Myrtle Beach’s rising alternative/pop band Small Talks has been the talk of the scene for some time now, but with the components of their debut album it is more apparent than ever that this band is everything you’ve been looking for. The debut full-length record, A Conversation Between Us, officially released today via Common Ground Records, doubles as both a successful musical transition into the pop genre and a compelling lyrical memoir by Cayley Spivey. Without a doubt, Small Talks draws in an attentive audience by the very first track of this record.
A Conversation Between Us opens up with the most ‘pop’ song on the record, “Better For It”. Fans of the band’s more mellow and emo release, Until It Turns To Petals (2017), may experience a bit of a shock factor as the track starts with a looping voice track and striking guitar riff reminiscent of 90’s-pop. Regardless of your expectations, when the chorus kicks in with its disco-esque melody and pulsing beat, you’ll catch yourself in a trance that can’t be broken until the song’s end. Previously released singles “Oceans” and “Quiet Sounds” follow on the tracklist and stand out as the two tracks most analogous to the band’s 2017 EP, whereas “Teeth” gave us an emotive glimpse into what direction the remainder of the album would go in.
What makes songs like “Teeth” and its cousin ballads “Bed” and “Never Made It” so impressive as slower tracks is the usage of layers that create a musical intricacy. Particularly with “Bed”, the song unfolds deeper as instrumentals build upon another until it reaches a synthy crescendo in the final verse. Undeniably, Spivey is the most vulnerable and expressive lyrically in this song, especially when she sings in finality, “I hope I’m not taking up too much of your space, that anyone could occupy better.”
Other highly notable tracks are “Anybody” and “Honeydew”. It may only be February, but these songs will find their way to your summer playlists for sure–“Anybody” with its swooning lyrics, soft vocal melody, and persistent beat; and “Honeydew” bringing back that infectious 90’s-pop vibe. If you’re going to do pop, you’ve got to do it right for it to truly stick, and Small Talks did exactly that.
It’s clear this album boasts Spivey’s genre diversity and writing capabilities as it bounces with ease from inherently pop-punk tracks like “Nicotine & Tangerines” to piano-driven serenades like “Never Made It”. However, what separates A Conversation Between Us from other breakout pop releases is the narrative. The album quite literally reads like a conversation between Spivey and another (or others), telling a story through poetic catharsis as the tracklist continues on. Spivey has let down her walls, crafted her thoughts, and put them to music, creating an impenetrable connection between her and her listeners.
A Conversation Between Us is officially out today. The record is available for stream or purchase here.


text: ‘Return’ explores the concept of diasporic peoples returning to their homeland. Even when this journey was possible, many groups stayed put. The Zionist movement was an expression of the Jewish desire for a national homeland. They chose Palestine, which ironically created another diaspora of displaced Palestinian refugees from the ensuing years of conflict. The Israeli Law of Return guarantees citizenship for all people of Jewish heritage, but still many proudly Jewish people remain outside Israel. Africans were encouraged to return to Africa from America after abolition. Many resisted, thwarting the colonialist intentions of white ex-slavers, but others called for a ‘black Israel’. The Rastafari see Ethiopia as the Promised Land.

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Goodix picks up an Edison Award for its Live Finger Detection sensor
Goodix has been awarded a Gold Edison Award in the Applied Technology category for its Live Finger Detection fingerprint sensor.
The 2017 Edison Awards were held in New York earlier this month. The Edison Awards recognize products, institutions and business leaders demonstrating excellence in innovation.
Goodix’s Live Finger Detection is an integrated live fingerprint authentication solution that captures the biometrics of the finger itself combined with heartbeat authentication. The two-factor process first scans to determine whether or not the fingerprint is live.
The sensor is able to detect and deny fake or cloned 2D and 3D fingerprints, enhancing the security and user experience. Besides mobile devices, the technology can also be used in wearable devices, intelligent homes, smart cars and smartcard products. Live Finger Detection has been named a CES 2017 Best of Innovation Awards Winner in the Embedded Technologies Category and has been integrated into the flagship mobile phones of leading mobile brands.
“By focusing on people’s desires while understanding their needs, Goodix strives to deliver disruptive technologies that make human interface technology in devices more secure and even easier to use and enjoy, enriching people’s lives globally,” commented Goodix CTO Dr. Bo Pi.
Last year, Dr. Bo Pi discussed the company`s strong commitment to research and development in an exclusive interview with BiometricUpdate.com.
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The history of Domain de Chevalier can be traced back as far as 1763, when it was marked on a map drawn by the engineer Pierre de Belleyme. Situated in Leoville, the estate has been managed by Olivier Bernard since 1983, whose quest for balance and perfection continues to push the its stellar standards ever higher.
The terroir here is one of gravel lying on clay-gravel subsoil with superb natural drainage. There are 40 hectares under vine: 35ha planted with the classic red grapes of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, with a smattering of Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc; 5ha are dedicated to Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon. Domaine de Chevalier's red wine - 50% aged in new oak barriques for 20 months - is one of the leading stars of the Pessac-Leognan appellation, while the white will age tremendously well and is widely viewed as one of the very best dry white wines in the world.

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As a believer, you are not alone
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”
John 10:27-28 (ESV)
How many of us have felt the sting of abandonment? Maybe you had a friend leave you or betray you. Maybe you have been through a divorce or are a child of divorced parents. Whatever the case, abandonment leaves its mark. To be devastated by someone you trust and love leads to scars. It feels like getting stabbed right in the heart. The pain doesn’t simply end. It lasts a lifetime and, if it affects a family, multiple lifetimes. Many times we approach God the same way. We are timid to put our faith in anyone or anything, let alone someone we can’t see. This can be difficult for many people.
I would like to share something with you: as a believer, you are not alone. Nothing, and I mean nothing, can separate you from God or His perfect love. Not sin, not your family, not friends, not mistakes, and not even death can separate you from God. God is there even when no one else is. Now, I don’t mean that God is present in the sense of feeling bad, but He is always with you. The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit dwells within us when we are saved. We literally have God living within us. So when I say that God is always with you, you can take that to the bank. When you feel alone, you are not. When you feel separated from everything you love, there is a love that will never be separated from you.
Practically, we still feel separated from God at times. When those times come, stay faithful. God will always give you the strength to get through anything that life throws at you. All you have to do is ask. God is always faithful. Read your Bible for encouragement from His word, pray to him so that He will give you strength. Be with other believers and ask them for prayer and encouragement. He has given you the avenues to find strength. Best of all, He gave you His Spirit.
So when you feel alone or abandoned, remember that God is with you. Seek His face and He will make himself known and give you strength and comfort.

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Back in the late sixties, Dorset Press put out a series of books about everyday life in different cultures, mostly in ancient times. Included in this series was a book about everyday life in the Viking Age by Jacqueline Simpson. Dr. Simpson is a researcher and author on folklore and legend from the United Kingdom. She studied English Literature and Medieval Icelandic at Bedford College, University of London and has served as Editor, Secretary and President of the Folklore Society. The time frame of this book is from the eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries and covers the expansion of the peoples of Scandinavia and their life at sea, at home and in their colonies.
As her sources, Simpson uses the abundance of early Scandinavian and Icelandic literature that exists paired with archaeological discoveries such as the excavated settlements of Jarlshof, Oseberg, Hedeby, Gokstad and others. The books starts out with an explanation of who the Vikings were and the sources for their history. Simpson gives an overview of the expansion of the Vikings and then discusses their life on land and at sea. She has chapters on the merchants, weapons and warriors, the family and society, their games, arts, poetry, religious practices and funerary rites. An interesting point she makes regarding the funerary rites it that the sending of a burning ship out to sea is fairly rare and was only used by the upper echelons of society.
Perhaps the best feature of this book is the plethora of photos and drawings that are included. For many of the historical points given, there is a corresponding illustration. There are numerous representations of gods and their stories, depictions of rune stones, photos and drawings of everyday implements and tools. She gives a detailed explanation of how the formidable Viking ships were built, what their dimensions were and how they used oars and sails. There are portrayals of Viking clothing and floor plans of their housing. I really enjoyed the description of animal husbandry and how the merchant colonies operated.
Dr. Simpson’s writing is imminently readable. The illustrations are priceless and there is an excellent section of suggestions for further reading. Reading this book along with Jonathan Clements “A Brief History of the Vikings” is a great introduction into Viking history. I learned a lot from this book and highly recommend it.
Keep up the good work, I don’t always have time read all that you offer us but I love the opportunity for a dabble during the day and especially the images
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nice work on this one Like it allot! Nice composition. Keep up the goo work
Good work and composition. You have a good blog. I like it. ^_^See you in blogosfera, and thanks for the comment...
nice! love da lighting!
wow, really has a good impact. great depth and mood!
Wow, awesome work! I always wanted to paint like this. The lighting is gorgeous.
this one is really nice! i think it's the most cinematic of all of them

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Crypto jacking is a widely recognized hacking process that installs corrupt software on a user’s computer and uses its computing power for mining cryptocurrencies such as Monero (XMR).
A new malware dubbed BlackSquid bags eight notorious exploits to drop XMRig Monero cryptocurrency miner targeting web servers, network drivers, and removable drives. BlackSquid enters into the system through three different initial entry points that include infected webpages, compromised servers, or via removable or network drives.
If the malware doesn’t meet the conditions, then it drops the XMRig Monero malware and processes the malicious cryptocurrency-mining malware routines. It also uses EternalBlue-DoublePulsar exploits for further network propagations.
The malware employs several anti-virtualization, anti-debugging and anti-sandboxing methods to avoid detection. If the malware detects any sandboxes, it immediately cancels the infection process to avoid detection.
The malware also gets executed by utilizing the critical vulnerability CVE-2017-8464, that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the target machine as a local user.
Blacksquid also exploits the Apache Tomcat exploit CVE-2017-12615, which enables any code to be executed by the server by uploading a Java Server Pages file via a specially crafted HTTP PUT request.
It also targets Rejetto HTTP File server using CVE-2014-6287 to run mshta.exe via a %00 sequence in a search action. once abused, this allows attackers to execute arbitrary programs remotely.
black squid makes use of the GetTickCount API to randomly select IP addresses of a web server to target and checks if the addresses are live. If so, the attack begins. The malicious code is also able to start an infection chain by prepending malicious iframes to target web pages.
The malware performs a number of checks designed to avoid detection or analysis, such as the presence of usernames, drivers, or dynamic link libraries which suggest a sandbox or virtualization is in play.
Along with attacks, BlackSquid downloads two XMRig cryptocurrency mining components, that checks for the existence of video card in the target systems, it checks for Nvidia and AMD video cards, if present it downloads the second component to mine for graphics processing unit resource.
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Something serious is up with Xander Delaney (played by Luke Van Os) on today's episode of Home and Away (1:45pm - see our TV Guide for full listings)...
Xander's policewoman sister, Rose (Kirsty Marillier), is alarmed when the paramedic loses his cool at the scene of an accident.
Following the death of a young cyclist, Xander takes his anger and frustration out on the drink-driver responsible.
Rose and her police partner, Cash Newman (Nicholas Cartwright), are shocked by Xander's angry outburst.
Could it be that Xander is once again getting too emotionally involved with his job as a lifesaver?
Later, while home alone, Xander is tormented by memories of the accident.
He starts to descend into an anxious panic...
When Rose returns home to their shared apartment, she is worried to find her brother's bedroom door is locked.
Is Xander OK?
Tane Parata (Ethan Browne) is a free man again after being kidnapped by Marty (Ben Wood) and his biker gang.
However, the gang's threat still hangs over Tane.
The gym boss needs to find a way to pay back the $150,000 that his late brother, Ari, stole from the biker gang after an armed robbery... or else!
Under pressure, Tane comes clean to his nephew, Nikau (Kawakawa Fox-Reo), about the money that Ari and his girlfriend, Mia, stole.
Tane decides that the only way to raise the money to pay back the gang is to sell the gym.
However, when Tane reports his plan to gang member, Tex Wheeler (Lucas Linehan), he's in for a SHOCK when Tex announces that the gang have their own plans for the gym!
Cash is missing his girlfriend, Jasmine Delaney, like crazy.
Especially now that hospital nurse Jasmine has decided to stay on in the countryside and help her former mum-in-law, Wendy Shaw, who recently had a heart attack.
WHICH Summer Bay resident notices Cash's loneliness and invites the copper to talk out his troubles over a drink?
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - Google Inc. has expanded beyond a one-size-fits-all view of Web search to tie together its efforts to offer personalized Web searches under the iGoogle brand, officials said on Monday.
In recent weeks, the Web search leader has introduced a variety of new customization features to its basic personalized home page, first introduced two years ago. New features include a choice of themes with custom colors that users of Google’s personalized home page can select.
“We are working to bring all this together,” Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president in charge of search and user experience, told reporters during a briefing at the Googleplex, the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters.
“(Google is) renaming the product iGoogle,” she said.
As part of its effort to render more personally relevant Web search results, the company said on Monday it has introduced a geographic aspect to search results based on the location that individual users select as their home location on Google Maps.
Also this month, Google introduced the ability for users to refer back to their personal Web search history over the past several years. Web history is an optional feature and only available to users who have signed up and given permission to Google to track their Web surfing activity.
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Construction students at Peacock Collegiate want to support a project that makes it easier for people with mobility challenges to access businesses but need the city to handle the legal issues first.
Specifically, the school needs city hall to provide them with a legal waiver to review before they start swinging hammers and using saws.
To facilitate that request, the special needs advisory committee (SNAC) submitted a recommendation to city council that the city solicitor assist the committee and its partners in developing a waiver of liability for the ramp project before Nov. 18.
City council received that recommendation during its Oct. 24 regular meeting and unanimously approved it.
Coun. Jamey Logan, council rep on the committee, explained that some downtown stores have plywood ramps in front of their doors if there are one or more steps leading into their business. SNAC provided ramps to those places at the request of the business owners, who lay out and remove the structures daily.
The committee started discussions about starting the ramp project in the fall of 2019, intending to provide downtown businesses with wheelchair-accessible ramps that weren’t already accessible, a council report explained.
Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s architectural technologies department agreed to take on the project in January 2020, but from May 2020 to December 2021, the committee put the project on hold because of the pandemic.
This past September, Peacock Collegiate expressed interest in supporting the project.
Instead of reinventing the wheel with legal waivers, the committee is taking what it learned in the past from previous partners and having the city solicitor review an older waiver form, said Logan.
Store owners would then sign the document, while the committee would be taken off the hook for liability and responsibility if there was an accident.
Committee name change
Council also unanimously approved a motion from the committee to direct the city clerk to review the special needs advisory committee bylaw and update the name and language of the bylaw. This update would focus on improving accessibility and inclusion for all residents, including those with disabilities.
The city clerk will then present the proposed changes to the committee for input before the group forwards the changes to city council for official approval.
“It’s a fairly dated bylaw. Some of the language is almost offensive,” said Logan. “And it excludes people from around the city who could lean on the bylaw.”
Logan did not give examples of the “offensive” language in the bylaw. Meanwhile, a review of the document does not turn up anything that appears offensive or derogatory.
The next regular council meeting is Monday, Nov. 14.

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FINANCE: Clinical commissioning groups in north west London have decided to retain their IVF restriction policy, so treatment will only be funded for couples who do not already have children, or children from a previous relationship.
A document to the North West London CCGs collaboation board said there had been discussions at Hillingdon CCG over whether this was equitable.
It said the current policy was that IVF will be funded for couples “who do not have any living biological or adopted children from their current relationship,or from any previous relationships” – something that Hillingdon had questioned the fairness of.
The document said: “The [Hillingdon] panel had asked what mechanism patients might use to challenge this social criterion in such instances where couples may feel that the exemption applying to their particular circumstances is not fair. It was reported that benchmarking against other CCGs showed the policy position of excluding from having IVF treatment couples with one or more children from either the current or a previous relationship is very widely adopted.”
The report said reversing the policy would cost north west London’s CCGs £1m.
It added: “In discussion, it was felt that the removal of the threshold would serve to import subjective, non-clinically based decision making into the CCGs’ approach to the policy, and would disproportionately favour access to IVF over and above access to other clinical treatments for which available funding would necessarily reduce as a result.
“The board was reminded of the CCGs’ statutory duty not to exceed their financial allocations and the risks that such apolicy change would pose to this.”

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Nigeria Police parades suspected thugs working for Senator Melaye
Abuja, March 19, 2018 (AltAfrika)-Nigeria Police on Monday paraded two suspected political thugs allegedly working for the controversial lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye and the son of late Kogi governorship aspirant, Mohammed Audu in Lokoja, Kogi State.
The suspects paraded are, Kabiru Saidu a.k.a Osama and Nuhu Salisu a.k.a (small).
According to him, the two suspects upon interrogation confessed working as political thug for Alhaji Mohammed Audu and Senator Dino Melaye.
He presented the alleged confession of the suspects thus: “Alhaji Mohammed invited the gang leader Kabiru Osama to Abuja and introduced him to Senator Dino Melaye and they met on airport road Abuja inside Dino Melaye car in December, 2017.
“The suspects further confessed that Senator Melaye told him that they should start working for the senator as his political thugs and they should recruit and train more other thugs to work for him in preparation toward 2019 general election town him (Dino Melaye) challenge his political opponents and disorganized Kogi State”.
The police spokesman alleged that the suspects confessed in their voluntary statements to the police that senator Dino Melaye handed over a bag containing one AK 47 rifle, two pump action guns and the sum of four hundred and thirty thousand naira (N430,000) to share with his boy.
He further stated that consequent upon the indictment and criminal confession of the principal suspect Kabiru Saidu, the police wrote to the Senate requesting Dino Melaye to report to the Kogi State police command to answer questions relating to criminal offences levelled against him, to enable the police carry out a discreet investigation into the confession of the principal suspect but the lawmaker refused to honour the police invitation.
The two suspects in an interview with journalists confessed to the allegation against Senator Melaye and Muhammed Audu. They said, “we were contacted by Dino Melaye and Mohammed Audu to work as political thugs during the 2019 general election”.
The men, police said not only confessed to have been working for the two politicians but the were also involved in several kidnappings in the state and environs.


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Perturbative theory and modeling of electronic-resonance-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy of nitric oxide.
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A theory is developed for three-laser electronic-resonance-enhanced (ERE) coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy of nitric oxide (NO). A vibrational Q-branch Raman polarization is excited in the NO molecule by the frequency difference between visible Raman pump and Stokes beams. An ultraviolet probe beam is scattered from the induced Raman polarization to produce an ultraviolet ERE-CARS signal. The frequency of the ultraviolet probe beam is selected to be in electronic resonance with rotational transitions in the A (2)Sigma(+)<--X (2)Pi (1,0) band of NO. This choice results in a resonance between the frequency of the ERE-CARS signal and transitions in the (0,0) band. The theoretical model for ERE-CARS NO spectra has been developed in the perturbative limit. Comparisons to experimental spectra are presented where either the probe laser was scanned with fixed Stokes frequency or the Stokes laser was scanned with fixed probe frequency. At atmospheric pressure and an NO concentration of 100 ppm, good agreement is found between theoretical and experimental spectral peak locations and relative intensities for both types of spectra. Factors relating to saturation in the experiments are discussed, including implications for the theoretical predictions.
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Kuehner, J. P., Naik, S. V., Kulatilaka, W. D., Chai, N., Laurendeau, N. M., Lucht, R. P., ... Gord, J. R.
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- Enhanced 500ft remote range: Thermopro wireless meat thermometer adopts the most advanced wireless technology to provide the strongest, and most reliable connection with a out of range alert, allowing you to monitor the progress of your cook up to 500ft away without worries
- Dual probe for food and BBQ: Meat thermometer oven safe with highly accurate stainless steel meat probe and oven/ grill/ smoker temperature probe, to allow you to monitor both food and ambient temperature simultaneously, making the smoker thermometer especially suitable for long smokes or grilling sessions
- Food temp & HI/LOW ambient temp alarm: Digital grill thermometer allows you to quickly and easily set your own cooking temperatures for both probes; Set probe 2 as HI/LOW temp range alarm for your grill or smoker to know when to add more fuel or if your bbq temperature gets too high; BBQ thermometer will flash and beep to remind you if the temperature ever goes out your set range
- Convenient kitchen timer: Smoking thermometer features countdown & count up timer which can be used simultaneously with the temperature monitoring functions, helps you keep track of your entire meal from meat to vegetable side dishes
- High accuracy and wide temperature range: Cook anything perfectly and with ease due to the wide and highly accurate temp range 14˚f to 572˚f; Displays both fahrenheit and celsius readings; Probe thermometer features a backlight screen for both the receiver & transmitter, ideal for any light condition
- 500-Ft Ultra-Long Range: Connected via the most advanced Bluetooth 5.2, this wireless thermometer for grilling can monitor your cooking from up to 500 feet away, truly wirelessly tracking your meal from anywhere!
- 100% Wire-Free: Meat thermometer digital wireless removes all the tangled wires, makes it a versatile tool for electric rotisserie, smoker, oven, grill, pan-fry or sous vide; Enjoy 100% wire-free cooking and the convenience of no-hassle setup and cleanup
- 1 Probe, 2 Sensors: Bluetooth thermometer for smoker features a meat temperature probe that can simultaneously measure internal meat temperature and ambient pit temperatures, while still reading highly accurately in just 3 seconds, so you’ll never overcook or undercook again!
- Easy-to-Use, Multifunctional App: Get real-time alerts on the go with the smart meat thermometer App; Supports custom timer and temperature graphs; USDA-recommended preset temperatures elevate your cooking like a pro every time you fire up your grill with our bluetooth thermometer for grilling
- Smart Alarm Effectively Manage Your Time: Wireless grill thermometer App takes the guesswork out by estimating how long to cook; Set up ambient pit temperature alarms and cooking pre-alarms that trigger within 5°F/10°F/15°F of the target temperature, and both your smartphone and the booster will beep to remind you, never overcook!
- Remote Monitoring: With this wireless grill meat thermometer, you can spend less time waiting and more time multitasking within a 230ft Bluetooth range. Pull out your phone and check the meat temperatures of your grill, smoker, and oven at any time.
- Smart Alerts: Avoid the risk of overcooking your food. Once the food temperature is out of your preset temperature range, your smart bluetooth meat thermometer will beep and send an instant notification to your phone via the Govee Home App.
- Meat Temperature Settings: Govee Home App offers USDA-recommended food temperatures of various doneness levels for food such as trukey, lamb, beef, chicken, pork and more. Suitable for both beginner and professional, grill more efficiently.
- Food Grade Probes: Our food grade 304 stainless steel thermometer probes have an accuracy of ±1.8°F/1°C to reliably monitor the doneness of your food (under 302℉) . *Please remember not to touch the temperature probes immediately after use.
- Easy to Place and Read: This Bluetooth meat thermometer has a strong magnetic back and a folding stand to easily set up on the grill, smoker and oven when cooking and barbecuing. The large backlight screen makes it easier to read at night.
- Fast and Precise: Our bluetooth meat thermometer records food temperatures accurately within 1.8°F/1°C in 1 second with a total working range of 32°F-302°F. Four 304 food grade stainless steel probes allow you to monitor multiple food temperatures.
- Effortless Monitoring: After using our digital meat thermometer, you can remotely check your meat temperature on the Govee Home app within a 230ft/70m Bluetooth range. Save yourself the effort of opening your grill/smoker to avoid excess heat.
- Smart Alerts: Get an immediate notification on your phone once the food temperatures are out of your preset range. Reduce the chances of burning your food by using the Govee bluetooth wireless grill thermometer to monitor your meat temperatures.
- Food Temperature Suggestions: Whether it's beef, turkey, pork, or lamb, we have plenty of preset food temperatures at various doneness levels on the Govee Home App. This feature is suitable for everyone from beginner cooks to professional chefs.
- Detailed Temperature Charts: Each cooking thermometer probe records temperature changes for 2 hours. These changes are recorded in detailed charts that you can view on the app. That way, you can keep track of your overall temperature performance.
- 328’ OUTDOOR WIRELESS RANGE: Professional smart cordless grilling kit and accessories. Get an instant push notification to your smartphone if the chef leaves the cell phone wireless bluetooth range. Indoor range is 100’
- DONE SMARTPHONE ALARM: When the sensor detects the meat reaches the set temperature the Apple iPhone iOS or Android WiFi mobile app will send push notifications and sound pocket alarm to take meat from gas or charcoal BBQ, smoker or oven
- DUAL MONITORING: Remote monitor food temperatures in either Celsius or Fahrenheit and get alerts for multi meats. Save pro cooking presets for your favorite kitchen luxury steak recipes. Set each individual probe separately adjustable in the app
- INSTANT READ DIGITAL DISPLAY: Large electric backlit LCD display can be held or set on surface stand and is great for quickly glancing at the smoke or cook progress or timer. The digital display will automatically cycle between both the readings
- UPGRADED STAINLESS STEEL CABLE: Just simply stick heavy duty metal probes in the meat & safely leave inside any oven or grill for the entire cook duration. Probe can withstand high heat temp of up to 482 F and stainless steel cable wire up to 716 F
- Unlimited Remotely Monitor Temperature: With this WiFi meat thermometer, you can remotely keep track of the meat temperature anywhere, anytime. Monitor the food anywhere anytime by a phone, no need to worry about overcooking any more. Note: not support 5G.
- Smart Temperature Alarm: Our bluetooth WiFi meat temperature is equipped with the Govee Home App smart system. When any of your temperatures are outside of your presets, you'll receive an instant notification on the app and on your digital meat thermometer.
- 28 USDA-Meat Preset Temperature: Govee wireless WiFi meat thermometer will provide suggestions based on user needs for foods such as beef, lamb, chicken, pork, turkey, and more, Grill more efficiently, whether you're a beginner or a professional.
- Food Grade Precise Probes: Our smart WiFi meat thermometer features 4 probes with ±1.8°F/1°C accuracy and The measuring range is between 32°- 572°F. 4 probes allowing you to monitor multiple food temperatures.Suitable for smoking, grilling, BBQ, oven.
- Lasts Up to 40H at Full Charge: Our wireless meat thermometer comes with 3000mAh rechargeable battery, about 20-40 uses per charge, make your meat thermometer for oven last longer with our convenient eco-friendly lithium battery.
- 300-Ft Remote Range: ThermoPro cooking thermometer lets you easily monitor your backyard grill from your living room. Use this meat thermometer’s wireless function to stay connected
- Highly Accurate Meat Thermometer Probe: Digital food thermometer features a 6 1/2" food-grade stainless steel meat probe that is accurate to ±1.8°F within a temperature range of 32 to 572°F
- 10 Preset Temperatures: This kitchen thermometer is programmed with 10 adjustable USDA-recommended preset temperatures and 5 doneness levels to help you Cook Like a Pro
- Smart Backlit Display & Alarms: Grill thermometer features 3 backlight colors to provide a visual indication of your cooking progress; once the meat has reached its set temperature, this BBQ thermometer will beep and flash
- On-Screen Timer: This meat thermometer for cooking and grilling displays the temperature and timer at the same time without the need to press any buttons
- [500Ft Remote Range Meat Thermometer] - Taimasi Wireless Thermometer is a 4 probes thermometer that allows you to not just monitor 4 different meats or 4 places of one meat, but also that of the grill/smoker/oven. It has a wireless range of up to 500 feets, which allows you to monitor your cooking without having to stay in the kitchen or yard.
- [Simple Setup & Optimal Accuracy] - The 4.7’’ color coded temperature probes with 43’’ mesh cable are made of food grade stainless steel which can withstand tem of 716°F. Its temperature range is 32˚F to 572˚F with ±1.8˚F accuracy. Fast data reading in 2-3s. No synch required, this wireless digital thermometer are pre-synchronized before shipped.
- [USDA Preset Temperature Settings] - As well as offering different cooking temperatures for 12 different meats, this food cooking thermometer is also programmed with five Usda approved ‘doneness’ levels that makes it easy for you to cook your meat to these preferences, and all of the preset temps can be reset to suit your personal taste.
- [Timer & Alarm] - This Grill thermometer features count-down/up timer & alarms, can be active while also monitoring meat temperature, when time is up or temperature is reached, it will beep to alert you. They also have back-lit Lcd & magnet back & incorporated stand, so providing ease of use in the dark and can be attached metal surface or set at desk or hang in wall.
- [Best Customer Service] - Package List: 1x thermometer transmitter, 1x wireless receiver, 4x probes with wires, 4x AAA batteries, 2x grill clips (*To conveniently attach the probes to the grill), 1x food injector (*To inject seasoning into meat), 1 user's manual. This is a great gift for any occasion, perfect for bbq, oven, cooking, baking. We also offer warranty and replacement probes, if your have any questions about the product, please feel free to contact us.
- 4 Simple Color-Coded Probes: This smoker thermometer with 4 probes can simultaneously monitor different meats or the ambient temperature of your smoker/oven/grill. Color-coded plugs allow for easy identification and use
- 500-Foot-Long Remote Range: This wireless thermometer for grilling features next-generation RF wireless technology that can achieve an extended range of up to 500 feet and retains its signal strength through obstacles and walls, guaranteed to reach anywhere in your home or yard
- Standalone transmitter: ThermoPro meat thermometer wireless features a unique design where all key programmable buttons are located on transmitter to allow usage of the BBQ thermometer for grill without the receiver, perfect for those fast cooking meats like fish or steak in short distance
- Optimal Accuracy & Simple Setup: This meat thermometers for grilling features food-grade stainless steel meat probes accurate to ±1.8°F that will ensure your meat is cooked to perfection; Smart thermometer works with any grill, no synchronization required
- Smart Temperature Alarm: This grilling thermometer contains a unique alarm mode that vibrates and flashes on both the receiver and transmitter to inform you when your food is ready; Never overcook or undercook your food again!
- ♥ Remote Meat Thermometer With Dual Probe: Digital wireless bbq temperature gauge to monitor two different meats or one meat and the grill/oven/smoker temp remotely from 300 feet away.
- ♥ BBQ thermometer with preset temperatures for 9 types of meat(Ground Beef, Ground Poultry, Beef, Veal, Chicken, Pork, Poultry, Lamb and Fish) and 5 types of desired tastes(Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well and Well Done).
- ♥ Instant Read Grilling Thermometer: No synch required. Large LCD displays shows accurate temperature.Back-lit in Transmitter & Receiver for use in low light condition.
- ♥ Cooking Thermometer's Count Up & Countdown Timer; High and Low overtemperature alarm function, never worry about undercooking and overcooking.If you want more probes for this meat thermometer, please search "B07C81PQB5".
- ♥ Food grade stainless steel probe with steel mesh cable: 32°F - 572°F. Heat-resistant food probe wire can be inserted 7" into meat.Quality Assurance. Package included:1 x Digital Thermometer Receiver;1 x Digital Thermometer Transmitter;1 x Food Temperature Probe;1 x Oven/BBQ Temperature Probe;1 x Stainless Steel Clip;4 x AAA batteries;1 x Manual;
If you’re looking for remote meat thermometers for smoker that won’t let you down, we have the solution for you. Regularly, we update our selection of products so that it reflects what matters most and is tailored to meet your individual needs.
The products are selected by expert reviewers. The expert reviewers have tested them in conditions catered towards your specific requirements as well. The reviews are open to the public, so you can trust that they know what they’re talking about when it comes to picking a new software solution!
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Three Reasons to Make the Switch to a Smart Thermostat
Modern technological advances have made it easier to maintain comfortable temperatures inside your Hillsborough, North Carolina, home or business. A smart thermostat is a solid addition to your heating and cooling system. These devices provide several benefits as you try to improve HVAC efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy recommends these thermostats for added convenience and comfort. Here are three good reasons to upgrade to a smart thermostat.
A Smart Thermostat Means Convenience
Today’s thermostats offer features and functions designed to help you manage energy costs and comfort throughout the year. Some of the most useful additions and capabilities include:
- Automatic Adjustments: Learning thermostats can track the temperature changes you and your family make. Over time, they will predict and implement your preferred thermostat changes.
- Temperature Alerts: Today’s smart thermostats can also provide warnings about temperature drops. These alerts help you to avoid problems that could affect plumbing and other areas of your home.
- Home Automation: Thermostats that can integrate with your home automation systems. They can provide you with optimal convenience when managing lighting, home security, and climate control.
These functions make it easier to manage temperatures and maximize comfort levels.
Anytime, Anywhere Access
Wi-Fi thermostats offer easy control over air conditioning and heating functions from any device with an internet connection. This can allow you to adjust temperature settings from anywhere. You’ll be able to enjoy the ultimate in convenience when dealing with unexpected changes to your schedule.
Energy Reports for Better Decisions
Your Wi-Fi thermostat can even collect data and generate reports that help you to alter behavior and reduce energy waste. The energy reports identify peak times for energy consumption so that you can understand energy usage patterns. You can generate reports for any period.
Smart Thermostat Installation
At Warren-Hay Mechanical, we work with you to determine the right smart thermostat options for your home or business. We are a Trane Comfort Specialist with proven experience in the HVAC industry. To learn more about our extensive lineup of HVAC services and products, call us today at 919-251-5615.
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"Grey's Anatomy" star Kate Walsh revealed she was diagnosed with a brain tumor
In January 2015, Kate Walsh began feeling more exhausted than usual. She was starring in and producing NBC’s Bad Judge, and attributed her exhaustion to her crazy schedule. But Walsh was feeling the effects of a brain tumor, and two years after her diagnosis and recovery, the former Grey’s Anatomy star opened up to Cosmopolitan.com about the life-changing experience.
Then in April of the same year, she began noticing cognitive changes.
Although these symptoms can be related to several other conditions and in no way 100% mean one has a serious health concern, Walsh had a feeling something wasn’t right. She pushed to see a neurologist and got an MRI. That scan showed that she had a “very sizable brain tumor in my left frontal lobe,” she said.
Three days later, Walsh headed into surgery to have it removed.
Wash said the diagnosis was an out-of-body experience. She had to call her assistant in to take notes because she couldn’t focus. The doctors thought it was benign, but wouldn’t know for sure until it was removed.
Doctors were able to remove the entire tumor and it was then up to Walsh to commit to recovering. She said, “I love to work hard and do 800 things at once, and this was a really amazing lesson in just submitting to the process of healing.”
When she got back to work, she took on Girls Trip, 13 Reasons Why, a film called Felt, and a stage play. But her tumor made her realize that she wants to spend more time with friends and family. She also makes sure to take care of her health more than she previously did.
Walsh, along with other TV doctors played by Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Dempsey, and Donald Faison, have since paired up with Cigna to advocate for the public to see their doctors often, so that healthcare morphs from a “reactionary thing” to a preventative ritual.
Take it from Walsh — go see your doctor before something goes wrong, and listen to your gut if you feel like something is amiss. Preventative care is the best way to take your well-being into your own hands.


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INTERNATIONAL – Travel times have gotten longer in Asia’s most congested metropolitan area, and they’re expected to get even worse in the run-up to the Christmas holiday, according to Waze Inc.
It took about 4.9 minutes to drive one kilometer in Metro Manila in September, longer than the roughly 3.8 minutes it took in April, data from the Google-owned traffic navigation app shows. The Philippine capital region is set to top Waze’s 2019 ranking of the world’s worst cities to drive in, beating out the likes of Bogota and Jakarta, country lead Sarah Rodriguez said in an interview.
Manila Is Set to Be the World’s Worst Place to Drive In: Chart
Soul-crushing traffic is a regular feature of life in a city whose infrastructure hasn’t kept pace with incomes. It’s now a constraint on the economy, as aging public transport struggles to accommodate a growing population, fueling the take-up of private cars. It will only worsen in the remaining months of the year, Rodriguez said, especially over the All Souls’ Day long weekend when Filipinos typically go out of town, and before Christmas thanks to more frequent trips to restaurants, bars and shopping malls.
Waze expects to see a 16% jump in kilometers driven and a 10% increase in its 1.6 million active users over the peak November and December period, she said. “This is the time of the year when Filipinos travel the most and also spend the most time per drive.”
Movement patterns are also changing in the metro as more vehicles ply the roads and Filipinos opt to drive more. Waze data shows traffic now steadily builds up throughout the day and then peaks at night, Rodriguez said. Filipinos could be choosing to leave later to avoid the morning rush. They could also be squeezing in more trips in-between to make the most out of their drive.
“Two years ago, there were two spikes — morning rush hour and evening rush hour — then in-between there was a dip. Now, it has changed. There’s no more midday dip,” she said.


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Bohls: Warming up to idea of cold ones
That could soon replace the old baseball saw “batter up” if a Texas plan to sell beer at sporting events on campus gets final approval and goes through, as expected, for a Longhorn game coming near you soon.
The kegs weren’t tapped during Texas’ big win over Baylor on Wednesday at the Frank Erwin Center, where they hit the suds for the first time at any event on a February night in 2001 when Chavez Jesus Chavez TKO’d Tom “Boom Boom” Johnson in 2001. They might be at the Longhorns’ softball doubleheader Friday at McCombs Field. Or perhaps next Tuesday’s baseball game against Valparaiso at Disch-Falk Field.
It would be fitting since the once-notorious, now-geezerly Wild Bunch fan section behind the visitors’ dugout at Disch-Falk used to salute legendary Texas power broker Frank Erwin at the appropriate moment during the game.
“Hey, Frank,” the Wild Bunch would toast, “it’s the bottom of the fifth.”
Starting soon, every inning could symbolically become the bottom of the fifth, although Texas will sell only beer and wine, not hard liquor, once the chancellor signs off on a safety play to monitor crowd behavior and security. If you’re planning ahead for the annual Orange-White spring football game, Texas will definitely not sell beer there, officials say.
In all likelihood, beer will be as commonplace as scorecards and sausage wraps at Longhorn basketball, softball and probably football games, which we trust is not a cheap way to fill Royal-Memorial Stadium on Thanksgiving nights now that Brand X has replaced Texas A&M.
It seems a lot of traditions are dying these days, but this is a good one to kill.
Not selling alcohol on college campuses is so 20th century. And it’s not as if tailgaters have been getting wasted on lemonade in those parking lots surrounding the football stadium. Let’s get real. At least 29 other Division I schools, including Houston, Rice and now SMU, sell beers to the masses.
In addition, three of the nine schools in the UT System sell beer. UTSA has sold beer at its home football games at the Alamodome for three seasons, and I’ve yet to hear of a riot in the place. UTEP and UTA also sell beer. Their transitions? “Totally seamless,” said John Graham, the Erwin Center director.
In the Big 12, West Virginia has made over half a million from beer sales at its football games. Texas figures to double that. Kansas State sells beer only at its baseball games, averaging 500 sales a game with an all-time high of 1,222 at an Oklahoma game on a Friday night.
Before the moralists jump on Texas and say an institution of higher learning is no place for last call, they should know that the student body sneaking flasks of libations into the football stadium is a long-held tradition right up there with Bevo and Ol’ Smokey. As a UT graduate, I have it on good authority that statement is accurate.
What this move speaks to is Steve Patterson’s bold agenda to push the marketing envelope in areas where DeLoss Dodds might have gone slower.
In Patterson’s first three months on the job, he has hired the school’s first African-American coach to run a major sport on campus and now OK’s the beverages to properly celebrate that move.
Who knows what Patterson has up his sleeve next? Maybe a road game to play Colorado, where I assume stadium vendors will be hawking medical marijuana.
“Steve is a guy who always says, ‘Why not?’ ” one Longhorn staffer said.
Why not, indeed. This enhances the fan experience and should help keep more out of their own living rooms as more fans are staying home. Alcohol and young people can be a dangerous combination, and the school has to be vigilant about monitoring rowdy behavior and preventing excessive drinking.
And for those worried about binge drinking, West Virginia has found it helps prevent that because tailgaters aren’t guzzling beers in pregame or halftime. As for Texas, it plans to cut off sales 10 minutes before the end of a basketball game and at the start of the fifth inning of softball and seventh inning of baseball, but long enough to have a cold one and still salute Frank.


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An FDA official last month said her agency hasn’t changed its position on the sale of 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA) in dietary supplements.
“Sometimes, we get questions of, has FDA changed their position because we haven’t seen anything lately on DMAA?” observed Cara Welch, senior advisor to FDA’s Office of Dietary Supplement Programs, during a regulatory conference May 16 in Washington. “We haven’t changed our position. DMAA is an unsafe food additive. It should not be showing up in supplements.”
DMAA was pervasive in sports supplements until 2012—the year FDA sent warning letters to several companies regarding the sale of DMAA in products. One of the companies receiving a letter was USPlabs LLC, the subject of a criminal indictment announced in 2015 by the Department of Justice.
Welch suggested FDA is taking aggressive action when it finds DMAA in a supplement.
“We’re not sending warning letters on DMAA products,” she said during the Dietary Supplements Regulatory Summit, an annual collaboration of five trade associations, including the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), which spearheaded the 2018 event. “When an investigator goes into a facility and finds it (DMAA), they talk to the owner immediately and say, ‘You need to get this product off the market, and if you don’t do it, we’ll do it.’”
“Fortunately, they often will do that, and they will voluntarily recall and destroy their product,” Welch added.
That relieves FDA from going to court, asking a judge for a warrant to seize the products. “It saves our resources as voluntary compliance, and that’s what we want to see,” she said.
A judge ruled in 2017 that DMAA doesn’t belong in supplements, dealing a victory to FDA in its years-long fight with Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its president, Jared Wheat. But Hi-Tech and Wheat challenged the summary judgment ruling in an appeal.
The parties are scheduled to make oral arguments in August before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.


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This is a real concern, and so far, it has not happened that often but even from the beginnings of the recent pandemic, there were already cases of people who had NEVER been treated with Tamiflu yet, the virus infecting them was found to be resistant to our current frontline drug, Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) for treatment of influenza. What will we do if this becomes more widespread? Don't think that this could happen? It did happen already with seasonal H1N1, and relatively quickly too with the seasonal H1N1 strain that preceded the pandemic flu.
Dr. Niman's post are considered to be somewhat alarmist at times, but he does makes some interesting points. Best to read his entire commentary which might not be easy, but you can most likely get the gist of it.
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The striking parallels between H274Y spread in seasonal H1N1 in 2008 and pandemic H1N1 in 2011 strongly suggests that H274Y will soon become fixed in pandemic H1N1. Like 2008, the spread is driven by clonal expansion and not selection through Tamiflu treatment, which is why the latest comment by WHO on sequences in Japan is cause for concern. The clear clonal expansion is ignored in the WHO update, and instead reference is made to a linkage between the detection of H274Y and use of Tamiflu by the corresponding patients. This disconnect between the sequence data and the WHO announcement raises serious competency concerns regarding those responsible for this conclusion / announcement.
The lessons learned from the fixing of H274Y in seasonal H1N1 were clear and the failure to relate this pattern to pandemic H1N1 is alarming.

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A power-hungry politician makes a triumphant return to Washington. Mark Sanford? No — House Majority Whip Francis Underwood…aka actor Kevin Spacey.
When we last caught up with the Oscar-winning actor in January, he was launching “House of Cards,” a multi-chapter political drama on Netflix. Four months later, the show is a hit and Spacey the darling of Washington’s political intelligentsia — even starring in the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner opening gag reel. So the actor’s appearance Tuesday at the Motion Picture Association of America was filled with obsessed fans hanging on his every word.
Well, maybe every other word. Spacey is a lock to play Rahm Emanuel based solely on the number of F-bombs and other expletives casually dropped over the hour-long interview with Chris Matthews. There were a few nods to Spacey’s career and other roles, but the night was really all about politics.
“Steny!” shouted Spacey as the Maryland congressman attempted to slip unobtrusively into his seat. “Ladies and gentlemen, Steny Hoyer!”
The former whip and his fictional counterpart said that real politicians are nothing like the Machiavellian characters on the show. “I like to think the whip Kevin plays is not me,” said Hoyer.
“It’s not, Steny,” reassured Spacey.
Hoyer went on: “You know, one of the phrases that I hate the most is when people say, ‘Well, that’s politics.’ It is a rationalization for doing things that they know are not acceptable — except what they presume in the contexts of politics.” Hoyer called the show “extraordinarily entertaining” but plays into the “public presumption of a more venal politics than I’ve found — and I’ve been at this business 44 years.”
(Obligatory disclaimer: The three men were quick to praise all the decent people in their chosen professions: “The big names, the big ones, are great people,” said Matthews. “It’s the middle-level people who are lucky to get a slot who are obnoxious.”)
But make no mistake: Underwood is a tough, ruthless guy who’ll do anything to get ahead. His initials are no coincidence, explained Spacey: “He was largely based on Richard III, a little bit on Iago. I’m not so sure he’s based on Macbeth, because I don’t think there’s much hesitancy in him as a character.” Spacey and head writer Beau Willimon decided to make Underwood from the South to mimic the lyrical language of the original British series — and a Democrat because “Democrats in places like South Carolina have been really tough and strong and interesting and powerful through a long period of history.”
And, as Spacey put it, his character “gets [stuff] done” — unlike the real-life deadlocked Congress, said the actor: “It definitely seems like it’s broke. It definitely seems like people are on to the fact that it’s broke. And maybe the only way we’re going to fix it is to really fight to take the money out of it.”
Until then: Season 2 of “House of Cards” is already in the works. More irresistible catnip for political junkies. As a Capitol Hill policeman complained to Spacey during the White House Correspondents weekend: “You sucked three days out of my life!”
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Plenary: US Post Election Update – Opportunities for Reengagement
This session will feature a conversation about the recent US Election and what the results may mean for United States’ engagement with the rest of the World. Our distinguished panel is comprised of: Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland to the United States; Elissa Slotkin, U.S. Representative of the 8th Congressional District of Michigan of the U.S. Congress; Dawn Michele Whitehead, Vice President, Association of American Colleges & Universities; and Erica Carley Harris, Manager of Government & Public Affairs, CIEE.
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- Daniel Mulhall Ireland’s 18th Ambassador to the United States
- U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin, 8th Congressional District of Michigan
- Dawn Michele Whitehead, Vice President of the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers at the Association of American College and Universities (AAC&U)
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Daniel Mulhall is Ireland’s 18th Ambassador to the United States. He did his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at University College Cork. Ambassador Mulhall joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1978. Before coming to Washington, he served as Ireland’s Ambassador in London (2013-17). During his time in Britain, he was a regular speaker on political, literary and historical topics at Universities all over the country. Before departing for Washington, he was made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of his work as Ambassador.
During his diplomatic career, Ambassador Mulhall has also held a number of positions at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. A keen advocate of public diplomacy, Ambassador Mulhall makes regular use of social media in order to provide information on the work of the Embassy, to highlight Ireland’s achievements and to engage with Irish communities and those with an interest in Ireland. During his time in Washington, he will provide daily updates on Twitter @DanMulhall and through regular blogs to be posted on the Embassy’s website.
U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin is proud to serve the people of the 8th Congressional District of Michigan, a district that spans Ingham, Livingston, and North Oakland counties. Rep. Slotkin has spent her career in national service. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks she was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be a Middle East analyst. In her role at the CIA, Rep. Slotkin worked alongside the U.S. military during three tours in Iraq as a militia expert. In between her tours in Iraq, Rep. Slotkin held various defense and intelligence positions under President Bush and President Obama, including roles at the White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 2011, Rep. Slotkin took a senior position at the Pentagon and, until January 2017, she served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
Dawn Michele Whitehead is the Vice President of the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers at the Association of American College and Universities (AAC&U). Her work focuses on advancing practices and strategies to integrate global and experiential learning across curricular and co-curricular initiatives, general education and the majors, within professional schools, and on-campus and off-campus experiences. Whitehead has presented nationally and internationally and has written on global learning, community-based learning, civic engagement, and integrative learning. She earned her Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington in Education Policy Studies with a doctoral minor in International and Comparative Education and a concentration in African Studies.
Erica Carley Harris has headed up headed up CIEE’s advocacy and political engagement since 2017 and has been deeply involved in federal and state advocacy in support of international education and exchange programs, including leading industry coalitions. She joined CIEE in 2012 as a Study Abroad Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa and later transitioned to community relations for the J-1 Summer Work Travel program. Erica received her B.A. from Barnard College and a Master’s in Comparative Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder, specializing in French, Spanish, and Arabic. She lives in Brunswick, Maine, with her husband and two very small children.

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Lee Mun-hi works as a bus conductor. She is tormented by the fact that she is subject to body searches, but tries to treat her co-workers nicely and live an honest life. She is kind to people who are less fortunate than her and falls in love with Kwang-seok, a traveling salesman. She helps Kwang-seok become a crewman of the ship and promises to marry him. When she is subjected to another body search, she protests against the humiliation and jumps from the roof of her company building. She is critically injured and is embraced by Kwang-seok.
1929년 경기도 안성 출생. 1958년 <공처가>로 감독 데뷔한 이래, <저 하늘에도 슬픔이>(1965), <갯마을>(1965), <안개> (1967), <만추>(1981), <도시로 간 처녀>(1981) 등 40여년 동안 100편이 넘는 작품들을 내놓았다. 대한민국예술원 회원이며, 청주대학교 연극영화과 교수와 영상물등급위원회 위원장을 역임한 바 있다.


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In a landmark case in 2018, a heterosexual couple won the right to enter into a civil partnership. This resulted in a change in the law and, as of 31st December 2019,
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So, how do you decide which is best for you?
Difference between civil partnership and marriage
The legal status of civil partnerships and marriages is equivalent. Both confer the same rights in terms of inheritance, pensions and tax benefits, however there are few notable differences:
, Marriage is formed by the exchange of vows, whereas a civil partnership is formed by the signing of a document.
, Currently, on a marriage certificate, only the names of the spouses’ fathers are noted – not their mothers. On a civil partnership document the names of both mothers and fathers are noted.
, Marriage is ended by ‘divorce’ and a civil partnership is ended by ‘dissolution’, although the procedure is fundamentally the same.
, The grounds for annulling or dissolving a civil partnership differ slightly to
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, The term ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ is for married couples. In a civil partnership,
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Historically, only opposite sex couples could legally formalise their relationship
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In 2004 the right to legally formalise a same sex relationship was granted by the introduction of the Civil Partnership Act. However, as heterosexual couples had the right to marry, this didn’t apply to them.
The law developed in 2013 under the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act to give
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Coalition and minority rule – not majority government – are the general rule in Scotland and Wales.
Since 1918, most governments in Westminster have been majority ones (although nearly 30 years have been spent under minority or coalition government). In Scotland and Wales however, the electoral system is designed to make majority governments rare.
In Scotland, Labour and the Liberal Democrats formed coalition governments in 1999 and 2003, but seat losses in 2007 meant that Labour and the Liberal Democrats no longer represented a majority, and the SNP had become the largest party. Instead, the Scottish National Party formed a minority government in 2007, and a majority one in 2011.
The SNP’s 2011 majority (initially 69, or five seats) has reduced over time; defections and resignations mean that since 2014 they have had only 64 MSPs – only a majority due to a vacant seat following Margo MacDonald’s death in April of that year.
In Wales, Labour has always been the largest party but has only had a majority government after the 2003 election, when Lord Elis Thomas – an AM for Plaid Cymru – was elected Presiding Officer, giving Labour a narrow majority of 30 of the 59 voting seats. They also received 30 seats following the 2011 elections, choosing to govern alone then as well.
Alun Michael headed a minority administration after the 1999 election, but Labour entered coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2000 after he was replaced by Rhodri Morgan. Labour also went into coalition with Plaid Cymru after the 2007 election, following a short period of minority rule.
Scottish Labour support has decreased at each election, from 56 seats in 1999 (making them the largest party) to 37 in 2011.
The SNP, by contrast, have reversed a slight decline in 2003, to winning more seats than any other party (though not a majority) in 2007, and an outright majority in 2011 – 69 of 129 seats, though, as mentioned above, this lead had eroded by March 2016. The Scottish Liberal Democrats have gone from 16 seats in 2007 to five in 2011.
While Welsh Labour remains strong, the ‘second party’ has shifted over time – from Plaid Cymru to the Conservatives.
Labour has always been the largest party in the Welsh Assembly. Until the 2011 election, second place was held by Plaid Cymru, but the number of seats they hold has declined over time, so they now hold only 11.
The Conservatives, by contrast, have slowly increased the number of seats they hold at each election, up to 14 in 2011 – making them the second largest party in the Welsh Parliament. Wales hasn’t seen a proliferation of small parties or independents, but polling suggests UKIP could win regional Assembly seats for the first time.
The Additional Member System produces its own distinct set of results in Wales and Scotland, compared to UK General Elections.
Unlike UK general elections, which operate solely on a ‘first past the post’ (FPTP) basis, the devolved assemblies have an ‘Additional Member System’ (AMS), which elects candidates based on a mix between FPTP and proportional representation.
AMS comprises two votes: one for a constituency member, and one for a regional party list. The second vote is used to ensure greater proportionality by compensating those parties that win few individual constituencies but a larger share of the vote. You can read more about the system here.
During our post-General Election liveblog last May, many people noted how FPTP affected different party’s seat share versus vote share, with winners ‘winning big’, at smaller parties’ expense. The 1997 Labour landslide was based on a 43.2% vote share, for example. T
he Additional Member System means parties’ share of the seats becomes much closer to their share of the vote in both Scotland:
and in Wales:
As can be seen, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly both have a system that makes majority victories less likely – but not impossible, as close majorities by both Welsh Labour and the SNP show. Under AMS, top parties generally still gain more seats than their vote share would suggest, and ‘others’ are seldom well-represented (largely because lots of votes for small parties are wasted).
On the whole, however, AMS ‘flattens’ the votes versus seats disparity, making majority government rarer – and coalitions and minority governments more common – in Scotland and Wales than in Westminster. The Welsh and Scottish electoral systems lead to a greater likelihood of coalition or minority government, though this is not always certain.
We will have to wait until 6 May – or later, if no majority is reached and parties enter coalition negotiations – to see what happens. One thing we do know, however, is that coalition and minority government bring their own challenges – luckily the Institute has looked at the practicalities of non-majority and coalition government before, in Ireland and internationally.