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The last couple of days proved to be a complete change from the warm even hot days preceding and in fact have been quite cool. The cooling effect was due mainly to the high winds though the temperature had dropped dramatically too. Not ideal for relaxing in the garden or even working in the garden. I had been feeling drained with a lack of enthusiasm for any activity. I didn’t even take a walk because of the wind and the rain too, yes we finally got the rain we were hoping for. Anyway it was mainly the wind which kept me indoors. That was Friday and Saturday and it looked as if Sunday was going to follow suit. The day started dull and windy though any rain that fell was very slight indeed, so much so it was barely there. The forecast was promising as far as it promised to be sunny later in the day. It was only about 14 deg C throughout the morning with a little wind so I went out for a walk wearing a lightweight jacket, this one which I had purchased a couple of weeks ago
It looks like a raincoat but it isn’t designed for wet weather, it is more just a coat for use in the cool evenings of the warmer months of the year. It is very lightweight and comfortable to wear and it keeps the wind at bay if it isn’t too windy. I walked into the town centre and on the way saw an electrician acquaintance of mine working in an empty shop. Naturally I stopped for a chat with him before moving on. There is an open space named Princess Diana Gardens which is in front of the local civic buildings and theatre/arts centre and there was an army brass band playing there. Many folk were sitting on the benches listening and I found a seat and stayed listening too.
Believe it or not the band were standing in the circular area above the fountains you see in the picture. Of course the fountains were not switched on! Unfortunately I had missed much of the music but was still able to hear the last twenty minutes of the performance. The weekend had been dedicated to the armed forces with celebrations in Liverpool as well as Southport. Once the music was over I continued with my walk, returning home after two hours. After one o’clock the day brightened up but it wasn’t until three-thirty that E and I managed to squeeze in some relaxation on the patio in the now bright sunshine. It was still a little breezy though and the temperature hadn’t risen much.
A little job occupied an hour or so of my time on Friday morning. An older couple had recently moved into an apartment on the Promenade and had wanted a faulty shaver unit replacing. The work was quite easy to do and only made slightly difficult because of the electrical connection method in the rear. As ever I managed and got it finished in thirty minutes. Prior to my starting the work I was offered a drink of coffee which I kindly accepted. We sat talking for ten minutes and then I did the work. Just as I had finished I was asked if I would like another coffee and as I was in no hurry to go anywhere else I again accepted. It was then as we sat in the lounge that I learned the man was learning to play the ukulele and was keen to find a local group of other players to join with. I couldn’t help him in that respect for I know of none in my area but I did tell him of a local pub, one only a few hundred metres away, where they held live music nights. Apparently they encourage new musicians to join in too. He might find the information useful. He told me he was also learning to play the banjo and guitar. He said he had been playing these instruments for about two years and I asked him to play something on the ukulele. He was quite good. I asked if I could see the guitar after I had mentioned I play. It was a small instrument but had a wide neck like a Spanish guitar would have. I tried to play a couple of tunes on it but I found it difficult because I am used to playing guitars that have a narrow neck as my own does. Still I managed to play reasonably well considering I wasn’t used to the instrument. I mentioned that I had bought a small mandolin some years ago but never managed to master it. I had intended to keep it for my granddaughter but she is learning to play a keyboard and has little interest in the mandolin. I asked if he would like to have it. You can see it standing against a covered guitar next to the organ in this picture taken a few years ago. He was interested so I returned home to fetch it and I gave it to him. I didn’t ask for payment. It hadn’t cost me much when I bought it so I didn’t want anything for it. On my return home I found a couple more bluebells in the front garden flowerbed and dug them out before going indoors as the tools were in the garage nearby. I had received one envelope through the letter box…….it was from the Inland Revenue Service……my tax-return form had arrived (see yesterday’s post)
It has been quite some time since I sang anywhere. I once sang in a couple of choirs at school and later, much later, at church. The latter being so later was that I didn’t believe in God and therefore I didn’t go to church. Since leaving the church about fifteen years ago and for reasons I won’t explain here, not at this time anyway, I have not sung anywhere. The last time I sang solo and accompanied myself on guitar in public was at church at times when I led the congregation in worship. When I left the church I ceased playing the guitar for almost five years then took it up again about eleven years ago. In total then I have played guitar for twenty years since 1990 when I first started. I am self-taught with no formal training but people say I am quite good. I am not so sure myself but who am I to judge? Once in a while I might take my guitar (shown in the picture) with me when I go to work, usually in the summer and it remains in the van until I take it out if I am taking a break from work or have finished work for the day. I have been known to sit outside of a pub and just play for my own pleasure. I digress. I had two jobs to do on Monday morning, I wasn’t sure I would be able to do the second for I wasn’t sure how long I would be at the first. As it turned out part of the work I was to do at the first job had to be cancelled and that left me time to do the second job. Unfortunately the customer at the first job had bought two new outside light fittings to replace what he thought were two faulty ones but in fact it appeared it was only the lamps that were faulty. It would have been impossible to fit the replacement fittings in the same position without some major alterations to the existing wiring so it was decided to leave the old ones in place. The remainder of the work was inside and was completed without any problems. I had an idea that the lady in the apartment I was to visit for the second job would be interested in hearing me play the guitar for a couple of reasons. I have worked in her apartment a few times in the past so she knew from our conversations that I played and wrote Christian songs. She had hinted on those occasions that she would like to hear them. She is also a Christian and a fellow ‘Scouser‘ (from Liverpool as I am). I thought I would surprise her on this visit and take along my guitar. I completed the work she had asked me to do and something extra that was non-electrical too but I had to return to my van to get my battery drill to do it and whilst there I brought my guitar back inside with me. We sat down and had a coffee and a chat before I took the guitar out of its case and played a couple of well-known Beatles songs which thankfully for me she immediately recognised! I played a few more and then some of my own compositions. Even though I have written a few songs I sometimes forget the words but I made an attempt and sang some for her. I guess she liked my playing for she has invited me to return again. Maybe next time I shall be singing for my supper?
If ever there was a piece of music so beautiful, so peaceful, so relaxing, so calming….it has to be this one. I think it is my favourite piece of music. I hope you find it equally as beautiful……….enjoy
I remember this song from my very early years. Mum and dad had a large valve radio that was powered by a wet cell battery and I remember visiting the local recording studio which also supplied recharged batteries. Dad would take along the drained battery and return home with a fully charged one, with me tagging along sometimes. I guess I would have been about five or six years old or maybe only three or four. I have fond memories of listening to the Bill Cotton Band Show which must have been broadcast by the BBC on long wave. For those who know nothing about radio except the digital ones of today, which I hasten to add I own, radio was broadcast as an analogue signal superimposed on a carrier wave. The carrier wavelength being, short, medium or long. I heard this song quite a number of times in those early years and this rendition of it too. Over the last few days I have had no electrical work save for Monday and Saturday mornings and have therefore spent my time working in the garden as my recent posts indicate. On Thursday though things were different as I spent most of the day sitting out on the patio reading a book about angels and people’s experiences of them. I was having a lazy day and was reminded of this old song………..
Monday’s weather was little different from Sunday, just as cool and just as misty. Only consolation was the absence of wind. As Monday was one of our ‘Bank Holidays‘ I took the opportunity to stay in bed a little longer. It was around 9 o’clock as I lay there contemplating the day ahead and what I would do in it. It turned out very little as it happened. The house phone rang! Someone had a problem with their light switch asking if and when I could fix it and probably expecting me to be available straight away. I explained that it was a holiday and I wouldn’t be available until the following day, Tuesday and only after I had completed my other work scheduled for the morning. He agreed and I scheduled it for lunchtime onwards depending on how soon it took me to do the first job. Other work is scheduled for the remainder of the week. I seem to be in great demand lately. Tuesday was the first day back to work for me after an extended weekend break as it was Easter. On Easter Day, that is Sunday, a small song developed in my thoughts and I quickly wrote it down once I’d played it through on my guitar. It was the first song I had written for some time. I went through a spell a couple of years ago whereby I wrote several songs in a matter of a few days so it was nice to be given a new one. Tuesday was also the first day of the new tax year for me and the first day of my financial year, the day from which all account reckoning is taken each year. I mentioned I would be filling in my tax return for the previous year quite soon so on Monday morning I began collating all my records and totaling my incoming funds and outgoing expenses. As the weeks go by I shall continue with completing the data ready for when I submit my tax return form. I had forgone breakfast on Monday morning by choice and intended to eat later in the day. It was about 4.30 when I ate a small meal. E had gone to see her mom for the afternoon so I had the house to myself. I decided to bake some more scones. It was last Thursday when I decided to bake a fruit cake by way of a change whilst E was out shopping and that had been eaten by Monday. I did little else during the day, saving my energy for the working week ahead.
Much of my latest posts have been about my work but it is fair to say my work occupies a lot of my time and is full of interesting occurrences. Well last week was such a busy time for me so by Friday evening I was very happy to forget about the work and think about other things. I was tired too! Earlier on Friday I had two jobs to do at two different locations. The first job went well as did the second though the second one was in two stages. I had to remove two light fittings from one house, replacing them with something else then transporting the lights I had removed to another address before installing them there. The guy was moving home but hadn’t yet done so which meant all his belongings were at the first address. There was a beautiful piano in the lounge together with a lovely acoustic guitar. Naturally I asked if he often played them and he gave me a wonderful rendition of the Simon and Garfunkel song ‘Bridge over troubled water’. He then told me that he wasn’t as good on the guitar. When I had finished the work at that address I asked if I could play something on his guitar. I played a couple of my own songs and he told me that I play well. He asked what instruments I have at home and I told him. We then travelled to the other address and I installed the lights there. It must have been about one o’clock when I was back at home cooking lunch. The rest of the day and the weekend was mine. Late in the afternoon I received a call from the lady in whose house I had worked on Tuesday and Wednesday. There was a problem with an appliance which was causing the new electrical panel to trip off. I called to her house immediately and spent an hour sorting out the fault. It proves just how effective new safety measures are in modern electrical panels. Sometimes though they can seem to be too sensitive as far as equipment protection is concerned, not so for our own protection. Anyway I solved the problem for her without charge and was back home just before six o’clock. Now all I wanted to do was relax and after my evening meal that is just what I did. However I got a call around nine-thirty but didn’t respond thinking they would leave a message, which they did. It was an older guy from the sound of his voice, asking how much I would charge to fit the two wall lights he had bought earlier and that if I was interested could I give him a call. Well I thought to myself what a cheek to phone at such a late hour, reasoning that if he knew he wanted the job doing, as he had already purchased the lights, why didn’t he call earlier? I decided not to return his call until Saturday morning. On Saturday morning the house phone rang at nine o’clock and woke me up. I resisted answering and began to drift off again for a spell. A few minutes later my mobile phone rang and by this time I was feeling a little annoyed at the audacity of the caller ringing so early on a Saturday morning. I thought it might be the same guy who had phoned the night before and I was right. Now I can understand someone calling in an emergency but fitting two lights isn’t an emergency. When I had gotten dressed and was now downstairs I called his number only to be told that he had found another electrician to do the work. What was the urgency? It seemed he had purchased his lights late on Friday afternoon or even early evening and then expected there to be someone instantly available to fit them. Such audacity and I could tell from his voice that this guy thought the world revolved around him. Well it doesn’t. I was polite with him but hung up. Some people are unbelievable.
I had one electrical job to do on Wednesday for an elderly lady living in a village about three miles distant. I had called there last week to assess the work over a cup of coffee. I mentioned this in a previous post a couple of days ago (God's mother?). I knew I would be in for a nice time whilst working there. I was installing three under-the-units light fittings in her kitchen for she had complained that there was insufficient light in the kitchen with just the ceiling light. She had a point. Now that I have completed the work I don't think she will be complaining about a lack of light any longer! Each unit is fitted with its own switch so that she can have any combination of lights on at any time. She was a chatty woman, something I have found with many women her age, in fact I tend to be just the same. The problem with folk who have employed me to do their work is that sometimes they don't realise that I need to get on with the job. I have to tread carefully and be patient but in the back of my mind I am keen to get on with it. Fortunately after about fifteen minutes of chatting and drinking coffee I was left to my own devices to get on with the work. She interrupted me twice in order to make me a drink and then left the room. All the work had been done but I had to make a final connection to an existing circuit which meant isolating that circuit. She thought I was going to switch everything off but of course that isn't necessary. She watched as I made that connection then reinstate the supply. I could hear the 'Oos and ahrs' as the lights came on. She was excited that the lighting was so effective and thanked me for what I had done. Once again she chatted away but this time it didn't matter, I had finished the work. She began talking about her family, her sisters and the husband of her granddaughter whilst showing me pictures of them. She mentioned that the young husband of her granddaughter was into 'Heavy Metal' music though she couldn't remember the term. I hinted and she remembered. Evidently he played guitar in a band and was so happy that he had married into her family for it appears many of them play instruments and get together occasionally. Her sister is a singer and is still active in the older club scene in Liverpool and she is around eighty years of age! She told me that she could play the guitar too and showed me the instrument she had bought recently. It was a three-quarter sized acoustic guitar partly strung with nylon strings more usual on guitars playing country or folk music. One of the steel strings was missing, bottom E. It was way out of tune but nylon strings do tend to drift out of tune more easily. She offered me the instrument to play and I tried to tune it as best I could for I am wary of tuning someone else's instrument in case the strings break. I told her as much but I made an attempt at playing some of my own compositions. I could just about get the songs out and had to sing along for them to sound reasonable, a little difficult with a five-stringed guitar that is woefully out of tune. She asked about my own guitar and how long I'd been playing. She told me she had been playing for forty years but that she couldn't read music or play chords and demonstrated how she played. Well I have to say I was impressed as she only used the bottom strings whilst strumming out a song. Essentially she was holding down just a couple of notes but it sounded good. I said that I would like to bring my own guitar if ever I was to go there again and we could have a musical afternoon. Maybe I will get such an invite sometime.

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SHANGHAI, CHINA (7 June 2018) – AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Shanghai Greenland Construction Group Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Greenland Group (Greenland), a publicly-listed, Fortune 500 global company and among China’s largest, to explore long-term, joint opportunities for integrated delivery projects in the People’s Republic of China and globally.
Under the terms of the MOU, AECOM and the Greenland unit plan to coordinate on large-scale construction projects where integrated consultancy and comprehensive construction services are critical to ensure successful delivery.
Today’s agreement reflects the robust real estate development partnership between AECOM and Greenland. Over the years, the companies have collaborated on developments around the world, extending their reach beyond China, and with projects that are successively larger and more complex. In the United States, for example, the two companies successfully delivered the mixed-use, US$1.2 billion Metropolis development in downtown Los Angeles. AECOM provided project management services for the first phase of the project, which opened in 2016, as well as cost management for the second and third phases.
Most recently, AECOM has been delivering pre-construction services for Spire London, Greenland’s landmark development in the UK capital.
“Our cooperation with Greenland, which has thrived over several years, creates a strong foundation to explore an even wider universe of future opportunities,” said Daniel McQuade, president of AECOM’s Construction Services group. “Aligning our capabilities and resources more closely through the structure of the MOU we signed today enables us to provide a truly differentiated offering of integrated services, in a flexible and reliable manner.”
“The successful relationship we have with AECOM grows because it is built upon just that – success,” said Mr. Tong Sun, executive vice president of Greenland Holdings Group. “With China’s domestic construction industry expanding further and Chinese construction companies seeking to participate in more projects around the world, we foresee great potential for our offerings now and in the years to come.”
AECOM is built to deliver a better world. We design, build, finance and operate infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organizations in more than 150 countries. As a fully integrated firm, we connect knowledge and experience across our global network of experts to help clients solve their most complex challenges. From high-performance buildings and infrastructure, to resilient communities and environments, to stable and secure nations, our work is transformative, differentiated and vital. A Fortune 500 firm, AECOM had revenue of approximately $18.2 billion during fiscal year 2017. See how we deliver what others can only imagine at aecom.com and @AECOM.
About Shanghai Greenland Construction (Group) Co., Ltd
Established in 1959, Shanghai Greenland Construction (Group) Co., Ltd. is a large-scale comprehensive construction and real estate company affiliated to the Greenland Group. Currently, it has the special qualification for the general contracting of the building construction, and six first-class qualifications for the general contracting of the construction of municipal public works, smelting project, steel structure engineering, construction and decoration engineering, mechanical and electrical equipment installation engineering, foundation engineering, as well as several professional special qualifications of steel construction, equipment maintenance, construction industry. The construction of the company involves various industries and categories, including large residential areas, high-level civil buildings, central business districts, high-end office buildings, hospitals, schools, stadiums, factories, urban roads, rail transportation, and large bridges. And its business span from major regions in China to several countries in ASEAN.
Principal, External Communications, Asia

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Medium emollient ester with softness and great spreadability. This product is certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Mass Balance supply chain protocol.
Schercemol™ 1688 ester is an emollient ester that spreads evenly on the skin where it imparts a velvety softness. It is known for leaving water-resistant yet breathable films. Because it is an odorless, colorless liquid derived from synthetic sources, it has great product uniformity.
INCI Name: Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate
Recommended Use level: Recommended use level is 1 to 20 wt% as supplied

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How To Improve Gut Health Naturally In One Week
This post is all about how to improve gut health naturally.
Bacteria have had such a bad rap for so long that any mention of these complex microorganisms conjures feelings of disgust and fear in us. The truth is that some types of bacteria are actually beneficial and they perform an important role in keeping our gastrointestinal system healthy. Gut health is frequently overlooked, which is unfortunate because it is actually the foundation of good overall health and well-being.
Why is Gut Health Important?
The term gut health refers to the balance of bacteria or microorganisms present in a person’s digestive tract. The gastrointestinal system is responsible for transporting food, processing it, absorbing nutrients, and eliminating unused waste. It is this process that ensures proper nourishment which equates to good health.
If the gut is unhealthy or malfunctioning, it causes a domino effect on the rest of the body, resulting in stress, chronic illnesses, diseases, and problems with immunity. When gut issues occur, it is usually the result of an imbalance in microorganisms in the digestive tract. If you can improve gut health, you can help prevent common issues with the mind and body.
How to Improve Gut Health Naturally
There are ways to effectively improve your gut microbiome in a week and achieve a healthy body. Here are the most important steps on how to improve gut health naturally.
1. Include Prebiotics In Your Meals
Prebiotics (as opposed to probiotics, which refer to good bacteria) is a food group that is considered non-digestible. They are consumed to provide probiotics with something to feed on. With sufficient food supply the population of good bacteria increases. When the number of probiotics is more than the number of harmful bacteria, your gastrointestinal system remains healthy and stable.
Improve gut health by: Eating prebiotic sources such as fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains. Examples: bananas, brown rice, lentils, raw or cooked onions, raw garlic, dark chocolate, whole wheat flour, and raw asparagus.
2. Manage Your Stress
Organs in the body have a direct or indirect relationship with the brain. The constant communication is necessary to ensure that the functions of the body as a whole are maximized. If a person is stressed or dealing with a bout of anxiety, this issue is communicated to the organs, including the stomach and the rest of the GI tract. Stress causes certain changes in gut bacteria, which then affect one’s emotions.
Improve gut health by: Learning how to reduce stress levels by getting enough sleep and rest, exercising regularly, and using relaxation and meditation techniques like yoga.
3. Eat Fermented Foods
Fermented food contains probiotics which play a key role in the fermentation process. Eating fermented foods helps add good bacteria to the GI tract to help with better digestion. Furthermore, fermented food is also known to boost the immune system and is a great addition to the diet.
Improve gut health by: Consuming fermented food such as kimchi, kefir, tempeh, miso, kombucha, sauerkraut, and yogurt. You can also try supplementation like a probiotic supplement.
4. Avoid Disinfectant Products
In a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the gut flora of over 750 children aged 3 to 4 months were analyzed in relation to their exposure to household disinfectants, among other things. It was found that the BMI (body mass index) of children who were most exposed to disinfectants was higher compared to other children when they got older.
While researchers were surprised, it is no secret that disinfectants kill all kinds of bacteria, including the good ones. If you use too much of these products, the number of good bacteria that your body becomes exposed to is significantly reduced. This can be the same for taking to many antibiotics in a short of period of time. It not only kills the bad bacteria but the good ones too.
Improve gut health by: Maintaining good hygiene but maintaining a good balance to avoid extreme cleaning using strong disinfectants. In most cases, a good wash using plain soap and water is often enough to keep yourself clean.
5. Cut Back On Sugar & Sweeteners
Too much sugar is not only detrimental to dental health, but it also affects the health of your gut. Fructose, the form of sugar that is prevalent in the diet, can likely suppress the growth of probiotics in the gut. This is often noticeable when symptoms of too much sugar appear, such as inflammation, bloating, gas, stomachache, and skin issues. Consumption of too much refined sugar disrupts the balance of flora in the intestines, which in turn disrupts the way the GI tract functions.
Improve gut health by: Avoiding refined sugars and consuming healthier options such as fruits. Fruits not only taste sweet but also provide a good source of fiber. Stay away from artificial sweeteners as well.
6. Increase Your Intake of Fiber
Fiber is a must for a healthy gut. Dietary fiber is difficult to digest but it keeps you feeling full and helps in the regular and proper elimination of waste from your body. When gut bacteria consume the fiber, they produce substances that help keep the colon healthy. Sufficient fiber in the diet helps keep gut bacteria fed and ensures regular bowel movement.
Improve gut health by: Eating both soluble and non-soluble sources of dietary fiber. Soluble sources include fruits, barley, legumes, and oats, while insoluble fiber includes vegetables, wheat, and edible seeds.
7. Get Enough Sleep
Experts agree that people require 7 to 9 hours of sleep at night to optimize the way they function during the day. Sleep is the body’s way to replenish itself after a tiring day and is a means to relieve oneself of stress. With enough quality sleep, you can reduce your chances of developing chronic health problems such as obesity, depression, diabetes, and heart disease.
READ: 8 Simple Ways To Get Better Sleep Tonight
It has also been found that while lack of sleep affects the health of the GI tract, the condition of gut microflora also affects one’s quality of sleep.
Improve gut health by: Striking a balance between getting good sleep and keeping your gut healthy. To get started on the right foot, just make sure to have enough sleep each night.
8. Stay Active
Health experts agree that regular physical exercise is necessary to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. One study that was published in 2018 showed that even without changing the diet, getting enough exercise can help improve and stabilize gut health.
In this one study, 17 overweight women were enrolled in a six-week program that involved endurance training. The exercises were performed three times a week. The women were allowed to keep their usual diets. When the program ended, the researchers discovered a decrease in a type of gut bacteria that increases one’s risk of inflammation and an increase in a type of good bacteria that improves metabolism.
Improve gut health by: Starting a physical exercise routine and sticking to it for at least three times a week. Ideally, regular exercises should last for at least 20 minutes per session.
What has helped you improve your gut? Share your thoughts by commenting below!

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Into the World examines how various texts represent stages of growing up and maturation. transitional phase, marked by new challenges, opportunities and relationships described as a ‘rite of passage’, a time of change and adaption from one world of experience into another. offers knowledge, understanding and insight as well as more arduous and difficult consequences. Worlds encountered are varied as well as the unique and individual ways that people cope with the pressures of moving out ‘into the world’.
When responding to texts, students are to demonstrate the different pathways (worlds and ways of coping) that are available. Educating Rita - Willy Russell explores notions of personal growth and self awareness through the transformation and process of change that occurs in Frank and Rita. the playwright describes the play as “a love story”, although the relationship that unfolds between Rita and Frank is also a story about “literature, language and education”. n educative relationship between teaching and learning is examined through the transition from ignorance to knowledge and enlightenment. an educational context is used to explore the development of skills, attitudes, values and outlook that takes place in Frank and Rita. Frank and Rita’s interaction as teacher and student triggers a re-evaluation of self and their relationship with their world. The bond they form generates the emotional impetus (force) needed to undergo fundamental (so basic as to be hard to alter, resolve, or overcome) change. his is represented through Rita and Frank’s juxtaposition of class, background, social expectations and values. in the introduction of the play, Russell explains that he aimed to achieve this in a way that “engaged” an audience and “was relevant to those who considered themselves uneducated, those whose daily language is not the language of the university or the theatre. ” the play explores fundamental notions of education including the motivations and dreams that inspire teacher and student alike.
Educating Rita has proved to be highly successful because Bildungsroman elements of self-realisation, allow it to “transcend barriers of language, class and race” and strike an empathetic chord with audiences. the genre of Bildungsroman has an educative focus that looks at the inter-relationship of man and society. the focus is the extended journey of personal development that the protagonist undergoes. the tone is typically personal, reflective and highly subjective. erceptions of self and social identity are examined and as such the characterisation is psychologically complex and morally ambiguous (unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made). changes that occur are often motivated by a desire for self-improvement or self-fulfillment and can result in a greater self-knowledge. these features are clearly seen by the altered outlooks both Rita and frank exhibit by the end of their time together. STRUCTURE: fifteen scene, ‘two-hander’ script with only two characters. each scene depicts one of rita’s visits, charting the growing relationship between teacher and pupil.
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BHOPAL: The mystery over the deaths of a father and daughter in their car in Sagar remains unsolved with police still unsure, 36 hours on, if it was a double murder or murder-suicide.
Businessman Brijesh Chaurasia, 43, and his 16-year-old daughter Mahima were found dead, shot in the head at point-blank range, while Chaurasia’s wife Radha lay in the back seat, unconscious but unhurt.
Police have sent swabs of Chaurasia’s hands to test for gunshot residue (GSR). When someone fires a gun, the smoke that is shot out with the bullet deposits certain residue on the shooters’s hand, clothes and surroundings. If Chaurasia’s hands prove positive for GSR, it may mean he fired the bullets, said an officer. “But if it is negative, the entire line of investigation changes,” he remarked.
What puzzles police is that the gun is missing. Samples of the soft drink that Chaurasia is believed to have given his daughter and wife have been sent for lab tests.
Sagar SP Amit Sanghi said the forensic reports would come by Friday. “Two 32-bore bullets have been recovered, one inside the car and the other during autopsy. We are looking for the gun,” said Sanghi. What’s also puzzling is that Mahima was shot in the left temple, and Chaurasia on the right. It is clear that Mahima was shot from outside the car, as the left and right front windows were down, said the officer.
A note, allegedly written by Chaurasia in which he mentions his debts, has been handed to police by a relative. It says he owes Rs 80-90 lakh in debt to various banks and names four people who will be questioned, the SP said. Police say there is no evidence of struggle inside the car.
Brijesh’s wife will be interviewed again after the lab report on the cold drinks comes in. She has told police that Brijesh had given them the soft drinks after which she couldn’t recall anything. A police patrol spotted the parked Santro around 1.45am on Wednesday and went to investigate.


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Catherine joined the Friendship Place team as the Assistant Director of the Neighbors First division in August 2015 after working on a Housing-First Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team at Pathways to Housing in Washington, DC. Her professional experience includes working with children of incarcerated parents, inmates and ex-offenders, survivors of domestic violence, and chronically homeless adults. Catherine is also experienced with group work, including facilitating Anger Management groups in prison and volunteering with the Alternatives to Violence Project.
Catherine is an alum of the Notre Dame Mission Volunteers AmeriCorps program, where she served two years of national service in Baltimore, MD.
Catherine Stephens holds a Bachelors in Social Work from James Madison University and a Masters in Social Work from University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Washington, DC.

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text: These colored vases give you the option to venture away from being so bland to something up-to-date and spunky. The containers add warmth and easy going look for any space. These tall colored vases can be used as table decorations, gardening, or in home décor. The vibrant flower pails have a galvanized finish to prevent rusting. These 8 3/4 D x 16 H colored vases are a great size to take up space for decorating.

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CEE’s electronics industry is focused on a small number of major global OEMs and electronic manufacturing services providers with the focus on the 3C segments. In total, the 3C segments amounted to US$38.6 billion in 2022, 68.2% of electronics output. 3C production is centered on five countries with Poland, Slovakia and Turkey major centres for TV production. Production in the Czech Republic is focused on computing while Hungary is produces a combination of computing and consumer electronics related equipment.
Industrial and high-end communications equipment production within the region will continue to take an increasing share of production, although in overall percentage terms it will remain low because of the dominant position held by the 3C segment. Although this will be led by foreign investment as companies look to move production from higher cost West European locations or in the case of non-European companies look to establish a low-cost manufacturing base to serve the European market, it is also an area where indigenous companies will compete.
Prior to the war Russia and Ukraine accounted for 8.1% of electronics production in the region and 25.9% of the market with this falling to 6.8% for output and 21.1% for markets in 2022. At the end of 2023 electronics production in Russia and Ukraine is forecast at US$4.1 billion down 20.3% from US$5.2 billion in 2021. In the same period the electronics market in the two countries has declined 23.1% to US$19.1 billion (2021: US$24.9 billion).
To take advantage of the opportunities within the global electronics industry will require a clear understanding of the current structure of the global electronics industry, how it has developed on a country, regional and global level. In addition to market and production data on the countries covered in the Volume 3, the report also contains a unique global summary covering production data 2020-2023 and market data 2020-2026 for the 53 countries covered in the Yearbook database.
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Market Data and Forecasts 2020-2026
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The Corporate License allows electronic distribution (excluding distribution to third parties) of the report throughout your organisation, making it a cost effective and essential tool for your business.

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As businesses have realized the potential of data, the technology used to manage and analyze it has become an essential component of the modern tech stack. By combining various data management and storage methods, Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics assists business intelligence in discovering new avenues of profit and improving existing ones.
In this article, we’ll go over the essentials of Azure Synapse Security by covering the following topics:
What is Azure Synapse Security?
Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics is a flexible platform for ingesting, storing, and analyzing data from many different sources. This service analyzes data and provides recommendations about how you can use it to improve operational procedures and ultimately increase company profit. Given that some of the processing occurs internally, you can also put this data to good use in services geared toward developing machine learning models.
The Azure Synapse workspace includes a wide variety of other tools aside from Synapse Analytics so you can perform any data operation quickly. It provides links to various data archives and generators. With Azure Synapse, you have access to a full suite of analytic life cycle capabilities, including:
- Apache Spark Pool for big data processing
- Data Explorer for log and time series analytics
- Dedicated SQL Pool for enterprise data warehousing
- Pipelines for data integration runtime
- Serverless SQL pool, formerly SQL DW, for data exploration over Azure Data Lake
- Deep integration with Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Machine Learning, and Power BI
More so, it gets optimized for use with the help of:
- Data Explorer analyzes time series and log information.
- Spark enhances the performance of big data analysis applications.
- SQL offers business data storage.
It uses pipelines to make ETL/ELT procedures easier and help with data integration.
When to Use Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft has mentioned the following as some potential applications of Azure Synapse:
- Increasing the productivity of factories by performing centralized data analysis in a single location, providing a comprehensive overview of the supply chain.
- Improving the preservation of patients’ data by correlating the information to disease symptoms and, as a result, providing treatment recommendations.
- Analyzing real-time client data, thus enhancing customer service and ensuring customers can access all the assistance they require.
- Protecting your consumers from identity theft and account takeover with real-time alerts about suspicious activity in customer-managed user accounts.
The Azure Synapse Architecture
The Azure Synapse Workspace Architecture consists of the following:
Database templates simplify and speed up data modeling. These templates include operational, commercial, or transactional data tables, columns, and relationships. They are also tailored to specific industries, such as the financial sector, the insurance sector, the retail sector, and others.
After selecting a database template, you can edit tables, columns, and relationships. Then, machine learning models analyze the data and provide valuable insights and conclusions for the company.
Synapse Studio provides the ideal environment to develop practical solutions for data analysis in a short frame. The Synapse Studio handles data, Big Data, and AI management, including preparation, administration, exploration, and storage.
Synapse SQL extends the possibility for real-time and machine learning applications by serving as a T-SQL query engine for data storage and display.
5 Best Practices for Azure Synapse Security
Always follow Azure Synapse Security best practices to ensure adequate security in your Azure Synapse environment. So, here are five best practices to get you started with securing your Azure Synapse environment:
1. Implement a System of Multiple Authentication
Protecting against phishing and brute-force attacks, which are always possible, requires a more robust authentication mechanism. A perfectly safe system is impossible to build, but you can make a very powerful one.
Secure your Azure authentication using Azure’s built-in directory service, Azure Active Directory. Just keep in mind, a user account that uses Azure Active Directory authentication must also have Multi-Factor Authentication turned on.
2. Secure Access for Administrators
Unlimited access accounts are extremely vulnerable to attacks. Thus, timely audits, effective user management strategies, and checks of administrative accounts are necessary.
Access to your business may be monitored, analyzed, and managed with the help of Highly Privileged Identity Management, an Azure Active Directory service. To use it, users must go through an activation process that temporarily elevates their privileges to those of an administrator.
3. Avail of the Microsoft Azure Security Center
Assuming you are not up to speed on security best practices, your best bet is Azure Security Center. This option is preferred by companies concerned with security and can afford the service’s higher upfront and ongoing costs.
In addition, you may use it to keep an eye on and assess your virtual appliances and network settings. Ultimately, Azure Security Center is a centralized hub where you can find all the advice and guidance you need to keep your Azure environment safe and secure.
4. Track Alerts from Your Activity Log
The activity logs are essential in determining whether or not any threats compromised the system. Because every incident that goes unnoticed has the potential to cause serious problems, it is in everyone’s best interest to spot those events in advance. You should set up some activity log alerts in your system so that it can tell you of any security risks. Also, implement consistent auditing procedures to ensure that you know who has access to the data, when, and what queries they are running on what data.
5. Strategic Key Management
Passwords and other sensitive data should always be encrypted into keys for security. These are far safer and can get used as a password for any protection. However, keys must be encrypted and stored safely to prevent misuse or loss. Thus, protecting data stored in the cloud requires secure key management.
Azure Synapse’s flexibility and integration options make it a great solution for covering data-related business activities, from ingestion to analysis. Its focus on safety also makes it a useful tool for avoiding the stress that comes with manual solutions to problems that can be solved automatically.
Satori can optimize your Azure Synapse Security with ease by enabling easy to implement user management strategies and effective auditing and access control capabilities.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
A precedent embalms a principle.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
I think, therefore I am.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.


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Middletown, NY- Orange Regional Medical Center will host a free educational seminar “Bariatric Weight Loss Surgery” on Tuesday, August 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the Courtyard by Marriott, Stewart Airport, 4 Governor Drive, Newburgh. Join Janet Kovler, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., C.D.E., Orange Regional’s Bariatric Program Manager, for this information-filled seminar where obesity treatment options including non-surgical approaches and gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric banding surgery will be discussed by one of Orange Regional Medical Center’s Board-certified, Fellowship-trained bariatric surgeons.
Orange Regional’s Bariatric Support Group will meet immediately following the seminar. This support group is for both pre- and post-op weight loss surgical patients and is open to the general public. The topic that will be discussed at the support group will be: Nutrition – reaching your protein requirements and staying on target.
Orange Regional Medical Center is designated by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence® (BSCOE). This designation recognized Orange Regional’s surgeons and facilities as demonstrating an unparalleled commitment and ability to consistently deliver the highest level of bariatric surgical care possible.
For more information, or to register for both the seminar and the support group, please call the Orange Regional Health Connection at 1-888-321-ORMC (6762).
Orange Regional Medical Center is a member of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System.

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Hey everyone, I love snow. How about you?
I live in the depths of Wisconsin where the snow is fluffy and soft.
The first year I hired a snowplow company to plow my driveway. The company assured me that they could get the job done.
After many calls into the company about the service, I finally decided to purchase a snowblower for next years snow fall and do it myself.
I searched up, down, left and right for a decent inexpensive snowblower that would not break my bank.
Did you know that there are very large to small snowblowers and all the in between sizes? 12″-46″ that is the length of snowblower of which it breaks down the snow and makes it into powder snow.
Well, after all my research and the size of my driveway, I finally decided to buy a used 24″ Yard Machine by MTD with 5hp and that has forward and reverse.
The nice man brought it by my house, because who has a car that can carry a snowblower? Who can even lift a snowblower?
The man who lifted it off his truck is a fireman. Strong and versatile.
Anyway, he lifted it out and proceeded to tell me how to start it and how you work the forward, reverse, choke, primer and idle. He guaranteed it will run all Winter.
So, I bought the beastly machine for $220. All I needed to do was put gas in it.
It has one spark plug….lol….I am laughing because it seems so simple to fix if it starts puttering out. Maybe just change the spark plug.
It snowed a few weeks ago where I could actually take my new toy out and mow my driveway.(laughing)
I dressed with layers of clothes. A t-shirt, a Henley, a sweater and a hooded coat. I just wore sweats and socks with warm boots and a hat. No gloves.
I ran to my garage and rolled the heavy snowblower out onto my oddly shaped driveway and proceeded to try and remember how to start the gadget. It’s basically like starting a go cart.
I am staring at all the levers and finally realize that the instructions are etched into the handle. Thank goodness!
Push the plastic key in, turn the throttle and idle all the way up and pull the cord.
Va Va Va Vroom, Yes Yes Yes!
It started in one pull! So I let it idle for five minutes to warm up the engine. Then, off I was; pushing the snowblower up and down the driveway. Not really thinking if I am doing it right. Laughing at myself for wondering why I am pushing so hard when the guy who sold it to me said it’s automatic, no pushing. Lol lol lol
Well, I did not engage the motor. Oh crickets! Laughing at myself.
Finally engaged it into the fourth speed and it rolled like a snail up and down the drive way. I am thinking this will take all day. Do. I want to be outside all day? No!
So, I crank it into the highest speed and it’s go go go. Turn the outlet hose for the snow to blow left or right, easy.
Tootling up, tootling down. Wow, this is great exercise and it’s kind of fun.
Imagine me walking behind the snowblower, the snow is blowing out the tube away from me and then all of a sudden a brisk wind comes and it’s a blizzard in my face, even thou, it’s not snowing outside. Ha ha ha ha ha!
Well, I did not expect this to happen; and it happened over and over again.
When I was finished with the driveway, I looked like the abdominal snowman. Completely covered in snow and I smelled like a mechanic.
Wow! What an experience.
I did enjoy it at the beginning and was happy that I accomplished something that day. But, the snow covering me completely felt like I made snow angles for an hour.
How does this compare to shoveling?
It’s way easier then pushing and lifting snow. It’s still a back breaker, thou!
There is no way to avoid ending up like an abdominal snowman.
Keep dry, no way!
In the end, I had a great time breathing the cold air and building up my whale fat to withstand more cold weather, for the next snowblower event. Yes! It is quite the event!
Ran inside to strip of my completely wet and frozen clothes. Yeah, sweat & snow turns to ice people. (Laughing)
Jumped into the shower to rid of my new mechanic cologne and defrost my bones, even thou I was hot as heck. I figured a good warm shower would help reduce my hotness and defrost everything else. I was surprised even after my warm shower I was still sweating. But, I wrapped back up in sweats and a long sleeve Henley, knowing at some point I would feel cold soon.
Finally, thawed completely out after eating a hot vegan meal and drinking a hot blueberry tea.
I look forward to my next snow-blowing adventure and may even wear leaf bags to prevent the adoring abdominal snowman look!


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Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 32 (2017), No. 4 18. July 2017
Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 32 (2017), No. 4 (18.07.2017)
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Bone and Soft Tissue Response in Bone-Level Implants Restored with Platform Switching: A 5-Year Clinical Prospective Study
Lago, Laura / da Silva, Luis / Gude, Francisco / Rilo, Benito
Purpose: The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate radiographic levels of peri-implant bone crest as well as soft tissue response, papilla height, and buccal mucosa recession, in bone-level implants restored with platform switching after 1-year and 5-year follow-ups.
Materials and Methods: This prospective study called for the placement of 59 implants to obtain a target of 90% power. To compensate for possible dropouts, the sample size was adjusted to 67 implants. To assess marginal bone level changes, periapical radiographs were taken at baseline, 1 year, and 5 years after the definitive restorations. Peri-implant soft tissue modifications were evaluated by performing a photographic sequence at 15 days, 1 year, and 5 years after implant restoration. Parameters measured were: (1) distance from the tip of the papilla to the contact point and (2) apicocoronal crown length.
Results: A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA rank test) was used to compare quantitative data among the three time points studied. Mean marginal bone level changes were as follows: -0.06 ± 0.32 mm from baseline to 1 year, -0.23 ± 0.38 mm from 1 to 5 years, and -0.28 ± 0.45 mm from baseline to 5 years. In bone-level outcomes, no statistically significant differences were found between baseline and 1 year, while the mean differences between 1 and 5 years and baseline and 5 years showed statistically significant differences. In the soft tissue analysis, the distance from the tip of the papilla to the contact point showed the following values: baseline, 2.08 mm; 1 year, 1.54 mm; 5 years, 1.31 mm. No statistically significant differences were found between baseline and 1 year, whereas statistically significant differences between 1 and 5 years and baseline and 5 years were found. Apicocoronal crown length measurements showed the following values: baseline, 9.44 mm; 1 year, 9.28 mm; 5 years, 9.81 mm. No significant differences were found between times studied.
Conclusion: This prospective clinical study of 67 bone-level implants restored according to the platform-switching concept reported that radiographic levels of peri-implant bone crest were statistically significant between 1 and 5 years and baseline and 5 years. For the soft tissue response, the greatest reduction in the distance from the papilla to the contact point from 1 to 5 years and baseline to 5 years was observed. No significant differences were shown in the buccal margin.
Keywords: bone level, follow-up, platform switching, soft tissues


This Summer, the government will launch a new £150m fund to enable community groups to buy local assets, such as pubs or cultural venues, and run them as community-owned businesses.
Groups will be able to bid for up to £250,000 matched funding to help ensure that communities can support and continue benefiting from local facilities, community assets and amenities that are important to them
There is no set list of eligible assets, as importance is given to communities determining what matters most to them. As examples, projects could include community-owned sports clubs, sporting and leisure facilities, cinemas and theatres, music venues, museums, galleries, parks, pubs, post office buildings or shops.
Projects should be focused on place-based assets or amenities, which are important to the local community, build connections between people and foster a sense of pride in the local area – but are at risk of being lost without community intervention. There will be an emphasis on ensuring the asset or amenity can be sustainable in community ownership.
The full bidding prospectus is due to be published by June 2021.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Porsche and the Volkswagen Group would consider entering Formula One if the next engine regulations due to be introduced in 2025 promote sustainable fuels, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Stefano Domenicali will have some fundamental questions to address when he takes over as Formula One chief executive in January, starting with the relevance of the sport to manufacturers in an increasingly electric age.
(Reuters) - Six-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has a collection of supercars worth millions of dollars but he no longer drives any of them.
LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One set out its first ever sustainability plan on Tuesday with the aim of achieving a net zero-carbon footprint for the sport by 2030.


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The main issue is dealing with terrorists who act without relying on any organizational infrastructure for resources or guidance on the timing and location of an attack – and this is achieved with preventive intelligence.
Murderers who operate from a strong religious motivation, be it incitement or feelings of social deprivation, can be identified in advance. In general, feelings or pressure that eventually leads someone to pick a knife or use a car to run people over, develop over a long period of time. There are people around them who notice or could notice, if only someone would require them to pay attention. This requires intelligence activity of a different kind to that provided through the current functioning of the Shin Bet.
The Shin Bet knows how to uncover and thwart attacks that rely on organizational infrastructure, communication between individuals and other elements that let it eventually reach that Palestinian woman in a remote spot who is sewing an explosives belt for someone from the next village. In fact, the Shin Bet has distilled and come close to perfecting its methods in the field, and the results prove this. Technological developments of recent years have also provided a generational leap forward, but as is standard in this field, every measure, method of operation, or even weapon soon gives rise to an antidote - as the enemy produces a way to neutralize the Israeli steps.
This is exactly what is happening now in the Palestinian arena. "Atmospheric attacks", "terror by inspiration", and "popular terrorism" are all terms for the same phenomenon. This is when there is no organizational infrastructure or trail of partners and helpers, and counterterrorist intelligence efforts must center directly on the operation itself, which must be traced using the non-physical signs it leaves.
This can be achieved even without providing the terrorists with information that might help them. It is fair to say that the increased presence of Shin Bet agents and the operation of technological measures in the neighborhoods of East Jerusalem may soon produce counterterrorist results.
First, the instigators must be identified, and after them those showing signs of religious awakening. The social networks cannot neglected in this respect, as they will help achieve exactly what Israel's political leaders claim is impossible - finding the "lone wolf terrorist".
So we shall see too that the optimal means of preventing popular terror is a policy aggressive intelligence. Aggressive but sophisticated, not indiscriminate or violent, is best suited to the new type of enemy.
Clash of Narratives
Another method that has yet to be deployed is perception. The current wave of terror in Jerusalem is a clash of two narratives, to which each party adheres without exception.
The Palestinians believe that Israelis really do intend to take over the Temple Mount, destroy the mosques and rebuild the temple on the ruins. The Israeli nationalist and religious right, and to a large extent the general public, see this Palestinian narrative as nothing less than blood libel. Israelis also see the ongoing terrorism as a Palestinian attempt to oust the Jews not only from the Temple Mount, but all of Jerusalem, and as a way of pressing ahead with their demand for their own capital in East Jerusalem.
Each side is tied to the declarations of the other. The difference is that for the Palestinians, the narrative is translated into violent, murderous action, while Israeli anger and insecurity are translated into demands from the government to take a hard line against the Palestinians or, in leftist circles, to resume negotiations. These two Israeli demands, even if met, are useless.
This is not the time to elaborate, but one might try to refute the roiling narratives on either side. In other words, make an effort to change minds, lower the tensions and calm the inflamed passions a little.
This first of all requires a degree of confidence, but anticipating trust between Palestinians and Israelis is like anticipating the coming of the messiah. Nonetheless, it is possible to create a temporary trust through statements from the political leaders on both sides. If Netanyahu and Abbas were to issue a joint statement that distinguished between myth and fact in the aforementioned narratives, it would help. Perhaps more important would be statements by religious leaders, which would help to prevent a bloodbath.
The Palestinian Authority has control over and the ability to direct the media in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The government of Israel can speak freely in the Israeli media. This can be exploited to tell both the Palestinians and Israel that a continuation of the current situation could lead us to the plight in which the citizens of Syria, Iraq, Yemen and other countries in the region find themselves. The Palestinian street will grasp this, as will the Israeli public.
Another step that could be is offering economic benefits to the Palestinian population and creating jobs for the unemployed youth. Past experience has shown that economic factors have a major long-term impact. It was proven in the Arab Spring, which was primarily triggered by economic hardship, and by the fact that the West Bank is relatively quiet as a result of its improved economic situation given events in Gaza and the region as a whole.
The government of Israel could also try to take clever steps to calm the situation using social networks, which are popular among the Palestinian public, especially the young.
Israel's political leaders and security chiefs should stop trying to breathe new life into old methods. A new situation requires innovation, like Israel's Operation Defensive Shield at the height of the second intifada. The key outcome of that was a shift in consciousness on both sides, and the development of an intelligence assault on Palestinian terrorism, in conjunction with an IDF presence in population centers in Judea and Samaria.

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What are the benefits of Online Account Management?
Online Account Management allows you to manage your fuel card account anytime, anywhere by using the internet. It’s a totally free service from Fuelmate which allows you to order more cards, de-activate cards you already have and monitor your fuel card activity 24/7. You can also request copies of invoices and download fleet management reports. These reports can be exported to Excel and incorporated into your own reporting system.

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N. Michigan County Charged with Voter Fraud for Hand Counting Ballots in May
Bellaire, Mich. –A northern Michigan county that was sued for its fall election count will hand-count paper ballots in the May 4 primary.
County Antrim commissioners have refused a request from the county clerk for $ 5,080 to prepare the Dominion’s voting machines for the next election, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reported.
Instead, the commissioners said the ballots would be hand-counted, although Clerk Sheryl Guy, the Chief Electoral Officer, said it could be illegal.
âThe state said we can’t. But let them come and tell us that we cannot, given our situation, âsaid Commissioner Ed Boettcher.
The county is still in dispute with a resident who accused those responsible for fraud in the fall election.
The first results in Republican County showed a local victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. But he has been attributed to human error, no problem with voting machines, and fixed. A judge nevertheless took the extraordinary measure of allowing forensic images of Dominion election equipment.
Guy had offered to hire a contractor to install new hard drives on the machines before the May 4 election.
New machines in the nine electoral districts would cost about $ 55,000.
“If we do a one-time count of the May elections … it will cost us money – it will certainly cost us less than $ 55,000 – and the trial will hopefully be successful by then,” he said. said Boettcher.


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Hello! This is Kym here again.
Don't forget the new challenge started on 1 August 2018.
The topic for this month is "UNDER THE SEA".
Here is my inspiration post with this theme.
For my seaside themed card I have used the image called "Sweet Snuggling".
Full details of this project can be found on my blog HERE.
Make sure you keep on popping by every few days as there will be inspiration on this blog from other Design Members, details of any new releases and details of any sales.

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Leonardo Di Caprio @ Global Citizen Festival NY
At URESL we realise that global industry has a certain effect on global warming.
Actor and Activist Leonardo DiCaprio made a stirring speech at the Global Citizen Festival in New York that shows the common man is not alone in a quest for change around eco investment and action against global poverty.
“The cause of our environment and the fight for the world’s poor are inherently linked. The planet can no longer wait. The underprivileged can no longer be ignored. This is truly our moment for action”.
Global Citizen Honoured to host this incredible voice at the #GlobalCitizen Festival on Saturday. Mr. DiCaprio, we could not agree more.


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By Anna Saghabalian
Having been repeatedly denied a new broadcasting license, the owner and editorial staff of Armenia’s main independent television controversially pulled off the air nearly three years ago are looking to switch to the radio waves.
Mesrop Movsesian of the once popular A1+ channel announced on Thursday that he has set up a new company that will participate in a tender for two FM radio frequencies later this month. He said that even though the company called MS Explorer is a separate entity it would largely be staffed with A1+ journalists whose news reports have continued to appear on the TV station’s web site since its de facto closure in April 2002.
The bidding for the radio frequencies is set for December 28. The winners are expected to be announced three days later. MS Explorer’s competitors are two local firms seeking to retransmit broadcasts of Russian music stations.
Movsesian was downbeat about his chances of success, indicating that the Armenian authorities are unlikely to ease their tight grip on electronic media.
The closure of A1+, the only national channel critical of President Robert Kocharian, was condemned as politically motivated by Armenian and international media watchdogs, the United States and the Council of Europe. The latter has repeatedly urged the Armenian government to allow the channel back on air.
A1+ has since taken part in about a dozen frequency tenders and lost all of them. All members of a state commission handling those tenders are appointed by Kocharian.
(Photolur photo: Mesrop Movsesian.)


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Nursing home and home care services in 2021 In 2021, no increase in nursing home personnel for first time since 2006
11.11.2022 - Nursing home personnel represented 100 361 full-time equivalent jobs in 2021, a decline of 0.2% compared with 2020. Between 2006 and 2020, employment in this sector saw continuous and steady average annual growth of 2.5%. In 2021, activity picked up with more new admissions than before 2020, a year marked by an exceptional number of deaths in nursing homes. At 89.6%, the occupancy rate is struggling to return to pre-pandemic values (2019): 94%), according to the Statistics on Nursing Homes and Home Care Services from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
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So ESPN had what they called the Ultimate Brady vs. Manning comparison today where their crack team of football morons compared the two in everything from who throws a better deep ball, to who is smarter, to who history will remember as the better QB, to who is a better leader, etc. Not surprisingly Peyton went 11-4 against Brady After all we are talking about ESPN here so I’d expect nothing less. But the thing I got a kick out of was one question in particular. Who would you rather have be your QB if you needed to win 1 playoff game. Not only was that one of the few categories that Brady won, but he won it almost unanimously. And really isn’t that the only thing that matters? It doesn’t matter whether you think Manning is smarter, more durable, uglier etc. Who do you want to win the big game? That’s it. Doesn’t that pretty much sum up everything you need to know about these two guys? Brady is the guy you want leading your team when you need to win. Manning is the guy you want leading your team at the Pro Bowl and durin the regular season. Brady raises his level of play during big games and Peyton stays the same. That’s why Brady has 3 rings and Peyton has 1. That’s good enough for me. If that means Dan Marino was better than Joe Montana and Peyton Manning is better than Tom Brady than so be it.
PS – Just in case anybody wants to invalidate this entire article with one sentence here it is.
“Manning is the most mobile quarterback in the NFL.”
Yes they really said that.


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Niger's opposition will hold a conference Thursday to plan ways to prevent embattled President Mamadou Tandja's new cabinet from functioning.
This comes after the government stepped down, allowing Tandja to pick a new cabinet under a new controversial amendment that extends his term for three additional years.
Tandja's administration enacted the amended constitution into law Tuesday, claiming it was approved by more than 90 percent of voters in a referendum.
But local and international observers have described the referendum as a setback in Niger's democracy.
Abdullahi Jauri, a former member of the now dissolved Niger parliament told VOA that the opposition will be seeking divine intervention to return Niger to democracy.
"Today, all the members ? will make a one-day prayers and will be (fasting) to do the one-day Ramadan to pray for our country to be back on the democratic way," Jauri said.
He said the opposition will continue to refuse to recognize President Tandja as the legitimate leader of Niger.
"We will have a conference and then on Saturday we will hold what we call a mega meeting (protest) to show everybody and the international community that 95 percent of the population (is) with us. So, for this referendum is a non event," he said.
Jauri accused President Tandja of dictatorship after declaring himself leader of the government, a post normally reserved for the prime minister.
"That means that he has concentrated all of the powers in his hand; the judiciary, the legislature and the executive. Now, in his constitution, the prime minister is no more the head of government; it is Tandja who is the head of government," Jauri said.
He accused the government of clamping down on dissent.
"We are in an atmosphere whereby when you express your view you end (up) in prison. And right now, we have about 96 activists all over the country (in prison). So, that is why everybody is determined to struggle to see Niger back to democracy," he said.
Jauri said there is a need for Nigeriens to fight for their freedom.
"You cannot get liberty by sleeping on your bed; this is impossible. We are not going to reverse or to go back. People are really determined to struggle for their rights?it is a hard thing to get liberty. People have suffered to get it (and) people are not ready to abandon it," Jauri said.
He said the opposition would not be stopped by security agents.
"There is nothing we can do; we have to face everything. If they (security) refuse, people will still go," he said.
Jauri described as ridiculous President Tandja's claim that he won the referendum with over 90 percent of the votes.
Tandja has often claimed Nigeriens want him to stay to oversee the multibillion-dollar oil, mining and infrastructure deals which some say could transform Niger's economy.


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Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, marking how far into 2016 women must work in order to earn what men made in 2015.
Women today still earn just 79 cents on average for every dollar paid to men. For African-American women and Latinas, the wage gap widens to 60 cents and 55 cents, respectively, according to an analysis by the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Equal pay advocates say it's time to end the gender wage gap, which could be closed in part by passage of the long-proposed federal Paycheck Fairness Act. Under the bill, employees could share salary information between co-workers without retaliation, among other provisions.
U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL,8) is among the Democratic cosponsors of the Paycheck Fairness Act. Duckworth, who is running for incumbent Mark Kirk's (R-IL) Senate seat, is seeking to draw a contrast with her opponent on equal pay issues.
Most U.S. business executives support policies to boost the minimum wage and provide workers with paid sick time, predictive scheduling and increased maternity and paternity leave, an internal poll shows.
The poll findings, obtained by the progressive watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy, clash with the policy positions of business groups fighting against such proposals.
Luntz Global, operated by GOP pollster Frank Luntz, conducted the poll of 1,000 U.S. business executives on behalf of the Council of State Chambers. Among those surveyed, 63 percent belong to a chamber of commerce.
According to the findings, 80 percent of survey respondents backed an increase in their state's minimum wage, compared to 8 percent who opposed the idea.
Victims of workplace harassment and discrimination suffered a major
setback Monday, according to critics of the U.S. Supreme Court decision
to not hold Ball State University (BSU) responsible for racial discrimination and harassment of an African American kitchen worker in 2005.


How can i read file from FileShare. When i change filepath to local machine it works perfect, but when i change it to UNS path to SharedFolder, it wont work. And it throws an error System.IO.Exception
var filePath = @"\\192.168.150.11\Tine Integrasjon\Riversand\Riversand.xml";
var test = File.OpenRead(filePath);
FileInfo file = new FileInfo(filePath);
FileStream fs = file.Open(FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite, FileShare.ReadWrite);
logger.WriteLine("Det finnes ingen fil å lese fra, sjekk mappen 'Riversand'", DateTime.Now.ToString());
catch (Exception e)
logger.WriteLine("Failed to run application.", e.Message + Environment.NewLine + e.StackTrace);
iam getting Exception: System.IO.IOException " The user name or password is incorrect".
Visual studio is running as Administrator, an user have read /Write permission on SharedFolder.
Iam running my development enviroment on Windows Server 2012 R2, and another VM in same domain with SharedFolder. And Firewall is diabled in all domain.!
If i just paste UNC Path (\\192.168.150.11\Tine Integrasjon\Riversand\Rive
in FIleExplorer, it opens the file, without any issue on authenticating. But when iam running my Console Application and i try to read the file i get an error : The username or password is inncorrect...


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Galinsoga, Galinsoga quadriradiata Cav., or G. ciliata (Raf.) Blake has been the main concern of many organic and conventional vegetable growers in recent years. It is not very sensitive to photoperiod and flowers all summer till frost time. Seeds show little or no dormancy and germinate on a continuous basis, with up to 10,000 viable seeds per plant. It is hard to eradicate because stems left on the ground can put down roots and immature seeds can continue maturing. It can also interfere with harvesting operations. The aim of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of different control strategies. The following physical and cultural control methods were studied: smothering, green manure (buckwheat, oats) and allelopathic plant mulches (beebalm and rye), stale seedbed technique (flaming or vinegar), biofumigation (brown mustard), precision mechanical weeding, and burying seeds using a rototiller. The experiments were carried out at the Organic Agriculture Innovation Platform in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville. An on-farm trial including the stale seedbed technique and green manure was also conducted.
From 2016 to 2018
Pest, weed, and disease control, Organic farming
This project will lead to the development of an effective strategy for controlling galinsoga in Québec.
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec | CETAB+
The aim of the project was to measure the performance and water requirements of eight potato cultivars under commercial production conditions.
Researcher: Carl Boivin
Evaluation of the potential of drones to optimize trichogramma releases against the European corn borer on processing sweet corn in Québec.
Biofumigation could be an attractive option for increasing the mortality of dormant seeds.
Researcher: Maryse Leblanc

domain: biology


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In her recent book of poetry, I Love It Though (Nightboat Books, 2017), Alli Warren looks at the world skeptically as she explores the nature of desire and the sublime in the present. Warren describes desire for a utopic, alternate world and the way that that desire is compromised by cultural and ideological factors. Pleasure is often tainted by class, power plays, and gender wars. We are products of our time and there is no escaping that. Warren says in an interview with Dustin Williamson published in The Coil Magazine on July 16, 2018:
I don’t think there’s any unadulterated, natural, or authentic self where desire is pure. The poems deal with this entanglement, and yet they are not free from a utopian, impossible wish to (re)gain access to some form where feeling and meaning are simple and clear.
Desire is complicated and in retaining that complexity in her work, Warren gives it the sense of a life in the process of living, a mind moving in the language and critiquing the world on its own terms. Instead of giving easy answers, she complicates the questions when thinking of an alternative to this world, something that the poem gives voice to and thus can embody. It’s a real world she’s speaking of even though you can only feel it. Longing is stronger than control. It is open-ended and resists closure and finality. The invisible nurtures the speaker because what is visible is subject to definition, categorization, manipulation, and decay. Warren’s vision of the world is one of “revelation instead of simple clarity” (1).
The first poem, “A Yielding Hole For Light,” sets the tone for the entire book. Warren writes:
I tell BB what I want around me
are the ripe and tender ones
wine the color of weather
the lush bearing of our longing
going on in my way, stupidly sincere
one foot in the office the other lolling
about the field, do you prefer the gravel
to the scrub grass? I prefer the ear
to the throat, calling choice
what’s ancient (1)
I want to be able to continue
to love to stay alive
the epigraph belongs to Gloria Gaynor
the green pervades, it’s a diamond, we all are (2)
In the title, a “hole” is something complete, defined, circumscribed; the word also suggests a kind of void or tear in the fabric of reality; “yielding” suggests giving over to pressure, not to be hard or rigid. This is the fluidity necessary for the light to pass through: a moment of enlightenment produced by a rupture in the present system of thought, which allows for new ideas to flow. This gives rise to the sense of pervading green (suggesting nature, renewal). And yet the word green is also simply the color green as the diamond is just a diamond. What I mean is that in Warren’s poetry, the material qualities of the language also contain that which is beyond the language; the spirit is in the material.
A running theme throughout I Love it Though concerns the way in which we are taught to categorize, define, map, bind, and thus limit our views of the world. But Warren is interested in a way of being open in the world:
to resist enclosure
and the loaded laying down
of structure on soft earth
as desire can never perish
blind in the rush of weeds
Trying to get a glimpse
of the law
and in passing breathing lift (4)
In “Palpating the Scar” Warren speaks of “brimming at the limit oozing / hole where the heart should be.” Here is the idea of hole as void, a recurring trope in the book, as painful absence, or lack. She speaks of “they” which suggests a solidarity with her friends who all suffer from a common ailment in the present world-system and refers to “all the usual palliatives”: the false cures which are unable fix the wound in the usual manner given our present society.
Warren’s idea of a political space is one that essentially obeys natural processes. She writes about the vow to be
fungible that whole
as long as it rings
could a polity
would a (31)
Here in the poem a space is opened where things are bartered for and where our emotional and physical life obey a cyclical process like nature. But then the next line after “could a polity” trails off; Warren is unable to reach a conclusion, or articulate what, in some respects, must remain unsaid :
I sing of something that cannot speak its name
though its signature is everywhere
Of sentimental feeling
and immaculate behavior.
Up to this point the language of the poem is that of government and finance (“Indeed how much gold / bespoke the rope / we dangle from” and “the loot’s the problem”). The poem is left with the auxiliary verbs “could” and “would” hanging on the edge of a visible world.
The ability to speak and write makes us aware of the limits of language, of how language fails to represent our desires, and it this lack, this hole (or void) that produces longing. In the poem, “In the Craving Night,” Warren writes:
In school they’ll teach you
to map gridlines & build hedges
to mark this land for grazing
and that land for razing
In school they’ll teach you
the world’s not made of words.
It is a problem that rests on our ideas of education. Warren continues: “but greet this hole / born of sound / bigger than circumstance.” She desires “the order of the clouds” and “the animated world of love in her youth.” The speaker’s idea of order is fluid and changeable, like her idea of a youthful love, rather than one that has become rigid. The speaker desires “a collective wilding” that “tongues the trunk,” suggesting an erotic and linguistic relation to the natural world, which she presents as a revolutionary act. In “On the Levelers Everyday,” she also speaks of revolution in the public sphere with a wink: “Let’s loot the establishments / I mean feed each other.” And it is this revolutionary desire that is at the center of the following lines from “Slantwise on the Skyline”:
I want to be sucked up into the air and released
Without raiment or kirtle
With strings in accord
With what exceeds us (43)
But the skeptic realizes that such desire is not pure but tainted by ideology, gender relations, and power plays. All of which act as external noise:
as an ear’s for
tonguing the open out
an ear’s for breathing
engine of thought
listens won’t die
but it’s hard to hear
it’s hard to hear (75)
The line “Sound only exists as it is going out of existence” takes on additional meaning here. Paradoxically, the unsaid, or unheard, does exist in an alternate space, in the invisible, and does not die, which is why listening is so important: what exists comes to the speaker in the form of a poem from the Outside. It nurtures the speaker and gives her strength to cope. And her skeptical nature keeps her own her toes.
Alli Warren’s I Love It Though is a subtle and complex work that rewards repeated readings. Desire and love are complicated by the narrowness of gender, class systems, and problems with control and domination, all of which taint and complicate pleasure: “Where is the net which saves / rather than traps.” The following is from Warren’s interview with Lauren Levin, published on May 25, 2017 in the Los Angeles Review of Books:
I can’t think of a post-capitalist world without considering the relationship of violence and domination to eros and eroticism, to coupling and ownership. I want my poems to hold that complication, to express embodiment, sensuality, and physical desire without simplifying my relationship to sexuality, which feels social, cultural.
It is this desire for an alternate world and the discussions it gives rise to that produces in the speaker and her friends the sustenance and inner strength to deal with the daily pressures of living under the present world-system, where they suffer “in relation to each other because…of the ways class, race, gender, etc., are oppressively organized.” Warren complicates the contemporary discourse while maintaining the resulting tension; this gives her poems the feeling of a life being lived in the present. I Love It Though is exactly the kind of book we need these days so that we can see clearly in the gathering dark. Alli Warren is a poet I’d trust to lead us through.


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Jan 26, 2011, 6:00 PM EST
Here are the probable starting goalies for tonight’s nine games, including the potential 500th game for Flames netminder Miikka Kiprusoff.
Jan 26, 2011, 5:07 PM EST
Craig Conroy stares at two unsettling choices as the Flames enter the all-star break: either report to the Abbotsford Heat in the AHL or retire from hockey.
Jan 26, 2011, 3:59 PM EST
The Phoenix Coyotes sale might be in some trouble again, as the crucial $100 million bond issue failed in public according to reports by radio station FAN 590.
Jeff Skinner and Paul Stastny added to All-Star Game roster, P.K. Subban and Jamie McBain join SuperSkills contest
Jan 26, 2011, 3:30 PM EST
Paul Stastny and Jeff Skinner have been added to the All-Star Game’s roster pool while P.K. Subban and Jamie McBain will appear in Saturday’s SuperSkills competition.
Jan 26, 2011, 2:50 PM EST
As Wayne Gretzky turns 50, we celebrate his career with some of our favorite video clips featuring “The Great One.”
Jan 26, 2011, 2:07 PM EST
Here’s a look at tonight’s nine games, as the NHL prepares for it’s final evening before the All-Star weekend.
Jan 26, 2011, 12:46 PM EST
Should the All-Star Game feature Sedin vs. Sedin? At least one Vancouver writer thinks it’s a bad idea.
Jan 26, 2011, 12:05 PM EST
NHL Network will begin their Film Fest next week with the great Wayne Gretzky trade documentary “King’s Ransom.”
Jan 26, 2011, 10:32 AM EST
It looked like he was down and out, yet Niklas Backstrom made a surprising stop for January 25th’s Save of the Night.
Jan 26, 2011, 9:52 AM EST
Mike Weaver gets a lucky bounce to help the Panthers win Tuesday’s game while he receives the January 25th Goal of the Night.
Jan 26, 2011, 8:45 AM EST
Wayne Gretzky turns 50 years-old today. Aside from making us all feel a little bit older ourselves, we look back at the career of “The Great One” and how the number 50 is an integral part of his lore.
Jan 26, 2011, 12:49 AM EST
Here are summaries of tonight’s eight games, including the 1,000th home win in franchise history for the Philadelphia Flyers.
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Dion Phaneuf landed a big hit on Dana Tyrell that will dominate highlight clips, but the Lightning got the best of the Leafs 2-0 tonight.
Jan 25, 2011, 11:24 PM EST
Pekka Rinne barely edged Braden Holtby for the January 17-23rd Save of the Week.
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TMZ Sports reports that former Ducks prospect Jason Bailey is suing the team for anti-Semitic behavior displayed by coaches of their former affiliate the Bakersfield Condors.
Jan 25, 2011, 9:09 PM EST
Darren Eliot of Sports Illustrated thinks that the neutral zone trap is starting to creep its way back into the league. Click “Read More” to find out the details.
Jan 25, 2011, 7:54 PM EST
Claude Giroux and Jeff Carter combined for an effort worthy of the Goal of the Week for January 17-23rd.
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NHL on NBC’s Mike Milbury talks with Tiffany Simons about Peter Forsberg’s return and Evgeni Nabokov’s situation with the Islanders.
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Here are the probable starting goalies for tonight’s eight games.
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