FLIR Systems [FLIR] is interested in providing technology and potentially partnering with a prime contractor for the Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program, company officials told reporters Thursday.
“FLIR has a lot of technology that is applicable to OMFV,” said Tom Frost, FLIR’s vice president of unmanned ground systems and integrated solutions. “We are certainly open to teaming on OMFV and providing that technology to various partners.”
OMFV is the Army’s program to replace its Bradley fighting vehicles. The service canceled its original acquisition effort earlier this year, and has since relaunched the competition with a focus on digital designs rather than physical prototype and plans to award up to five contracts in June 2021.
Troy Boonstra, the company’s vice president of product management for sensors, said the company’s latest upgrades and offerings for its suite of thermal imaging and situational awareness sensors could be applicable for the Army’s eventual OMFV requirements.
FLIR is also currently part of a Textron Systems [TXT] team, along with Howe & Howe, that’s delivering the Ripsaw M5 platform for the Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle-Medium prototype effort.
“As Textron moves forward in the RCV-Medium competition and we start to show more and more of this capability, for example there’s a gimbaled sensor on there and other things we have on that platform, it becomes sort of a demonstration platform as well for future capability. And we’re certainly monitoring OMFV closely,” Boonstra told reporters.
Officials from the Textron team told reporters earlier this month the first RCV-M prototype will be delivered to the Army before the end of the year (Defense Daily, Oct. 8).
Germany’s Rheinmetall said Tuesday it has teamed with Textron to offer its Lynx infantry fighting vehicle for OMFV (Defense Daily, Oct. 20).


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Today, in the sun. The tomatoes are about 14 inches high already. WOO WOO.
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I had to play the role of killer and pick my favorites. Fortunately/Unfortunately, they each had 2 healthy seeds.
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New Directions Winter 2013
JHCP Heart Care Expands Services
Date: November 1, 2013
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) Heart Care recently opened two offices and added five cardiologists to the team:
- Edward N. Bodurian, M.D.
- Maureen Fennell, M.D.
- Daniel Fernicola, M.D.
- Thomas S. Goldbaum, M.D.
- Eric Lieberman, M.D.
Drs. Fennell, Fernicola and Lieberman are now seeing patients at JHCP Heart Care Rockville, 15005 Shady Grove Road, Suite 340. Drs. Bodurian and Goldbaum are accepting patients for the JHCP Heart Care Chevy Chase location at 5530 Wisconsin Ave., which opens Jan. 16, 2014.
JHCP Heart Care is a full-service cardiology practice with more than 20 board-certified physicians offering a full spectrum of care throughout the region. To schedule an appointment, please call 1-855-546-JHCP or visit hopkinsmedicine.org/jhcp
Articles in this Issue
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- Year-End Giving
- JHCP Heart Care Expands Services
- $1M Clark Gift for Campus Enhancement
- President’s Message
- A Lifetime of Care: Suburban Hospital Celebrates 70th Anniversary
- Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery at Suburban Hospital
- Key To The Cure Supports Women’s Cancer Programs
- It Takes a Village to Save a Life
- Commitment to Excellence Honoree Helps Hospital Look Forward
- How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
- When Physician Collaboration Is the Key to a Better Outcome
- The Johns Hopkins Medicine Connection
- THINC (Again!) Head Injury Patient Benefits from Research Protocol
- Johns Hopkins Voice Center Opens in Bethesda
- Save the date! Showcase 2014

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With the end of Quebec form in 2017, the fate of initiatives that have emerged under its aegis appears uncertain. Some measures, however, will survive him, say of stakeholders.
In 2015-2016, funding for Quebec in shape accounted for about 75% of the budget of the Sherbrooke Alliance for healthy youth, a group of partners (including the School Board of the Region de Sherbrooke and the City of Sherbrooke ) to teach young Sherbrooke residents of healthy lifestyles.
Funding must, however, move to $ 90,000 for the 2016-2017 year. The alliance also receives funding to a lesser extent, other sources.
From a portrait that was drawn up a few years ago young habits of Sherbrooke, the Alliance has compiled a list of measures to promote healthy habits, including physical activity and healthy eating.
Radio-Canada and Le Devoir reported this week that following discussions with the government, André Chagnon Foundation and Lucia will not renew funding for Quebec in shape and future of children, two non-profit organizations ( NPO) at the end of the agreements provided for in 2017 and 2019.
In Estrie, several initiatives have been implemented via Quebec fit.
How does the Alliance continue its activities without this important source of income?
“We’re always looking for funding. The objective is to consolidate all this and to ensure that it remains “notes Annie Masson, coordinator for the Alliance. “In Sherbrooke, it is still in place until 2018,” she says. “In general, all projects will be able to stand still. ”
Coordinator of Health Action Mont-Bellevue (ASMB) and the Local Action Committee Young-East Energy (CALEJE), two entities were merged, Evelyne Lapierre abounds in the same direction.
Some measures promoting healthy lifestyles have been integrated into the programming of organizations, which could ensure their survival. Given the lack of funding, hard choices have to be made.
“Some will find it more difficult to continue leading a business because they have more money. ”
An action plan has been filed “to go as far as possible” in anticipation of the end of the agreement.
The fate of ASMB-CALEJE reunification remains uncertain about him.


The Devolution Forum
The Devolution Forum is a multi-sectoral alliance of like-minded networks, organizations and individuals united for the promotion and protection of Devolution and its implementation as enshrined in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. Through TDF, CSOs are able to champion for the protection of devolved governance from undue interference and to collaborate with likeminded institutions and governments (national and county) to make the implementation of devolution people-centred.
Kenya is currently five years into a new Constitutional regime, and two years into the roll out of the devolved framework, both of which emphasize participation of the people. It is therefore imperative that we critically reflect and interrogate the status of public participation.
The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 raises the standard on public involvement, decision-making, policy formulation and lays the basis for the development of a policy framework on citizen participation. Key provisions pertaining to this include: Article 1 which vests all sovereign power in the people of Kenya. Public participation is further implied in several other provisions among them, Articles 10, 129 and 132 which provide for the participation of the people in the execution of law and in policy making. The Constitution has therefore opened a new space for the public and for the exercise of popular sovereignty through legislative activity in as set out in Articles 118,119 and 196 where public participation in the legislative and other business of Parliament, County Assembly and its Committees is now guaranteed. Article 35 secures the right to information. As relates to Public Finance and Participation, Chapter 12 and Article 201(a) provides for openness and accountability, including public participation in financial matters.
Public participation, both as a right and a duty, is therefore anchored in the Constitution as well as various laws on devolution. However, without a robust policy framework and county laws on the same to provide guidance on the modalities and structures for Kenyans to participate in public affairs, the process cannot be said to be effective or efficient as yet.
These gaps prompted judicial intervention in the form of interpretation of what constitutes proper public consultation and participation. The court sitting in Murang’a and Kiambu Counties prescribed the basic threshold to be met for true and meaningful to be said to have taken place e.g. minimum duration of notice, manner of publicizing public fora, the requirement for prior information on the matter to be deliberated upon etc.


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Walmart part of annexation plans in Devils LakeDEVILS LAKE, N.D. - The city of Devils Lake is planning a major annexation that likely will include a Walmart Supercenter and other stores within two years.
Walmart is planning a 120,000-square-foot supercenter, with a grocery store and possibly a liquor store, to be built on the south side of U.S. Highway 2, just east of the present city limits.
While details are sketchy, the company apparently plans to close its smaller Walmart discount store in Devils Lake when the new store opens, and then sell the property, according to Mayor Dick Johnson.
Walmart has a purchase agreement with Tony Braunagle, Devils Lake, for 720,000 square feet, or about 16.5 acres.
The annexation process, as well as a zoning change, should be completed by mid-January, according to City Engineer Mike Grafsgaard.


For anyone whose opinion of Florida and its residents largely depends on social media and those mean-spirited “Florida Man” headlines, Kristen Arnett’s “Mostly Dead Things” may come as a disappointment. The central characters in this sad and funny book are recognizable not as easily boxed, felonious stereotypes but as complex, flesh-and-blood human beings. That their family business involves copious amounts of flesh and blood is only as weird as a reader wants it to be.
Set in Central Florida, where, Arnett writes, “theme parks and chain restaurants were built over homes and libraries” and “no one ever seemed to remember what came before,” “Mostly Dead Things” is narrated by Jessa-Lynn Morton, who assumed operation of the family taxidermy shop after her father shot himself. Jessa-Lynn discovered the body, which, she recalls, had slumped “onto the metal table where we’d cured our first hide.” Six months later, when the story begins, she is trying to work through her grief while also attempting to rescue her sinking business and family, which includes a younger brother, Milo, whose ambition extends no farther than his next beer, and a mother, Libby, who has taken to creating pornographic art from the shop’s inventory of animal parts.
Arnett, who is based in Orlando and the author of the 2017 collection “Felt in the Jaw,” gets many things right in this first novel: the feeling of being trapped and vulnerable within one’s own family; the frustration of trying to look to the future when the past has “its teeth dug into you like a rabid animal”; how “love makes you an open wound, susceptible to infection”; and the manifold risks of swimming in a warm Florida lake, where if an alligator doesn’t get you, a brain-eating amoeba might.
Most of all, Arnett skillfully and humanely captures the agony and confusion of surviving a loved one’s suicide. Jessa-Lynn oscillates between honoring her father’s memory and railing against it, between trying to fill the emptiness created by his final act and being swallowed by it. She throws herself into her work and drinks until she blacks out, one night getting “so drunk I couldn’t unbutton my pants in the bathroom.” Peace and acceptance are fleeting, anger and depression relentless.
Humor, which comes as easily to Jessa-Lynn as skinning a raccoon, offers little defense against painful memories. “Images from the past layered over each other,” she describes, “two films running at the same time: him young and bearded, smiling, hacking into deer meat, and then the way I’d last seen him, splayed out and graying. Lifeless. What had he thought in those final moments? That the letter was explanation enough? Did he think I’d consider him another piece to stuff, something I could mount and set around the house?”
Jessa-Lynn’s grief over her father’s death is compounded by the loss of Brynn Wiley, her childhood best friend, lover and sister-in-law who skipped town years earlier “for someplace even hotter than Florida with a stranger she’d met at the dry cleaner.” Brynn, who maintained a romantic relationship with Jessa-Lynn even after marrying Milo and having a child with him, appears throughout the novel in flashbacks, and Arnett excels at depicting the thrilling promise and hormonal rush of young love, as well as the abject fear of its departure. Jessa-Lynn and Milo are no match for Brynn’s steady confidence and natural cool, and long after she’s gone, Brynn remains stuck between brother and sister “like a divider we couldn’t quite pull down.” They never hear from her again, but as Jessa-Lynn notes, “She still dictated how we saw each other. How we saw other women.”
Hope arrives for Jessa-Lynn in the form of Lucinda Rex, a gallery owner eager to introduce the world to Libby’s wild, erotic art, which provides the book’s most comic moments. Although the reader realizes that Lucinda Rex, “her name already bigger than life,” will usher Jessa-Lynn back into the light of the living long before the narrator does, it’s of little consequence in Arnett’s smart and empathic novel.
“We spent so much time looking for pieces of ourselves in other people that we never realized they were busy searching for the same things in us,” Jessa-Lynn concludes near the close of “Mostly Dead Things,” her — and the book’s authenticity evident to the end.
“Mostly Dead Things” by Kristen Arnett, Tin House, 354 pp., $24.95


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And she wonders where these dreams go
'cause the world got in her way
I posted this because an awkward circumstance came up the other night...I was hanging out w/ friends, as my last journal will say, and I found myself crushing off of a friend, which I can assure you, never happens...weird.
Mental wounds not healing, driving me insane, i'm goin' off the rails on a crazy train- the ozzman
"the opposite of war isnt peace, its CREATION!"
i had a crush on my best friend and then we went out.... everything working out almost perfectly, accept for the part where now after 3 years she says she's straight.
If you dont take life into your own hands now you'll be lost forever. now is your time
Have you ever read my posts about friggin' Mike?!
Is that a female impersonator?
who hasn't kiddies?
"The tragic consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength that resides in the human heart." - Bless Me Ultima
I've never had a hardcore crush on a friend before, but I've had little ones that didn't really mean anything.... More just a "slight attraction".
I usually have crushes on guys, then become friends with them. It's the way I used to deal with being in love. Only George escaped this rule. Aw, I had a crush on one of my best friends 3 years ago. 2 years ago we became friends.
-Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?
-Uh, you know I meant to, and then I just got really busy.
I have this HUUUUUUUUGE crush on my best friend right now... We've known each other since we were in preschool. Seriously. I want to tell her, and yet I don't want to, because I don't want to ruin our relationship. *sighs* Crushes stink like a toilet bowl.
~~Gay And Here To Stay~~
I'm falling for one of my best friends right now.We were both drunk the other night and she was upset and I kept hugging her,and it felt so good to hold her close but at the same time I felt bad hugging her while I have these feelings and she doesn't know.*sighs* she always calls me to cry about her boyfriend.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent-Eleanor Roosevelt
Ok seriously who hasn't???
"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."
- The Iliad (bk. XX, l. 315), (Bryant's translation)
She was how I figured out that I was lesbian in the first place .. and then the three others. >>
I don't think I've ever had a crush on someone that wasn't my friend. If I see someone neat that I don't know or aren't friends with, give me ten minutes and I will be. I love being an amiable person. ;)
Assuming that you mean straight friends, however: YES, it STINKS!
Maybe, probably, I am not sure really, but it went away whatever it was.
"The mainstream comes to you, but you have to go to the underground." -Frank Zappa
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." - Dalai Lama
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Reach 400Gbps speeds with noise-cancellation technology
Take a look at your headphones. They could harness the very technology which could boost broadband speeds to a blistering 400gbps – noise-cancellation.
A research team which is being led by Xiang Liu of Bell Laboratories is looking into using “phase conjugation” to help boost speeds to this incredible level as demand for faster broadband rises.
In the same manner as headphones which detect noise and transmit an inverse set of signals to counter-act the disruption, Xiang wants to implement...


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UML Class Diagrams Reference - class, classifier, association, aggregation, composition. A visibility keyword or symbol in this case can be given once for multiple Note, that UML's "anchor" notation is still used in one example in UML. Your diagram is incorrect as a UML diagram. I can tell because of the crow's foot on the end of the association. To make your diagram correct: Change the crow's. Pre-drawn UML class diagram symbols represent class, template class, object, Composition represents whole-part relationships and is a form of aggregation.
It is presentation option equivalent to returning operation result as: Direction of parameter is described as one of: Optional parm-properties describe additional property values that apply to the parameter. Return specification also has optional multiplicity of the return type.
Operation check redefines inherited operation status from the superclass. Operation getPublicKey does not change the state of the system. Operation getCerts returns ordered array of Certificates without duplicates. Properties of the operation are optional, and if present should follow the rule: Abstract operation in UML 1.
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Implementation had to be supplied by a descendant of the class. There is neither definition nor notion for abstract operation in UML 2. Constraint Bank account attribute constraints - non empty owner and positive balance. Constraint could have an optional name, though usually it is anonymous.
A constraint is shown as a text string in curly braces according to the syntax: For a Constraint that applies to two elements such as two classes or two associationsthe constraint may be shown as a dashed line between the elements labeled by the constraint string in curly braces.
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Each isntance becomes a record or a row in a table. For example, the student John Smith is a record in a table called students. Relationships Relationships are the associations between the entities. Verbs often describe relationships between entities. We will use Crow's Foot Symbols to represent the relationships. Three types of relationships are discussed in this lab. If you read or hear cardinality ratios, it also refers to types of relationships.
One to One Relationship 1: Each student fills one seat and one seat is assigned to only one student. Each professor has one office space. One to Many Relationship 1: M A single entity instance in one entity class parent is related to multiple entity instances in another entity class child For example: One instructor can teach many courses, but one course can only be taught by one instructor.
One instructor may teach many students in one class, but all the students have one instructor for that class. Many to Many Relationship M: Aggregation[ edit ] Class diagram showing Aggregation between two classes. Here, a Professor 'has a' class to teach. Aggregation is a variant of the "has a" association relationship; aggregation is more specific than association.
It is an association that represents a part-whole or part-of relationship. As shown in the image, a Professor 'has a' class to teach. As a type of association, an aggregation can be named and have the same adornments that an association can. However, an aggregation may not involve more than two classes; it must be a binary association.
Furthermore, there is hardly a difference between aggregations and associations during implementation, and the diagram may skip aggregation relations altogether. The contents of the container still exist when the container is destroyed.
Data Modeling and Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
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Here the student can exist without library, the relation between student and library is aggregation. Composition[ edit ] Two class diagrams. The diagram on top shows Composition between two classes: A Car has exactly one Carburetor, and a Carburetor has at most one Car Carburetors may exist as separate parts, detached from a specific car.
The diagram on bottom shows Aggregation between two classes: A Pond has zero or more Ducks, and a Duck has at most one Pond at a time.
The UML representation of a composition relationship shows composition as a filled diamond shape on the containing class end of the lines that connect contained class es to the containing class. Differences between Composition and Aggregation[ edit ] Composition relationship 1. When attempting to represent real-world whole-part relationships, e.
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Tom Hades – Rhythm Convert(ed) – UMS – Episode 84
We welcome Belgium’s Tom Hades to this week’s Underground Movement Show Podcast with at great set recorded at a NYC Trilogy event. Tom delivers the Techno sounds which has given him great fame in the Electronic Dance Music Scene with DJs, Producers and of course, the dancers. This set expresses the many years of dedication to the EDM Scene as Tom plays bangers from current releases to hidden gems. We hope you will enjoy this mix and look for the full video recording of his set as well within the Live Player of ElectronicRhythm.com.
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At the age of 15, he bought his first keyboard, the famous Casio CZ-101 and transformed his game-computer, Amiga 500, into his first DAW.
Quickly he got experienced with MIDI-integration and sampling functions, which gave him even more urge for buying/selling new material as addition to his current setup.
During the same period, his old schoolfriend, RedHead, was co-producing with Marco Bailey. He got in contact with Marco too which led them in 2000 to their first co-release.
And this was the start of a big period of releases, included the anthem of “I Love Techno” in 2001. Have a look at the discography for the complete overview …
In the same year as I Love Techno, Tom started to do live performances. He got more & more experienced and started to play all over the world.
His live performance was fully appreciated in countries like Spain, Colombia, Brazil, France, Poland, Sweden, Mexico, Japan, Austria, Italy, Norway, Ireland, … and on many known festivals like Nature One, I Love Techno, City Parade, …
In the first period of 2002, Tom also produced his first solo release. In the next 3-4 years he continued to produce tracks on his own as well as his co-production with Marco on respected labels like MB Elektronics, Pornographic Recordings, Rhythm Convert, Northwest Dynamics, Invasion, Fine Audio, Patterns, Lupp, …
In 2004, they decided it was time to take the next step, start a label. And so Rhythm Convert was born. Initially, the purpose of the label was to give an opportunity to new talents to release their stuff.
Guys like Axel Karakasis, Spiros Kaloumenos, Veztax, … did a very good job to show the people what is was all about. Nowadays, the label is more aimed to produce electro-techno tracks and less oriented towards loopy techno sounds.
End 2004, they released their full album, Rude Boy, caused a stirr all over the world. The best proof was their live performance during Nature One @ Pydna were they literally “blew the place to kingdom come” !
His current releases on labels like MB Elektronics & Rhythm Convert are oriented in the same way his musical taste changes, more melodic and even sometimes more dramatic music with flavors of techno, minimal, tekhouse and electro.
Nowadays, Tom is busy at concentrating in his next step, to develop his “dj-career”.
In the near future, you can expect dj-sets with dedication and filled with energy, as known from his live-sets, to give his fans the pleasure of clubbing !
But as every self-respected artist, he will never forget his roots, so live-sets will still be part of his main occupation !
In the means of productions, future releases will certainly be done, as well as a second album together with Marco.
So keep your eyes open on some new productions, because they will certainly surprise lots of people !!!
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WASHINGTON - In a disclosure of some of the most sensitive information yet revealed by WikiLeaks, the website has put out a secret cable listing sites worldwide that the U.S. considers critical to its national security. U.S. officials said that the leak amounts to giving a hit list to terrorists.
Among the locations cited in the diplomatic cable from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are undersea communications lines, mines, antivenin factories and suppliers of food and manufacturing materials.
The Pentagon declined to comment yesterday on the details of what it called "stolen" documents containing classified information. But a spokesman, Col. David Lapan, called the disclosure "damaging" and said that it gives valuable information to adversaries.
The State Department echoed the Pentagon's statement. "Releasing such information amounts to giving a targeting list to groups like al Qaeda," agency spokesman P.J. Crowley said. British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned the disclosure, telling the BBC that it was a "reprehensible" act committed "without regard to wider concerns of security, the security of millions of people."
WikiLeaks released the 2009 Clinton cable on Sunday.
In the message, marked "secret," Clinton asked U.S. diplomatic posts to help update a list of sites around the world "which, if destroyed, disrupted or exploited, would likely have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States."
The list was considered so confidential that the posts were advised to come up with the information on their own: "Posts are not/not being asked to consult with host governments in respect to this request," Clinton wrote.
Attached to Clinton's message was a run-down of sites included in the 2008 "Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative" list. Some of the sites, such as border crossings, hydroelectric dams and shipping lanes, could hardly be considered secret.
But other locations, such as mines, manufacturers of components used in weapons systems, and vaccine and antivenin sources, probably were not widely known. The Associated Press has decided against publishing their names due to the sensitive nature of the information.
The release came as WikiLeaks faced more pressure to end its release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, which started last week. WikiLeaks had been working with a select group of international media, but has been offering its cable revelations to new media partners in recent days.
The Swiss postal system yesterday shut a bank account held by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving him and his website with few options left for raising money. Meanwhile, WikiLeaks' Swedish servers again came under suspected attack.


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Children's Literature with Fine Arts Strategies
The Fine Arts Department would like to encourage all elementary schools to expand their library with arts-related children’s literature. Here are some suggestions to keep in mind when selecting books for lessons or activities that have a focus on Fine Arts.
This list includes just a few of the many children’s literature selections used by the elementary art and music teachers as catalysts and/or resources for their lessons. The “Suggested Use” column provides a brief explanation of how each book can be used by a classroom teacher for a Fine Arts-related activity.
Visual Art Lessons
- Is the book about an artist (When Pigasso Met Mootisse) or about an art element (The Straight Line Wonder; My Many Colored Days)?
- Does the book provide cultural background or context for your lesson? (The Talking Cloth or My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken and Me for a lesson about Africa; Dream Carver for a lesson about Oaxacan folk art)
- Does the book address a cross-curricular connection? (Water Dance or Cloud Dance for science and landscapes; 1, 2, 3 POP for math and number sculptures; Alphabet City for literacy and drawing or painting)
- Is this book a Caldecott Award Winner? (award given for outstanding illustration)
- Do the illustrations demonstrate a particular medium or media? (collage in Eric Carle books)
- How does the medium used for the illustrations relate to the storyline and/or mood of the book? (watercolor illustrations in Mem Fox’s Time for Bed)
- Do the illustrations require keen observation in order to complement the story? (Zoom by Istvan Banyai; Imagine a Night by Rob Gonsalves)
Relationship Between Image and Text
- How does the placement of the image/s and the text enhance the storyline or the mood of the book? (A Poke in the Eye demonstrates a form of poetry called concrete poetry; pop-up books could fall in this category as well.)
Dramatization with Music and Movement
Opportunities for Sound Effects
- This can include descriptors for action, emotions or moods. (My Many Colored Days; Listen to the Rain)
- Sources for sound effects can be as simple as your voice or body percussion, or objects found in any classroom including trash cans, pencils on desks, keys, rattling paper, etc. (Mortimer; Inside a House That is Haunted)
Opportunities for Rhythmic Speaking or Chanting
- Look for books with poems or chants that can be spoken rhythmically. Often these chants can be layered together. (Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes; Old Black Fly; Jazz Fly; Beetle Bop, Hurry Hurry)
Opportunities to Create Songs
- Students can make up a song about a character, or take repeated words or phrases from the story to create a song. Look for books with poems or chants that could be set to a familiar tune – or make up a new one. (Brown Bear Brown Bear; The Pout Pout Fish; Edward the Emu; Hush Little Polar Bear)
Opportunities for Recorded Music
- While recorded music can enhance the mood of a story, aim for a balance between recorded music and music created by students. (A Dark Dark Tale; Tuesday; The Composer is Dead; What a Wonderful World)
- Find thematic songs related to the MacMillan Treasures series.
Opportunities for Movement
- Look for characters or events in the story that can be dramatized with specific, descriptive facial expressions or movements, either by individual students or groups of students. (Night Dancer; Laughing River; Giraffes Can’t Dance)
Opportunities to Turn a Story into a Play
- Turn narration into dialogue between characters. Add your own twist. Have some characters be who interact with human performers. (Fables from Aesop, The Worst Band in the Universe, Jabuti, Three Billy Goats Gruff)
Opportunities for Accompaniment with Instruments
- Use simple instruments such as rhythm sticks, maracas, drums, tambourines, etc. (Elmer; Max Found Two Sticks; What’s That Noise?)


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A Drink of Deadly Wine
The only person Gabriel can turn to is David Middleton-Brown, an old friend and a man with a few secrets of his own. Against his better judgement, David comes to London, where his discreet enquiries bring to light a whole host of suspects. There’s the eccentric church organist, Miles Taylor; the gossip Mavis Conwell; the disapproving Dawson family; the Churchwarden, Cyril Fitzjames, who’s in love with Gabriel’s wife Emily; and the charming and talented artist Lucy Kingsley. In his efforts to help Gabriel uncover the blackmailer, David hauls numerous skeletons out of cupboards, and enters into a web of relationships that threaten to shatter his own peace of mind.
A stunning debut. The author . . . . brilliantly lures the reader down one track, then another, always managing to surprise.
. . . the red herrings are neat, the mood is cosy . . .
A bloodstained version of the world of Barbara Pym . . . could make one late for Evensong.

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Garam Masala Kofta Skewers
Prep time: 20 mins. Feeds: 2-4 people.
Inspired by my old Indian cooked recipes.
- 2-3 large zucchinis
- 1 tbsp ground activated walnuts or pecans or sunflower seeds
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp paprika powder
- 1/2 tsp Himalayan salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- Optional – a little bit of coconut nectar
First shred the zucchini in a bowl, sprinkle the salt on them and mix well. Leave them aside for an hour for the water to come out. Then take handfuls and squeeze out the water. Discard the water. Mix in the rest of the ingredients and mix well with your hands. Make little balls and dehydrate at 42°C for 2-3 hours. You can them put them on sticks with marinated veggies.

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Monday, the day many have dreading, saw the begging of what is planned to be the end of the refugee camp in Calais – more commonly known as ‘The Jungle’.
The camp, situated in the North of France, is home to over 7,000 inhabitants who will now be moved to other locations across France.
The French authorities have detailed plans for moving the Jungle-dwellers out of the camp. 150 buses will carry the former inhabitants to new Welcome and Orientation Centres (CAOs) across France.
The police, the volunteers, and the refugees themselves have had many weeks to prepare for the move. It was hoped to be a swift and straight-forward operation.
But last night, flames spread over the Jungle as a fire blazed. One migrant was injured from a gas canister explosion. The fire may have been started by the migrants as a final act of defiance, or some believe it could have been started by activists.
Videos and pictures from today and yesterday have sparked outrage and debate on social media. Young people have been left without a place to sleep for the evening, as registration points close they are being told to go back to the camp – which is now in flames.
Many have voiced concerns for the minors at the camp, saying the Jungle should not have been demolished until there was a plan to protect their welfare.

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The retail release may have better graphics but by today's standards the graphics of the beta were bad.
Betas do not have 'standards' you tool. Please refrain from posting here.
The graphics will hardly change when the full game releases. I've been in so many game beta tests. BFBC2 Beta graphics looked just like the full game's graphics..
but the game install is the hi-res textures.
all maps for the full release confirmed 8 in total plus 4 more if you get thepre-order bonus back to karkland expansion.
9* in total and then the 4 Bonus maps which come free with a pre-order down the road. And will cost $10 for anyone who purchases the normal edition.
Operation Metro (was the console beta)
Caspian Border (was the pc beta)
Operation Firestorm -> gameplay footage is up
Grand Bazaar -> gameplay footate is up
Damavand Peak (has the large drop that is equal in size to a large portion of Operation Metro's width)
Strike at Karkand
Gulf of Oman

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Run To The Father (Cody Carnes)
Run To The Father (Cody Carnes)
Run To The FatherCody Carnes
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Download the Orchestration for Run To The Father by Cody Carnes, from the album Run To The Father. This song was arranged by Dan Galbraith in the key of C, Bb, A, Ab, G.
|Album||Run To The Father|
|Authors||Matt Maher, Cody Carnes, Ran Jackson|
|Publishers||Capitol Christian Music, Essential Music Publishing|
|CCLI Song No.||7133494|
|Available Keys||A, Ab, Bb, C, G|
|Themes||Lent, Communion, Good Friday, Easter, Invitation, Love, Redemption, Father, Surrender, Abba, Trust, Mercy, Grace, Love of God|
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This never-ending balance of humanity and eternity. Of flesh and spiritual. But He arrived some 2,000 years ago, to disturb what we all knew and provide a path of peace, love, and understanding. His arrival remains. His presence has not dissipated. And His exit won't be announced. What an entrance to the coming of Christ. Download chord charts, lead sheets, orchestrations, and audio tracks of songs and hymns for the Christmas season.
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Not everybody can play and sing by ear. These charts help take out the guesswork for your vocalists and piano player - as long as they can read music! Even if you don't take these charts on stage for live worship, they are a great resource during rehearsals to help solidify what everyone should play and sing in order to come out with a great sound in the end. See other piano/vocal products available here.

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Students at Common Ground High School learn to change climate for the better.
The 10th-grade curriculum at Common Ground Charter High School in New Haven, Connecticut is anything but common.
Students in Rebecca Van Tassell’s 10th-grade Environmental Science class are making electric-powered cars — researching materials and turning in their sketched designs by the end of class. They describe their plans, which will repurpose materials from their homes. One student’s car will use CD-ROM disks for wheels, while another car will be fashioned from a hot glue gun. Student Jackelian Brown will draw pieces on cardboard, then assemble them and paint on headlights to make her car. Her classmate Jayden Carty considers where to place his battery — on the top or bottom of the chassis. A student nearby said that they will “draw stuff and make it work.”
“Having [students] think about how these large-scale changes that we see really come down to the individual properties of molecules, that’s the cool science stuff that I get excited about,” Van Tassell said. “We can take steps to make things better for people and to work towards justice in the way that we approach climate change. So I’m hoping that they learn a little science and they come away feeling like there’s some sense of hope.”
Next period, the 10th-graders will attend Dan Jordan’s English class to learn how they can use storytelling to educate people about climate change. This is a typical afternoon for students at Common Ground, the nation’s longest-running charter school dedicated to the environment and social justice.
The materials for the electricity-powered car project come from Engineering Tomorrow, a nonprofit that promotes engineering education in schools and advocates for diversity in the field. As the students plan their designs, Van Tassell reminds them about the principles of electricity, making sure that they have metal on metal connections and remember that electricity has to flow through a conductor.
“I can tell how to better use solar panels,” Sylvia Cruz, a student in Van Tassell’s environmental science class, said. “I feel like this could help with climate change, since I haven’t burned fossil fuels and caused more pollution in the air.”
The Environmental Science students work in Common Ground’s Springside Building, which is designed with a rooftop solar array, a geothermal heating and cooling panel and a structure made from sustainably harvested timber.
In their social studies class earlier that day, the 10th graders learned how local, state and federal governments could each respond to climate change. When the students later had English with Jordan, he asked the class as they arrived to write what they know about climate change.
The responses said it is bad. The ocean is rising and affecting animals’ habitats. Air quality is turning bad from the exhaust of cars. It’s getting really hot so there are more forest fires.
The 10th-graders in Jordan’s class largely heard about climate change from their families. One student recounted hearing stories of “when it snowed more” from older family members, and another mentioned that since she was “little,” her mother would take her to climate change protests and tell her to recycle.
Next, they analyze the rhetorical strategies used in an article from the Daily Beast titled “How can you get people to care about the climate apocalypse?” In the coming weeks, they will read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the book chosen for New Haven’s One City: One Read campaign this year.
“For the most part I think they’ve seemed pretty interested in [the unit] so far,” Jordan said. “We talked about Afrofuturism and ways that authors [like Butler] use literature to reimagine the past and sort of reimagine the future, too. It’s a hard subject to talk about because it’s hard to frame it in a way that doesn’t feel really overwhelming and hopeless, but also being realistic about the gravity of the situation.”
The climate change unit started with a panel of community members – including city engineers and New Haven Climate Movement fellows – who shared why climate change matters to them and how they found their respective paths to change-making.
This unit on climate change is the third out of four that make up the 10th-grade interdisciplinary core curriculum at Common Ground, which was launched five years ago with community support. Earlier this academic year, the first unit focused on New Haven Stories — learning the history of New Haven through the residents’ tellings. The second unit focused on change-making for environmental and social justice, and the final unit will emphasize public health issues.
“For most people, we don’t live in a disciplinary silo,” Van Tassell said. “We go to work every day, and we come home and our lives are complex and interdisciplinary. And so our teaching should be too.”
Common Ground started classes in August 1997.


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Celebrating 100 years of the Brotherton Collection
Join us for a year-long programme of activity to celebrate Lord Brotherton and his extraordinary legacy.
It was 9 February 1922 when Lord Brotherton bought the rare book of poetry that was to become the first volume in the Brotherton Collection. Over the next eight years, he gathered over 35,000 printed books and pamphlets, 30,000 letters and more.
We will be celebrating the Brotherton Collection and the centenary of its foundation throughout 2022, with key items on display in the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery throughout the year.
Join us for the free online launch event, A Library and a Legacy, on Wednesday 9 February, where Professor Michael Brennan, (School of English, University of Leeds), Dr Ruth Burton and Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis (Special Collections & Galleries, Leeds University Libraries) will tell you more about the man behind this exceptional collection and reveal some of its treasures.
Register now and a joining link will be sent to you before the event.
There will also be an online feature telling the Brotherton story and showcasing highlights from the collection launched on 9 February.
The Brotherton Collection of rare books and manuscripts is one of the most important and extensive to be established in England during the first half of the twentieth century.
Lord Brotherton made sure his library contained fine examples of everything from medieval illuminated manuscripts and early printed books to tiny items handwritten by the Brontës. He even achieved the ‘holy grail of book collecting’ - the four seventeenth-century Shakespeare Folios.
Visit the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery to see some of the collection on display.


Mexican police found 15 decapitated bodies in the city of Acapulco today, bringing the death toll in the past day to 28 in the city known for its beach resorts.
The bodies of 15 men between the ages of 25 and 30 were found on a sidewalk in front of a shopping mall, the public security ministry for Guerrero state said in a statement on its website. In a separate incident, six people were found dead in a taxi this morning, the ministry said in a separate statement. A total of 28 bodies have been found in the city since last night, newspaper El Universal reported.
Police first arrived at the shopping center this morning after a car was reported on fire, the statement said. The press office at the Guerrero state attorney general’s office declined to comment on its investigation.
The incidents in Acapulco come a day after the mayor of Zaragoza in Coahuila state was found dead with gunshot wounds.
Mexico last year reported the highest toll of drug-related deaths since President Felipe Calderon took office four years ago and began deploying troops in a battle against cartels. Mexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez last month reported 30,196 such deaths between December 2006 and November 2010, and 12,456 in the first 11 months of last year.


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Early in the 20th century, architect Alfred C. Clas imagined the riverfront as a European-style destination for recreation and a source of beauty at the heart of downtown.
In 1914, Clas, a proponent of the "City Beautiful" movement to improve architecture, landscaping and urban planning in American cities, advocated narrowing the River to a canal. He proposed building underground subway tunnels covered by broad, leafy walkways and orienting new buildings toward the water. But Clas's dream would not be realized.
The First National Bank building (12 above), designed by renowned architect Daniel Burnham, provided the first hint of what a riverwalk system could look like. The building reportedly attracted 10,000 visitors to the riverfront for its opening in 1914. But a comprehensive public plan was still years away.
Subsequent plans for development would have given Milwaukee a very different riverfront. The 1968 Milwaukee River Technical Study recommended demolishing many of Milwaukee's most historic buildings, including Mader's, 1041 N. Old World Third St., and Turner Hall (2 above), to make room for green space and boat slips.
It was not until the early 1990s that Milwaukee business and government leaders finally united to develop the River as a public destination. The Milwaukee Riverwalk District, created in 1992, established a public-private partnership to finally realize the spirit, if not the details, of Clas's original vision. The Milwaukee Common Council approved plans to develop the RiverWalk in 1994 and the project soon grew into the strongest development corridor in the state of Wisconsin.


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Gorillas are the one of the most beautiful creature of the nature. They are hard to find these days in forest. But there they are easily found in the forest of Uganda. You can reach there and book for the forest committee and other help to explore the forest areas of the Uganda. Gorillas are the herbivorous apes that inhabit in the forests of the green central Sub-Saharan Africa. They are considered to be the next closest living relatives of the human beings after the Chimpanzees and bonbons also it has been conclusion that their DNA is closely similar to the human’s DNA with marginal differences. This is one of the reason that All species (and sub-species) of gorilla are declared as Critically Endangered animal of the forest and extra initiatives has been taken by the government to protect the species. For the conservation of the animal even The Gorilla Agreement has been drafted which is practically the first legally binding instrument which exclusively targeting for the protection and conservation of gorillas; it came into effect on 1 June 2008.
Gorillas always prefer to live in groups, which is called troops. And Troops tend to be made of one adult male or and multiple adult females along with their offspring. In a couple of years protection and conservation of Gorillas have gain a huge popularity among the people by way of several media reports. They are subject matters of some popular and highly earned movies like King Kong, Tarzan etc. To make the bridge of understanding between the gorillas and human a concept of Gorilla trekking tour has been introduced which not only bring awareness among the people to protect the species but also create a source of income to the government and to the individuals who are part of the project. Income from the gorillas trekking tour has been utilized for the conservation of the Gorillas species. Uganda and Rwanda are the two countries, which consider Gorillas Trekking tour as one of the main source of their economy.
In Uganda there are two national park for gorillas trekking namely as Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga National Park and in Rwanda there is one Volcanoes National Park. Although Uganda Gorilla Tour can be conducted any time in the year in Uganda & Rwanda but majority of the tourists prefer to visit from June to September or somewhere between the end of December and till the February. Gorillas are generally found in high-altitude forests, where they mainly prefer to eat leaves and shoots. One of the major difficulties, which are faced by the WWF, is how to monitor them being wild in nature and also with a short of fund and manpower. One thing that should be kept in mind while travelling to Uganda is the climatic condition. There is cold climate most of the time so you must carry the jackets and boots for you to prevent from the cold condition. You should get health check before going to the Uganda and have the safe and fun journey.


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Thief of Blood
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As Thief of Blood enters the battlefield, remove all counters from all permanents. Thief of Blood enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each counter removed this way.
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Thief of Blood Discussion
1 month ago
Removed: Golgari Guildgate , Skullwinder , Hornet Queen , Mycoloth , Bloodspore Thrinax , Thief of Blood . Added: Woodland Cemetery , Grim Haruspex , Harvester of Souls , Izoni, Thousand-Eyed , Viridian Zealot , Catacomb Sifter .
5 months ago
I spoke to iamhikari:
Plan: Pivot towards aristocrats, lower the CMC, maybe more taxing. Though I think going more into the Monarch theme might be more fun/unique. We can try this first:
Mana fix and ramp:
Expand reach and lower CMC of your removal:
Return to Dust
+1 Chaos Warp
+1 Generous Gift ....alternatively there are some 2 mana removal cards in Strixhaven that might be fun to try out.
+1 either Path to Exile or the cheaper Dire Tactics
+1 Soul-Guide Lantern
Pivot to Aristocrats:
Still need to deal with your creatures and maybe do some more token generation or something. I'll keep thinking and get back to you.
6 months ago
Hey, you're welcome. Nice update so far.
Yes, Cliffhaven Vampire is an upgrade for Epicure of Blood because Cliffhaven is one less mana and has flying. Etchings of the Chosen is a good card with Vamp tokens, it's a an upgrade for Ethereal Absolution or Curse of Vitality .
For €10 get Captivating Vampire 5, Drana, Liberator of Malakir 3, Sol Ring 1. Sol is a staple card in Commander for ramp and it helps when playing a lot of high CMC cards. Having a powerful three drop Vamp to curve into after one and two drops Vamps with Vamp tokens is good for the mid game. Drana, Liberator of Malakir and Captivating Vampire are two of the better three drop Vamps to get damage done in the mid game until you can cast Edgar or Regent later on.
Changes to consider to add these three are:
- Captivating Vampire --> Bloodbond Vampire
- Drana, Liberator of Malakir --> Blood Baron of Vizkopa
- Sol Ring --> Teysa Karlov
You still want to cut three cards to make 100. Cards to consider cutting:
- Thief of Blood : Thief removes all counters from your creatures too and Edgar puts counters on your creatures.
- Ethereal Absolution
- Grave Betrayal
My advice for the next upgrades are to improve the manabase and ramp by adding more dual lands that can ETB untapped and mana rocks to improve ramp. This can be done by cutting lands that always ETB tapped and some five/four/three CMC cards for ramp to help to cast the better high CMC cards such as Edgar. This change will speed up game play making it easier to cast one, two and three drop Vamps.
The avg. CMC of your deck is high at 3.5, with only 33 lands can be inconsistent to have mana to cast cards. Low CMC mana rocks can be used in place of lands since they can make mana and also help with color fixing.
Some examples of mana rock and budget land upgrades:
- Arcane Signet --> Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
- Orzhov Signet --> Kheru Bloodsucker
- Boros Signet --> Malakir Cullblade
- Rakdos Signet --> Blood for Bones
- Caves of Koilos --> Forsaken Sanctuary
- Exotic Orchard --> Boros Guildgate
- Battlefield Forge --> Stone Quarry
- Smoldering Marsh --> Rakdos Guildgate
- Tainted Field --> Orzhov Guildgate
8 months ago
Anything that lets you recast your vampires would be good. Palace Siege etc.
Depending on who you play you might need a couple things to give your boss hexproof or shroud. maybe protection from a color.
1 year ago
Looks good! You might like these: Heartstone, Illusionist's Bracers, Braid of Fire, Soldevi Digger, Tel-Jilad Stylus, The Cauldron of Eternity, Teferi's Puzzle Box, Herald of Leshrac, Ignition Team, Noosegraf Mob, Thief of Blood, Treasonous Ogre, Archetype of Finality, Temple of Malice, Pitiless Plunderer, Pawn of Ulamog
1 year ago
Great list! I think you should consider reducing the numbers of 4-6 drops to speed the deck up a bit.
Cards to consider removing: Dusk Legion Zealot - only drawing one time seems minimal Steel Hellkite - Maybe too pricey Vampire Hexmage - Not very impactful imo Thief of Blood - Keep an eye on this one, the floor seems low.
1 year ago
Glad to hear you like that, if I may be so bold I have a couple more suggestions, I notice you have mikaeus about no Triskelion, those two go infinite and can murder a whole table, then since you have jarad you can add Phyrexian Devourer to stack him with enough counters and sac to once again kill a whole table, then with those two in the deck you can add a Necrotic Ooze to do those combos anytime those pieces are in your grave, I often win with the ooze and fauna shaman by cycling combo pieces into grave from my hand then playing the ooze for the win, I would remove Shadowborn Demon, runescared-demon, and Thief of Blood mainly cause they are all super expensive cmcs wise and arnt winning you the game, then since I'm on this kick (lol) I notice you have the puppeteer with Melira, Sylvok Outcast he can be cycled infinitely, and with a Woodfall Primus you can clear a whole table lands and all, then I'd swap the dead bridge for Necropotence cause it belongs in every deck that runs black, I'm on a break at work so let me think a little and I'll suggest what to remove for the last two creatures, gotta think about that one, hope you like these as well :)
1 year ago
I need a sideboard. NEED.
I want the Wishes to work, and I want to be able to stop running Thief of Blood main board so I can get back to playing real cards!

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Ahead of the planned opening of the Suffolk OTB Islandia facility later this month, operator Delaware North Companies has presented the mayor for the venue’s Long Island host community with two checks worth over $2.5 million.
Part of the Buffalo-based operator’s August agreement with the village of Islandia, the payments totalled $2,532,400 and were handed over at a special ceremony yesterday attended by local mayor Allan Dorman and Louis Jacobs, Co-Chief Executive Officer for Delaware North Companies.
Dorman revealed that the first payment for $1,532,400 would be used to complete construction of the community’s First Responders Recreation Field while the second check for $1 million is to be employed for tax relief with residents set to see their taxes reduced by 50% over the next two years.
A slots-only project of Suffolk County Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation and due to be located inside the Islandia Marriott Long Island hotel, which is owned by Delaware North Companies, Suffolk OTB Islandia is expected to open by the end of February offering some 250 machines before this complement is increased to 1,000 by the summer.
In addition to these initial payments, Delaware North Companies explained that its deal, which can be reviewed every two years, will moreover see it award the New York village with $47 million over the next two decades while Suffolk County Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation earlier told the local Newsday newspaper that it expects the new Suffolk County venue to record estimated annual profits of around $164.25 million.
As well as video lottery terminals, Suffolk OTB Islandia will offer a pair of off-track betting and simulcast kiosks with the newspaper reporting that Suffolk County Regional Off-Track Betting Corporation has guaranteed to pay Suffolk County a minimum of $13 million over the next ten years including $2 million in 2018. County officials are moreover set to receive $3 million in 2019, although this figure could rise if revenues exceed certain levels, as well as $1 million annually thereafter until 2027.
“These payments are providing real tax relief to village residents,” said Dorman. “As promised, the village already reduced property taxes this year by 25% and will reduce taxes by another 25% in 2018. This, combined with the village’s continued elimination of a garbage tax, saves residents about $700 a year. This is money in your pocket. This agreement will protect the financial security of the entire village. Business owners will also get this tax relief and enable them to expand their business needs in Islandia that creates much-needed jobs for local residents.”


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United States Patent Ofllice 3,314,835 SMOKE GENERATING COMPOSITIONS George Thomas White and Lewis Robert Rothstein, Asheville, N.'C., assignors, by mesne assignments, to Northrop Carolina, Inc., Swannanoa, N.C., a corporation of North Carolina No Drawing. Filed Apr. 20, 1965, Ser. No. 449,625 4 Claims. (Cl. 149-23) This invention dyestuffs, insecticides, herbicides, physiological agents and other similar materials, and more particularly relates to a novel propellant composition for use in disseminating these materialsv Smoke and other similar types of materials have been disseminated in gasiform for many years. A common commercial composition of the propellant for such dissemination is potassium chlorate, sugar or sulfur and a coolant such as sodium bicarbonate. Other compositions have been suggested for this use, such potassium chlorate, ammonium nidine derivatives.
It has now been found that pounds can be used tion of the above efiicient manner.
The use of novel propellant according to this invention produces a total composition which is much less costly and less hazardous to prepare than those which have been used in the past. Further, these novel propellants have been found to be generally more compatible with the materials to be dispersed than those used in the past.
According to this invention, the novel propellant material consists essentially of one or more nitro-substituted a certain class of comas the propellant for the disseminareferred to materials in an extremely methylene trinitramine, 2,4,6-trinitro resorcinol, trinitro toluene, cycloetetramethylene tetranitramine and trinitrophenol.
Specific examples of metals which are useful in this invention include sodium, potassium, calcium, barium and magnesium. These may be introduced into the composition as a base, such as the hydroxide, acetate, etc., or may have been previously reacted with the cyclic nitro-substituted explosive referred to above to produce the metal salts thereof.
ethane and l-naphthyl-N-methyl carbamate.
Examples of physiological agents useful in this invention are diphenylaminechloroarsine and orthochlorobenzalmalonitrile.
According to this invention, compositions adapted to be used for the dissemination of the various materials set forth above are prepared by admixing the propellant, the material to be carried and, if desired, a lacquer. This mixture is pelletized by standard techniques, such as compression or casting,
and the pellet ignited as such. The
relates to the dissemination of smoke,-
3,314,835 Patented Apr. 18, 1967 mixing and/ or pelletizing.
In the following examples, parts and percentages are by weight unless specifically expressed to the contrary.
Example 1 sulting beads. was pelletized. Ignition of these pellets produced a gasiform composition containing orthochlorobenzalmalonitrile in an active form.
Example 2 Example 3 50 parts of sodium picrate were admixed dry with 50 parts red dye and the resulting mixture pelletized. Ignition of these pellets produced a large volume of red smoke.
Example 4 About 50 parts of sodium picrate were admixed with about 50 parts of a violet dyestuff, a yellow dyestuff, a green dyestuif, methyl benzylate. Ignition of the pellets produced from these mixes gave respectively a violet smoke, a yellow smoke, a green smoke, a white smoke.
Example 5 About 50 parts of sodium picrate were mixed with about 50 parts of 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl) ethane and 50 parts of l-naphthyl-N-methyl carbamate, respectively, and pelletized. Ignition of the resulting pellets gave voluminous clouds of smoke presumed to contain a large percentage of finely divided particles of active insecticide in each case.
The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A composition adapted to be ignited to produce a cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, 2,4,6-trinitro resorcinol, trinitrotoluene, cyclotetrarnethylene tetranitramine, and tn'nitrophenol, and a metal base selected from the group References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 6/ 1954 Hutchison l49-92 7/ 1962 Jacobi et al 149-92 CARL D. QUARFORTH, Primary Examiner. BENJAMIN R. PADGETT, Examiner. S. J. LECHERT, 111., Assistant Examiner.

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The year-end festivities are a time to celebrate but they don’t have to rhyme only with food, drink and overindulgence. After all the holidays are primarily an opportunity to spend time with family, friends, and other loved ones. Of course food and drink are part of that but there’s no reason your celebrations can’t be healthy and delicious, even with the overindulgence!
Keeping the festivities and your body healthy doesn’t have to be difficult – all it takes is a bit of re-focus and moderation. Here are a few tips that can help you do just that, without too much effort! Your body (and your family) will thank you, and your New Year’s resolutions will be much easier!
Keep the Focus on Fun, Family and Friends!
Instead of focusing on the food, focus on the relationships and fun. Go out into the crisp winter air all together and regularly, breathe in deeply, taking walks in the woods, sledging if there’s snow, playing team sports against each other – keep it moving and playful! A US study showed that people who exercised during the holidays did not gain the usual pound per year that adults otherwise gained (and could then not get rid of) at this time of the year – avoiding the slow accumulation of weight year after year!
And when it comes to the holiday feast, make it “mindful” and fun as well. Savour the flavours and textures by taking your time, chewing thoroughly and taking breaks between courses, giving your stomach the time to feel full. Instead of buying processed, store-made treats, why not experiment with healthier versions of your favourite recipes? Make it a family affair: alternate your family’s favourite cake and cookie recipes with almond or coconut flour instead of wheat, for instance. Here’s one I’ve tried – my version of low-sugar and gluten-free Festive Peanut Butter Cookies.
Sugar, Processed Foods, Carbs, and Alcohol Beware!
These “foods” feed and create a favourable environment for unhelpful bacteria, yeast and fungal infections to thrive, unbalancing your gut flora and making your body more susceptible to infections and inflammation. Keep these to a minimum, drink plenty of clean water and if you want to indulge in something sweet, make it part of a healthy meal and keep it in moderation. To help you avoid the main meal binge, have some healthy snacks between meals – especially those rich in proteins and healthy fats, which will keep you feeling full longer such as raw organic seeds and nuts, including in butter form or even just a teaspoon of coconut oil! This is especially helpful when you are going to a party as a guest.
Add Healthy, Delicious Vegetable and Fat options (yes I said fat!) to Your Festive Meals.
Adding fibre-rich and nutrient-rich vegetables as well as good healthy fats to your festive meals will not only help keep your diet more balanced but will also keep you feeling more full and therefore less likely to overindulge. Include a rainbow of vegetable colours and flavours to your meal. Use plenty of healthy fats such as organic extra-virgin olive oil, coconut oil, hemp seed oil, flax/linseed oil or ghee. Make it a discovery of new flavours and colours! Click here for a delicious and colourful festive veggie recipe.
Green Juicing Galore!
Fresh vegetable juicing is one of the easiest ways of getting your 4-5 cups of veggies a day in a concentrated nutritiously-packed way. Plant enzymes in the juice will support your liver and digestive track in helping your body’s natural detoxification processes, making recovery from the festive overindulgence less difficult! Remember that when juicing you want to stick to vegetables and limit fruits to keep sugar levels low. Blending may be a better option since it maintains the fibre that is so important to health. All you need to get started on this healthy habit and bring your body a little bit of balance during the festivities is to have 1 a day! Click here for my favourite green juice recipe!
Warming Yuletide Drinks
Staying hydrated is essential to help with elimination (and has the added benefit of keeping you feeling full) but be sure to drink water and not sugar or chemical-rich drinks. Why not try some warming and healthy drinks that have the benefit of being anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial as well? What could be more seasonal than warming spicy teas such as: hot lemon juice or ginger tea with a touch of honey to help maintain your body’s healthy PH levels and aid digestion. Or tea and milk-free chai (combine ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and black pepper and boil for 10-15 minutes in water – add liquorice root as well if you want a bit of sweetness or use organic fresh apple juice for a more festive option).
Last Line of Defence: Prevention!
Although I’m not a supporter of heavy supplementation, sometimes they are simply called for. If you’re prone to gut inflammation or infections, you may want to consider taking digestive enzymes and pre/probiotics preventatively. Digestive enzymes help speed up breakdown, absorption and excretion of macronutrients that may be toxic or inflammatory.
Some helpful ones are:
- Digestive enzymes tablets which include dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP-IV), since this helps break down gluten. I like Gluten-Gest from Allergy Research Group which contains a mix of helpful enzymes, especially for processed food indulgence. For the non-vegetarians amongst you who need a bit of help with rich fatty foods as well, try Intenzyme Forte from Biotics Research.
- Pre and probiotics help maintain your healthy gut flora balance. I suggest some Saccharomyces boulardii (actually a type of “friendly fungus/yeast”) with alternating single strains of Lactobacilus GG (Culturelle from Allergy research group) and Bifidobacterium bifidum (Bio Bifido Bac-T from Biotics Research) or if you can’t be bothered with alternating, try a multi-strain mix such as GI Flora or SymBiotics with FOS from Allergy Research Group)
All of these supplements can be found at Nutri-Link. Quote BISC.S1 or my name to get 10% off the retail price.
Here’s to happy, healthy and fun celebrations with you and your loved ones! Stay well.

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Ng Eng Hen is furious with the poor verdict of Transparency International on how his ministry spent money on the purchase of weapons. TI ranked Singapore together with Afghanistan and Iraq, in another word, our integrity in procurement is at the same level at these 3rd World countries, or at least in the Defence Ministry. The implications of such a rating are very serious, and many times more serious than the audit report of AHPETC.
Khaw Boon Wan had written a letter to Tharman to instruct the Auditor General to conduct an audit on AHPETC’s account quoting a Disclaimer of Opinion from its auditor, implying serious issues in the town council’s financial and accounting system. The Auditor General will now have to comb through AHPETC’s books to verify on all the misgivings and non compliance of Town Council’s regulations.
What we are seeing is the PAP wanting to set a very high standard of accountability and transparency for all town councils. And all town councils will be judged using the same standard of accountability, nothing less. On the other hand many critics are crying foul, that this is another political scam of the PAP to run down its political enemies, probably getting them disqualified from the next GE or, if serious enough, could see some of them behind bars. If this is indeed a political ploy, one can expect the PAP to extract the full mileage possible with the timing of the findings, the penalties and punishment, to ensure the WP suffers untold damage that it would become a lame duck when the GE is called.
Putting this expected and understandable perception of PAP critics aside, the involvement of the Auditor General to audit a town council’s account would set a series of precedents that would then be applicable to all the other town councils. To be consistent and be seen as fair and impartial, and standing on moral high grounds, the Auditor General would also have to conduct the same investigations on all town councils with the same ratings from their auditors or worse, like Adverse Opinion in auditing terms. The opposition parties and netizen investigative journalists in social media must be busy scouring the auditor’s reports for the same gradings to be tabled to Boon Wan and the Auditor General. And should there be such findings, the PAP would now be compelled, or at least Boon Wan would be duty bound to make similar requests to Tharman for the Auditor General’s audit.
Would this high standard of transparency and accountability also be applicable to similar or comparable institutions like the People’s Association? In a Breaking News TRE editorial, it posted an article stating that the auditors had given the PA several years of Adverse Opinions that were technically worse than the Disclaimer of Opinion in the AHPETC’s audit. Why was there no calls for the Auditor General to investigate? All eyes will now be focussed on Boon Wan to do the necessary to PA. Would he or would he not request Tharman to do the same?
With the issue of transparency and accountability high in everyone’s agenda, how far would these issues be pushed to vindicate Singapore’s standing as one of the top nations in incorruptibility? Would there be any other town council fitting the bill for an Auditor General’s audit? Would PA be put under the microscope as well?
For Boon Wan to take such a drastic action, he must be very sure that his own house is in order, ie all the town councils’ audit were beyond reproach. Like the bible said, ‘Let the one who has not sinned be the first to cast the stone….’ We have several embarrassing episodes involving the WP and the PAP when the ball curved back to slam the attackers. Retribution came fast and swift at times. How would this incident turn out and who would have the last laugh?
Chua Chin Leng AKA RedBean


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As if the current economic climate wasn’t chilly enough, the new train fares revealed this week are sure to freeze any chance for students popping home to see the family in the coming term.
Britain already has the highest train fares in all of Europe and they are set to rise again in the New Year. I know everything seems to be going nowhere but up, but these proposed increases not only outstrip inflation, and the miniscule wage rises, but in the case of some journeys the increase is set to be as much as 13%!
The average rise is 5.9% but even this means that a return journey from Lancaster Station to Manchester Piccadilly could cost as much as £17.68 if the average is anything to go by. It could be more though, and as many journeys for students at Lancaster means a journey to Manchester Piccadilly first, before proceeding to home towns, it could cost us students a small fortune to get home. No matter how priceless it is to see the family.
The Government’s stand on this however is that we should be grateful that Chancellor George Osborne halted rises last month which would have increased raises by another 2% meaning it would have made the average rise closer to 8%
But what exactly is all the money from the rising fares attributed too? Well, train regulators say that train use has increased all over the country, with some areas, such as commuter towns like Ramsgate in Kent increasing by a third. This has led to overcrowding on trains, more delays and poor service at stations.
Michael Roberts, chief executive of the Association of Train Operating Companies (Atoc) have said that the money will go towards investing in new trains to accommodate this rise in users, faster services and better stations but said he understood the financial difficulties facing rail users and assured the public that the industry was looking to limit the fare rises “over the long term.”
Many though, are angered by the current Government’s decision to overturn Labour’s initiative on the cap on train fares, especially since these fares rises are set to continue by 1% each year in January 2013, and January 2014, claiming the increases put even more pressure on the dwindling pay packets. Some seasonal tickets for commuters could cost over £4000 for the first time ever thanks to the new fare prices compared to Europe’s fares which are up to 24% lower than that of Britain’s.
It seems though, since the Office of Rail Regulation continues warning Network Rail of their failure to meet targets of punctuality, that rail officials seem to be going down the wrong track with this new tact. Surely the public would have more faith in the increases if Network Rail could prove they could get their act together with the extortionate train fares even without the increase.
Thankfully students still have our saviour, the student rail card, but it appears we’ll pretty much be paying full price 2011 fares in the New Year as the discount will only pretty much cancel out the rises. Looks like the benefits of being a student just keep dwindling.

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Ever since the live-action remake of Disney's Mulan was announced, fans have been very concerned about the cast and plot of the beloved story being white-washed. The world has made it pretty clear that casting Chinese actors is what should be done, but of course, what should be done isn't always the case in Hollywood.
Yesterday (Oct. 10), an anonymous open letter was posted on the site Angry Asian Man claiming that there Disney bought a spec script for the movie that features a white male lead (you read that right).
According to the open letter, the script features a "30-something European trader" who falls in love with Mulan and ultimately saves China. Not only is that the most disappointing turn of events, but nothing about it stays true to the original legend — or even the movie, where a single Mulan saved China by herself.
Disney has now cleared things up to Vulture, assuring fans that even though though it bought the script, Mulan will remain the story we all know and love. According to the site, Disney bought the spec script as a "jumping off point," and has hired additional writers to hone the story to its final point. Hopefully, then, these writers have also rewritten the role of the "white savior." "Mulan is and will always be the lead character in the story, and all primary roles, including the love interest, are Chinese," a source told Vulture.
The movie is officially set to premiere November 2, 2018.
- Disney's Aladdin to Be Made into Live-Action Movie
- Mulan Live-Action Remake Inspires Petition Asking Disney Not to Whitewash
- Here's How 5 Classic Disney Movies Compare to Their Live-Action Remakes
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