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Xbox LIVE's Spring Sale begins today; offers discounts for Skyrim DLC, The Walking Dead, and AC3
Microsoft's Xbox LIVE Spring Sale kicks off today, bringing Xbox 360 owners a plethora of games and downloadable content for discounted prices. While we were pretty disappointed with the offerings during the Xbox LIVE Ultimate Game Sale, the Spring Sale seems to have a better understanding of what Xbox gamers want.
For starters, Assassin's Creed 3 is actually available for discount this time around. Normally priced at $59.99, you can download the Games on Demand version for just $39.99 (33% savings). Those who haven't yet hopped on Telltale's The Walking Dead bandwagon can now do so at a more affordable price. Episode 1 of Season One is completely free, while the remaining for are just 200 Microsoft Points each ($2.50 each) -- 50% off the original 400MSP. With Season Two of The Walking Dead already in the works, what can you possibly be waiting for?
Other items on sale include downloadable content for Max Payne 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Resident Evil 6, and L.A. Noire. The items below are available on sale from March 26 through Monday, April 1, 2013. On April 1st, Microsoft will offer another set of discounted games that will be available for only one day.

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LATHROP – It was a game of momentum. And a game of inches.
In his three years as head coach of the East Union High Lancers, Willie Herrera had yet to celebrate a homecoming victory.
OAKDALE – Weston Ranch stayed poised and battled through the night but left Oakdale on the short end of a 48-0 score.
The compliments have come rushing in for the Sierra High football team and its defensive leader, Trevon McCray. He's been called "the best player on the field" by Ripon coach Chris Johnson following the Timberwolves' season-opening 54-7 victory. Teammates often refer to the middle linebacker as an "animal" for his tenacious play on Friday evenings.
Jeff Harbison's well-intentioned pre-league schedule produced favorable results, but not the type of games he had hoped for his Sierra football team.
R.J. Tisdell racked up nearly 150 all-purpose yards to lead the Lathrop sophomores to a 36-0 win over host Weston Ranch to open the Valley Oak League campaign on Friday.
The Manteca freshmen embarked on a 16-play, six-minute drive late in the fourth quarter Thursday capped by a 1-yard scoring plunge by Michael Frisby to defeat Central Catholic 14-13 in the Valley Oak League opener at Guss Schmiedt Field.
MODESTO - No Montell Bland?
MODESTO – Dakarai Charles stood near the 40-yard line, watching Central Catholic chew up the fourth quarter clock.
TRACY – Sierra remained undefeated Friday and opened the Valley Oak League campaign with a 55-20 shellacking of host Kimball at Don Nicholson Stadium.
For the first time ever, the Lathrop High Spartans took home the prize.
OAKDALE – The East Union football team had a tough opening assignment on Friday evening.
Eric Reis believes his Manteca football team to be the underdog for Friday's Valley Oak League opener at Central Catholic - just the way he likes it.
Ask Manteca coach Eric Reis what impresses him most about Central Catholic and the answer stretches on and on.
Malik Vegatatum stripped the ball from a Grace Davis ball carrier late in the fourth quarter on Friday to set up the winning 40-yard touchdown pass from Terry Snipes to De'Jon Chambers for a thrilling 18-12 come-from-behind victory for the Weston Ranch sophomores.
Record-breaking numbers that ranked him among the best in California weren't enough for Sierra running back Mark Paule Jr. to garner the MVP award during the Valley Oak League coaches meeting Monday night.
Chris Johnson has said his 2014 offensive line was the best he's had as Ripon's head coach.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - There's still hope for Douglass High School.
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India’s contribution to the First World War is not widely known about, despite the fact that it raised the world’s largest volunteer army. At the outbreak of the War in August 1914, the Indian Army mustered 194,000 regular soldiers and 46,000 non-combatants, giving a total of 250,000 personnel. By Armistice in November 1918, the force had grown to nearly 1.5 million, with a million serving as soldiers. Incredibly, one in every six soldiers of the British Empire was from the Indian subcontinent; its contribution was the equivalent of all the ‘white’ forces from the rest of the British Empire combined (namely Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa).
Indian units were composed of soldiers from various ethnic groups or classes, with different religions and customs. The main groups were Sikhs, Jats, Punjabi Muslims, Punjabi Hindus, Brahmins, Rajputs and Gurkhas (see below). The ethnic/religious groups tended to be kept together in battalions so that you had the 1st Gurkha Rifles, the Sikh Light Infantry, the Jat regiment, and so on. The Indian Army fought in all the major theatres of war on land, air and sea, alongside British troops. It was led by white British officers, who had made their careers in the Indian army, with Indian officers under them.
Indian Amy soldiers were in action on the Western Front within a month of the start of the war. The Indian Corps can be credited with having saved the front line from collapse. A total of 140,000 men, comprising 90,000 combatants (those in the front-line) and 50,000 non-combatants (those in auxiliary battalions), saw active service on the Western Front in France and Belgium. They were particularly important in the battles of Ypres and Neuve Chapelle.
After a year of front-line duty, sickness and casualties had reduced the Indian Corps to the point where it had to be withdrawn. Nearly 700,000 then served in the Middle East, fighting with great distinction against the Ottoman Empire in the Mesopotamian theatre of war. Indian Army troops also served in Aden, Egypt, Palestine, Persia, Italy, Salonica, Russia, East and West Africa, on the Gallipoli peninsula and even in China.
Gurkhas, Jats and Pathans – The Martial Races
Gurkhas were the foremost of the so-called ‘martial races’, which also included the Jats, Hindu farmers from the Punjab, and the Pathans, Muslims from the tribal regions of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gurkhas, Jats and Pathans were thought to be martial races because they were considered to be naturally warlike and aggressive in battle, to possess qualities of courage, loyalty, self-sufficiency, physical strength, resilience and orderliness, to be able to work hard for long periods of time, and to fight with tenacity and military strength.
Gurkhas hailed from the independent country of Nepal. Their name derives from the Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath, who was supposed to have first set foot on the earth in Nepal. Gurkhas are closely associated with the Khukuri, a forward-curving Nepalese knife and have a well known reputation for their fearless military prowess. Around 100,000 fought with the Indian Army in the First World War.

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Our workshop programme is different every year, and we always seek facilitators with their own ideas so we can make our programme as diverse as our communities.
Past workshop themes have included:
- Equality and diversity topics such as Including Minority Ethnic People and Disability and Bisexuality
- Experience sharing discussions including workshops on mental health, relationships, and a trans only space
- Activism workshops such as Challenging Assumptions and Activism in a Time of Backlash
- Fun and Games workshops including crafts, games, clothes swaps and quizzes
More information about our programme for BiTastic 2021 will be here as soon as we have it.

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Editorial: Urban Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Tropical Regions
- 1Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
- 2Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP and FGV EBAPE), São Paulo, Brazil
- 3School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States
Editorial on the Research Topic
Urban Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Tropical Regions
The tropics (Figure 1A) contain most of world's biodiversity (Barlow et al., 2018), providing a living laboratory of ecological and evolutionary processes, and presenting an immense potential for tapping this rich biodiversity for local and global benefits. While the typical image of the tropics is a green and clean location, this often does not hold true as many places are intrinsically urban, such as the Brazilian Amazon. In fact, the tropics currently house ~40% of the world's population and expected to increase to 50% by 2050 (State of the Tropics, 2020). As the population continues to grow, many cities and peri-urban areas in the tropics are undergoing rapid habitat loss, resulting in the loss of unique ecosystems and species (McDonald et al., 2018). These losses affect a variety ecosystem services, such as seed dispersal and pollination, disaster protection, water and flood protection, microclimate regulation, pollution reduction and cultural identity. Not only are ecosystem services being lost, but the growing consumption that an urbanized global society imposes on tropical ecosystems is causing the emergence of ecosystem disservices including zoonotic diseases, increase of urban heat islands effects and people disconnection with nature and consequent human well-being. Furthermore, urban biodiversity can itself generate ecosystem disservices that may cause effects perceived as harmful, unpleasant, or unwanted (Shackleton et al., 2016). These disservices can also be amplified by climate change, which could augment the risks of disease burdens in tropical cities (Reiner et al., 2015). As a result, increasing urban biodiversity with the goal of changing ecosystem services can be challenging due to the necessity to manage associated ecosystem disservices (Blanco et al., 2019).
Figure 1. The tropical region of the world (A) are expected to harbor most of human population in the next decades. The urbanization process (B) is a driver in the tropics that can compromise ecosystem services (e.g., frugivory networks, ecosystem functions in urbanized streams) as well as the emergence of ecosystem disservices (e.g., urban heat islands, loss of cultural diversity), all of them addressed in this Research Topic, that must be recognized and managed by distinct governance scale. Countries from this region exhibit distinct political, socioeconomic differences and colonial history that will reflect in the ways civil society organizations (here, a proxy for governance) identify the importance of biodiversity (here, a proxy for ecosystem services and disservices) for human-wellbeing (C). Civil society is related to freedom of association. The variable captures if civil society organizations can operate freely and without fear of repression from the government, and whether new or oppositional political parties are free to take form and participate in elections. This Research Topic Urban Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Tropical Regions advances in some of these challenges and emphasize the importance for continuing pursuit of new ideas and goals. Map in (A) modified from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/; urban figure in (B) from https://www.freepik.com/; icons from https://thenounproject.com/; (C) is a time window from 2000, approximately the year where ecosystem services approaches were made explicit in literature and was generated by the Bio-Dem (www.bio-dem.surge.sh), an open-source software to explore the relationship between the availability of species occurrence records and the political framework in countries worldwide and through time. Civil society variable in x-axis ranges from 0 to 1, where higher scores indicate higher levels of associational freedom. Civil society organizations may push governments to better manage biodiversity, provide infrastructure to collect biodiversity data or by collecting it themselves. Public species records are records from public platform such as GBIF.
Aside from the changing nature of ecosystem services, tropical cities also face significant deficiencies in urban infrastructure, such as sanitation and waste management facilities (Paes et al., 2021). On top of infrastructure problems, many residents of tropical cities are poor and face daily challenges ranging from their geopolitical outlook through their vulnerabilities associated to synergic effects from climate change including pollution and diseases (Reiner et al., 2015; Soergel et al., 2021). Thus, a major challenge facing tropical cities is how to reconcile the conflicts between human well-being and biodiversity in terms of ecosystem services and disservices. This challenge is more pronounced in tropical cities than temperate cities due to the lack of studies and the varying approaches used, which makes comparisons related to ecosystem services across cities difficult for identifying factors that can inform conservation and management (Nagendra et al., 2018; Rutebuka et al., 2019). To begin addressing the gaps in knowledge related to ecosystem services and disservices in tropical cities are four articles that describe novel findings as part of this special issue (Figure 1B).
In the first study, Teodosio-Faustino et al. demonstrate that the structure of the frugivore network in urban parks can be a random process, emphasizing the importance in understanding the role of disturbance in the organization of ecological networks in solving theoretical approaches, such as neutral- and niche-based processes governing ecosystem services in tropical urban areas. Following on this first study is an analysis by Zúñiga-Sarango et al. who demonstrate that urbanization affects aquatic keystone species and ecosystem functioning relationships in Andean streams via nutrient enrichment and substrate homogenization causing the loss of taxonomic and functional diversity in shredders and organic matter breakdown decline, suggesting that losing ecosystem functions can compromise several ecosystem services.
Climate change also brings significant challenges for tropical cities. Temperature changes across 250+ tropical cities from 1960 to 2020 suggests that there will be significant impacts in urban heat island therefore, urban and regional decision-makers should consider the use of ecosystem and green infrastructure options to regulate local temperature and provide thermal comfort by transpirative cooling and shading (Marcotullio et al.). Finally, the impacts of ecosystem losses go beyond the direct urban services. Valente-Neto et al. verified that the negative relationship between urban impervious surface and bird cultural richness may indicate that people living in more urbanized areas experience nature less compared to people in less urbanized areas, which can affect their psychological well-being. In highly urbanized areas, contact with culturally valued birds and cultural services provided by birds may also diminish while the negative relationship between functional richness and urbanization also indicate that highly urbanized areas may be losing important ecosystems services provided by birds (see also Echeverri et al., 2021).
While the articles of this special issue help to advance our socio-ecosystem knowledge of tropical cities, we still lack basic data about many of them. Despite the evident importance of urban ecosystem services as drivers of opportunities for conservation, governance, biodiversity management, and human well-being, many challenges persist in tropical regions. For example, if biodiversity is considered a proxy for ecosystem service and disservice and civil society engagement a proxy for governance then, from a historical perspective, countries with more robust civil society organizations are apparently less willing to compromise ecosystem services. This, in turn, could encourage the mobilization of ecological political actions to hold governments to account for not addressing environmental management adequately (Zizka et al., 2021). Such a relationship is clear for some countries from tropical regions (Figure 1C).
Compared to the northern hemisphere, cities in the southern hemisphere (particularly in tropical regions) exhibit significantly lower prosperity, infrastructure, development, quality of life, and environmental sustainability (State of the Tropics, 2020), most of them related to several UN Sustainable Development Goals such as clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, and climate action. Even within a same geographical region, many disparities at a local scale are still challenges for the transfer of knowledge between one country and another. Some of these challenges, and their potential resolution, are considered in this Research Topic, but perhaps more importantly, it highlights the crucial importance of ongoing investigation of these challenges, and evaluating new ideas and goals for their resolution.
FS: conceptualization and writing—original draft, review and editing. JP and CL: writing—original draft, review and editing.
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All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.
FS acknowledges CNPq that has continuously supported the researches with productivity grant (301306/2018-4). JP acknowledges the support of FAPESP (Grant Nos. 2017/50425-9 and 2017/003519), CAPES (Grant No. 88881.310380/2018-01), and CNPq (Grant No. 442472/2020).
Blanco, J., Dendoncker, N., Barnaud, C., and Sirami, C. (2019). Ecosystem disservices matter: towards their systematic integration within ecosystem service research and policy. Ecosyst. Serv. 36:100913. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100913
Echeverri, A., Karp, D. S., Frishkoff, L. O., Krishnan, J., Naidoo, R., Zhao, J., et al. (2021). Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests. Conserv. Lett. 14:e12763. doi: 10.1111/conl.12763
McDonald, R. I., Colbert, M., Hamann, M., Simkin, R., and Walsh, B., (eds.). (2018). Nature in the Urban Century: A Global Assessment of Where and How to Conserve Nature for Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing. Arlington, VA: The Nature Conservation. Available online at: www.nature.org/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/documents/TNC_NatureintheUrbanCentury_FullReport.pdf
Rutebuka, E., Olorunnisola, A. O., Taiwo, O. J., Mwaru, F., Asamoah, E. F., and Rukundo, E. (2019). Quantitative review of ecosystem services and disservices studies in the Tropics. Open J. Ecol. 9, 85–106. doi: 10.4236/oje.2019.94008
Shackleton, C. M., Ruwanza, S., Sanni, G. K. S., Bennett, S., De Lacy, P., Modipa, R., et al. (2016). Unpacking Pandora's Box: understanding and categorizing ecosystem disservices for environmental management and human wellbeing. Ecosystems 19, 587–600. doi: 10.1007/s10021-015-9952-z
Soergel, B., Kriegler, E., Bodirsky, B. L., Bauer, N., Leimbach, M., and Popp, A. (2021). Combining ambitious climate policies with efforts to eradicate poverty. Nat. Commun. 12:2342. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22315-9
Zizka, A., Rydén, O., Edler, D., Klein, J., Perrigo, A., Silvestro, D., et al. (2021). Bio-Dem, a tool to explore the relationship between biodiversity data availability and socio-political conditions in time and space. J. Biogeogr. 2021, 1–12. doi: 10.1111/jbi.14256
Keywords: biodiversity-ecosystem function, cultural service, heat island, frugivory network, ecosystem disservice
Citation: Souza FL, Puppim de Oliveira JA and Lepczyk CA (2021) Editorial: Urban Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Tropical Regions. Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:791070. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.791070
Received: 07 October 2021; Accepted: 11 November 2021;
Published: 30 November 2021.
Edited and reviewed by: Mark A. Elgar, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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The Wyoming Housing Network is asking for your opinion on availability and affordability of senior housing in Wyoming. WHN is a non-profit, based in Casper, which seeks to strengthen Wyoming communities by providing quality resources and opportunities for people to reach their housing goals.
AARP Wyoming invites community organizations and local governments across the state to apply for the 2021 Community Challenge grant program, now through April 14. Grants fund quick-action projects that can range from several hundred dollars for small, short-term activities to several thousand or tens of thousands for larger projects. Now in its fifth year, the grant program is part of AARP’s nationwide Livable Communities initiative, which supports the efforts of cities, towns, neighborhoods and rural areas to become great places to live for people of all ages.
Two Wyoming localities are using AARP Community Challenge grants to make improvements. Jackson Hole officials will install at least three locally made benches at the Block, a 1.3-acre green space. And the Cokeville Senior Citizens Center will add ramps, replace crumbling concrete and build a new patio with no steps.
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Chairman Steve Friedman, Vice Chairman James Bruder Re-Elected To Serve Two More Years Atop ACA’s Board Of Directors
BALTIMORE, July 27, 2010 – American Cable Association President and CEO Matthew M. Polka is pleased to announce the results of ACA’s 2010 leadership elections for Chairman, Vice Chairman and four Board seats held during the trade group’s annual membership meeting.
Polka also announced the names of the individuals who will serve on the ACA Board Executive Committee for the next year.
At the meeting, ACA members voted to re-elect Steve Friedman as ACA Chairman and James Bruder as ACA Vice Chairman to new two-year terms, following successful tenures for both that began in 2008.
Friedman is Chief Operating Officer of Wave Broadband in Kirkland, Wash., and Bruder is CEO of Harron Communications in Frazer, Pa.
“From working closely with Steve and Jim for many years, I have a deep appreciation for their tremendous leadership skills, but they also have an incredible commitment and ability to guide this great ACA organization at a time when so much is at stake for the independent cable operator community,” Polka said.
ACA’s leadership elections were staged at the 5th Annual Independent Cable Show, co-hosted and jointly organized by ACA and the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), a Lenexa, Kansas-based group that purchases programming and equipment for U.S. cable operators.
Polka also announced that the following people were each elected to the ACA Board of Directors for the next three years.
- Colleen Abdoulah, Chairwoman & CEO of WOW! Internet, Cable and Phone, Englewood, Co.
- Patricia Jo Boyers, President of Boycom, Poplar Bluff, Mo.
- Martin Brophy, President and CEO, Shen-Heights TV, Shenandoah, Pa.
- Robert Gessner, President of Massillon Cable TV, Massillon, Oh.
On Sunday, the ACA Board of Directors concluded a daylong meeting by nominating and electing officers to serve on the Board Executive Committee.
- *Chairman, Steve Friedman
- *Vice Chairman, James Bruder
- *Treasurer, Martin Brophy
- *Immediate Past Chairman, Patrick Knorr, COO, The World Company/Sunflower Broadband (Non-Voting)
- #At-Large, Colleen Abdoulah
- #At-Large, Terry Nidiffer, Vice President of Product Management, GCI
#Through October 2011
“ACA’s strength as an organization derives from the personal commitment that company leaders make to ensure that our voice is heard in the corridors of power. I salute all of our leaders on their elections, and I know each one is prepared to take on the many tough challenges we face in the regulatory arena,” Polka said.
About the American Cable Association
Based in Pittsburgh, the American Cable Association is a trade organization representing nearly 900 smaller and medium-sized, independent cable companies who provide broadband services for more than 7.6 million cable subscribers primarily located in rural and smaller suburban markets across America. Through active participation in the regulatory and legislative process in Washington, D.C., ACA’s members work together to advance the interests of their customers and ensure the future competitiveness and viability of their business. For more information, visit https://acaconnects.org/


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I was a child whose life had barely begun
You crept into my room and took me from by bed
I trusted you and you violated me
How could you
You stole my innocence
For many years I was afraid because I was too small
I knew it was wrong
“daddy’s shouldn’t do those things”
I thought my voice would not be heard
So shame kept me silent
One day I found the strength to run
But the flashbacks remained.
I saw you in my mind I could not shake you.
The visions in my head were overwhelming
Courage made me find someone who could help me heal
At first I couldn’t speak without tears getting in the way
The words wanted to come out but were held fast
As if trapped by a barrier.
I saw the words I wanted to say
But my lips refused to open
Shame kept me silent.
Eventually I found the words without barriers or shame.
It was like a dam had broken and the flow of water, was the words
The years have moved on and I’ve found forgiveness for myself
I know I still have some healing to do
But my past no longer has a suffocating hold on me
I rejoice in every new day
Because I chose to live each one knowing that I am here
I am a survivor

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some show announcements:
Wednesday, October 26th: We're playing Walkers. We will be on early -- I'd say by 10 pm at the latest.
Sunday, October 30th: We're playing an invite-only private house show in Saskatoon with some secret out of town guests. I know that's pretty vague, but ask one of us in person for more details and if you want to be put on the RSVP list.
Friday, November 4th: ROCK the VOTE at Louis. Again, we should be on stage by 10 pm.
Our next album will be our official full-length that we are going to record this winter. We will most likely redo some of the songs on our first EP (any requests?). I know that album will be a lot less weird. But, we are a really awkward band so I'm sure that will shine on through.

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The Workhorse is a combination 8-channel power rack and mixer with Jensen transformer outputs. Modules may be used independently or be summed via the 8 channel mixer. Each channel features XLR and TRS i/o plus Omniport for added module-specifi c functionality. An innovative feed function eliminates the need for patch cables between modules. The Easy-Glide tray simplifi es plugging in modules and may be removed for non-standard sizes. Backwards compatible with older API modules, the Workhorse delivers 1200 milliamps of shared current between the 8 slots. The mixer features heavy duty 14-gauge construction with individual on-off switches, left-right pan, stereo link and level control with high gain dual-output headphone amp.


Who would ever think that a $99 dongle that attaches to your automobile could be so powerful? Automatic Link certainly did, and now that their hardware integrates with IFTTT, it can do oh so much more than ever before.
Eating great food has become a hobby, like sports, games, or needlecraft, and its lovers take their passion very seriously. Often referred to as “foodies,” food fanatics seek new eating and dining experiences, fresh flavors and aromas, and above all, great food of all stripes. There are thousands of iOS apps for finding restaurants and recipes, but relatively few meet the exacting standards of a discerning foodie. So we’ve gathered together 10 delicious apps that are sure to get your mouth watering with beautiful photos, tempting testimonials, and succulent recipes.
If you've never heard of IFTTT, chances are you're not really bending the internet to your will -- but starting today, you won't even need a web browser to use the service, thanks to a free iPhone app.
Everyone agrees that eating healthy is important. Problem is, it can be really hard to do, especially if you have a busy life. One of the secrets to making healthy eating work for you is to have a solid plan in place. That way, when you’re driving home from work and the McDonald’s drive-thru is calling your name, you can avoid the temptation. Whether you’re an accomplished cook or a restaurant regular, these eight iOS apps can help you make a plan and stick with it through the cravings.
Your iPhone can’t make you exercise more or change your diet. But it can help you make your life more social, more creative, and way more fun. With so many health and fitness apps aimed at helping you take care of yourself, your Mac and iOS device can be sources of support and inspiration — and all the nerdy statistics you’d ever want. No matter what your initial fitness level or your own goals (maybe you just want to sleep better, feel less stressed, or find a new trail to walk your dog), we hope something here speaks to you.
True foodies love to document each chapter of their culinary journies to enjoy later, which makes a service like Evernote a match made in heaven. The developer also recognized the potential for just such a marriage and the result is the slick, if occasionally inefficient, Evernote Food. It's a customized mobile solution for organizing recipes, saving favorite restaurants, and keeping a mealtime journal, all powered by the company’s popular cloud-based “second brain” service. And now it runs natively on iPad, in addition to iPhone and iPod touch.
IFTTT is not only a programming acronym for “If this then that,” it is also an online service that allows you to create "recipes" that automate your various social networks to perform functions like sending your posted Instagram photos immediately to your Dropbox, or blogging the latest link you favorited on Tumblr. Read on to find out how to create your own automated "recipes" and get the most out of this free service.
If you've held out on the Angry Birds phenomenon but were curious as to what it was all about, here's your chance to find out for no investment but your time. That's right, the Seasons version of one of the top selling App Store games of all time, the cultural touchstone of the iPhone age, is free whether you go big or you go little. But don't let the hype around that blind you to these other fantastic free and price cut apps.
Cooking is a science that I don't seem to be catching on to, which is a bit of a bummer. I can make your basic dish of pasta and vegetables and things of that nature, but when it comes to the more complicated stuff -- like making pie crust from scratch or a Vegan dish that isn't bland -- I really need help. Recipe apps like Epicurious are fantastic when you know what you want to make for dinner, but they don't work if you're feeling uninspired.
Sometimes there's an iOS app that comes out that reflects a great, unique idea. And sometimes that great, unique idea gets thoroughly trashed in the implementation by whatever consulting company was assigned to create the iOS app and make sure it found its way to the App Store. We can't say for certain that's exactly how it went, but this seems to be the case with Cooktorial, a cooking utility for the iOS.


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As we enter the New Year, let's make 2015 a year of exploring the many gifts from skilled researchers and clinicians which can support our resolution to live better. The participants of the Mindfulness-Based Symptom Management, Burnout Resilience and Pain Management programs at the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic have one wish in common: a desire to find a [...]
An Ethical Path to Compassionate Community: The fire in the heart of mindfulness
(This is a transcript of talk given at the inaugural meeting of Mindfulness Ottawa, Ottawa ON 2012 November 21. The preliminary section on "laying down the path by walking" has been excluded.) Let me share here what we have distilled out of 10 years of our path - what Zen teacher Suzuki Roshi calls “one [...]
Mythbuster: What Mindfulness is Not
We're introducing a new series - Mindfulness Mythbusters - to go along with Tangled Thoughts and Frazzled Feelings. Newcomers to the practice of mindfulness have many terrific questions about what is supposed to happen in practice and, in this series, we will try to address some of them - without giving away any secrets of [...]
Compassion or “idiot” compassion?
Don’t impose the wrong notion of what harmony is, what compassion is, what patience is, what generosity is. Don’t misinterpret what these things really are. There is compassion and there is idiot compassion; there is patience and there is idiot patience; there is generosity and there is idiot generosity.
For example, trying to smooth everything out to avoid confrontation, not to rock the boat, is not what’s meant by compassion or patience. It’s what is meant by control. Then you are not trying to step into unknown territory, to find yourself more naked with less protection and therefore more in contact with reality. Instead, you use the idiot forms of compassion and so forth just to get ground.
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda. Many different people come in. Just when you…
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Opening to Life – Book Review of Leaves Falling Gently by Susan Bauer-Wu
Leaves Falling Gently -Living fully with serious & life-limiting illness through mindfulness, compassion, & connectedness by Susan Bauer-Wu is a kind and inviting little book that makes facing our chronic or acute life-threatening illness easier to face. Bauer-Wu, an associate professor of nursing at Emory University, researches the effects of chronic stress from debilitating illness [...]

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There are many filters presently available on the market that can be used in African Cichlid aquariums. African cichlids grow to a reasonable size and have extremely healthy appetites. Because of this we always recommend an external canister filter. These filters are larger in size than other forms of filtration and can hold a greater quantity and variety of filter media resulting in a higher reduction of waste and more biological action. Ideally the flow rate needs to be 4-6 times the volume of your aquarium e.g. a 250 litre (55 gallon) aquarium will need a filter that can do 1000-1500 litres per hour (220-330 gph). Having a filter with a built in heating element also means that your tank gets heated more evenly and efficiently which is why we recommend Eheim thermofilters.
Simply written and easy to understand. Koi for Dummies is your useful guide to koi husbandry. How to get the best out of your hobby and fish!

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There are lots of wonderful benefits that horticulture could bring. It does not matter if you grow vegetables or flowers in your garden, growing and caring for the plants inside your garden can provide a meaningful and rewarding experience to suit your needs. The data below supplies a little advice and some pointers in terms of both the garden, and the action of growing.
Select perennials to lower the level of care a garden requires. Plants that return year after year usually require just a modicum of weeding and pruning. Edible perennials, like asparagus, rhubarb Advanced Nutrients, and sorrel, can provide an excellent salad addition for the household without causing too much do the job.
Use fertilizers which are free for that taking. Using natural and chemical free grass clippings or human urine for a nutrient rich and free fertilizer. Twenty parts water with one part urine is a great fertilizer for seedlings, or steep the grass clippings in water to make a tea for watering and fertilizing the plants. So don't spend a whole lot about the garden as soon as the fertilizers could be had free of charge.
Do not let your garden to visit without water. Many individuals have unrealistic expectations of watering your garden in the evening everyday, but life gets in the way and that is certainly the end from the garden. Get a sprinkler system to be sure the garden gets enough water. Even though this does add expense for the garden, the benefit of it is worth the money.
To hold the garden-fresh onions for use through the entire winter and get away from getting them rot or mold, store them in pantyhose! Yes, pantyhose! Simply set the onions in to the legs of pantyhose, and, in order to avoid permitting them to touch one other (which can be what helps create mold and rot), place a twist tie between each onion as well as the next. To save, hang the pantyhose from the gusset in the cool dry place and shut down or pop an opening inside the pantyhose to get an onion when you really need it.
To produce birds avoid the produce you're growing inside your garden, tie mylar balloons near your plants. These will scare away the birds and maintain your fruit and veggies safe until you're willing to pick them. Silver balloons or balloons that sparkle in the sun make especially effective bird repellents.
You should think about planting evergreens that yield berries in your garden. These may help give your garden a burst of color, even in the winter months when many other vegetation has lost their colors. The American Holly, American Cranberrybush, the Winterberry, along with the Common Snowberry help provide color during the winter.
To bring birds in your garden, add plants which will naturally attract them. Among the finest plants for attracting birds are sunflowers. Birds are naturally drawn to their height and scent. Birds also love small trees like Japanese maples and dogwood trees, in addition to most kinds of shrubs or vines.
Old pantyhose make useful garden tools. The next occasion you find yourself reaching for some twine in your garden, consider using a classic kind of pantyhose instead. Pantyhose are flexible, yet strong in addition to their soft feel is not going to damage plant stems by cutting into them. The elastic nature also gives your plants room to increase without strangulation.
Plants prove how the energy and conditions at the time of planting resulted in fruits yielded at harvest. Plant these ideas in your head, and harvest them into successful horticulture habits. Your future will yield success and happiness for a lot of seasons in the future if you keep these pointers in mind.

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Knitting is far more than taking a needle to yarn. Beyond the pride that comes from having the skill to create your own textiles and garments, knitting holds creative and personal benefits. Even better, adults are not the only people who can knit and reap the benefits. Kids can easily adopt the craft at a young age and join the community of creatives who have discovered the joys and benefits of knitting.
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ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Blues locked up a mainstay on their defence Monday, signing Barret Jackman to a US$14.4 million, four-year contract extension.
The deal will pay Jackman $3.6 million in each of the four years of the deal.
Jackman, 26, was a 1999 first-round draft pick of the Blues and was due to become a free agent after the season. This season he has two goals and six assists in 58 games, along with 63 penalty minutes, and is second on the team in ice time, averaging 21:57 per game.
"Barret has been a staple on the blue-line for the Blues since his rookie season," team president John Davidson said. "He logs plenty of minutes per game and will continue to be a key part of our team as we move forward."
The Blues are 12th in the Western Conference and six points out of the final playoff spot with a record of 28-24-10 and 66 points. The contract extension perhaps indicates a decision not to shed talent at the deadline.
Davidson said the franchise has a bit of a balancing act. The Blues have missed the playoffs the last two years while rebuilding under new ownership but have won back much of their fan base with a competitive roster featuring free agent pickup Paul Kariya, goalie Manny Legace and 32-goal scorer Brad Boyes.
"We'd certainly love to make the playoffs, but we're also trying to do what's right long-term for the team," Davidson said.
St. Louis has three other players who can become unrestricted free agents, notably defenceman Bryce Salvador. Centre Ryan Johnson and defenceman Matt Walker also can become free agents.
Davidson said he's had a number of discussions with other franchises, none of them serious.
"There's a lot of people kicking tires today," Davidson said. "It's like everybody's on the driving range, but there's not too many people on the tee box."
Jackman has played in 289 career NHL games in six seasons, all with the Blues. He was the first Blues player to capture the Calder Trophy as the league's most outstanding rookie in 2002-03.
"I have said all along that I wanted to remain in St. Louis," Jackman said. "The Blues drafted me, I met my wife here and I want to raise a family here.
"I'm excited about the direction of this franchise and love playing in front of Blues fans."


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U.N. Actions May Actually Fix Serb Land Gains With AM-Yugoslavia
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ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) _ U.N. efforts to prevent fighting from spreading to a tense Serb-held corridor in northern Bosnia could actually help cement Serb war gains.
Since the corridor is the link that connects Serb gains in Bosnia and Croatia with Serbia proper, some analysts believe the U.N. move may be decisive for the outcome of the entire Yugoslav conflict.
Over the weekend, the United Nations deployed its first military observers in the corridor, located around Brcko near the Bosnian-Croatian border. That followed a warning by the U.N. Security Council last week to all parties - including the Bosnian government - not to start trouble in the region.
''If this U.N. trend continues, the Serbs will practically get the international community's protection for their vital corridor,'' said Fran Visnar, a military analyst in Zagreb.
But Matthew Nerzig, U.N. spokesman in Zagreb, said its action are ''only intended to prevent hostilities now.''
Both sides have been massing troops and weaponry in the area, which is perceived as crucial for future developments in Bosnia and Croatia.
Without it, Serbs who rebelled and captured large swaths of northern and western Bosnia, and southern and central Croatia, are cut off and vulnerable. Serb nationalists' dream of a Greater Serbia would be frustrated.
With it, Serbia can continue to support and coordinate policy with those Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia.
They have held the Brcko corridor almost since the beginning of the Bosnian war in 1992. In order to emphasize their hold on Brcko, the Bosnian Serb assembly plans to meet there later this week.
''Brcko and the corridor are the key to the Serb state across the Drina River, and we are not going to give them up,'' Momcilo Krajisnik, Bosnian Serb assembly speaker, said.
In the two-year-old Bosnian conflict, the United Nations has designated six Muslim enclaves as ''safe areas'' in an attempt to protect them from the Serbs.
But the Brcko area poses a different problem because the town and some surrounding areas are Serb-held, while the area north is Croat-held and Muslims control small chunks of territory to the south. Therefore, the area has become a new potential flash point in the Bosnian conflict.
But quelling fighting and inserting troops there could just cement the status quo.
''Preserving the status quo in the Serb-held corridor clearly suits the Serbs,'' said Neven Kulenovic, a spokesman at the Bosnian embassy in Zagreb. ''Though the Serbs would certainly like to widen the corridor, their prime concern is to preserve it.''
The strip of land is between three and six miles wide.
At Serb-held Brcko, once mostly Muslim, the corridor shrinks to its narrowest, squeezed between a small Bosnian Croat wedge of Orasje in the north and joint Muslim-Croat forces in the south.
Allies in the 1992 war against Bosnian Serbs, Muslims and Bosnian Croats fell out in mid-1993 over territories in central Bosnia. Their enmity ended with the signing of an agreement in March to form a federation in Bosnia with ties to Croatia.
Though the joint military command envisaged has yet to take shape, Croats and Muslims have cooperated throughout the war in northern Bosnia.
''We are fighting for Bosnia,'' said Djuro Matuzovic, commander of the Bosnian Croat forces in Orasje, in a recent TV interview. ''Our only solution is to be together with the Muslims.''
All sides appear ready for a fight. Government forces gathered about 40,000 men on the southern side of the corridor. Bosnian Serbs have less men but are estimated to be twice as strong in heavy weaponry.
''He who wins there, has won the war,'' said Visnar.

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We can use the same logic to determine the best time of year to go on vacation. It is also useful to think of the things you have to leave behind for yourself.
The vizag railway zone is a tourist area in the Black Forest in Germany. It’s a unique tourist destination that is part of the city’s own rail network. Basically you can get on a train and go to the vizag railway zone and then walk through a portal and then be transported to a certain place.
This sounds pretty magical, but it’s actually pretty easy to get in. The portal can be accessed by the public via a very simple ticket booking system. You get a single ticket, go to a certain place, get on a train, and then you get transported to your destination. One thing to note is that the travel time can be quite short, which is one of the reasons people prefer to go on trains.
What about this guy? We have him on our list of all the people who have been able to travel in the last six months, so we made sure to use the same name as the guy on our list.
As you can see, there are a lot of different ways in, but we went with the simplest, quickest way possible. If you try to use the portal without a ticket, your journey is cut short. People have been able to travel in the last six months without a ticket, and we think this is because the portal works like a timed ticket system. You go to a certain place, get on a train, and get transported to your destination.
The portal was first created in the “Vizag Railway Zone”, which is an area of the city that was built in the last six months in the wake of the first strike. It’s the first time that this area had been built, and it’s the area most people think of when they think of the city’s new “vizag railway zone”.
Vizag Railway Zone was built by the state government in the last six months. This means that when you use the portal, it is not a timed ticket system. You get transported to your destination at your own pace, and it is entirely up to you what you want to do. You can skip tickets, or buy them for free, or you can get a free ride with a friend. It also means that the portal is not a timed ticket system.
Vizag Railway Zone, in addition to being a time-based portal, is also a zone that is completely locked into the city’s clock. This means you can’t access any other zone until you have paid your daily toll, and you can’t exit Vizag Railway Zone until you have paid your daily toll.
You can get to this portal from the main portal on any one of three routes. The first is through the main portal, the second is through the second portal, and the third is through the third portal. The first route takes you to the first portal, the second route takes you to the second portal, and the third route takes you to the third portal.
The first route can only be accessed from the following locations: the railway station, the port, or the first portal. The second route can only be accessed from the following locations: the port, the second portal, or the third portal. The third route can only be accessed from the following locations: the port, the third portal, or the third portal.


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The presidential debates are important events in our election process. We can’t have real democracy without a free exchange of ideas and an informed public.
The debates should give voters the opportunity to see all of the candidates (those who are on enough ballots to be able to win the presidency), representing the diversity of American political thought and discussing important issues in an unscripted manner so that the people can make informed decisions about the direction of our country.
The right to vote means little unless we have the right to know who we can vote for. In 2016, that now means Clinton, Trump, Stein and Johnson. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties, stifles democracy by locking out independent candidates from the debates.
They created the CPD to seize control of the debates from the nonpartisan League of Women Voters, which called the commission "a fraud on the American voter." It sets arbitrary polling requirements and uses some polls that don’t even offer independents as an option.
If you believe the debates should be open, please tell the CPD and encourage the media to hold their own debates. #OpenTheDebates.


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By Tony Sirna , CCL Strategy Director CCL is hosting its first nationwide phone banking effort to mobilize supporters to make emails and calls to the Senate asking for a price on carbon in the budget reconciliation bill. We've scheduled a series of virtual phone banks where we will be calling CCL supporters across the country, asking them to contact ... more
July 21, 2021 Two major newspapers — the Washington Post and the Houston Chronicle — recently published editorials calling on Congress and the Biden administration to include carbon pricing in climate legislation expected to be taken up this year. Citing Europe’s approach and the need to follow their lead, the Post said, “What is clear is that ... more


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By Kimberly P. Albright on July 05 2018 06:55:47
If you don’t have a specific immediate need to show a formal business plan to a banker or investor, then you are probably better off doing just a lean business plan, for your internal use only. To make the best impression on banks and investors, your business plan outline should be presented in the standard business plan format.
A business plan is a documented set of business goals, objectives, target market information and financial forecasts that you are aiming to achieve over a certain period of time. It is important to prepare a business plan when starting or growing your business and review it regularly to keep it up to date.
If you are seeking finance for your business, you will need to show banks and investors why they should invest in your business. Lenders and investors will only risk their time and money if they are confident that your business will be successful and profitable.
While every business owner should have an ongoing planning process to help them run their business, not every business owner needs a complete, formal business plan suitable for submitting to a potential investor, or bank, or venture capital contest. So don’t include outline points just because they are on a big list somewhere, or on this list, unless you’re developing a standard business plan that you’ll be showing to someone who expects to see a standard business plan.
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- NTV Kenya reported that on Monday, September 25, medics warned of “catastrophic spreads” that could overwhelm Sudan's decimated health system
- The Sudanese doctors’ union warned that the health situation in the southeastern state of Gedaref, on the border with Ethiopia, “is deteriorating at a horrific rate”
- Against this backdrop, TUKO.co.ke looks at some of the key facts about Dengue fever, which is a viral infection that spreads from mosquitoes to people
Khartoum, Sudan - Tension is high in war-torn Sudan following an outbreak of dengue fever and acute watery diarrhoea that have “killed hundreds”.
NTV Kenya reported that on Monday, September 25, medics warned of “catastrophic spreads” that could overwhelm the country’s decimated health system.
In a statement, the Sudanese doctors’ union warned that the health situation in the southeastern state of Gedaref, on the border with Ethiopia, “is deteriorating at a horrific rate”, with thousands infected with dengue fever.
Although Gedaref has been spared the direct effects of the brutal war between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), it has nonetheless been impacted by mass displacement and other humanitarian crises.
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According to the United Nations, over five months into the war, 80% of the hospitals in Sudan are out of service.
Even before the war, the fragile healthcare system struggled to contain the annual disease outbreaks that accompany the country’s rainy season starting in June, including malaria — endemic in Sudan — and dengue fever.
This year, with Gedaref hosting upwards of 250,000 internally displaced persons, according to the UN, the situation is much worse.
Against this backdrop, TUKO.co.ke looks at some key facts about Dengue fever.
What is the overview of Dengue fever
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dengue (break-bone fever) is a viral infection that spreads from mosquitoes to people. It is more common in tropical and subtropical climates.
Most people who get dengue won’t have symptoms. But for those that do, the most common symptoms are high fever, headache, body aches, nausea and rash.
Most will also get better in 1–2 weeks. Some people develop severe dengue and need care in a hospital.
In severe cases, dengue can be fatal.
You can lower your risk of dengue by avoiding mosquito bites, especially during the day.
Dengue is treated with pain medicine as there is no specific treatment currently.
What are the symptoms of Dengue fever
Most people with dengue have mild or no symptoms and will get better in 1–2 weeks. Rarely, dengue can be severe and lead to death.
If symptoms occur, they usually begin 4–10 days after infection and last for 2–7 days. Symptoms may include:
- high fever (40°C/104°F)
- severe headache
- pain behind the eyes
- muscle and joint pains
- swollen glands
Individuals who are infected for the second time are at greater risk of severe dengue.
Severe dengue symptoms often come after the fever has gone away:
- severe abdominal pain
- persistent vomiting
- rapid breathing
- bleeding gums or nose
- blood in vomit or stool
- being very thirsty
- pale and cold skin
- feeling weak.
People with these severe symptoms should get care right away.
After recovery, people who have had dengue may feel tired for several weeks.
Diagnostics and treatment
Most cases of dengue fever can be treated at home with pain medicine. Preventing mosquito bites is the best way to avoid getting dengue.
There is no specific treatment for dengue. The focus is on treating pain symptoms.
Acetaminophen (paracetamol) is often used to control pain. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines like ibuprofen and aspirin are avoided as they can increase the risk of bleeding.
There is a vaccine called Dengvaxia for people who have had dengue at least once and live in places where the disease is common.
For people with severe dengue, hospitalisation is often needed.
What is the global burden
The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically around the world in recent decades, with cases reported to WHO increased from 505 430 cases in 2000 to 5.2 million in 2019.
A vast majority of cases are asymptomatic or mild and self-managed, and hence, the actual numbers of dengue cases are under-reported. Many cases are also misdiagnosed as other febrile illnesses (1).
One modelling estimate indicates 390 million dengue virus infections per year, of which 96 million manifest clinically (2).
Another study on the prevalence of dengue estimates that 3.9 billion people are at risk of infection with dengue viruses.
In March 2023, Tanzania declared an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD).
Following the move, Kenyan health authorities heightened surveillance in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading across the border.
Acting Director-General for Health Patrick Amoth said the Ministry of Health had activated its surveillance and response mechanisms and enhanced surveillance at all border points between Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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Call Accounting software is basically a telecommunications software application, which helps in capturing, recording, and fetching important call details. The software can keep a proper record of all the information related to the calls that are made globally.
The call accounting systems benefit the organizations in numerous ways. It helps in boosting the productivity of the employees, as it aids in improving their communication skills. An added advantage is that it helps in lowering the operational costs, thereby increasing the revenues.


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Japanese firm to follow Sony’s lead and combine Blu-ray player with LCD TV
Funai is to launch an LCD TV with an integrated Blu-ray player in a move that is certain to widen the appeal of the format with consumers.
From next summer the company is to combine the two products into one unit.
Sony recently said that it plans to put Blu-ray into a variety of CE products.
Around a fifth of Funai’s current US TV sales are based on TV/DVD combos, so it is an area in which the company has a good track record.
The Japanese firm is the parent company for discount brands such as Symphonic, Emerson and Sylvania.
In the US their products can be found in a range of electronic retailers. Wal-Mart currently has their Sylvania Blu-ray player for US$299.
Funai has released no details as yet, but a 42-inch LCD/Blu-ray combo is expected to cost between US$1,100 and US$1,300.
Is this combination going to turn more consumers onto Blu-ray? Your views please.


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Save your Dog with the Heimlich Maneuver
It is heartbreaking and scary to see your pet choking and not knowing what to do. First of all, don’t panic. There is a way to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on your pet.
Heimlich Maneuver in 9 Steps
- Open your pet's mouth and check for a foreign object. If you can see something in his mouth or throat, try to remove it with your fingers, or grip his tongue and pull it toward you to try to dislodge the object. Alternatively, move your finger around inside your dog's mouth to try to feel and dislodge any foreign object. (There is obviously a risk of being bitten, so take appropriate precautions anytime you put your fingers in your pet's mouth.)
- If you have no luck dislodging the object by manually removing it, pick your dog up and place his back against your chest. Put both hands under his waist area behind the ribs. Make a fist with your hands, place them behind the last rib, and rapidly push up and in 5 times.
- If your dog is too heavy to lift, stand behind him, place your arms around him under the rib cage, make a fist with both hands, and pull in and upward rapidly 5 times.
- If your dog is unconscious and too heavy to lift, lay him on his right side. Kneel beside him with his legs pointing toward you. Place one hand on the other and place the palm of the bottom hand right behind his ribs. Push in and up 5 times rapidly.
- Open your dog's mouth again and look for any foreign object dislodged during the abdominal thrusts you just performed. Move your finger around in his mouth to dislodge and remove the object.
- If the object still hasn't been dislodged, with your dog on the ground, put your hands in front of his hips, then lift and suspend him with his head toward the floor. If he's too heavy to lift, lift his back feet, until his head is lower than his hips.
- Recheck your pet's mouth and use your finger to feel for the object and remove it.
- If this doesn't work, put your dog in a sitting or standing position and use the palm of your hand to deliver 5 sharp blows to his back between the shoulder blades.
- Open your dog's mouth to check again for a foreign object. You might want to use a small flashlight to get a better look inside. Use your fingers to try to find and clear the object.
- Until the object is dislodged, continue to repeat the above steps.
- If your dog loses consciousness, give him 5 breaths followed by 5 abdominal thrusts and continue these 2 steps (breaths and thrusts) until the object is dislodged.
As soon as the object is dislodged, check your dog's airway, breathing, and heart rate. Perform CPR if necessary and get your dog to your veterinarian or an emergency animal hospital immediately.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Syracuse and Onondaga County officials say their dispute over control of the Syracuse Inner Harbor project does not bode well for discussions about government cooperation and consolidation that are anticipated in 2016.
Central New York this month won $500 million from the state for economic development, based in part on a promise that city and county leaders would work together to streamline and modernize local government.
It's a good thing CNY won the money before Mayor Stephanie Miner filed a lawsuit to block the city's biggest economic development project, out of frustration with Onondaga County officials. Miner, who filed the lawsuit Tuesday, is trying to halt the Inner Harbor project because the Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency gave the developer nearly $45 million in tax breaks over her objections .
A dispute like that might not have looked good on the application.
Miner said heightened tensions over the Inner Harbor project could make it difficult for the city and county to explore further consolidation. Her lawsuit followed OCIDA's decision to award tax breaks to COR Development without attaching extra requirements to train and hire city residents.
"It doesn't augur well,'' Miner said Wednesday. "You had a government yesterday say to a city that desperately needs jobs, 'We don't care.' ''
Ryan McMahon, chairman of the Onondaga County Legislature, said the IDA's action was intended to help the Inner Harbor project get built, which will bring jobs. Miner's lawsuit will only delay or stop that, he said, at a time when the region is poised to pursue millions of dollars' worth of new development subsidized by the state.
"It obviously isn't ideal,'' McMahon said. "We have a $500 million opportunity in front of us to get a lot of these things done throughout the region. To get some of the issues the mayor wants to get address, she going to have to work cooperatively with the state and the county.''
In 2014, the city and county joined with six nonprofit groups to form a Commission on Local Government Modernization, or Consensus, a 19-member panel that is studying ways to streamline local government. In the next few months, Consensus will make recommendations, one of which is expected to be a consolidation of city and county into some form of metropolitan government, according to leaders of the group.
The $500 million revitalization grant from the state includes $25 million to support public outreach and other efforts to pursue the Consensus recommendations. Consensus is expected to propose several options that require a public referendum, according to the application from the CNY Regional Economic Development Council.
"Since the inception of the (Consensus) commission, the mayor of Syracuse and the Onondaga County executive have been supportive of the commission's commitment to government modernization,'' the application said. "That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and the county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance and establishes an environment that will support economic opportunities for all our residents.''
Will it happen? Time will tell.


Vance Shuts Out Butler, Will Face Mallard Creek Next Week
MATTHEWS, N.C. — A week after giving up 42 points Vance had the perfect response for the first round of the playoffs, a shutout over Butler, 21-0.
The Cougars took the lead on the final play of the first quarter and never looked back.
Vance will travel to Mallard Creek next week. The Mavericks won 17-7 during the regular season


NEWTON, MA, Sep 28, 2018 – OpenBOM, the first real-time collaborative bill of materials and part catalog management system for engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain, integrated and able to extract bill of materials from CAD systems now is available directly from Autodesk Fusion 360 App Store. By doing so, OpenBOM offers Autodesk Fusion 360 users a direct way to install and activate the OpenBOM application. The Autodesk Fusion 360 App Store allows users to download installation packages for both Windows and MacOS versions and register an OpenBOM cloud subscription account. This method eliminates the need for multiple installations and configurations of OpenBOM for Fusion 360 and provides a dramatic improvement in the overall user experience and customer support.
OpenBOM utilizes the Autodesk Forge Platform API to extract and maintain synchronization of Bill of Materials data and all related information from Autodesk Fusion 360. Just a few of the OpenBOM features for Autodesk Fusion 360 are:
- Ability to generate Bill of Materials directly from Autodesk Fusion 360
- Create three types of Bill of Materials – part list, single-level and multi-level BOMs
- Allow the Fusion 360 user to calculate cost(s) and manage rollup for Bill of Materials.
- Brings advanced collaboration across teams and organizations to the desktop CAD system using advanced cloud technology.
Autodesk’s vision and strategy of cloud technologies is well aligned with OpenBOM’s native cloud BOM and Part Catalog management tools providing sharing and collaboration between engineers, production planners, contractors, customers and the extended enterprise. “Offering OpenBOM on the Autodesk Fusion 360 app store further expands OpenBOM’s existing CAD integrations and dramatically improves the user experience for Fusion 360 customers working with BOMs,” said Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO and co-founder of OpenBOM. “With this announcement, OpenBOM provides the Autodesk Fusion 360 community an easy and delightful cloud based inherently collaborative way to manage their BOMs. You will love it!” said Jim Quanci, Senior Director Autodesk Forge.
OpenBOM develops modern cloud-based real-time collaboration and data management technology to manage BOM, Part Catalogs and related product information across networks of engineers, supply chain managers, and contract manufacturers. OpenBOM enables people to share and collaborate using online bill of materials from initial design through all stages of engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. Headquartered in the Boston, MA area, OpenBOM’s website is at www.openbom.com. OpenBOM is a wholly owned and branded product of Newman Cloud, Inc.


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Yesterday, 46 Dallasites, including Mayor Tom Leppert, gathered in Madrid to witness the official signing of a partnership agreement between the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University and the Prado Museum in Madrid. The signing took place in one of the galleries of the Prado surrounded by Spanish Renaissance paintings, with Prado Director Miguel Zugaza, Deputy Director Gabriele Finaldi, and Chair of the Board Placido Arango orchestrating the event. The signing of the agreement at the Prado represents the second and final official ceremony to launch the historic partnership, the first of which took place at the Meadows Museum in Dallas on September 10.
Representatives from Dallas at the signing included Meadows Museum Director Mark Roglán; Provost of Southern Methodist University Dr. Paul Ludden; Ms. Linda Evans, President of The Meadows Foundation and sponsor of the exchange; Ms. Linda Custard, Chair of the Meadows Museum Advisory Council; and the Honorable Janet Kafka, Honorary Consul of Spain in Dallas. Ambassador Alan D. Solomont, Ambassador of the United States to Spain, hosted a celebratory reception following the signing at the official residence of the United States of America.
The signing of the partnership in Madrid represents the final official step in the launching of a three-year partnership between the two museums, marking the first such international program for the Prado. The multifaceted collaboration encompasses the loan of major paintings from the Prado, interdisciplinary research at SMU, an unprecedented internship exchange between the two museums, and a range of public programs.
El Greco’s monumental masterpiece Pentecost, on loan from the Prado, is currently on view at the Meadows Museum. Next year, the Prado will lend the Meadows Jusepe de Ribera’s Mary Magdalene followed by Diego Velázquez’s full length portrait of Philip IV in 2012. Upon the arrival of each loan, the Meadows Museum will produce a bilingual publication presenting new research across multiple subject areas, and will organize a series of symposia and educational programming with national and international scholars. Since the announcement of the partnership, the collaboration has already expanded, and the installation of Ribera’s Mary Magdalene will be accompanied by the loan of additional pieces from other distinguished collections.


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The Repository did a heckuva job localizing the events surring the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin by looking at the state of Ohio's self-defense laws. Staff writer Robert Wang's story is nicely illustrated by the hands (and eyes) of staff designer Robert McCune.
The silhouette and target evoke something you might see at a shooting range. Particularly grabbing is head, eyes and gun pointed directly at the reader. How can you not read that story?
The dark red letters are a little hard to read against the dark background. The white stroke or frame around the letters does help.
The abundant white space puts this package in a spotlight.


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Down into the ghoul tunnels - a Mephisto review
Ghouls living in old tunnels from World War I – that is essentially the summary of the Priority Mission Resurrection Men for Achtung! Cthulhu. In just eight pages (or really three pages of text and a map), it provides an adventure hook and setting as a mini-adventure that can be played in one session. Adversaries are depicted only with references to the rulebook, and the main part of this booklet consists of the map of the tunnel system and brief descriptions of the rooms and tunnels. Alternative starting points for the scenario are included for those the standard variant of this mission does not work for.
Resurrection Men has an interesting idea, but in fact, the scenario provides little that you could not come up with on your own. Only game masters who want to save time necessary for drawing a map or need a quick basic idea will get any useful material here. As free game material, Priority Mission provides a hook for one game session, but anyone hoping for a real mission will be disappointed.

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Introducing the CryptoDollar Coin
In this blog post, we will detail the latest version of our CryptoDollar Stablecoin (an implementation of the Proof CryptoFiat protocol) after a quick overview of pegged currencies and Stablecoins. An upcoming post will be published next week and will explain the inner workings and different design decisions of our smart-contract architecture.
Pegging a currency to the dollar is not a novel idea. Dozens of countries peg or have tried to peg their currencies to the dollar. For small economies, this facilitates participation in international trade and finance. Countries such as China or Japan use a similar idea and use a fixed-exchange rate that enables them to have comparative advantage in their exports to the United States. Although the idea of of pegged currency is straightforward, they have historically been problematic to maintain. Although some countries (e.g. China) are still maintaining a fixed-exchange rate or , others such as Argentina, Mexico, Russia failed at doing so.
Ultimately, no pegging can be maintained if market conditions become to detrimental which illustrates the need for better safety mechanisms.
In the world of cryptocurrencies, the need for a pegged currency is necessitated by market swings and the general market volatility of the asset. There have been a few attempts to create stable cryptocurrencies that we can classify in the two following categories:
- Cryptocurrencies collateralized with fiat/dollars
- Cryptocurrencies collateralized with cryptocurrencies
If you are interested, there are plenty of other models and financial instruments (Seignorage shares, Future contracts, etc.) that also try to achieve a stable crypto-value but we will not address these in this article.
Some examples of Dollar-collateralized cryptocurrencies include coins such as Tether and TrueUSD. The CryptoDollar coin is an Ether-collateralized cryptocurrency. Another example of cryptocurrency collateralized with Ether is the MakerDAO project and their Dai Stablecoin.
Both models have advantages and disadvantages. The major shortcoming of fiat-collateralized cryptocurrencies is that they are not decentralized, require trust in a third-party entity and therefore at least partially defeat the purpose of decentralization and creating of a Stablecoin. They do however have the advantage of requiring only 100% of collateralized value to function properly.
In contrast, cryptocurrencies collateralized with cryptocurrencies do require additional collateral to account for market crashes. Although no amount of collateral will make the system completely infallible, a 200% or 300% collateral is required to protect the Stablecoin value in regard of the cryptocurrency market volatility where currencies often lose half of their value in the span of a few days.
The CryptoDollar coin
The CryptoDollar coin is an Ethereum token collateralized with ether. As any Stablecoin, the value of a CryptoDollar coin will ideally always remain equal to $1.
As we saw in the previous section, no amount of collateral completely secures a Stablecoin. Therefore a 0.5% fee on each CryptoDollar token buy will be used to grow the value of the collateral over time. We also provide a safety mechanism that will replace the pegging mechanism in the event of a catastrophic scenario (more on this below).
To give an accurate representation of the current strength of the contract, we use the following indicator:
The collateral represents the smart-contract balance while the outstanding value is the total value in dollars of all Cryptodollar tokens that have been minted. We can also represent the contract state with the following buffer formula:
The value of the buffer decides on the behavior of the contract:
- In the pegged state (Buffer > 0), sellers receive the equivalent value of their initial investment in dollars.
- In the unpegged state (Buffer < 0), sellers receive the number of ether they initially sent to the CryptoDollar contract (we call this amount “reserved ether”).
The advantage and the goal of this safety mechanism is to partially avoid “bank runs”. Here again, the word ‘partially’ is important because there is no way to completely refund everyone.
In the case a critical state is reached, the “unpegged” state of the CryptoDollar smart-contract is activated. Every CryptoDollar token holder can then choose to sell their CryptoDollar tokens for their reserved ether value.
This mechanism along with accounting transparency brought by blockchain helps mitigating possible selling spirals: When the collateralization of the contract drop under 100%, the pegging mechanism is paused and the price of CryptoDollar tokens is no longer dependent on the value of Ether. Everybody attempting to withdraw gets treated “equally” rather than on a “first-come first-served” basis.
One of the key distinctions between the CryptoDollar and other Stablecoins is the binary state of the contracts wherein the system trades a bit of market fault tolerance for predictability. Rather than creating a shifting basket of collateralized crypto-currencies whose valuations need to be closely monitored and whose behaviors are opaque, the CryptoDollar opts instead to have explicit “red-lines” wherein holders can redeem their initial ether based on their individual tolerances. Although quick-in/quick-out has the potential of adding volatility, user freedom should not be sacrificed completely in the name of stability.
This was a very general overview on Stablecoin principles and the different mechanisms brought by the CryptoDollar to solve current problems in the domain. This post will be followed by a post outlining the different technical details and inner-workings of the CryptoDollar token. If you liked this introductory article, give us a clap, share this with your friends or join our community!
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Don't Let Downtime Be Your Downfall
In the past year, headlines around the world have been ablaze with data centre outages and downtime, affecting hundreds of businesses costing them money and business reputation. Focusing on people, process and toolsets, data centres need to strive towards operational excellence.
These are just some of the headlines that have taken the industry by surprise in the past year. No one is immune from downtime – from service providers to operators, many businesses have faced immense financial loss and reputation risk due to downtime. Even consumers were affected with massive delays and loss of productivity when the IT systems failed, in the case of British Airways (BA) and Delta Airlines.
These instances certainly aren’t isolated events. A 2016 report by the Ponemon Institute found that downtime costs for the most data centre-dependent businesses are rising faster than average, on average costing $740,357 a 38% increase since the first study in 2010.
What is at stake: business disruption, missed revenue, reduced productivity and reputation risk. When IT infrastructure is not available, neither are business operations. Given the costs of downtime, how can data centres strive towards operational excellence? Broadly grouped into people, process and toolsets, data centre operators can instil a quality mindset in their operations. Here are seven areas for improvement:
- Hire the right person for the job
It is essential to recruit experienced staff at all levels of the organisation. For a data centre to run smoothly, you will need experienced engineers as well as experienced managers who can train and mentor junior staff. It is essential to have people with actual operational experience in mission critical environments, even at the front line of the organisation.
Recruiting across similar industries is also essential. Globally, data centre talent is tight, and one way to lessen the pressure is to look at experienced people who come from similar mission critical facilities. Given the pace of change in the industry, finding the right talent could mean looking at adjacent industries for the right skillset.
- Ensure the person you hire embodies your corporate values
Staff must not only understand their day-to-day responsibilities, they must embody corporate values as well. This will ensure your employees align their actions around a common set of principles. Operational roles require day to day decision making and not every situation will be clear, therefore having a set of organisational principles that everyone understands will help ensure that decisions support the overall group objectives.
- Training is essential
It is not enough for any employee to rely on their previous experience and knowledge base. The data centre industry is continuously evolving and the technology supporting it requires a more sophisticated user than ever before. In addition, some roles will require demonstrated certifications and others on-the-job training and experience. Organisations need to build robust training programmes for all levels as well as ensure the personnel and managers make it a priority.
- Adhere to industry standards
There are several industry standards that data centre operators must align to, such as internationally recognised best practice ISO frameworks or PCI Data Security Standards or even green building standards. These standards are important for not only the operator to ensure consistent quality and workmanship, but required by customers to demonstrate to regulatory bodies that their customer or citizen data residing on IT systems is being managed appropriately. Adherence to these standards also means that operators must also regularly conduct simulations in order to ascertain weaknesses and then work on ways to counter negative scenarios.
- Share best practices
Data centres operators need to take a pro-active approach when it comes to sharing best practices, sharing successes as well as failures. As more businesses look to place their data in the cloud, the colocation industry is increasingly handling sensitive company information. There are organisations across industries that provide a neutral forum in which operators can share their experiences and best practices. In this manner, data centre operators are able to provide their customers with best-in-class services and ensure that operational issues don’t cascade through the industry.
- Continuous improvement is key to data centre operational efficiency
Operational procedures are meant to help facilities run smoothly. Over time, they may become dated or no longer efficient. The term “Kaizen”, the Japanese word for improvement, describes a technique of continuous improvement – focusing on small improvements that will add up to big changes in the efficiency and quality of a process. The data centre environment is not static and by taking this approach, organisations will always be looking for ways to deliver high-quality services.
- Make sure you have the right tool for the job
Today’s data centre environment is an interdependent web of complex technology systems spanning electrical, mechanical, security and safety. Operator as well as their customers need a clear view into the environment at any point in time.
As machine learning and artificial intelligence penetrate deeper into the operational realm, we will see an evolution on how these systems interact with each other and how we will operate the overall environment.
The relentless pursuit of perfection
Finding the right talent, honing best-practice facilities standards and even implementing new and emerging technologies is an ongoing process. However, the best technology or the right employee or even the best process alone, will not deliver the efficient, high-quality data centre that modern businesses demand.
It takes an organisation of experienced, well-trained, collaborative staff, committed to adhering to rigorous standards, to deliver on the promise to always be up and running.


On July 12, 2022, NASA released the long-waited first set of full-color images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built and launched into space.
It marks a momentous day for science, beginning a new era in astronomy.
As a recap, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched into space on December 25, 2021, and it took six months in orbit to fully prepare and calibrate Webb’s instruments.
During a live broadcast, the world got its first glimpse of the wonders that lie beyond our Universe after decades of waiting. And it’s worth the wait!
NASA and astronomers unveiled four images taken by the Webb telescope, delivering an unprecedented look at the early Universe and its past, and they’re absolutely stunning!
Without further ado, here’s a sneak peek at the first images of the early Universe.
Webb Telescope’s First Images
The first-ever image was revealed by President Joe Biden on July 11, 2022 during a White House event. It unveiled the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, which was hailed as “the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the cosmos ever taken.” It was also known as Webb’s First Deep Field or the first operational image. It only took less than a day for Webb to capture this image. How amazing is that?
The image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 shows the thousands of galaxies and multiple arcs, including the most distant celestial bodies, as they appeared 4.6 billion years ago. It can be seen about 5.12 billion light-years away from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere within the constellation of Volans (the constellation in the southern sky representing a flying fish). What was shown in the image covers only a small patch of sky, about the size of a grain of sand, held by someone at arm’s length on the ground. Imagine how tiny that galaxy cluster is to our vast Universe!
You might’ve noticed that some of the galaxies appear bent. This is because the combined gravity of the massive group of galaxy clusters magnifies and bends the light rays from the background objects, bringing the distant galaxies behind it into view. It simply acts as a “gravitational lens” or a magnifying glass.
You can see the impressive difference between the two, with Webb Space Telescope’s new image being brighter and sharper. It has also captured more details than Hubble, showing faint structures like star clusters and diffuse features that have never been seen before.
The second image shows a detailed transmission spectrum of the hot gas giant exoplanet, WASP-96 b, which is about 1,150 light-years away from Earth. This exoplanet can be found in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix. It orbits close to its Sun-like star, which is why its temperature is greater than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The graph shows the information gathered about the makeup or the characteristic signatures of specific elements of the WASP-96 b’s atmosphere. Observations reveal signatures of water and evidence of haze and clouds in the atmosphere surrounding this planet, which was once thought not to exist there.
Southern Ring of Nebula
Next is the Southern Ring of Nebula, also known as Eight-Burst and cataloged as NGC 3132, which is approximately 2,500 light-years away. It’s called a planetary nebula, but it’s not actually a planet. Instead, it’s giant shells of gas and dust shed by dying Sun-like stars.
The image shows the Southern Ring of Nebula, along with two stars in the center of the nebula that they call “star-crossed lovers.” The dimmer dying star at the center is seen expelling rings of gas and dust. The dying star is locked tight in orbit with a younger, brighter star that is at the earlier stage of its stellar evolution
The Webb Space Telescope helped reveal for the first time that the dying star is cloaked in dust. As the two stars continue to orbit one another, they would stir the shells of gas and dust, resulting in the asymmetrical patterns seen in the image.
Capturing this image of the Southern Ring of Nebula will allow astronomers to better understand other planetary nebulae like this one.
Next is the Stephan’s Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92 (HCG 92), a visual group of five galaxies. The five galaxies are NGC 7317, NGC 7318B, NGC 7318A, NGC 7319, and NGC 7320.
Only four galaxies can be seen colliding and caught up in a gravitational or cosmic dance. NGC 732, the leftmost or fifth galaxy, resides about 40 million light-years from Earth, while the other four galaxies (much closer together) are about 290 million light-years away.
This captured mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering 1/5 of the Moon’s diameter (as seen from Earth). In addition, it comprises more than 150 million pixels and is created from about 1,000 image files.
This new information helps astronomers know more about the interactions between galaxies and how this phenomenon triggers star formation in each other, which is vital to galaxy evolution.
Lastly is the breathtaking image of the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery about 7,600 light-years away from Earth. It’s also one of the brightest and largest nebulae in the sky. A stellar nursery is a cloud of contracting gas and dust where new stars are born.
Webb’s image shows the “Cosmic Cliffs” of the Carina Nebula, the cloud-like nebula structure that looks like a mountain range because of the valleys, ridges, and peaks. However, what looks like a mountain range landscape sprinkled with glittering stars is actually the edge of NGC 3324, a nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. Its tallest peaks reach 7 light-years high.
According to NASA, “The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.” And the “steam” you see rising off the “mountains” is actually hot gas and dust.
This stunning image of Webb uncovers the birth of stars previously hidden in a new level of detail. This will also help provide a new understanding of the star formation process.
These images only preview the Webb Space Telescope’s remarkable full capabilities, and that’s just the beginning. Imagine what other amazing images we would get to see in the future!
The Webb Space Telescope is expected to last about 10 years for its mission, but recent developments have stated it has enough fuel capacity to work for 20 years.
Webb will also shed light on our solar system’s mysteries after the end of the Dark Ages, probe the mysterious study of the origins of life and other planetary systems, and learn more about the assembly of the earliest galaxies and the birth of stars and new planet formation.


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The great-great-granddaughter of Edwin Stirling, the sculptor who created the statue of Prince Albert, visited Hastings to view it in its new location.
The statue was installed outside Hastings Town Hall on Wednesday, September 27 thanks to the work of local heritage enthusiasts.
Kelly Stirling flew from California to view the statue in its new location on Monday, October 30. She has been avidly following the project after spotting an Observer article about plans to relocate the statue during research into her family history. At the time of her first visit, it was stored in an old greenhouse in Alexandra Park and listed as “at risk” by the Public Monuments and Sculptures Association.
Kelly was greeted by the mayor Cllr Judy Rogers, and members of the Albert Statue Group formed to oversee the move. Unfortunately the chairman Steven Whitfield was unable to attend but other group members and the trustees – Lynn Gausden, David Robinson, Brian and Shirley Lawes – were present.
Representatives of local history groups were also there. Val Vint attended on behalf of the Lions, who made a generous donation to the project. Roger Wilcox, a local stonemason who had both advised and given so much practical assistance, was present and Kevin Boorman, marketing and major projects manager for Hasting Borough Council, also attended.
Kelly expressed her appreciation to everyone involved and was delighted with the successful outcome.
A small amount of restoration still needs to be done and donations are invited, payable to The Albert Statue Group c/o 124 Edmund Road, Hastings, TN35 5LQ.


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