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Imagine you work as a systems administrator for a grocery store. The store has 24 point-of-sale computers, 14 inventory management systems, and 12 office workstations, all of which run either Windows Client or Windows Server.
The store manager asks you if there's any way you could schedule the shutdown and startup of most of those systems to reduce the business's electricity bill. While you're at it, you realize the need to lock certain systems manually and remotely from a central console. What do you do?
Well, you know me well enough by now to realize I'm leading you down a path. The above fictional scenario is an excellent candidate for EMCO Remote Shutdown. This software enables you to schedule and run several administrative tasks on remote systems. These tasks include:
- Send a network message
- Sign out the current user
- Lock the system
- Retrieve the system's MAC address
In this article I use EMCO Remote Shutdown Enterprise Edition, but most features apply to the Professional and Free Editions. We'll perform a feature/price comparison at the end of this review.
Installation and initial configuration ^
Go ahead and download the free, fully functional 30-day evaluation of EMCO Remote Shutdown Enterprise Edition. For the Free and Professional editions, you install the management client. The Enterprise edition installs a server that can centrally manage other EMCO Remote Shutdown instances.
The following screenshot shows the connection dialog that appears when you start Enterprise Edition. This client/server model reminds me a bit of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) or even SQL Server.
At first launch, all editions of EMCO Remote Shutdown walk you through a configuration wizard. It asks you to:
- Provide administrative credentials to authorize agent installation and remote operations
- Optionally specify an SMTP mail server to receive notifications
- Determine whether you will use the built-in SQLite database or a separate SQL Server database
At this point, you're ready to run a network scan called an enumeration to detect all compatible Windows systems in your network.
That brings up an important point, actually. To make EMCO work, you'll need to ensure all target machines meet the following requirements:
- They run some client or server Windows version
- NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled
- Server Message Block (SMB) ports are open
- File and Printer Sharing service is enabled
- Target system BIOS/UEFI and network adapters have Wake-on-LAN enabled
Personally, I am not thrilled about the heavy reliance on NetBIOS here, but you do get a lot of convenience and functionality in exchange. You can't beat the price of the Free edition either.
The following screenshot gives you a taste of the EMCO Remote Management user interface and the look and feel of the Enumerate Machines Wizard.
As I mentioned, EMCO Remote Shutdown uses an agent to do its work. Specifically, each target node will have a new service that runs under the local System identity called EMCO Remote Shutdown. Curiously, the agent installer does not appear in the node's Programs and Features Control Panel item. Here's a screenshot:
Executing remote operations ^
In the EMCO Remote Shutdown Network pane, you can organize your managed systems into collections. The cool thing about collections is you can then issue a remote command against all member nodes simultaneously.
Speaking of which, the easiest way to issue a remote command is to right-click the target collection or node and select an option from the context menu. Here's a screenshot:
Each remote power, administration, session, or input device command has an associated wizard. For example, the Restart Wizard asks you to set the following options:
- Reason for the restart
- Scheduling when the restart should happen
- Pop-up notification message(s) on the target host
And off you go! The following composite screenshot shows you the Restart Wizard above the resulting client-side message.
Notice in the above screenshot that you can use a specialized variable syntax to customize (personalize) your messages with the user(s) operating the target node. Read the documentation for more details.
Other capabilities ^
You can schedule all of EMCO Remote Shutdown's management activities. In addition, you have them available for as-needed execution. Again, a wizard interface handles this process, as shown in the next screen capture.
EMCO Remote Shutdown Enterprise Edition gives you an IIS website to report on remote operation execution results. As you can see in the next screenshot, the web interface is spartan but functional enough.
Your network may require different credentials to access particular systems remotely. To address this problem, EMCO Remote Shutdown includes a built-in credential manager, accessible from the Credentials pane in the application.
Here you can scope a credential higher or lower on your computer hierarchy and make changes as your security needs evolve.
And speaking of credentials, EMCO Remote Shutdown uses role-based access control (RBAC) to manage which users can perform which actions in the tool. This capability is excellent for businesses that need to delegate some privileges (for instance, locking workstations) to help desk personnel without granting them all privileges. The following screenshot shows both the Credentials and Access Control panes.
You can check the EMCO website to read the comprehensive comparison, but the main limitations of EMCO Remote Shutdown Free Edition that differ from the paid editions are:
- Maximum of five remote nodes
- Maximum of two scheduled tasks per management action
- Advanced configuration of remote operations (custom messages and so forth)
- Client-server model
- Web reporting portal
- External SQL Server database support
Study their product pricing page to learn which paid edition might fit your company's budget.
EMCO Remote Shutdown is a much larger tool than I originally thought, and we covered only a portion of its feature set in this review. I encourage you to download at least the Free edition and consult the documentation.
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The price point seems a little high for smaller businesses, and larger enterprises may already have a configuration/power management platform like System Center in place. But for businesses who fit EMCO's target demographic, Remote Shutdown is a compelling product. And as I said before, you can't argue with the price of the Free edition.


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text: Summit Entertainment is up to its ears with Vampires thanks to its cash-cow Twilight. Now the relatively new company is looking to expand its genre stable with the acquisition of The Dark Endeavor, a novel that chronicles an adventure of Dr. Victor Frankenstein before he created his monster. He is set out on an epic quest to save his brother and find three magic… umm… things… that will help save him. The book is apparently full of inside jokes about Mary Shelly and her novel, which I’m sure will go over great considering how popular early 19th-century references are. Hell, most people don’t even realize that Frankenstein isn’t even the name of the monster. Sheesh.

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Where is Kerala is an obvious question that many face during the initial stages of your Kerala Holiday planning. Kerala is a tiny strip of land located on the West Coast of South India. Kerala abounds in a great natural beauty with its beaches, hill station, wildlife, forests and the backwaters. To the west is the Arabian Sea and to its East is the bio diverse Western Ghats Mountain Ranges that separate the state of Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
Kerala can be accessed by Air, Road, Rail and Sea. It has got three international airports, The Thiruvananthapuram Airport in the South which is about ten kilometers form the city center, Cochin International Airport located in Central Kerala which the most domestic and international connectivity, it is thirty kilometers away from the city center (Ernakulam). The third airport is located at Karipur in North Kerala is the Kozhikode international Airport, located twenty seven kilometers from Kozhikode city center and which connects to the Northern districts of the state. All three Airports have direct international connectivity from middle east countries, which mostly acts as a transit point for flight from Europe, United States and South America. There are direct flight from Far East Countries like Singapore and Malaysia, which acts as a transit point from Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Apart from Air, Kerala is well connected by Rail, Road and Sea. The Rail Network is very prominent here and is well connected from the nearby states and other metropolitan cities of India like, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi. Only the hill districts of Wayanad and Idukki are not connected by rail for which the nearest station for Wayanad is Kozhikode in North Kerala and Cochin for Munnar and Kottayam for Thekkady (Periyar).
Several National highways run through the state which connects between the cities and towns of Kerala as well to neighboring states. In Kerala, connecting multiple destinations is mostly through road, special y in the hill districts where other means of transport are not available.
Cochin is the primary port in Kerala, followed by Vizinjam in South Kerala close to Thiruvananthapuram and Beypore in North Kerala close to Kozhikode. Many Luxury cruise liners call at Cochin port between the months of October till May. Thousands of cruise line passengers visit Cochin and the nearby backwater town of Alleppey during the berthing of the ships. Other village visits and activity based programs are organized for guests who come in cruise liners to Cochin.

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Major spend on infrastructure and development, hikes in health-education provisions too
Geetanjali Minhas | February 5, 2020 | Mumbai
With a Shiv Sena chief minister in Maharashtra after almost 20 years, Asia’s largest and civic body, ruled by the same party, has presented a budget of Rs 33,441.02 crore for 2020-21, with an increase of 8.95 percent against Rs 30,692.59 crore in 2019.
The budget was presented in the standing committee of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) by municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi. In 2016-17 the BMC presented its highest-ever budget of Rs 37,052 crore, slashing it by around Rs 12,000 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 25,141 crore.
The budget has allocated Rs 14,637.76 crore for development projects and improving infrastructure. Rs 1,600 crore has been allocated for road improvement, a 27.5 percent increase over last year’s allocation of Rs 11,480.42 crore. The BMC has proposed to design and build new roads over 60 feet with separate utility duct corridor to prevent frequenters trenching.
Rs 2,699.65 crore has been kept for traffic, operations, roads and bridges.
The BMC’s ambitious coastal road project, planned to finish in four years, is given Rs 2,000 crore, a 25 percent increase over Rs 1,600 crore in 2018.
The Goregaon-Mulund link road extension by 12.2 km for east-west connectivity has been allocated Rs 300 crore, a three-fold rise from Rs 100 crore in 2019-20. The budget for footpath repairs has been halved to Rs 50 crore.
Rs 10 crore has been allotted for construction of working women’s hostel in the western suburbs at Goregaon (W) to provide safe and convenient accommodation for women. Rs 226.77 crore has been allocated for the garden department, and the civic body plans to grow 4,00,000 plants with the Japanese Miyawaki urban forestry method in its 65 plots.
For water conveyance and tunnel works, Rs 170.79 crore has been provisioned and approximately Rs 6 crore has been earmarked for re-engineering and reconstruction of water treatment plants. Rs 4 crore has been marked for the Dadar beach beautification, for which a scheme proposed by the consulting architect will be adopted.
To encourage and promote start-up ideas focused on helping BMC with problem-solving, Rs 15 crore has been allocated for setting up incubation labs where such ideas will be granted financial aid. BMC has provisioned Rs 503.51 crore for the Garagai dam project to ensure future water supply.
The BMC education budget has been hiked from Rs 2,733.77 crore in 2019-20 to Rs 2,944.59 crore. The civic body proposes to open ICSE and CBSE affiliated schools, delegate powers to school head teachers to appoint data entry operators and temporary retired school teachers, pay fees for competitive exams, disposal of scrap material and approvals of bills up to Rs 10,000. Rs 50 lakh has been allocated to provide financial aid for top 25 SSC rank-holders from BMC schools to pursue undergraduate degrees. BMC schools will implement three “water break bells” as a reminder to students to drink water and keep themselves well hydrated.
A budget allocation of Rs 26 lakh has been made to set up a digital telescope and mini observatory in Vidyan Kutuhal Bhavan to give students a first-hand experience of space science.
A budget allocation of Rs 20 crore has been made for the installation of 6,666 CCTV cameras at gates and classrooms from Std 4-7 of municipal schools. Rs 24.3 crore had been allocated for these cameras in the previous year, though the project was not completed.
Rs 1.84 crore has been approved to provide hand sanitizers for 17 schools for the specially abled. BMC will spend Rs 2,944.59 crore for primary education increasing its earlier budget of Rs 2,733 crore by Rs 210.82 crore. A budget provision of Rs 1,031.92 crore has been made under ‘Primary Education Government Aid’. Rs 129.94 crore revenue has been proposed for secondary education.
For upgrading the filing system to modular sliding file storage, BMC has provided Rs 10 lakhs. Rs 1,500 crore has been allotted for BEST to repay procured loans for new buses under wet lease, payment of wages and implementation of the ITMS project. It runs a fleet of 3,400 city buses and ferries more than 34 lakh passengers. The BMC has set aside funds of Rs 3 crore where 50 percent concession will be provided to senior citizens for travelling in non-AC buses. In 2019 BMC had proposed Rs 44 crore as capital investment for the BEST undertaking and with the same concession to senior citizens travelling in the buses.
For blind and differently-abled people the BMC proposed 100 percent concession in bus fares for non-ac BEST buses for which it has created a fund of Rs 6 crore. It will also provide self-propelled scooters for differently-abled persons with side wheels and set aside Rs 70,000 for procurement for beneficiaries. It has budgeted a provision of Rs 5 crore for a total 511 beneficiaries.
The health budget has increased by 3 percent to Rs 4,260.34 crore compared to last year and it proposes to increase the number of dispensaries functional in the evening OPD (from 4pm to 11pm) to 35.
The municipality also announced a dedicated BMC Tourism Department and Rs 183.03 crore has been allocated for the day-to-day activities to be conducted by external experts and accrediting travel agents. It also announced commencement of ecotourism activities around water supply reservoirs such as Tanda and Vaitarna dams.
The BMC has proposed Rs 2 crore to meet any challenge arising from the spread of Coronavirus in Mumbai.
The BMC’s budget estimates for revenue are pegged at Rs 28,448.30 crore, a 13.87 percent increase over Rs 24,983.82 crore of 2019-20. It expects to earn approximately Rs 125 crore from the stamp duty charged for the registration of new properties. The body plans to earn revenues of Rs 950 crore over the next five years from this head. Rise in revenue generation of Rs 600 crore is expected by providing conditional floor space index (FSI) to regularise areas like flower beds and deck lifts which are currently being used unauthorized.
The civic body has however seen a reduction of about Rs 335 crore in annual demand. The Shiv Sena’s populist decision to waive property tax of houses of up to 500 sq ft after coming to power has put revenues under stress. The budget has emphasised on collection of at least 10 percent of Rs 15,000 crore from outstanding property tax. It has proposed to increase five percent in fees for issuance of trade licence, market licence and birth certificate.
“BMC will withdraw Rs 4,380 crore from the reserve fund to meet its expenses in the coming year. It will adopt a prudent investment policy to increase the interest income. It will implement an investment philosophy that encapsulates the global principles of safety, liquidity and returns,” said municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi.
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Addressing the Viksit Bharat Viksit Uttar Pradesh program in Lucknow on Monday, prime minister Narendra Modi launched 14,000 projects across the state, worth more than Rs 10 lakh crore at the fourth groundbreaking ceremony of UP Global Investors Summit held in February 2023. The projects relate to sectors
During the four days from Feb 16, more than a thousand birdwatchers throughout India are coming together with the goal of documenting as many birds as possible across the country’s diverse locations. Over one lakh birdwatchers globally participate in the annual Great Backyard Bird Coun
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In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of India has held the anonymous, unregulated and unlimited funding through electoral bonds and companies as unconstitutional. The five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court comprising chief justice DY Chandrachud and justices Sanjiv Khanna, B

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Wellbeing and Inclusion for New Educational Resources (WINER)
The Erasmus+ project Wellbeing and Inclusion for New Educational Resources (WINER) (2014-2016) was financed by the European Commission through KA2/Strategic Partnerships for School Education. It was carried out in the Vaslui region of Romania and in the Umbria region of Italy. In Romania there are a large number of children whose parents leave them in Romania in order to work in Italy, as well as a large number of children who have returned with their families due to the Italian economic crisis. The general objective of this project was to facilitate the inclusion of those Romanian children left at home and those who have returned, by developing a well-being-based school and community approach, applied both in Romania and Italy (respectively, the Vaslui and Umbria regions).


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In her award-winning book, Clair-de-Lune, Australian author Cassandra Golds employs balletic grace and skill to weave a breathtaking fairytale about a talented young dancer who cannot speak. We were lucky enough to chat to Cassandra about the book.
How did the idea for Clair-de-Lune come about?
It started with a picture: I could see a girl at the barre in a 19th century ballet studio, and a mouse watching from a mouse hole nearby. And somehow I knew that the girl could not speak …
Can you tell us a bit about your own background in ballet?
I studied ballet by the Cecchetti method at the Burlakov School of Ballet in Penrith, where I grew up. It was one of the most memorable and influential experiences of my life.
What kind of research did you do for the book?
Clair-de-Lune is set in the 1850s, so I had to read up on ballet in the 19th century. I also saw two fascinating documentaries: Elusive Muse, the story of Suzanne Farrell and her mentor, legendary choreographer George Balanchine, and another one in which Isabelle Fokine discussed her grandfather Mikhail’s choreography for Anna Pavlova’s signature solo, ‘The Dying Swan’.
Do you think that ballet is a crucial element to the story, or could you still have told Clair-de-Lune’s story if you’d made her, say, a basketball player or a violinist?
I guess Clair-de-Lune could have had some other calling … but I had a particular kind of story in mind when I began. I wanted to write something flamboyant and baroque and romantic and intensely emotional. And the world of ballet, with its elaborate culture and traditions, and a body of legend that goes back generations, seemed the perfect background for my purposes. Plus, I wanted to write about relationships between girls and mothers and grandmothers, and about the dangers of shutting out men. Ballet seemed perfect for that, too.
You’ve mentioned that you loved Lorna Hill’s Sadler’s Wells series when you were a kid, and also Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes. What is it about ballet, do you think, that makes it such a compelling storyline for readers?
I think it’s the mixture of romance and discipline. There is nothing more magically lovely than the romantic ballets of the 19th century. And there is nothing that is harder work than becoming a skilled enough dancer to actually dance one of those roles. To work almost impossibly hard to attain such an exquisite ideal is a fascinating story in itself. It’s a metaphor that any idealistic person can understand. And anyone who lives life at that kind of pitch is going to have intense feelings about people too. So passion – and conflict caused by the tremendous demands of the art – becomes a fruitful theme as well.

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For those of you who haven’t seen the show yet:
Not only is AAA first, but the CMLL show seems to be a repeat of the 08/10/02 (#46) show – Tarzan/Boricuas vs Anti-Boricuas as the opening match, and the Legend of the Silver Mask Cibernetico as the only other one. The Cibernetico is good if you haven’t seen it of course, but I’m guessing you might have. The show ran 1:15 the first time it aired (omitting a hyped GdI/Wagner vs Shocker/Magica/Santo match) and the CMLL section started with 1:15 left in the block, so I don’t suppose they’ll be anything different added.
Disappionting and I wouldn’t expect next week to be much more satisfying.


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The ICCR, the organisation tasked with projecting the country’s heritage and engaging culturally with friendly countries, aims to set up more ayurveda chairs abroad as part of its bid to harness India’s soft power as a “potent tool”….writes Sahana Ghosh
“If you want to be a superpower, soft power should be one of your potent tools,” Amarendra Khatua, Director General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, told IANS in an interview here on the sidelines of the Vedic Mathematics International Conference.
He added that more chairs in ayurveda will be created in the coming years.
Noting that his mandate includes promoting and showcasing diaspora linkages, yoga and the ayurvedic pharmacopeia, the Director General underscored the importance of harnessing India’s soft power with a more focused and transparent approach.
And to this end, “we are streamlining the activities of the ICCR and ensuring efficiency, transparency”, he said.
The ICCR, which administers scholarships to international students, is also working on ensuring that these scholars become India’s “constituencies” in the course of their future work.
“We receive 6,000 foreign students and they should become our own constituencies when they finish their education and go back,” Khatua said, adding that the ICCR is “consciously nurturing the idea”.
“At the moment there is no organised framework to track where they are and what they are doing. So we are computerising and recording everything from the day he or she comes as part of the ‘Arrival to Alumni’ initiative,” the veteran diplomat said.
Odisha-born Khatua belongs to the 1981 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. During his diplomatic career, he has held trade and economic positions in various Indian missions around the world. His last posting was as Indian ambassador in Argentina. Uruguay and Paraguay.
In its renewed efforts to promote Brand India, ICCR’s approach to conferences has also changed, Khatua informed.
“We are not doing full-tour conferences. Instead, we are organising little conferences such as those on Abdul-Qadir Bedil (a master of Persian poetry who was born in India) and an international qawwali festival in Tehran, among others,” he said.
To empower up-and-coming artistes, ICCR will also empanel them for performances abroad.
“With regard to troupes which are going abroad, lot of empanelment has not been made. Young artistes are suffering and older artistes are doing well. So now we are trying to empanel all the young artistes so that everybody gets a chance,” Khatua said.
Another initiative that the ICCR is promoting involves keeping the second-generation diaspora in touch with their mother tongues. “We are now sending secondary school teachers abroad so that the diaspora can be taught (the) ABCD (of Indian languages),” he said.
This apart, Khatua aims to take the two-way cultural diplomacy to Tier II and Tier III cities as well.
“We receive about 400 cultural troupes from outside and we send about 400 abroad. So we have to see that these troupes go to India’s Tier II and III cities with a large middle class and educated population (so that) they know about these cultural aspects,” he said.
India currently has 26 cultural centres across the globe. But more are needed if the country’s soft power is to be put on effective display.
“At least six are in the pipeline during 2017. We have already announced centres for Washington and Sydney,” he said.
India’s stress on soft power is evident from the fact that on June 21, 2015, the first International Day of Yoga was celebrated all over the world.

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THE FRIGHT MANAGER
Usually stylish Night Manager star Tom Hiddleston looks worse for wear in ripped jogging bottoms and hoodie while walking near Hampstead home
Tom has revealed plans to take a year off to 'check in' with other things in his life
TOM Hiddleston needs a tailor swift — as he goes for a walk in ripped jogging bottoms.
The usually dapper Night Manager star, 36, opted for a far scruffier look yesterday during the stroll near his home in Hampstead, North London.
But he is likely to make more of an effort tonight as he attends the premiere of his film Kong: Skull Island in Leicester Square.
MUM'S THE WORD
Chanelle Hayes makes last minute birthday preparations for son Blakely, 8
'FORGET CHRIS AND KEM...'
Love Island fans call for Wes, Josh and new Jack to get TV show
'my heart sank'
Roxanne Pallett reveals she feared she was going to die in horror car crash
BACK TO BUSINESS
George Clooney seen back on set after scooter crash left him injured
'LET ME MEND YOUR HEART'
Love Island fans cringe as Dr Alex tries to chat up Alexandra
Geordie Shore's Aaron Chalmers is 'blacking out' his whole body with tattoos
Angelina Jolie seething at Amal Clooney 'for calling her crazy' during divorce
Margot Robbie passionately kisses husband Tom Ackerley on holiday in Costa Rica
EastEnders fans outraged as Donna leaves Walford and doesn't get the duff duff duff
Love Island's Rosie calls cops on troll threatening to 'rape and murder' her
Holly Willoughby poses with fan on holiday as she reveals her £195 beauty secrets
Everything you need to know about Norman cook and his marriage to Zoe Ball...
Tom has also revealed plans to take a year off.
He said: “I’ve spent so much time away and after a while you realise there are other things in life you need to check in with.”
Like getting some new clothes, Tom?


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We are slowly coming to the end of this short 10 days trip to South Africa. But the trip to the old continent would not be complete without a proper safari experience! Although I did not manage to visit the biggest and most famous game reserve – Kruger National Park – I have no regrets … More Ain’t no Africa without safari!
It’s time I move on with my journey through the beautiful country of South Africa. And when I went through the photos of the places I have been to I realized that the trip was a very fast paced one indeed. 500 miles (800kms) from Cape Town to Port Elisabeth and back in just 6 … More Deserts, rainforests and back to the Ocean!
A very pretentious title, but I literally had to clue how to call this post. I first wanted to use a word paradise but it felt rough at times there. But then again I am not really unveiling anything here as everybody knows that South Africa is beautiful. So I will keep the title to myself. … More Go East. South African beauty revealed!
Bo-Kaap – an (over)colorful multicultural (mainly Muslim) district is where today’s adventure begins! I have to admit I wanted to see it but had no clue where to go. Stumbled across it on my way to Lion’s Head so… a great find yo! The houses do stand out. Some might find them kitschy, some will admire the location and the … More Bo-Kaap, Lion’s Head and freedom girl!

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- 2002 1 Jan
The top-grossing film at the mainstream movie theatres this week also takes place in the Middle East, but this is no gritty tale of reality.
The critic at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops writes that the film "is what most moviegoers would expect: plenty of battles stapled onto a thin story line with a charming lead whose popularity was won by his wrestling histrionics. The saving grace of this routine film is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. The Rock has been well cast—considering his limited acting abilities—in a role that requires him to do little more than flex his big muscles and stare at the camera with his signature furrowed brow."
Michael Elliott (Movie Parables) says, "The Rock earns his descriptive moniker, demonstrating all the emotional depth of his namesake. He has the bulk and a wryness that fits, coupled with the most expressive eyebrow work seen since Groucho Marx." Elliott observes that here we have a hero who depends on a sorceress to tell him the future, following a long tradition. "King Saul turned to the witch of Endor during a time of trouble; King Nebuchadnezzar had a staff of magicians standing ready to interpret his dreams; Ahab put his trust in the prophets of Baal; and the list goes on to this day. Wasn't it the Reagan White House that relied upon the 'vision' of an astrologer?"
Several critics find it a complete waste of time and resources. Paul Bicking (Preview) disapproves of the "graphic violence, scantily clad women, and sexual innuendo." And Bob Smithouser (Focus on the Family) argues that viewers should question the virtue of these heroes. "The assassin and the sorceress … are a strange pair to be rooting for. The hero is a killing machine. The heroine is skilled in the occult. Hollywood sure has a way of convincing us that evil can be good." Phil Boatwright (Movie Reporter) says the film offers "some vague storyline, but unlike
On the other hand, family-friendly critic Holly McClure (Crosswalk) calls it an "exotic looking, incredibly choreographed, and thrilling story. I have to hand it to The Rock: His bigger-than-life performance makes his starring role debut a hit. In other words, he rocks!"
Mainstream critics found it too much muscle and not enough mind. "Did I enjoy this movie?" Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) asks himself. "Yeah, I did, although not quite enough to recommend it. Because it tries too hard to be hyper and not hard enough to be clever. For its target audience, looking for a few laughs, martial arts, and stuff that blows up real good, it will be exactly what they expected. It has high energy, the action never stops, the dialogue knows it's funny, and The Rock has the authority to play the role and the fortitude to keep a straight face. I expect him to become a durable action star."


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Advance Tax Mopup Increased by 15% in the June Quarter
Corp tax is 292,172 cr, I-T is 223,513 cr
People with knowledge of the situation reported that India’s advance tax revenues for FY24 increased by 15% from a year ago to Rs. 1.15 lakh crore in the June quarter. Corporate tax contributed Rs. 92,172 crore of the advance tax received up until June 15, while personal income tax contributed Rs. 23,513 crore.
In the June quarter of the previous fiscal year, advance tax collections were Rs 1.01 lakh crore, of which corporate tax accounted for Rs 78,842 crore and personal income tax Rs 22,175 crore.
As of June 15, total direct tax revenues, net of refunds, were Rs. 3.78 lakh crore, of which net corporate tax revenues were Rs. 1.56 lakh crore and total income tax revenues were Rs. 2.16 lakh crore.
The figures reflect payments made through June 15 at 11:30 p.m. The official estimates could increase even more, they suggested.
When additional data from banks is received on Monday, the figures are anticipated to rise, according to an official.
the rapid growth Advance tax receipts are consistent with other high-frequency data that show the economy is enduring despite rising interest rates and weakening global growth, including sales of cars and petrol.
Compared to reimbursements of Rs. 30,334 crore issued during the same period previous year, the I-T department provided refunds totaling Rs. 39,390 crore as of June 15: There was a 2.69 lakh crore rupee tax deducted at source.
In the June quarter, advance tax collections totalled Rs. 1.15 lakh cr.
Direct tax receipts, less refunds, at Rs. 3.78 lakh crore
Nos reflect collections through June 15; ultimate amount could increase
Total refunds of Rs. 39390 crore.


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For the era in which it was built, the levee system protecting much of Omaha is first class.
The levees that protect Council Bluffs and Eppley Airfield are a notch down. That system has less clay standing between the swollen Missouri River, thousands of homeowners and a regional transportation hub, but it is far better than some of the dirt-only levees that protect rural areas.
The question of whether the metropolitan levees will hold hangs over Omaha and Council Bluffs like a foreboding storm. Only time will answer, but — without a doubt — the levees will be put to a historic and an unprecedented test in this summer of floods.
If they fail, thousands of people could flee their homes. In the event of a massive failure, up to 30,000 could be evacuated in Council Bluffs, 8,000 in Carter Lake and 2,700 in Omaha.
The levees have some history on their side. Both systems are federally designed and survived the 1952 storms, when the Missouri rose higher than it is expected to rise this summer.
But the levees are old. And it's questionable whether they were built to handle three or more months of high water.
“Engineers 60 to 70 years ago did not anticipate the long-duration floods we're experiencing today ... (but) there is every reason to believe they will hold,” said Nicholas Pinter, a levee expert and geology professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill.
The metro area's mantra this summer should be “Pray the clay will stay.”
Clay is an essential component of both cities' levees. It is one of the best building blocks for earthen levees because it is relatively impermeable to water.
“It's the material of choice,” Pinter said.
Much of Omaha's 13 miles of levees are made entirely of solid clay — top-of-the-line when built in the early 1950s. The levees differ in elevation, but all have 10-foot tops on broader bases.
Less clay was used to build the levees in Council Bluffs and around one of Omaha's most vulnerable and vital pieces of infrastructure: Eppley Airfield.
In Council Bluffs and around the airport, the levees are made of dirt with a 5-foot clay cap on the river side.
It is the same type of levee that recently failed near Hamburg, Iowa. The cause of that failure has yet to be identified.
One levee expert, who has spent time studying breaches, is not a fan of such clay-capped levees.
Robert Bea is a professor emeritus of civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He studied levee breaches after the 2008 floods on the Mississippi River and said the levees that collapsed often were clay capped.
“The clay caps sometimes disappeared,” said Bea, who in the 1950s worked for five years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
In some instances, Bea said, it appeared water had eroded the levees' dirt interior from the bottom. “A levee is like a chain. It will break at its weakest link,” Bea said.
Neither city officials nor officials with the corps know why most of Omaha's levees were built entirely of clay while Council Bluffs' were built with a clay cap. At the time it was believed a clay cap offered as much protection as levees entirely of clay, Bea said.
A lot has changed in 60 years.
The best levees that engineers can design are being built in Great Britain and other parts of Europe. Sometimes they are made of concrete. Other times they are made with clay but designed wider and higher than America's older levees, Bea said.
About one mile of Omaha's 13-mile levee system is concrete, along the city's downtown riverfront. The wall was built because there was not enough room to build an earthen levee, said John Bertino, chief of the engineering division for the corps in Omaha.
A key question for the Omaha-area levees will be time. The longer they are under stress, the riskier they become.
This is the first time the levees will be asked to hold back water from a roaring Mighty Mo for up to three months. During the 1952 flood, the levees withstood high water for about two weeks.
Bertino said both kinds of levees were designed to withstand a steady flow of seepage under their base, which occurs after a levee is saturated. “The design is based on water being on it for a long time,” Bertino said.
But Bertino acknowledged that the longer the levees are under stress, the greater the risk of a breach. He also stressed that levees offer no “guarantees” against flood.
Bea said the fact that the levees were designed 60 years ago to handle a steady flow of seepage gave him no “comfort” the levees would hold. The tests and research used to design levees have dramatically changed.
“A levee well-designed back in the 1950s for quote ‘long-term saturation' would be pretty close to what I would call junk science today,” Bea said.
The fate of the levees could come down to monitoring. Omaha and Council Bluffs both have mounted large-scale surveillance of the river on a 24-hour basis, with the help of National Guard units.
They will be looking for soft spots on the levees and monitoring wells on the back side of the levee for erosion at the base.
There are numerous pressure wells drilled along the levees to help relieve water pressure. In addition, sand boils could erupt — essentially, nature's homemade relief wells.
If the water that bubbles up through the relief wells and the sand boils is clean, there is no problem. But if that water is filled with sand and dirt, the levee could be threatened, said Greg Reeder, director of public works for Council Bluffs.
“Once you start seeing the sand move, that means the stability of the levee may be threatened,” he said.
Corrective measures can be taken. One step would be to ring the wells or the sand boils with sandbags to allow the water to rise. The weight of the water will then put pressure on the water flow and, hopefully, stop the flow of dirt, Reeder said.
If there is a breach, city officials will work to contain the floodwaters. One breach does not mean entire cities will be flooded.
For example, a breach in south Council Bluffs could conceivably be contained to that area, though even that flooding could be monumental.
“We are doing as much as we can to prepare for any event,” Reeder said.
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Chris Pratt and Chris Evans square off to see who wins “Nicest most humble actor” award. Both insist the other should win.
Sometimes it’s best to pretend the show ended before the series finale
Can you imagine if someone showed him this? Jared would laugh his giant ass off and Jensen would just give him the silent “die slowly” glare.
now I want a Supernatural where they meet Da Vinci (his ghost or time travel, I don’t even care) and Da Vinci spends the whole episode in awe of Dean and makes numerous sketches of his face


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The ongoing talks between Deutsche Bahn and Veolia Transdev Central Europe regional transport services appears close to conclusion according to media sources.
The Federal Republic of Germany, is the majority shareholder of the German transport giant.
An official announcement is being prepared and will be published as soon as the deal is finalised.
Veolia Transdev Central Europe operates regional bus transport in six Central Eastern European countries, including Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
DB Arriva, Deutsche Bahn’s subsidiary responsible for regional transport outside of Germany, operates bus and rail transport in 12 European countries. These include the Central Eastern European markets in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
The acquisition will be subject to approval by Deutsche Bahn’s supervisory board and the relevant merger control authorities.
Work continues on Saudi Arabia’s Haramain High Speed Rail Network, which will ease congestion and travel difficulties for visitors during the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage. Construction on the large-scale project, which will span 450 kilometres, began in March 2009. Travellers will be transported from Mecca to the second holy city of Islam, Medina – a journey through Jeddah, King Abdullah Economic City, King Abdulaziz International Airport and Rabigh.
The network’s electrified double-track line will carry trains at speeds of up to 360km/h, with the 410km journey from Jeddah to Medina set to take around two hours, and the 78km journey from Jeddah to Mecca set to take less than half an hour. The civil works of Phase 1 Package 1 have been contracted to the Al Rajhi Alliance for 6.8b Riyal ($1.8b). The Alliance comprises of the Al Arrab Contracting Company Ltd, Al Suwailem Company, the China Railway Construction Corporation and French rolling stock and power firm Alstom Transport.
Phase 1 Package 2 will deal with station construction in Jeddah, King Abdullah Economic City, and King Abdulaziz International Airport; $38m of design contracts have been awarded to the joint venture of Buro Happold and Foster & Partners. Construction contracts for Jeddah and the Economic City stations have been awarded to Saudi Oger, whereas Mecca and Medina stations will be dealt with by Saudi Bin Laden Group.
Canadian firm Bombardier transportation has signed a €281m contract to supply traction and control packages and power car bogies for the project, and Spanish passenger train manufacturer Talgo will supply 350 trains. Spanish engineering firm OHL will build the base superstructure of the track, which will have to endure extreme temperature fluctuations and the interference of sand. The network is set to open in late 2014 or early 2015.
Spanish firm FCC Construcción and Fernández Casado engineers complete 1,791 m Danube Bridge between Bulgaria and Romania
The Vidin-Calafat bridge, which connects Bulgarian city of Vidin and the Romanian city of Calafat across the river Danube, will reportedly open in mid-May. The two sides of the bridge were officially joined on 10 October 2012, and the final railway sleepers were installed on 10 April 2013. It is the second bridge to cross the Danube between the two countries, and its opening will represent a great development of the Pan-European Transport Corridor IV, which runs from Dresden to Istanbul.
The Spanish engineering firm FCC Construcción was selected by the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport in 2006 to construct the bridge, along with access facilities including two railway stations. The designs were drawn up jointly by FCC’s in-house engineers and by the Fernández Casado engineering firm. The contract for construction was signed in March 2007, and work proper began on the bridge in November 2008. The project cost, which in 2000 was forecast to be €99m, eventually reached €226m – a budget jointly financed by European funds and the state of Bulgaria. Its recent completion, which was initially scheduled for 2010, has also been significantly delayed.
The Vidin-Calafat bridge is 1,791m long and 31m wide. It comprises of a four-lane motorway, central railway tracks, a bike lane and footpath. The bridge is built to cope with maximum car speeds of 100km/h, and maximum train speeds of 160km/h. The structure is divided into three distinct sections: the 772m railway access bridge; the 646m non-navigable stretch, supported by eight concrete piers; and the 745m navigable channel section of the bridge, supported by four concrete piers and spread over three central spans of 180m, and two lateral spans of 124m and 115m.
The final structural work on the bridge, the installation of 60-ton impact protection units around each of the four piers in the navigable channel section, was completed on 15 March. Finishing touches being put to the bridge include the installation of handrails, lighting, motorway crash barriers, layers of waterproofing and the bridge superstructure’s bituminous layer.
Restored natural features that complement man-made structures figure prominently in a proposed public park that would function as a storm barrier for Manhattan. The East River Blueway would create four miles of wetlands, parks, bicycle and pedestrian pathways and bridges, and the redevelopment of an unused beach under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Wetlands would extend into the river, replacing a line of bulkheads that over the years have increased river flow rates and cut off waterfront access. Beneath the FDR highway, a man-made system of freshwater marshes would filter runoff from the road. The project is designed to reduce flooding from storms such as Hurricane Sandy, which inundated lower Manhattan last October.
Tidal pools would provide wildlife habitat along with educational and recreational opportunities. City dwellers would be able to wade and cool off in these shallow bodies of water, and landings or docks would provide access for kayakers. Elevated platforms for walking and biking over the river would be constructed. A proposed bowtie-shaped pedestrian and bicycle bridge at 14th Street would form a security and flood barrier for an electrical substation while connecting people to the riverfront.
New York-based WXY Architecture + Urban Design developed the plan. eDesign Dynamics Environmental, based in New York, is the engineering and resource planning consultant, and Philip Habib and Associates, also New York-based, is the transportation and engineering consultant.
Talking about the advantages of wetlands and the need for a storm barrier, Claire Weisz, WXY’s founding principal, said: “The wetlands provide a natural buffer against storm-related surges that can cause major urban flooding. We’ve been working with people in the affected neighbourhoods and a local ecology centre, and we realise how much flood protection and waterfront access would improve their lives.”
Expected to cost in the tens of millions of dollars, the project would take many years to be completed—a schedule has not been released. Manhattan borough President Scott Stringer has already allocated $3.5 million for the construction of wetlands. The Blueway would connect to the north with the East River Greenway, a project to create a green, publicly accessible waterfront from 38th to 60th Streets.
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Construction on the Grand Paris Express programme will begin by 2015, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has announced. The ambitious engineering project will vastly improve transport connections between central Paris and the city’s poorer suburbs, which lie outside the Boulevard Périphérique. This ring road has come to represent a physical and sociological barrier for those in the banlieues, leading to feelings of unrest and marginalisation exemplified by the 2005 riots.
The plan centres around a 200km system of driverless metro lines. 72 new stations will form an orbital network around the peripheries of Paris, connecting previously isolated and deprived areas with business districts and airports. Upon completion, it is claimed that 90% of Parisians will live within 2km of a station. Congestion in the city-centre will be greatly eased, and commutes from low-income communities – which can currently take longer than those from provincial cities benefiting from high speed rail services – will be dramatically reduced.
The first route of the “super metro”, Line 15, should be in service by 2020. Noisy-Champs and Pont-de-Sèvres will be connected as a result. Work will then proceed to extend the existing Paris Metro network in order to meet new orbital routes connecting Noisy with Le Bourget, and Massy-Palaiseau with Saclay. Line 14 of the Metro will extend southwards to Orly and to Saint-Denis-Pleyel north of the capital.
The programme, which will be carried out by the Société du Grand Paris, has a budget of €26b – significantly lower than original investment proposal of €38b. €7b has been set aside to modernise and extend existing metro lines and construct light rail routes, developments that will generate some 57,000 jobs. Ayrault also announced that the programme will create 15,000 indirect jobs each year until its scheduled completion in 2030.
We are delighted to announce the addition of Alastair Lansley to our transport jury panel. Alastair is a self confessed dyed-in-the-wool railway man and we welcome his input on this panel.
Alastair Lansley CBE was Chief Architect for the CTRL project and is a designer with considerable experience in the multi-disciplinary design of transport interchanges. Working with Nick Derbyshire, he was the project architect for the award-winning redevelopment of London’s Liverpool Street Station and for Ashford International Station in Kent, the gateway to Britain for Eurostar services from Europe.
In 1996, he joined Arup as an Associate Director where he worked for Rail Link Engineering (RLE), the Channel Tunnel Rail Link design and construction management consortium. He led the RLE architectural design team for the reconstruction of St Pancras Station in London as well as for the International Stations at Ebbsfleet and Stratford.
In 2005, he was seconded into Union Railways North as the client’s architect with responsibility for ensuring that all 3 stations were satisfactorily delivered to the client’s requirements.


Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s senior adviser and former campaign manager, publicly criticized the possibility of Mitt Romney becoming secretary of state on the morning political-show circuit Sunday.
On ABC’s “This Week,” Conway told host Martha Raddatz that Romney had taken special steps to question Trump’s character and intellect – in her eyes a major detriment because the primary quality of a secretary of state should be loyalty to the president, she said.
“There was the ‘Never Trump’ movement and then there was Gov. Mitt Romney,” Conway said. “He went out of his way to hurt Donald Trump.”
She added that it was unclear whether Romney had even voted for Trump.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 GOP presidential candidate, was a fierce and vocal critic of Trump throughout his campaign. In a memorable speech from March, Romney said Trump was “playing the members of the American public for suckers.”
Still, the two met last Saturday for more than an hour at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where they had what Romney called a “far-reaching conversation.”
“It went great,” Trump said of the same meeting.
Since the Nov. 20 encounter, Romney’s name has been floated as a potential secretary of state.
The day after that meeting, Conway simply described both men as accomplished job creators. However, several days later, on Thanksgiving, Conway took to Twitter to say she was receiving a “deluge” of social media and private communications warning against picking Romney as secretary of state.
On ABC “This Week” Sunday, Raddatz asked why Conway, one of Trump’s closest advisers, was motivated to publicly tweet about opposition to Romney when she had the president-elect’s ear: Was it a reflection of Conway’s opinion or had she been told by Trump to do so?
“I won’t discuss that,” Conway said, adding that Trump was the only person with final say in his cabinet picks. “Whatever he decides will have my full support and respect, and he knows that.”
However, Conway went out of her way to point out that Trump had won states that Republicans – including Romney in 2012 – had not won in years, such as Iowa and Pennsylvania.
“This is Trump’s party now and he won states that Mitt Romney lost,” she said. “… I don’t think a cost of admission for party unity has to be the secretary of state position.”
Conway repeated the same sentiments on CNN’s “State of the Union,” saying the volume of messages she has received from Trump royalists concerned about Romney was “breathtaking.”
“It’s just the backlash from the grass roots,” Conway said. “People are saying they’ll feel betrayed if Romney was chosen. We don’t even know if Romney voted for Donald Trump. I think there are concerns … You want a secretary of state who’s loyal.”
“State of the Union” host Dana Bash asked Conway whether she thought Romney would be loyal to Trump if selected.
“I would hope so,” she said. “If President-elect Trump chooses Mitt Romney, that will have the full support and backing of all of us.”
Conway’s comments on Sunday’s television shows bewildered some who wondered why Conway seemed to be so publicly campaigning against Romney.
Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and political commentator who also was one of Trump’s harshest critics during the campaign, tweeted that she was astounded by Conway’s comments, especially since Conway “has the ability to tell Trump privately.”
Conway responded to Navarro by saying that she had told Trump privately as well.
On Sunday, Conway also derided plans by Hillary Clinton’s campaign to participate in an election recount effort in Wisconsin initiated by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
On “State of the Union,” Conway said Trump was not focused on prosecuting Clinton, but wouldn’t rule it out – something that indicated Trump was being “incredibly gracious and magnanimous” to Clinton, she added.
Though the two are neither related nor causal, Conway on “This Week” linked Trump’s latest public comments about not pursuing a prosecution of Clinton to the Clinton campaign’s decision to join the recount effort.
“But this is how the president-elect feels at this moment about Hillary Clinton,” Conway told Raddatz. “I would say, in response that, I guess her attitude toward that is to have her counsel, Mark Elias, go and join this ridiculously fantastical recount that Jill Stein is engaging in Wisconsin and perhaps elsewhere. So you’ve got the President-elect Donald Trump, being quite magnanimous to Hillary Clinton and you’ve got her responding with joining into this recount.”
Conway told Raddatz that she was confident the recount would not change the election results in Wisconsin, where Stein received 33,000 votes.
“33,000 votes is like the number of people who tailgate at a Packers game,” Conway said. “It is not a serious effort to change the election results.”
On “Fox News Sunday,” chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus also criticized the recount effort in Wisconsin as “a total waste of everybody’s time.”
“This is a fundraising, notoriety-driven fraud by someone who won 33,000 votes in Wisconsin to President-elect Trump who won 1.4 million,” Priebus said. “So, here, we have a person perpetrating a fundraising scheme that has lost over 1.35 million votes in Wisconsin attempting to undo a 28,000-vote lead. It’s never going to happen. It’s a total waste of everybody’s time.”
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Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates from Epoxides and CO2 under Mild Conditions Using a Simple, Highly Efficient Niobium-Based Catalyst
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North and West Belfast have the highest suicide rate in Europe.
Suicide is something that people are very aware of but (speaking from personal experience) do not understand or know the impact it can have on a family, on a circle of friends or group of colleagues until someone close to you attempts to take their own life.
Our Accounts Manager Malachy has been closely affected by suicide through friends and family over the years and most recently in July. In his own words:
“July 4th, I found out that my best friend Catherine (Cat) Mc Crory took her own life. It is very hard to put into words how sad I feel at her passing, to express the hurt. However, I try to remember how kind, fantastic and beautiful she was for me and my family, she was always there, and it saddens me to know that my son will not get to grow up with her in his life.
It angers me that the support that was needed was not there. That the mental health services in Northern Ireland continue to dwindle and clearly the little services we do have for mental health cannot handle this epidemic of death in young adults due to funding and regulations the public funding puts in place.
I have buried family and several friends now due to suicide. Mental health and suicide in this country needs to be a topic of discussion at the top of the Governments agenda and they need to act. That action will only be taken when they decide to take their seats in Stormont. Until then, they are failing those who need support.
Earlier this year, Steven received word that one of his very close friends’ son had attempted to take his own life.
“I read the message maybe 5 or 6 times. I couldn’t quite process what I was reading. He always seemed like a fairly happy go lucky kind of guy with many friends, solid family life and was always up for a chat.
This right here is the problem with mental health and suicide. There is a general awareness but no one knows the signs or knows how to deal with it should it come to their door. A large percentage of people aren’t educated to a point where it is of any practical use to them.
More people have lost their lives in Northern Ireland to suicide than we lost in the troubles.
In August of 2018, Malachy approached PIPS Suicide Awareness to create a new website for them. The intention of the website was to be a tool for those in need whether it be for themselves or to seek advice, refer someone in need or get immediate help. Our whole team wanted to work with PIPS and we kept our costs as low as we could but unfortunately, due to PIPS being a privately funded charity, they simply couldn’t afford to invest in a new website.
PIPS are privately funded to maintain their support structure, which allows the people in need to visit a counsellor as many times as required whether it be 1 or 100. Should they switch to be a central public funded charity, counselling sessions are reduced to a maximum of 6.
After an internal discussion, we decided to re-approach PIPS and offer our services free of charge to provide them with a tool that will aim to impact the lives of people that are in need in a positive way. We are absolutely delighted to announce that Big Pixel Creative will be working alongside PIPS in 2019 to develop their new website.
Ciara McIlkenny from PIPS said:
“The website for PIPS is important for us as it is an additional form of communication between us and the community. It contains all the information which could possibly be needed, our contact information, what we do and how others can help. Working with Big Pixel Creative will take a lot of pressure off us and allow us to continue our work helping others. We receive no government funding so the guys have helped us massively with creating our new website.
We know that we aren’t going to solve mental health but by providing PIPS with a tool that can assist them we hope that it will enable PIPS to continue the fantastic work they do and to help change the lives of many people.
Big Pixel are committed to helping local charities in any way we can. With a dysfunctional government not doing enough to help amazing charities such as PIPS, we hope this small gesture at a time when it is really needed will come to some good. If you would like to find out more about the project, please feel free to get in touch with ourselves or PIPS.

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Re: Best 6.5 bullet for elk??
Check out the 160gr Matrix thread by CliffM in the rifles, bullets, barrels, and ballistics forum. He too is shooting the 6.5 Sherman.
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Defending champion Anirban Lahiri picked up three shots in the early stages of the final round of the Hero Indian Open to heap the pressure on overnight leader SSP Chawrasia.
Chawrasia came into the final day with a two-shot advantage over Australian Terry Pilkadaris at 14 under and, while he made a solid start with three pars, playing partner Lahiri started birdie-birdie-birdie to get within one stroke of the lead.
A two-time European Tour winner last season, Lahiri is the highest ranked player in the field this week but Chawrasia has some pedigree around Delhi Golf Club with ten top tens in 16 appearances, including two wins.
Lahiri made gains on the first and second and when Chawrasia failed to take advantage of the par five opener for the first time this week after finding the trees, his mind may have drifted back to last season when his countryman overturned a seven-shot deficit here to beat him in a play-off.
Lahiri then rolled in a third birdie from 35 feet on the third and all of a sudden he was just a single shot off the lead.
That was one shot clear of Pilkadaris, who joined Chawrasia in parring the opening three holes.
Another Indian, Rashid Khan, had a birdie on the first to get within three of the leader, one clear of French trio Grégory Havret, Sébastien Gros and Julien Quesne, Brazilian Adilson da Silva and South Korea's Jeunghun Wang.
Englishman Chris Paisley had set the early clubhouse target at six under after a highly impressive 66 that was his best round on The European Tour since August.
He opened with a birdie and then eagled the eighth before making further gains on the 13th, 14th and last.
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... I made a mental note to wash my hands well with soap before I ate lunch.
We wandered around the three villages and checked off all five sites that were included in my ticket, which included a small museum of farming implements, a couple mansions and a dismantled watch tower.
We drove back and made it just in time for me to catch a sleeper train home. Six hours later, it was raining in Changsha.
... soccer, so while he was out, we visited two old towers. We could only go up one of them and had some ancient style wild goose soup with noodles and steam buns. The first tower was closed and the signs were translated in the worst way possible, I could not make sense of them.
A strange Chinese man started following us around at the second tower, because he wanted to learn English from me. He was chewing gum that smelled like watermelons. We saw ...
... was and still is freezing cold it would take more than a few days for them to dry. Once dry I packed my pack ready for the 2014 Winter Beers N Noodles Adventure and headed into town to share a chicken dinner with a friend.
So there I was minding my own business waiting in line.
In front of me were a guy and his girlfriend.
... the service stopped for the night.
We had no plans to do anything here except catch a bus; the problem is that our bus to-day doesn't leave until 3:40pm, so we just wandered a bit. Nanchang is by no means a lovely city, but there are few cities in the world that are. It's certainly not worth the disdain it received from others when I told them I was coming here.
... the Nanchang train station. Women stood on the sidewalk holding advertisements for rooms. In the pictures the rooms looked clean, but they were not; the rooms in those places are worn and greasy with the juices and oils of a thousand travelers who eat and spit and do other things above the wet and littered streets.


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An interesting exchange on social media between Nicki Minaj and rapper Cuban Doll set the internet ablaze and left Cuban Doll to be the bud on everyone’s jokes.
Over the weekend, the “Let It Blow” rapper posted a seductive image from her latest photoshoot. In the caption, she used a line from Nicki Minaj’s “Crocodile Teeth (Remix).” However, she misquoted the line.
“My type of gal wanna know da opps out,” is what Cuban captioned the photo. Minaj took notice and playfully dropped down in Cuban’s comment section to give her the actual lyrics to her song, writing, “Might tek a gyal man, I know da opps out.” Cuban quickly corrected the caption on the photo. However, by then, the internet had already caught wind of the blunder and proceeded to drag The 23-year-old Texas raptress.
The rising artist took to her Instagram Story to post a screenshot of someone saying that she should have asked for the lyrics before posting the photo. Cuban added, “I’m so embarrassed.”
The backlash became so profound that the “Itty Bitty Piggy” MC cleared the air and let fans know that she was only joking with Cuban and meant no malice by correcting her.
“I hope y’all know I love Cuban. I was havin fun w her. I don’t try 2 embarrass ppl I fuk wit. That’s corny. I’ll never correct a lyric ever again chile. Boom,” Minaj wrote.
Elsewhere in Nicki Minaj’s social media universe, the platinum-selling rap vet and new mother have been making a lot of noise. Earlier this month, she returned to Instagram to announce that her critically acclaimed mixtape, “Beam Me Up Scotty,” was arriving on streaming platforms. Despite being released 12 years ago, the mixtape sold 80,000 copies in its first week on DSPs.

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On a recent summer night in New York City, a group of about 30 young adults, ages 20 to 30, went to the Studio Museum in Harlem to hear about the impact that art is having on the community, followed by dinner at famed neighborhood restaurant Red Rooster Harlem. The following night, the same group visited the New York headquarters of charity: water, a non-profit working to provide clean water around the world, followed by a party at the loft offices of Urban Zen, Donna Karan's philanthropic program.
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Hokkaido is a sequel to Malmioja’s 2017 title Honshu (see “Build a Feudal Japanese City in ‘Honshu’”), and features many of the same themes and mechanics. But the new game builds on the previous design by introducing a card drafting mechanic and changing the way cities are built. In the game, players draft cards, then use them to build their own personal map over twelve rounds of play. An optional scoring variant based on goal cards is also included in the game.
Renegade recently announced plans to bring the game Trajan back into print (see “Stefan Feld’s ‘Trajan’ Returns”).


Free Parking at The Asher
Commuting via car? Have guests driving in for a visit? Here’s everything you need to know about parking at the Asher:
- The Asher has its own dedicated parking garage for residents and their visitors
- Each apartment includes one free, assigned parking space
- Additional dedicated parking spaces are $75 each per month
- EV parking spaces are $175 per month
- All spaces on the first floor of the garage are for guests (with the exception of a few EV stalls)
Fremont is an ideal Bay Area locale not only because of its super-convenient proximity to Silicon Valley, but because of its natural beauty, relaxed atmosphere, and quality of life. It’s definitely at the top of the list for tech workers.
Fremont itself is also home to a thriving tech and manufacturing scene, with an easy commute to nearby Tesla, Plexus, Pantronic, Western Digital, Lam Research, and more.


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“The announcement of flexible employee support is a move in the right direction, but hospitality needs more targeted efforts to support jobs. Almost 1m people in our sector are still on furlough.”
She added, though, that the Government needed to go further, a view echoed by Ian Wright, chief executive of the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), who said: “The decision to introduce the Jobs Support Scheme and to extend the VAT cut for hospitality are welcome from the government but simply do not go far enough.
“The requirement for staff to be working part-time to be eligible for support will not be enough to sustain hospitality businesses and their food and drink manufacturing suppliers – the squeezed middle - through a difficult autumn and winter where pubs, bars, and restaurants will have significantly reduced custom.”
The Government has announced it will continue to top up wages of workers who have not been able to return to the workplace full time due to the coronavirus.
The Jobs Support Scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme, will see workers get three quarters of their normal salaries for six months.
It aims to stop mass job cuts after the government introduced new measures to tackle a rise in coronavirus cases.
Sunak said it was part of a wider ‘winter economy plan’.
Nearly 3m workers - or 12% of the UK's workforce - are currently on partial or full furlough leave, according to official figures. The Job Retention Scheme ends on October 31st.
"The government will directly support the wages of people in work, giving businesses who face depressed demand the option of keeping employees in a job on shorter hours, rather than making them redundant," said Sunak.
He added the new scheme would only support ‘viable’ jobs as opposed to jobs that only exist because the government is continuing to subsidise the wages.
"The primary goal of our economic policy remains unchanged - to support people's jobs - but the way we achieve that must evolve," he said.
"I cannot save every business, I cannot save every job."
The new scheme begins on November 1st and will cost the government an estimated £300m a month.
Nicholls said: “We need Government to go further in hospitality, recognising the greater restrictions imposed upon us, and pick up the full cost of unworked hours.
“This would be a relatively low cost for huge reward for our workforce. Full support to sustain people in their jobs during what could be a pretty bleak winter for hospitality would be a great step forward.
“Looking ahead, the extension of the VAT cut was absolutely critical. UKHospitality had pushed hard for it, so it is great to see the Government taking note of our major concerns about recovery into 2021, though this must be extended further.
“The announcement of longer tax deferrals and the option of longer loan repayments should deliver some much-needed breathing room for employers.
“Things were looking grim for our sector yesterday and we were desperately hoping for some good news. The Chancellor has given us some reason to be positive again, but we urge him to engage with the trade on specific measures to keep people in work. While some of these measures announced today will give businesses a future to shoot for, and hope that they can begin to rebuild, we are still not out of the woods.”
Wright added: “The pandemic has had a far greater impact on some sectors of the economy than others – sectors that would continue to support millions of viable jobs once a vaccine is achieved and social distancing can end.
“Only by continuing a targeted furlough scheme while the current restrictions remain will we avoid mass long-term unemployment and the decimation of a sector that could otherwise support our economic recovery once the pandemic is over.
“We urge the UK Government to engage with those industries most impacted about what more can be done to support those food and drink businesses most affected by the restrictions.”


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In PUBG there are many weapons that can be used to kill enemies, ranging from pistols, pans, knives, to grenades. Every weapon that is of course has its own uses. Grenades are one of the most destructive weapons ever. Even though it's small, this one weapon you should always carry anytime, anywhere.
Grenades can help you kill many enemies at once, and grenades can also help your teammates escape from the enemy. So it's not surprising that even pro players never forget to always carry grenades when they enter into the battle.
Inside the PUBG there are several types of grenades that you can find. And all of them have different functions and uses. So that you don't choose the grenade wrongly, here are 4 types of grenades that you can meet in PUBG.
1. Frag Grenade
Frag grenade is a grenade that can cause damage to enemies in an area of 5 meters. This grenade has a delay of five seconds, so the grenade will not immediately explode when it hits the ground. The time delay is calculated after the grenade pin is removed.
Frag grenade is suitable for killing many enemies at once, because the explosive power given can directly defeat the enemy. These grenades are also very effective for driving away enemies hiding in homes or buildings.
2. Smoke Grenade
From the name, of course you already know that smoke grenade is a grenade that will smoke when the grenade explodes. The smoke will come out slowly in the area around the grenade exploding. This type of grenade does not cause any damage, but the smoke it produces can block the view of the surrounding area.
Smoke grenade is usually used to obstruct the view of the enemy or as a distraction. This grenade is very helpful for you to escape or when you want to save your teammates who are pressed. The smoke released by this grenade can last for 40 seconds.
3. Molotov Cocktail
Molotov Cocktail is a type of grenade that causes damage per second in the area around which it is burned. Well different from other grenades, Molotov Cocktail will immediately explode when it hits the ground. Enemies affected by Molotov will be hit every second because of the effect of the fire given.
Molotov Cocktail is very effective for attacking many enemies, or enemy teams that are in the room. The flame effect is very useful to make the enemy go away, and make them unable to do ADS (Aim Down Sight) for four seconds.
4. Stun Grenade
Stun grenade is a grenade that can block the view and eliminate the sound, the players affected are those who are near the grenade when they explode. The view will turn white, and the sound of the game will ring when you get hit by the stun grenade.
This grenade is perfect for dealing with enemies you don't know its location. The blind effect of these grenades can last for 10 seconds, and this is enough to mess up your enemies and make them unable to do ADS (Aim Down Sight).