana, Darwin Atapuma wore the red jersey for four stages, and BMC Racing Team won the team classification."
"Of course Greg Van Avermaet’s victory in the road race at the Rio Olympic Games was another big highlight of the 2016 season, and we had many other memorable victories throughout the year."
BMC Racing Team welcomes five new riders to the 2017 roster.
"We retain our core group of riders and welcome five new team members to our ranks, ranging from some of the most experienced riders in the peloton with Martin Elmiger, Nicolas Roche and Francisco Ventoso, and two riders just starting out their professional careers, Kilian Frankiny and Miles Scotson. Our 28-rider roster is a balanced one, and with these 28 riders we hope to continue our success and build towards the big goal of the season, the Tour de France."
BMC Racing Team 2017 Roster
Tom Bohli (SUI), Brent Bookwalter (USA), Damiano Caruso (ITA), Rohan Dennis (AUS), Alessandro De Marchi (ITA), Silvan Dillier (SUI), Jempy Drucker (LUX), Floris Gerts (NED), Ben Hermans (BEL), Stefan Küng (SUI), Amaël Moinard (FRA), Daniel Oss (ITA), Richie Porte (AUS), Manuel Quinziato (ITA), Joey Rosskopf (USA), Samuel Sánchez (ESP), Michael Schär (SUI), Manuel Senni (ITA), Dylan Teuns (BEL), Greg Van Avermaet (BEL), Tejay van Garderen (USA), Loïc Vliegen (BEL), Danilo Wyss (SUI).
Martin Elmiger (SUI), Kilian Frankiny (SUI), Nicolas Roche (IRL), Miles Scotson (AUS), Francisco Ventoso (ESP).

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Today’s hospitals need many supplies such as for example medical instruments, bed sheets, therapeutic products, sterilization products, and equipment for space utilization. A hospital desires large levels of all these materials, so that all types can be supplied by it of therapy to its patients and in addition prevent lack in these things. At the same time, the hospitals suffer from an enormous budget also, which they have to meet for various purposes.
Products for space usage is very important in the modern day because in case a hospital does not have it, then it is not able to supply adequate service to its individuals. You can find two main types of equipment for space utilization; these are non-mechanical and mechanical. Mechanical equipment is used at the free movement of the individual in the room or even floor and this includes air pressure, deoxygenation, monitors, oxygen system, etc. Non-mechanical gadgets like air temp, radio stations and video clip others and screen.
In case of mechanical medical equipment, there are lots of parts and one has to ensure that these parts come in good working condition and safe to use. These parts include surroundings pumps, surroundings ducts, stethoscopes, and hygienic hand-held musical instruments. All these parts need to be checked regularly so that their efficiency is certainly increased plus they prevent the pass on of any illnesses.
Apart from your air pumps, there are lots of other components like the haemostatic products, ICPs, IVs, dialysis devices, blood pressure techniques, respirators, electrical tubing, thin line tubes, etc. There are many other components found in private hospitals like telemetry recipient, wires, LED lamps, light bulbs, probes, etc.
These professional medical supplies can be divided into two groups namely those which are consumable and the ones which are non-consumable. For example, intravenous syringes and injection pads are usually non-consumable medical materials while the relaxation are usually consumable clinical products. Plasma and Blood consumables are employed within a transfusion of bloodstream or plasma for re-infusing the blood. There are various kinds of blood components used in various medical procedures; these blood elements consist of platelets, plasma, haemoglobin, crimson blood tissues, and white blood cells.
Some other consumables include pre-filled syringes, sterile saline option, cleansed gauze, antiseptics, hand-held instruments, bandages, gauze, and so many more. Plasma and Bloodstream consumables are used in many surgical procedure.
Required equipment for such medical supplies includes blood circulation pressure machinery, oxygen apparatus, surgical bed sheets, cardiac or surgical catheters, cardiac or surgical stents, surgical and artificial joints, diagnostic devices, implantable cardiac pacemakers, insulin pumps, central lines, dialysis equipment, oxygen concentrators, and cystoscopy.
Like medical supplies could be stored, transported, and utilized over a period of time. They are distributed around hospitals on a monthly basis and thus you don’t have to be worried about the option of these medical supplies for the hospital because they are brought to clinics on time.
A good medical related equipment should be of the best quality and really should be durable and reliable. Different varieties of medical supplies can be categorized into three main categories, namely, bodily, therapeutic, and ecological. Physical medical items include tools like laboratory products like blood gas analyzers, mammography scanners, x-ray devices, blood analyzers, and pressurizers, waste materials water pipes, test tubes, fluorescence microscopes, blood chemistry analyzers, and stethoscopes.
On another hand, therapeutic clinical supplies include equipments like radiation therapy gear, incubators, drying devices, emetics, disinfectants, hearing nose & neck (ENT) masks, eyes wear, laser devices, etc. Environmental clinical supplies consist of syringes, plastic hose, devices for impingement, etc. It is vital to have such equipment in a hospital because it helps save the surroundings from damage along with other damage.
Hospitals need large numbers of such medical supplies in order to fulfill all the needs of their patients. You will possibly not recognize it but your very own hospital can be working on medical related items, and that means you should give importance to the maintenance of your hospital so that it lasts for long. a long time.
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- For Civil Engineering Applications, Rubber Modified Asphalt, Construction and Industrial Applications.
- Used to manufacture of reclaim rubber.
- Material to rubber tile and racetrack.
- Crumb rubber incorporated into rubber or plastic products. There are three major advantages for utilizing crumb rubber in the manufacture of rubber and plastic products.
- Use as a filler for reducing cost.
- Adding functionality or modifying properties of the end products.
- Environmentally beneficial product as a consequence of recycling and waste minimization.
- The major consideration of this application is related to cost since the selling price of virgin rubber and plastic resin is relatively low.
- Crumb rubber has been incorporated into rubber and plastic materials, such as floor mats, vehicle mud guards, carpet padding, adhesives etc.

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By Koray Sonmezsoy, Head of Architecture & Engineering, Li & Fung Limited
Cloud computing has been on the rise, and even the most traditional organization has started or already running production-grade applications in public or private cloud environments. Cloud migration is a big topic. It is a big challenge to most organizations that have legacy systems unlikely to startups that usually born and grow in cloud environments.
One of the critical challenges to the organizations is that the existing workforce may not have the sufficient skills and knowledge to be able to succeed and perform in these new high performing innovation enabled cloud environments. Usually, organizations end up just replicating their on-prem environments to cloud platforms in an IaaS model. Using an IaaS approach is not sufficient by itself because all problems in the existing architecture reproduced in the new environment. IaaS used alone at large scale minimizes the advantages of the cloud platform services. There is also an issue of adapting to cloud-native services if only IaaS used as a standalone approach.
Ideally, a mix of PaaS and IaaS approach is an ideal starting point for cloud migrations. In most cases, this approach will help to surface existing issues in your legacy architecture. Using a strangler pattern, you will be able to slowly eliminate and replace the legacy applications with cloud-native high performance, efficient, and scalable applications.
For any business, innovation is a crucial element to beat the competitors and expand into new products and services.
Cloud computing enables any organization to be able to tap into the cloud environment's rich service-driven innovation platforms without any upfront investment.
Enterprise architecture has always played a critical role in organizations that has sizeable monolith systems and applications. However, I believe that traditional enterprise architecture practices and approaches must adapt and change:
Every industry is embracing and recognizing the benefits of Agile development. Agile promotes emerging architecture created by the team members rather than one single person or group dictating the design. Architecture role should become more of a subject matter expertise to help Agile teams how to leverage and make use of different components in cloud environments.
The organizations are adopting multi-cloud tenancy and building cloud-native applications that require specialization in cloud provider services and platforms. We want to bring customers and developers together not to introduce additional layers, which will slow down the progress by creating communication layers. Service-oriented architecture and microservices have been quite a success at scalability and performance compared to monolith applications. Microservices are harder to design compared to monolith approaches. Microservices design naturally promotes the emerging architecture approach used in Agile teams.
Traditional on-premises architectures do not have the capability or the economies of scaling for organizations. Traditional architecture, which was driven by enterprise architecture, had many layers and components that required upfront design and investment.
Serverless architectures enable functions to run as services and do not require any infrastructure setup or design. Tasks are executed and terminated in seconds; there is no persistent infrastructure required.
IoT, blockchain, and cloud computing are some of the key technologies driving digital transformations in organizations. In-depth knowledge and specialization in these transformative technologies will become a base need in architecture. Cybersecurity became more critical than ever with the implementation of new technologies and expanding workloads in the cloud environment and the fantastic growth of data.
Enterprise architecture needs to focus on driving digital transformations further to enable organizations becoming Agile with the emerging architecture approach, becoming cloud-native with multi-tenancy cloud platforms and innovation-driven with extended capabilities rather than dictating what technology to use. Implementing innovative technologies to organizations need to support an inspect and adapt approach.


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Surrounded by picturesque hills is the sleepy village of Livitiputtu, a tiny Adivasi hamlet in Araku Valley that borders Odisha. The hamlet with nearly 100 families has a host of basic problems including malnutrition. However, Livitiputtu, which rarely makes headlines, became the epicenter of news coverage last September when Araku sitting MLA and government whip Kidari Sarvesweswara Rao and ex-MLA Siveri Soma were gunned down by Maoists.
CPI (Maoist), a banned outfit justified the killings claiming that the legislator and their aides allowed illegal mining of bauxite in the agency area and jeopardized the dwellers by polluting the water bodies.
On September 23, both Sarveswara Rao and Siveri Soma were visiting Livitiputtu as part of a grama darsini programme when they were waylaid and shot dead in broad daylight. One police official had stated that a group of Maoists, who had come along with the villagers, blocked their cars, snatched the AK-47 rifles belonging to the personal security officers of the two leaders, before killing Rao and Soma.
According to locals, at least 50 Maoists were involved in the incident. The killings created panic and tension in the region, which was earlier presumed to be free of Maoists. Seven months later, residents of Livitiputtu are suspicious of the movement of non-residents.
Afraid of being caught in the crossfire between the police and Maoists, residents are unwilling to speak with the media about the incident. After the incident, police detained locals suspecting their involvement in the killing. Nandu*, one resident who hesitant to talk about the attack says, â€śWe donâ€™t want to get into any trouble. After the incident, we were enquired by the police. They detained us early in the morning. They treated us like suspects. Who takes people into custody for questioning at 4 am?â€ť
And while police stepped up their vigil soon after the attack, it was months before normalcy returned to the village.
Now seven months on, the Assembly Elections has put the spotlight back on the hamlet of Livitiputtu. Slain MLA Sarveswara Rao's son Sravan Kumar, who was inducted into the Chandrababu Naidu cabinet after the attack, is contesting from his father's Araku Valley constituency, hoping there will be a wave of sympathy. Sarveswara Rao, who had successfully contested on a YSRCP ticket, later defected to the TDP in 2016.
Araku valley is an ST reserved constituency with six mandals--Anantagiri, Araku, Dumbriguda, Hukumpet, Pedabayalu and Munchangiputtu.
Walls and shops across Araku Valley and Dumbriguda, which is just 2 kms away from Livitiputtu are plastered with TDP posters featuring Sravan Kumar and his father Sarveswara, a constant reminder of the tragedy.
The TDP campaign does find some resonance from the locals. Kumari, a resident of Dumbriguda says, â€śThe MLA must have committed some wrongs, but he must have done some good also. Besides, how is killing justified. Shouldnâ€™t they have warned them and let them off?â€ť
A honey vendor who has been residing in Araku for the past six years, however, says, â€śPeople are not going to vote for candidates because of emotions. The sympathy has died down. People are going to vote for winning candidates. Presently, the wave is with YSRCP.â€ť
YSRCP has put up Chetti Palguna, a local to take on Sravan. And while the tragic attack on his father may garner Sravan sympathy votes, it wonâ€™t be a smooth ride for him as he fights the outsider tag and lack of experience in this reserved constituency.
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As Clemson returned from spring break with its eighth practice Monday, receivers coach Tyler Grisham gave the latest on a member of his position room working his way back from injury.
Third-year receiver Troy Stellato has been limited this spring as he continues to recover from ACL surgery that cost the Florida native all of the 2022 season. With the Tigers still six months away from the start of the 2023 season, Grisham said the team isn’t interested in trying to rush Stellato back to full speed.
“Still recovering,” Grisham said following Monday’s practice. “Not quite as far along as we’d hoped, but it’s one of those things where there’s no need to get him reinjured. Need to get him fully healthy.”
Injuries have marred Stellato’s time at Clemson so far. The 6-foot-1, 190-pounder was a four-star recruit in the Tigers’ 2021 signing class, but Stellato has been healthy enough to play just 23 snaps over two games to this point.
One area Stellato isn’t falling behind, though, is learning first-year coordinator Garrett Riley’s offense. All of the players started at the same point in that regard with Riley taking over the job in January, but Stellato’s mental reps have been helped by the fact that he ran a similar offense during his prep career at Gibbons (Florida) High, Grisham said.
“As far as the terminology, it was similar,” Grisham said. “It’s encouraging for him because he’s sitting there and everybody’s like, ‘All right, I’ve got Noble (Johnson), who’s here as a freshman.’ And Beaux Collins is sitting right next to him like, ‘All right, what are we doing?’ They’re all learning it together. That’s very encouraging for Troy.”

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Travel company Tui has promised to clear a backlog of refunds by the end of the month following an investigation by the UK’s competition authority.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had received thousands of complaints from customers waiting many weeks for their money back.
Refunds for cancelled package holidays should be completed within 14 days.
Holidays plans were ruined by the coronavirus outbreak, and delays over refunds added to frustrations.
Following the CMA investigation, Tui said it would clear outstanding refunds by 30 September.
The promise covers all of Tui UK’s different businesses that offer package holidays, including First Choice, First Choice Holidays, Marella Cruises, Crystal Ski, Crystal, Tui Scene, Tui Lakes and Mountains, and Skytours.
Positive people ‘No excuse’
Roy Parry, of Wigan, had booked a £2,500 Tui holiday to Barbados to celebrate the end of his chemotherapy treatment in April.
After the holiday was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, he said he spent hours on the phone to Tui, trying to claim a refund.
Eventually he was credited by his credit card provider. Tui later contacted him to offer a refund which he declined, but then the credit card company asked for the money back.
“It was a lot of hassle,” Mr Parry said. “If Tui had done what they should have done and refunded people at the time, people wouldn’t have been in that situation.
“There’s enough difficulty in the world as it is. Tui added to that. They said it was a Covid issue. I don’t buy that. I work in telecoms, we were getting things sorted within days.
“I don’t think you should use the Covid for an excuse for not behaving the way your customers expect a seriously large company like them to behave.”
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Customers who received Refund Credit Notes will also be contacted to be told they are entitled to cash refund instead, which would be provided within 14 days.
Andrea Coscelli, the CMA’s chief executive, said: “It is absolutely essential that people have trust and confidence when booking package holidays and know that if a cancellation is necessary as a result of coronavirus, businesses will give them a full, prompt refund.
“The CMA is continuing to investigate package holiday firms in the context of the Covid-19 crisis. If we find that businesses are not complying with consumer protection law, we will not hesitate to take further action.”
It has been a tough period for the sector and for Tui. In late July, the company said it would shut 166 High Street stores in the UK and Ireland. Bookings plunged 81% for the summer and were 40% lower for a scaled-back winter programme.
However, bookings are more positive for next year as holidaymakers pland ahead in the hope of an easing of pandemic restrictions.
Positive people What are my rights?
- If you have a package holiday cancelled by the provider, then a refund should be provided for the whole holiday within 14 days
- If your flight is cancelled, you are entitled to a full refund to the original form of payment within seven days, although many airlines are struggling to meet that deadline. You can accept, or refuse, vouchers or a rebooking but a voucher will probably be invalid if the airline later goes bust
- If you decide against going on a future flight, which is not yet cancelled, then there is no right to a refund. Different airlines have different rules over what you can do, but many are waiving any charges for changing to a later flight or having a voucher instead. Your travel insurance is unlikely to cover you
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What is it about a short week that feels so long?
It probably doesn’t help that I’ve spent most of my free time looking through vacation pictures or that I spent the rest of it traveling for work.
Actually, if I can be real here for a moment, what really makes this week rough is that we’re heading into one of the most painful stretches of the working year: that depressing time between Labor Day and the holidays when you have to make it basically until Thanksgiving without a day off.
Does any cancel work for Columbus Day anymore? I mean, I know he’s basically just a lying conquistador but still. What about Yom Kippur?? I’m not Jewish but I could get down.
Oh well. I’m determined not to get my spirits down, and further determined to throw myself headfirst into fall. It doesn’t start until September 23rd but I will be ready.
I already found a year-old box of Trader Joe’s pumpkin muffin mix in my pantry and preceded to bake and burn them. How does one mess up muffins from a box, you might ask? Why would you share this information on your cooking blog?
All valid questions; just a day in the life of me.
Anyway, before I let my fall spirit carry me away I wanted to share photos from my trip to Hudson, NY last weekend, along with a recipe to take advantage of summer’s last tomatoes.
Hudson is just a two hour train ride from the city but it felt worlds apart. We stayed in this amazing, perfectly curated, insanely white AirBnb. And when I say white I mean, like, EVERYTHING was white.
It was a little nerve wracking but we drank red wine anyway because we like to live on the edge.
Aside from the fact that there were no curtains by the bed and I woke up every morning when the sun came up in a panic, convinced it was noon because I had NO IDEA the sun could be that bright at 7am, it was a perfect place to stay.
We ate so many things. Friday night we went to Swoon Kitchenbar, a nice farm-to-table-ish restaurant, and had oysters and homemade pappardelle with beef Bolognese.
Saturday we woke up, at daybreak, and had an amazing breakfast sitting outside at Bonfiglio and Bread. Have I mentioned that breakfast is my favorite part of being on vacation? I love actually sitting down and enjoying the first meal of the day, not eating it at my desk whilst also checking emails and counting down the days till my next vacation. (Who does that? Not me…)
I had the Kate Smith, a seemingly weird combination of fried egg, mushrooms and cream cheese on a bialy that was actually life changing. Afterwards, we hit up the farmers market where I tried a husk cherry which is similar to a tomatillo and not like a cherry at all.
We also bought cherry tomatoes – this is relevant I swear. Because after a sightseeing cruise, with dinner still 5 hours away, we were hungry and I had the somewhat inspired idea to make some bruschetta in our perfectly white kitchen from our farmers’ market tomatoes.
First I had to test all of the balsamic vinegars at the specialty foods store next door, obviously. I also had to hunt down a loaf of bread which was surprisingly difficult at 4pm on a Saturday. Apparently in places outside of NYC they run out of bread at a certain point in the day? Small town America, you’re too much.
I won’t bore you with the details of the rest of our trip, like how much wine we drank at the Hudson-Chatham winery on Sunday, or how we went to a vintage bookstore afterwards and I bought a Nancy Drew book in a fit of nostalgia. Speaking of bookstores, there’s a bar in the one in Hudson and my boyfriend and I have now found our life’s ambition.
I will mention that we had an AMAZING meal at Wm. Farmer and Sons, including a country ham board with delicious homemade biscuits – biscuits plus pepper jelly plus homemade pickle plus country ham = a fantastic combination. I ordered the roasted chicken, which I never do at restaurants – I think it’s a reaction to the fact that my mother only ever eats chicken, sorry Mom. But this chicken was…truly something else.
It came decorated with little flowers which I imagine were hand-placed there by fairies in a lush meadow, on top of a bed of succotash with something cheesy and fried. And it was so incredibly moist. If only I hadn’t filled up on bruschetta beforehand…
Last but certainly not least, on this trip I learned that dairy-free mozzarella exists and that it is a very, very good thing.
And in answer to your unasked question: how many days till my next vacation? Feels like a million. Sigh.
Measurements are approximate – I’m not my most precise on vacation – but somewhat unimportant.
2 cups cherry tomatoes, fresh if you can get them, quartered
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
2 teaspoons good balsamic vinegar*
2 cloves garlic
Salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Slice baguette and place on a baking sheet lined with tin foil. Slice one garlic clove in half and rub each piece of baguette with garlic, discarding what’s left of the clove. Drizzle bread with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Bake for 5-10 minutes or until toasted.
Meanwhile, mince second clove of garlic. Combine tomatoes in a serving bowl with garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Let sit until bread is ready or for at least 10 minutes for maximum flavor.
Arrange toasted bread on a plate and serve with tomatoes.
*: I never do that whole “I only cook with the best quality ingredients” thing – after all, I’m not Ina. But here it kind of matters…you’re going to taste the vinegar so make it count.


Another thread in the broadcloth of England’s uselessly named acid-jazz scene, Jamiroquai, like the considerably more diverse Brand New Heavies, play music saturated in the soul sounds of the 70s. Considered a major act by the press in their homeland, the retro-baked group have yet to make much of a dent stateside, and it’s doubtful that their latest and finest effort, The Return of the Space Cowboy (Work), will do much to change the situation. While most of the bands arriving under the dubious acid-jazz banner incorporate hip-hop rhythms, abundant sampling, and casual cross-genre borrowing, this combo doesn’t bother adding contemporary elements. Led by singer and primary songwriter Jason Kay, they cling to a sound that crosses Innervisions-era Stevie Wonder with the extended funk jams of Sly Stone. For the most part their music is drenched in the warm undulations of Fender-Rhodes electric piano and fluid, fusionoid bass lines fitted neatly within propulsive rhythms. While a tune like “The Kids” provides a manic hyperfunked assault that would have been unthinkable prepunk, more often than not Jamiroquai stick with comfortable mid-tempo grooves, heightening their unabashed 70s links. Nowhere near the pioneers hype-happy British weeklies make them out to be, Jamiroquai nevertheless pull off a credible and extremely energetic flashback. Sunday, 9 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark; 549-0203.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Photo/Eddie Monsoon.


WOONSOCKET â€” After back-to-back calamities claimed two landmark mills last year, it seemed as if the storyline for the future of the cityâ€™s historic mills was cast in stone â€” a gravestone.
But a new and unexpected narrative emerged yesterday as a homegrown plastics company announced plans to take over the sprawling Jules Desurmont Mill, one of the most blighted architectural holdovers from the mill era left in the city.
Robert A. Lebeaux, president of The Plastics Group, says the company will sink more than a million dollars in the 1907 mill to refurbish the eyesore and begin using the ground floor for manufacturing before the end of the year.
The company, which employs about 50 people, expects to increase its workforce by about 25 percent to accommodate the expansion.
â€śCould we have built a new building for less? Probably,â€ť says Lebeaux, a Lincoln resident. â€śBut there really isnâ€™t that much land around here and we wanted to keep it as close to our existing facility as we can.â€ť
â€śIt was available space and it was close to the TPG site,â€ť added marketing consultant Greg Czarnowski. â€śWe value being a manufacturer in Woonsocket and we wanted to continue being here.â€ť
The takeover of the long-neglected, vandal-scarred mill was announced at Costa Park, on the opposite side of the Blackstone River from the site, by company and city officials, including Councilmen Dan Gendron and Robert Moreau. Residential neighbors of the mill and employees of TPG also attended the gathering.
Located at 84 Fairmount St., the Desurmont Mill has 250,000 square feet of space on five levels and was built between 1907 and 1910 as a woolen factory. With myriad broken windows and other telltale signs of repeated vandalism, the red-brick complex is in such horrible condition that city officials canâ€™t honestly say what itâ€™s worth.
â€śIâ€™d just be pulling a number out of the air,â€ť says Economic Development Director Matthew Wojcik. â€śThe last tax assessor said it was worth zero.â€ť
For more than 18 months, Wojcik said, heâ€™s been helping Lebeaux and TPG Vice President Mike Rosenthal untangle a knot of red tape which has kept the building in ownership limbo.
One thorny problem was gaining a clear real estate title to the property. As recently as 2001, a Pawtucket consortium, with backing from a New Zealand financier, had valid plans to convert the site into condos, but the bottom fell out when the state repealed the historic preservation tax credit program.
Though the property appeared all but abandoned until recently, the question of whether the New Zealand company still had a valid title claim on the mill took months to resolve, said Wojick. More recently, Paul Mathias, an ex-Massachusetts state trooper from Blackstone, purchased the tax title to the property at a municipal auction and filed plans to establish a used car auction at the site.
The city discussed tax incentives to bring TPG to the site, but nothing has been firmed up yet, Wojcik said. The city has a system that permits the exemption of a portion of property taxes up front in return for the creation of new jobs, but that might not work in this case because the building is worth so little. Wojcik said he may seek City Council approval to offer the break on the back end, after TPG shores up the property and itâ€™s worth something that would translate into a meaningful exemption for the company.
As a starting point, the city has affixed an arbitrary value of $150,000 on the site, which includes 6.6 acres of waterfront land.
â€śWithin two years I expect the building will be worth 10 times that amount,â€ť said Wojick. â€śThis is one of those rare cases when the buyers may realize a dollar-for-dollar return on their investment.â€ť
Once TPG is established in the building, Wojcik said it will also become â€śway easierâ€ť for the city to help in marketing portions of the structure that the company intends to lease to other businesses.
â€śWeâ€™re extremely pleased,â€ť said Mayor Leo T. Fontaine. â€śThey were growing really rapidly and they needed room to expand. It just goes to show you sometimes these projects donâ€™t fall into place overnight. It takes a sustained, persistent effort and you have to give Mr. Wojcik credit for pulling it off.â€ť
TPG was established in 1973 as Ralco Industries and is co-owned by Lebeau and Michael A. Rosenthal, vice president. The companyâ€™s specialty is blending one of the most common forms of industrial plastic, polypropylene, with other materials, including glass, calcium and barium, to make it more useful in a variety of consumer applications, from medical equipment to sporting goods.
Rosenthal said the company has about 65,000 square feet of space at its 1112 River St. headquarters, plus it leases another 13,000 square feet nearby. But itâ€™s just not enough.
â€śWeâ€™re so handcuffed for space in our location, sometimes we donâ€™t even have room on the manufacturing floor to put finished product,â€ť he said. â€śWeâ€™re busy twenty-four-seven.â€ť
Lebeaux said the first order of business at Desurmont Mill will be to make sure the building is secure from intruders and the elements. That means repairing dozens of broken windows and the roof. The ground floor will undergo extensive modifications. Initially, the company will begin using about 84,000 square feet on the main level and the basement, but eventually the company will repair the upper stories of the structure and attempt to lease them.
The Desurmont is directly across the street from the former Alice Mill, the 1812 rubber factory that burned down in spectacular fire last June. The blaze was sparked by a welderâ€™s torch while the cavernous mill was undergoing conversion into a wood-pellet fuel factory. A few months earlier, the old Seville Dyeing Company, just across the river from the Alice Mill, got its first glimpse of doom when the roof collapsed under the weight of heavy snow. The owners later razed what Mother Nature left standing.
The twin disasters have opened a wide new berth along the Blackstone, exposing a picturesque stretch of the river that was for decades blocked from view by industrial buildings. Theyâ€™ve also stoked fears of collateral damage among homeowners in the area, leery of the dangers posed by vacant industrial giants. Thatâ€™s one reason Jeff Austin, who lives on nearby Canal Street, was so pleased to hear of TPGâ€™s plans for the Desurmont.
â€śIâ€™m delighted because itâ€™s a beautiful building,â€ť said Austin. â€śItâ€™s also increasing Woonsocketâ€™s manufacturing viability. Itâ€™s the best of all possible worlds here.â€ť


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This paper also has an FSC Certification from the Forest Stewardship Council which means the paper comes from responsibly managed forests and you can feel good about using it. This is a great honor for me and Im trying my best to make justice to their paper. High-Quality Origami Sheets Printed with 6 Different Colors.
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Vibrant and bright colors. The good people at Tuttle Publishing sent me a butterfly origami kit to try out. The paper is moderately thick a bit thicker than standard origami paper I.
This is definitely one of the most thick origami papers and comes in 110 gsm and 190 gsm weights. Origami Paper – Pastel Colors – 6 34 – 48 Sheets. Tuttle Publishing offered me 6 packs of origami paper to review.
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What is a seedbank?
The weeds we see germinating aboveground are only part of the story; underneath there is an unseen “weed seedbank”, which has deposits (adding more seeds to the soil) and withdrawals (when weeds germinate). Different filters determine what weeds will emerge out of a seedbank, for instance the crops planted, fertility, and tillage. Farmers can observe what weeds grow in their fields, but we wanted to know what was going on underground.
Additionally, organic farmers in the Finger Lakes area have observed that red clover often volunteers profusely in some fields after tillage: is there a perpetual red clover seedbank? This may be due to the common practice of harvesting red clover for seed on these farms, during which a substantial number of seeds shatter and are dropped on the field. Under these conditions, red clover could act either as a valuable nitrogen-fixing resource or perhaps as a weed.
The goal of this project was to quantify soil weed seedbanks in the fields of four local organic farms. In particular, we have heard from organic farmers that red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) often volunteers profusely in some fields after tillage.
We asked four organic grain farmers to identify “weedy”, “clean”, and “high clover” fields on their farms. We took soil samples from these fields in the spring (before weeds germinated) of 2015 and 2016. We then spread the soil out in flats in the greenhouse in a germination bioassay to let the weed seeds germinate and counted the seedlings of each species. We also ran soil health tests on the soil samples (organic matter, aggregate stability, soil respiration, active carbon, soil protein) to characterize them.
Red clover was the 6th most common species in 2015 and the 9th most common species in 2016. These organic farmers do in fact have red clover in their seedbanks, bolstering their observations that the red clover seedbank likely increased via intentional planting and losses from seed harvest. The number of red clover ranged from 0 to 23 seedlings per kg soil across all 12 fields. Half of the fields had over 4 seedlings per kg of soil, which is quite a lot. For example, one seedling per kg of soil equates to over 100,000 seeds per acre in the top inch of soil—enough for a good stand of red clover.
Interestingly, across all four farms, red clover populations were greater in the field chosen as “weedy” compared with the field chosen as “high clover.”
Out of the 4 farms and 2 years (except for one instance) weed densities in “weedy” fields were at least 2x greater than in “clean” fields. However, “clean” fields didn’t have zero weeds. The “clean” fields had different filters imposed on them so that fewer weeds were emerging aboveground, but their seedbanks still contained weed seeds. What a farmer sees aboveground is not necessarily representative of the weeds he or she could be getting.
The three weed species with the greatest number of individuals across all farms were: pigweeds, purslane speedwell, and giant foxtail. Fields had between 7 and 27 different species in them per kg soil.

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From October 11 to 19 I was in the Acadia National Park. Part of the time was with a Photo Workshop. We managed to be there for the peak of the fall color. The trees were blazing and not many of the leaves had fallen. The weather was perfect, we didn’t have any really spectacular sunrises or sunsets, but we also didn’t have any rain either.
We stayed at the Cadillac Inn in Bar Harbor, getting out at 5:45 am to catch the sunrise and not returning until about 7pm after the sun had set and all the light had left the sky.

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Soon she rose with a determined air and joined Austin by the window.
The Montenegrins declared war on Turkey and joined forces with Servia.
Mr. Horseman also joined the Conservatives in opposing the bill.
He has joined an ambulance corps that is going to the Front.
I was not solicitous to vindicate him when I was not joined in their reflection.
He has joined the Foreign ...


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As many readers will know this blogs a great interest in both new ways of treating medical conditions and the new types of medical technology which make these treatments possible.
In particular we have looked at the area of stem cells in particular as a treatment for multiple sclerosis. You can check out our recent blog here.
Interestingly cord blood ( ie from the newly born’s umbilical cord). I would strongly recommend you pop round to the Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Foundation which gives , for my money, the best overview , of cord blood and cord blood banking. They say “The term “cord blood” is used to describe the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and the placenta after the birth of a baby. Up until recently this blood was discarded as medical waste. Cord blood contains stem cells that may be cryopreserved for later use in medical therapies, such as stem cell transplantation or new emerging therapies.”
The site useful gives a list of cord blood banks not just in America.
Indeed they mention that over 80 different medical conditions could be treated with stem cells from cord blood. These include types of Leukemia , some anemias, Lymphoma, Thrombocytopenia, Bone Marrow Cancers and some solid tumours. That being said it is currently under going clinical trials for such diverse conditions as autism, rheumatoid arthritis, Cerebral Palsy and some types of motor neurone disease.
So it all looks very promising.
As well as raising awareness of Cord Blood Awareness Month we are also interested in your views ion the subject. It would be great if you could share your responses to the following questions using the comment box below:-
a) Have you “banked” your childs cord blood? If so why and how did you go about the process of doing so?
b) Would you consider it in the future.
Any aspect of your cord cell story will be of great interest so feel free to tell us below.


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Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard yesterday that Krisztan Racz, 31, and Horea Dumitru, 22, were spotted, by an off-duty police officer, inserting various cards into the machines.
Fiscal depute Ruth Ross-Davie said: "The cards transpired to be cloned cards.
"Racz and Dumitru had formed a plan to obtain money by attaching a false fascia to the ATM machine and using these cards to obtain money."
Police searched their home where they found fascias, software, phones, memory cards, phone top-up cards and gift cards for making counterfeits .
Racz and Dumitru, both of Edinburgh Prison, admitted forming a fraudulent scheme and obtaining 1,140 by fraud at Tesco, Meadow Place Road, on 1 March.
They also admitted having equipment to obtain money through ATMs at Broughton Road also on 1 March.
Sheriff James Scott deferred sentence for reports until next month and both men were remanded in custody.

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In regards to the editorial titled “No concern here” by Ms. Julie Andrus, I believe she should take some of her own advice when looking at the candidates for president before criticizing Mr. Jared Jensen for his “faulty” political reasoning. Hear this Jared out. She said to look at “Kerry’s opinions of…foreign policy.” We have to look no further than his Senate record on perhaps the most important and encompassing foreign policy issue of the 2004 election cycle: Iraq.
Senator Kerry voted for the resolution that authorized the President to send troops to Iraq, acting on a policy of regime change adopted by the Clinton Administration. However, he did not vote for the $87 billion appropriation to fund the war. Now what kind of foreign policy is this and what message does it send? Senator Kerry is more than willing to send troops to war, but he is not willing to show some courage, like he did in the battlefields of Vietnam, to financially support them to finish the task he voted to send them do! He should know better than any presidential candidate what it takes to win a war because he saw exactly what not to do in Vietnam. This is not Bush’s War. It is just as much Senator Kerry’s and the rest of the House and Senate that voted for the resolution authorizing Saddam Hussein’s removal. Kerry is a sheet in the wind as far as foreign policy is concerned especially with Iraq.
He clearly is not the best candidate for the job. At least candidates like Governor Dean and Senator Lieberman, no matter how extreme or moderate, have the wherewithal to stick to their guns when it may not be politically advantageous to do so. She claimed that “his voting record show(ed) courage.” I think it shows blatant political opportunism and pandering to a constituency that will not deliver him the White House. Ms. Andrus, I hope you will reconsider your vote. Mine will be cast for the incumbent.


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INSPECTION: Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State (middle) with the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello (2nd right) and member, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Bisi Yusuf (left) during the Governor’s inspection of Ayetoro road, Ipaja-Ayobo, yesterday.
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LAGOS—Following directives by the Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, men of the state’s Public Works have commenced a massive rehabilitation of 13 link roads, including that of former Governor Babatunde Fashola’s street in Surulere Local Government Area, LGA.
The Chief Executive Officer and Special Adviser to the Governor on Lagos State Public Works Corporation, LSPWC, Ayotunde Sodeinde, disclosed this during an inspection tour of on-going road projects in Surulere LGA weekend.
Sodeinde, while inspecting the completed work on Kernel Street, which Fashola has his residence, stated that Ambode through his magnanimity approved the rehabilitation of the road projects.
Already, asphalt work had been completed on Kernel Street, while grading of adjoining Animashaun Street is on- going.
Other roads due for rehabilitation according to Sodeinde, include: Itolo Road, Johnson Street, Imam-Dauda, Suenu, Olumegbon, Onitolo, Olorogun, Iluseyi, Aiyegbami and Jeminatu Buraimoh close in Surulere Local Government.
The Special Adviser also inspected on-going drainage construction and road rehabilitation projects at Queens Drive, Ikoyi. He said in the next two weeks the projects would be completed.
“Within the last eight months, LSPWC has completed road projects at ACME/Metal box road, Ogba, Alfa-Nla in Agege, Ikotun-Ejigbo road projects, Epe-Ijebu-Ode road, Oba Sekunmade in Ikorodu, CIPM Road in Ikeja and Jan. 27 road in Oke-Afa Oshodi/Isolo to mention a few,” he said.
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Meantime, residents on Kernel Street and adjoining streets in Surulere LGA, have appealed to the governor to come to their aid as they lack supply of portable water in the area for over a year.
According to one of the residents, Mrs. Janet Adeosun, “We have no pipe-borne water in our houses for over a year. We patronize Hausa water hawkers, “Meruwa” for our daily need of water since our source of water supply was damaged.”
“We have written several complaint letters to Lagos State Water Corporation and uptill this moment there was no positive response. We are therefore, appealing to our amiable Governor Ambode to magnanimously intervene in our water crisis as he had done on the road. We believe he has a listening ears and he will do it at least for the sake of our innocent children.”


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They are among the first to “light up” in flower beds, rocky gardens. Early flowering, natural beauty, the ability to grow in one place for several years in a row without annual digging of bulbs make them very popular in our dachas.
Since there are already about 100 species of botanical tulips, it is not surprising that they are allocated to a separate garden group. Some species, which already have their considerable arsenal of varieties, are separated into separate classes. This:
- Class 12. Tulipa kaufmanniana, varieties and hybrids;
- Class 13. Tulipa fosteriana, varieties and hybrids;
- Class 14. Tulipa greigii, varieties and hybrids;
- class 15. Other species, their varieties and hybrids.
Today we will talk about tulips that entered the last class and are not included in the others. Botanical, or natural, or wild — all these are synonyms of the same bulbous plants. They are so called because they still occur and grow naturally in nature.
Their popularity is growing every year, despite the fact that the modest beauty of specific tulips and most of their varieties is of no value to sophisticated tulip growers. The number of fans of wild tulips is also increasing, now many gardeners dream of growing them on their plots. But it is important to know: some species are endangered, so it is impossible to dig up their bulbs in nature.
Features of botanical tulips
There are two unofficial groups.
Group 1: stunted (10-20 cm high), with star-shaped flowers with a diameter of 5-8 cm, having pointed petals.
Group 2: taller (peduncles 20-35 cm or more) mainly with cup-shaped flowers with a diameter of 6-15 cm, mostly with rounded bases of petals.
The following signs are characteristic of all representatives of both groups.
- They are long-lived (they grow for many years without transplanting in one place).
- They have a thin peduncle.
- They like well-warmed sunny dry places with well-drained soil. The ideal landing place for them is sunny rockeries.
- They are suitable for growing in low wide garden pots, which is very important on problematic heavy waterlogged soils.
- As a rule, they reproduce well, forming many daughter bulbs.
- Resistant to diseases and pests.
I will no longer torment you with the expectation of getting acquainted with botanical tulips. Meet the modest stars of spring flower beds!
Tulipa saxatilis, syn. T. bakeri, is native to Greece, Western Turkey. Winter hardiness (according to USDA data) — zones 3-8.
The representative of the second group is 35 cm tall, with 2-4 leaves up to 30 cm long. Fragrant flowers are pink, purple, purple-purple, yellow at the base, 6-8 cm in diameter, collected in bundles of up to 4 pieces; they bloom from mid to late spring. In the south it blooms earlier, in the middle zone — in early May. Fully opened flowers enchant with a pleasant aroma, and the discreet beauty is effectively complemented by yellow, purple and brown anthers on yellow threads.
Extremely drought-resistant, suitable for growing in rocky gardens, containers. Effective in cutting.
Tulipa biebersteiniana can be found mainly in the Caucasus. Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 4-9.
It is 10-35 cm high, so it conditionally falls into the first group. The leaves are grooved, up to 3 cm long. Peduncles are very thin, often lying down. Elegant, exceptionally yellow star—shaped flowers with a diameter of 3-5 cm – with a strong pleasant aroma. Tulipa schrenkii Regel blooms later.
Suitable for growing in rocky gardens, mixborders. Autumn planting of bulbs is preferable, and it is better to work with gloves, because they are poisonous.
Tulipa clusiana, syn. T. aitchisonii is native to Iran, the Himalayas. Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 3-8.
It belongs to the second group — 30 cm high, with 2-5 glaucous leaves up to 15 cm long. Flowers with a round base, white, with dark pink wide stripes on the outside, the bases of the petals and stamens are purple.
It has 2 varieties:
- var. chrysantha, syn. T. chrysantha — 1 peduncle bears 3 flowers, the petals are yellow inside, red to brown-purple outside;
- var. stella, syn. T. stellata — star-shaped flowers.
It can grow and bloom in one sunny place for many years.
Tulipa gesneriana may have a garden origin; naturalized in the Mediterranean. Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 4-8.
From the second group — up to 45 cm high, with 2-7 lanceolate-oblong leaves up to 30 cm long. Flowers are red, orange, yellow; single, cup-shaped, up to 12 cm in diameter. It is interesting in spring flower beds. It grows well and blooms in semi-shaded places.
The homeland of Tulipa biflora, syn. T. polychroma is Kazakhstan, Eastern Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan. Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 4-8.
This is the smallest (10 cm high) representative of the first group. The leaves are bluish, sickle-shaped curved, up to 18 cm long, 1-2 pieces each. The flowers are stellate, white, yellow at the base, with reddish stripes on the outside, up to 4 cm in diameter, fragrant; in the south they bloom in March. It got its name for the fact that one peduncle bears 2 flowers (much less often — 3-5 pcs.). By the beginning of the dry and hot summer in the Crimea, its fruits are already ripening. Harmonious in rockeries.
The origin of Tulipa sylvestris, syn. T. australis, is unknown. He became naturalized in the territory from Europe and North Africa to the Middle East. Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 4-8.
This fragrant handsome man is from the first group. A peduncle up to 30 cm high is crowned with a yellow flower of elongated shape with a diameter of 6-8 cm . The plant looks especially elegant in large groups. The flowering time in the middle band is at the beginning or middle of May. Bulbs can be planted on lawns.
Tulipa humilis is native to Southern and Eastern Turkey, Northern Iraq, Northern and Western Iran, and Azerbaijan. Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 4-8.
A representative of the first group with a height of up to 25 cm . The flowers are stellate, up to 7 cm in diameter, from light to purple-pink. It will look luxurious in a wide variety of spring compositions: in rockeries, mixborders, flowerpots.
Tulipa turkestanica is native to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Northwestern China. Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 3-8.
The view from the first group is 25-30 cm high . Multi-flowered: on one peduncle forms whole bouquets (up to 8-12 pcs.) of miniature white flowers with a diameter of 3-5 cm. He is one of the first to start in the spring mixborders. Extremely drought-resistant. Beautiful at the rocks in the rockeries. Suitable for cutting.
Tulipa tarda, syn. T. dasystemon is native to Central Asia (Tien Shan). Its winter hardiness (according to USDA data) is zones 3-8.
One of the most common wild-growing multicolored species from the first group in the culture. Up to 15 cm high, 3-7 leaves, lanceolate, up to 12 cm long. The flowers are stellate, white (yellow at the base), up to 6 cm in diameter; on 1 peduncle — 2-4 (less often — 8) pcs. It grows well both in the sun and in the shade, is harmonious in rockeries. It can be identified in the foreground of flower beds. It will look great in wide vases with forget-me-nots.
In conclusion — traditional questions from the author: do you have natural tulips growing in your garden? In what compositions and elements of the cottage are they represented?
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I continue to reflect a bit on the subject of transience and mortality. It is by now an atheism truism that the absence of an afterlife, our finitude and transience, is precisely what gives meaning and significance to this life. Surely, this is all the inspiration we need, all the impetus necessary for us to go out and live well. Perhaps it is-it seems to be, at least for some. And yet, I am not quite convinced by it.
For one, the view seems to be a very recent one in history. I previously noted that for the Buddha, grasping at transience is the source of all misery, and true liberation only comes when we stop grasping. This isn’t-really-the same thing as the rather casual and blithe assertions we hear today. Other cultures-such as the Japanese-find sorrow upon reflecting on the transience of the world. Clearly, an awareness of transience does not inevitably affirm the bourgeois American understanding of the pursuit of happiness.
Reflecting on this subject, Fr. Ron Rolheiser wrote (The Restless Heart):
All of us experience within ourselves a certain restlessness and insatiability. Our hearts and minds are so fashioned that they are never satisfied, always restless; never quiet, always wanting more of everything. Throughout history various persons have given different names to this restlessness. Religious thinkers have often called it “the spark of the divine to us”; philosophers sometimes referred to it as “the desire of the part to return to the whole”; the Greeks had two names for it, Nostos, a certain homesickness within the human heart, and Eros, a relentless erotic pull toward whatever we perceive as good; the Vikings called it “wanderlust,” the constant urge to explore beyond all known horizons; the biblical writer Qoheleth called it “timelessness” (Ha olam), the congenital inability to bring ourselves into peaceful harmony with the world around us; St. Augustine called it “restlessness”: “You have made us for Yourself, Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” Most of us simply call it “loneliness.”
He quotes Ecclesiastes:
God has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put timelessness into man’s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
One can dismiss this longing as an evolutionary hangover, but it does seem that the roiling, transient nature of the world isn’t enough to make us happy (neuroscience might just be confirming this unpleasant existential conundrum-namely that existence doesn’t seem to be enough).
Nor, of course, is it true that only those who do not believe in an afterlife have a monopoly on reflecting on death. This is a venerable Christian tradition as well. Frederica Mathewes-Green’s son has launched a Facebook community with the apt name of “Brother We are Going to Die“. St. Thomas a Kempis famously wrote:
If it is dreadful to die, it is perhaps more dangerous to live long. Blessed is the man who keeps the hour of his death always in mind and daily prepares himself to die. If you have ever seen anyone die, remember that you, too, must travel the same road. Each morning remember that you may not live until evening; and in the evening, do not presume to promise yourself another day. Be ready at all times, and so live that death may never find you unprepared. Happy and wise is he who endeavors to be during his life as he wishes to be found at his death.
Compline (Night Prayer) has long been regarded by the Christian Tradition as a “daily exercise in the art of dying.” The approach of Classical Christianity to the reality of death is not to use the afterlife to sweep away the importance of this life, nor does it minimize death. If anything, it heights it.
In the end, I do not know the correct answer to this apparent dilemma regarding transience. Different people seem to approach the question from vastly different angles (surprise, surprise). Too often, I think, Catholics and other Christians have tended to assume that others have the same expectations of life and death as they. Too often we assume that everyone conceives of-and more importantly desires-life after death as personal survival, complete with reunion with dead relatives. Yet, there are many who do not desire such things. I worked with a gentleman who told me eternity with his relatives would be hell-and that his real hope was to become “undifferentiated energy” after death. I do not say this to mock his view, if anything I greatly respect his honesty.
The truth of the matter is, we know very little about what awaits us after death. We greatly exaggerate the significance of our own innate immortality. The Church tells our souls are immortal, but Thomistic philosophy, the Old Testament, the ancient Greeks, and more than a few Native ‘religions’ all concur that, in the words of Olivier Clement that the human
soul, after death, survives in a phantom half-life, the Bible knows nothing of any poetry of the ‘immortality of the soul.’
Note carefully-I am not denying that the human soul is immortal in a sense. Too many Catholics have blithely denied the Church’s teaching on this subject. I agree that the philosophical case for the immortality of the soul, at least when set in Aristotelian-Thomist terms (c.f. Ed Feser) may not persuade everyone. Nonetheless, the Church affirms that our soul is immortal. What we need to understand is that this does not mean what we think it means. The soul’s “natural” survival after death is nothing to write home about, certainly nothing to yearn for or celebrate.
True eternal life requires union with God, and re-embodiment. Only this can save us from the bondage of transience and the half-life that follows. We know very little of what this entails. We know that theosis offers us release from the vagaries of time and space. In the words of Clement:
Thus will come about the completion of all things, when the Spirit of life, through the communion of saints, will manifest the whole universe as the glorified Body of Christ. Then each person, in giving his face to the transfigured universe, will rediscover his flesh; flesh vibrant with all its natural sensitivity, our earthly flesh, but bathed in the life and fullness of God, who will be ‘all in all’, abolishing the separations of time and space, making possible among the rise a communion beyond anything we can now imagine.
Christianity can only preach the message we have been given. We have been given the theological virtue of Hope. In the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
1817 Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.”84 “The Holy Spirit . . . he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.”85
1818 The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man; it takes up the hopes that inspire men’s activities and purifies them so as to order them to the Kingdom of heaven; it keeps man from discouragement; it sustains him during times of abandonment; it opens up his heart in expectation of eternal beatitude. Buoyed up by hope, he is preserved from selfishness and led to the happiness that flows from charity.
This is the Gospel, our Good News. It is what we have to offer. I will give the final word to Clement:
Yet man at all times, of all races and ages, has rejected death with all his being. Through love and beauty, but also through eroticism and drugs, h seeks life. Searching for it, but not knowing where, seeking life but not finding it, he hates the very fact of existence, in himself and in others. Then comes the temptation to kill others, and self-suicide, the ultimate and absurd form of self-adoration! Yet it is precisely in the bitter heart of our nihilistic civilization that we must witness to the Resurrected One. To witness is to believe in life touched by eternity. Nicholas Fedorov, a 19th century Russian religious philosopher…said that there is only one crime: consenting to die. In the resurrected Christ, we no longer agree to die, we no longer agree to kill others and ourselves.
The anguish [of death] becomes the persuasion that we risk being swallowed up by “this world” in a web of illusions, platitudes, and emptiness. The anguish becomes a fear of God, preserving us from identifying with the deadly game of “this world.” And we discover, at a still deeper level, the presence of Christ. Despair no longer leads to nothingness; someone stands between us and the abyss.
Eternity has touched life, Timelesness has spoke to the transient. Together with our brethren who do not believe, we can celebrate and rejoice in life-and reject the allure of Death in all its forms. This is Hope.

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