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Dubai book fair to be showcased at Frankfurt
Dubai, October 6, 2009
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF) has announced that it will leverage its participation in the forthcoming Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest event for books, to promote the February 2010 Dubai International Children’s Book Fair.
The five-day Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, to be held from October 14 to18, is expected to attract 7,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries. The previous edition of the event welcomed over 286,000 visitors.
During the exhibition, the foundation delegates will seek to attract the world’s leading children’s book publishers to the inaugural edition of Dubai International Children’s Book Fair in February 2010, which is being held with the aim of developing the publishing industry in the Arab world and promoting reading among Arab children.
“The Frankfurt Book Fair provides an important opportunity to network with the maximum number of publishers and other professionals involved in children's literature, in the context of Dubai International Children's Book Fair,' stated Jamal Al Shehhi, CEO, Dubai International Children’s Book Fair.
The MBRF implements a variety of initiatives involving children’s literature. Participation in the Frankfurt Book Fair is part of the foundation’s strategy to engage with global stakeholders in children’s literature and create awareness about the Dubai International Children’s Book Fair.
Earlier this year, the MBRF participated in several leading international book fairs, including the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy and the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The outreach activities are also part of a strategic move to bring about greater collaboration and build partnerships with organisations linked to children’s literature globally.-TradeArabia News Service


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Nissan’s R35-generation GT-R has now been in production for more than a decade, and while many believe it’s time for the Japanese giant to give way to a successor, Nissan is content to make the current car better with each passing year.
The 2020 Nismo GT-R is the latest and greatest, and Nissan says it’s 2.5 seconds faster around its development track than the 2019 was. So, what makes this $210,000 Nismo GT-R even better than the lizards that came before it? We turn once again to Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained to give us an in-depth look at just what makes the 600-horsepower 2020 Nismo GT-R the fastest Godzilla produced to date.
The first ingredient is weight reduction. Compared to the 2019 model, 2020 Nismo lost nearly 50 pounds. A lot of the savings come from the body, where carbon fiber has been utilized extensively on the 2020 model’s exterior. The only panels which aren’t carbon fiber are the rear fenders and the doors.
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Second, Nissan went to great lengths to improve the engine’s responsiveness. This was accomplished by borrowing turbochargers from Nissan’s GT-R race car. These incorporate lighter turbine wheels that spin up more quickly (which, in turn, reduces turbo lag). Nissan says this improvement translates to a half-car-length advantage over 5 seconds when flooring the 2020 Nismo GT-R from a 55 mph roll.
The rest comes from tires and aerodynamics, with a heavy focus on the former. For 2020, the compound and tread were both improved. There’s now 11-percent more rubber in contact with the road, and this results in a 7-percent improvement in grip.
Fenske explains how all of these come together to make the 2020 Nismo GT-R significantly quicker than the 2019. Give it a watch.


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The managing director of Secusmart has said that the German government will not raise any objections to BlackBerryÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s planned acquisition of Secusmart, whose encryption technology protects the devices of government officials including Angela Merkel, the head of the company said.
Ã¢â‚¬Å“I am sure that there will be a positive decision after it has been looked at,Ã¢â‚¬Â Hans-Christoph Quelle told Reuters in a telephone interview.
The German government will be looking very carefully at the purchase to assure the security merits of the new owner meet the standards expected by the German government.
In a statement Wednesday by GermanyÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth he states the German Government were Ã¢â‚¬ËœunawareÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ of the details of the announcement made on Tuesday at BlackBerryÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Security Summit in New York.
Mr. Dimroth said at a regular government press conference in Berlin.
Ã¢â‚¬Å“We will consider very, very carefully and with great seriousness if there are any long-term effects of this sale, in particular regarding the security properties of the affected products, and this also includes a review of possible legal action,Ã¢â‚¬Â
BlackBerry replied quickly with their own statement.
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Chancellor Merkel, whose mobile phone was reported to have been tapped by U.S. intelligence agents, has a BlackBerry mobile device with Secusmart encryption, as do many other members of the German government.
Quelle said he was aware that the ministry would look at the sale according to the laws which regulate foreign deals.
But he said a sale of Secusmart would not compromise German security interests.
Ã¢â‚¬Å“Nothing changes the security of the Ã¢â‚¬ËœMerkel phoneÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and the telephones supplied to the government,Ã¢â‚¬Â added Quelle.
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The increasing world population, competition for arable land and rich fishing grounds, and environmental concerns mandate that we exploit in a sustainable way the earth's available plant and animal resources for human consumption. To that end, food chemists, technologists, and nutritionists engage in a vast number of tasks related to food availability, quality, safety, nutritional value, and sensory properties-as well as those involved in processing, storage, and distribution. To assist in these functions, it is essential they have easy access to a collection of information on the myriad compounds found in foods. This is particularly true because even compounds present in minute concentrations may exert significant desirable or negative effects on foods. Includes a foreword by Zdzislaw E. Sikorski, Gda?sk University of Technology, Poland; Editor of the CRC Press Chemical & Functional Properties of Food Components Series. Dictionary of Food Compounds, Second Edition is presented in a user-friendly format in both hard copy and fully searchable CD-ROM. It contains entries describing natural components of food raw materials and products as well as compounds added to foods or formed in the course of storage or processing. Each entry contains the name of the component, the chemical and physical characteristics, a description of functional properties related to food use, and nutritional and toxicological data. Ample references facilitate inquiry into more detailed information about any particular compound. Food Compounds Covered:Natural Food ConstituentsLipidsProteinsCarbohydratesFatty acidsFlavonoidsAlkaloidsFood ContaminantsMycotoxinsFood AdditivesColorantsPreservativesAntioxidantsFlavorsNutraceuticalsProbioticsDietary SupplementsVitamins This new edition boasts an additional 12,000 entries for a total of 41,000 compounds, including 900 enzymes found in food. No other reference work on food compounds is as complete or as comprehensive
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Medical care in general is inadequate and unevenly distributed in Laos, with most of the health care facilities located in urban areas. Communicable diseases (e.g., influenza), cardiovascular diseases, injuries, accidents, violence, cancers, and respiratory diseases are the major health problems and causes of death. The departure of most of the country’s physicians after 1975 created a serious problem for the new government. In response, the government began to build village infirmaries and dispensaries in most of the provinces and to train medical workers. These village medical workers, often using only traditional medicinal herbs, have continued to provide much of the country’s primary health care.
In the past the teaching of much cultural lore and reading and writing took place in Buddhist temples and was available only to men. The French introduced European-style education in the early 20th century, and over the next several decades the number of elementary school students reached hundreds of thousands. The LPDR government assumed responsibility for education in 1975 and inaugurated a program to bring primary education to all areas of Laos within a decade. The new regime also launched a major adult literacy campaign in the mid-1980s. Although literacy has increased considerably since that time, it has been difficult to maintain in rural areas where there is limited reading material.
During the early years of the LPDR, the government’s primary concern in education was a political one, with the dissemination of knowledge of the party’s policies being the main aim of the new Laotian curriculum. Reassessment of the curriculum began in the 1980s following the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe and the return to Laos of young people who had been sent to those countries for higher education. Textbooks were revised to downplay ideological rhetoric and to increase the relevance of their content to the socioeconomic realities of contemporary Laos. A new curriculum came into operation throughout Laos in 1996.
Since the late 20th century, the educational system of Laos has continued to struggle with underfunding, inadequate teacher training, and insufficient facilities. Nevertheless, the literacy rate has risen substantially, and the number of primary and secondary schools, teachers, and students has increased dramatically. The National University of Laos in Vientiane was established in 1995 through the consolidation of several tertiary institutions and a centre for agriculture; this supplanted the royal government’s former university, which had been disbanded by the communist regime.
Higher education in Laos went through a major overhaul in 2013. The Ministry of Education and Sports decided to no longer allow private tertiary institutions to confer bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Henceforth, such degrees could be granted only by the five state universities: the National University of Laos, the University of Health Sciences (also in Vientiane), Souphanouvong University in Luang Prabang, Savannakhet University, and Champasak University. The ministry aimed to improve the quality of higher education by placing the sector entirely under the responsibility of public universities and to require private institutions to support professional and technical training.
Among the lowland Lao, traditions of Buddhism and the boun (festival)—historically associated with village life but now also practiced in urban areas—guide everyday life. The merit-making ritual of giving alms to monks during their morning rounds, once discouraged by the government, has remained a prominent practice.
Among the upland peoples, traditional rituals also persist, although some groups, such as the Hmong, do not feel the same attachment to the village as a spatial or social unit that the lowland Lao do. To the Hmong the primary foci of social identification are the household, the group of close relatives, and the clan, irrespective of any temporary or even permanent settlement. The Hmong cosmos is inhabited by a wide array of spirits, including medicine spirits, nature spirits, and shamanic spirits. Both social and spiritual life, then, vary markedly between the lowland and highland regions of Laos.
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theatre: Balias Thailand, Kampuchea (Cambodia), Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, in all of which drama consists almost exclusively of dance. Balinese dancing may take place anywhere; usually it is executed in front of a temple or a pavilion used for community meetings. The audience sits on three sides of…
Thailand: CuisineSince the 1980s Lao cuisine has become popular throughout the country. Typical Lao food includes grilled, marinated fish and chicken, as well as chopped beef, pork, chicken, or fish that has been mixed with lime juice, lemongrass, garlic, shallots, and peppers and then lightly fried. Another Lao favourite…
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Pocket money and paper rounds
It seems that the debate over the way Wales is funded has reached something of an impasse.
Last week I interviewed Nick Clegg, who was in Wales to give what was described as a 'thinky' talk about the future of devolution. I sat down to interview him with some 'thinky' questions of my own but what he delivered - with gusto - was a striking message to the Welsh Government about taking much more responsibility for raising at least some the money it spends. It was the proverbial lecture to the stroppy teenager to stop relying on pocket money (from Westminster) and at least get a paper round. My thinky questions stayed in my pocket.
But for all Mr Clegg's "stop whining" rhetoric, he was far less keen on actually committing to giving Wales any sort of fiscal autonomy any time soon, or so it seemed to me. Borrowing powers? Can't do these things on a whim, he said. Tax varying powers? Well, yes - in the medium term. But he brought with him an awful lot of jam tomorrow as well as accountability today.
The Welsh Government have been talking to the Treasury for months now about their initial financial objective, which is to secure borrowing powers for Wales. Whenever Finance Minister, Jane Hutt, appears at a press conference, she knows one question is inevitably coming: when might the big conversation between Jane and Danny reach a conclusion?
She's been locked in discussions with Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander to try and secure the right to borrow in order to invest in large infrastructure projects. And at every press conference, she sighs, smiles and tells us they're going well - but still no announcement.
A letter from Mr Alexander to the Finance Committee may give a clue as to why. Asked whether he believes it is possible to have borrowing powers without tax varying powers, he answers as follows:
"In principle, I believe there is an inherent link between borrowing powers and the ability to raise revenue independently to support borrowing for two reasons. First, borrowing powers can be appropriate and necessary to reflect and manage the increased responsibility for raising revenue.
"Secondly, an independent source of income can be adjusted as appropriate to support the costs of borrowing."
What the Treasury seem to be saying here is that they're uneasy about handing over borrowing powers to the Welsh Government when their only substantial means of paying it back is the income stream from the block grant - they'd like them to have the paper round as well as the pocket money. But the Welsh Government are adamant that they won't accept any substantial tax varying powers without reform of Barnett.
And so we go round again.
Meanwhile, Plaid Cymru have today published their calculations about the alleged underfunding of Wales according to the Barnett formula. They were at pains to stress that they were in no way undermining Gerry Holtham's final determination of a £400m underfunding for Wales, rather, they draw on more recent Treasury data to put the gap at closer to £540m a year.
How is that figure arrived at? Well the Barnett formula is infamously based on population, not need. Holtham's calculations are based on what extra funding Wales should receive in a needs-based formula.
The problem with demanding this gap be closed in Wales in the near future is that it assumes, politically and financially, that Barnett reform can somehow be done asymmetrically, that is, a fundamentally different formula can be applied in Wales as compared with other parts of the UK who do very nicely out of the current arrangements, thank you very much.
At First Minister's Questions, the Plaid leader Leanne Wood called on the First Minister to fight for a "Barnett floor" a guaranteed level of expenditure compared to England, below which the Welsh allocation will never fall. He had little trouble in agreeing this, since it's been a key demand of his government - but Ms Wood then went on to warn of a "Barnett floor" turning into a "Barnett ceiling", locking in the alleged underfunding.
If you feel as though the room is spinning now, well, that's devolved finance for you.
Gerry Holtham said in his report that a Barnett floor would be relatively cheap and easy to implement, particularly at a time of flat or declining budgets. Today's exchanges demonstrate why nothing is straightforward, and why the impasse may continue for some time to come.


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Thomas Edison patented the phonograph in 1877. The following summer, Dubliners were able to see and hear the invention being displayed and demonstrated in a shop on Grafton Street. Those unable to make it there in person could nonetheless read in the Weekly Irish Times of how “the voice can be embalmed by the phonograph, and made to last indefinitely” (40). As Zan Cammack’s Ireland’s Gramophones: Material Culture, Memory and Trauma in Irish Modernism traces, such an attempt to reckon in print with the nature of the phonograph and its close cousin the gramophone recurred across the century that followed. Starting with the much discussed, though fleeting, references to the gramophone in James Joyce’s Ulysses, the study examines in detail the prominent role played by sound recording technology in a succession of Irish literary texts – Bram Stoker’s Dracula, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September, Lennox Robinson’s Portrait, and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds – from the 1890s through to the 1930s.
The specificity with which this book, as quoted above, documents the arrival of the Edison’s invention is characteristic of its good use of historical sources to evoke the impact of the phonograph and later the gramophone in Ireland. Another strength is the alignment of such historical details to the machine’s technical realities; this is a book that uses diagrams, graphs, and tables to considerable critical effect. Indeed, such realities somewhat complicate any sense of the aural immortality effected by the phonograph. The preservation and playback abilities of its recording cylinders were limited “since the wax recordings would rapidly wear down after several replays” (7). Hence the emergence a decade later of the flat disk of the gramophone, which was not only more enduring but could be mass reproduced. As the introduction further outlines, phonographs, and gramophones are also not just to be considered as mediums or instruments of sound. At times, they are shown to shift towards becoming quasi-human voices and subjects in these texts. They are also engaged with as material objects, made up of ornate horns and explosive spring motors, behaving – drawing on Bill Brown’s influential theory of how objects transform into “things”- in distinction from their ostensible function.
This contextual and conceptual sophistication as regards the presence of the phonograph and gramophone in Irish literary texts is carried forward into each chapter’s more focused analysis. The first chapter, “Gramophonic Trauma: Shattered Narratives and Undead Oralities,” focuses on the role played in Dracula by the psychiatrist John Seward’s phonograph. This is enlighteningly placed among the novel’s provision of modern media technologies (telegrams, typewriters, cameras) and Cammack discusses how, relatedly, the novel’s narrative “is constructed of myriad media types and formats, including shorthand journal entries, telegrams, letters, and newspaper clippings” (21). Equivalent in scale (36 percent) to the journal entry as a medium for plotting the story, the phonograph is also linked, via Seward’s use of it, to the psychological and, more particularly, to “the novel’s near obsession with memory and its failure” (22). Drawing on references to and resonances with contemporaneous theories of mind, the technology’s mechanical workings and mnemonic limitations, and close attention to “the deeply problematic anachrony of the narrative” (35), the phonograph emerges as representing the compulsions and discontinuities of traumatic memory in the novel. The chapter then attempts to relate the novel’s fictional and fantastic trauma to the broader traumas of post-famine Ireland, set against the emerging prominence of the preservation of oral folklore in Irish culture. Though containing much fascinating detail, especially as regards the role played by the phonograph in the collecting of folklore, this less directly links context to text, offering rather a series of suggestive parallels and resonances.
Stoker’s novel also features extensively in the second chapter, “Gramophonic Gendering: Women, Phonographysteria, and the Political Machine.” It opens with an account from an 1899 edition of the Weekly Irish Times of “Phonographysteria,” a malady supposedly affecting female stenographers driven to hysteria by the effect on their nerves of having to listen to uncanny, disembodied voices. This offers a way of framing the way gender and trauma intersect in literary representations of the phonograph and gramophone. These associations are also placed against a period, from the 1890s through to the 1910s, in which rise of the New Woman and suffragettism intertwined with Irish nationalist politics. The chapter seeks to “suggest that the roiling undercurrent to this gendered object and Home Rule’s specific political tensions subliminally captured the Irish literary imagination – perhaps even more specifically, the Irish male imagination” (59). Focusing on Pygmalion as well as Dracula, the chapter convincingly tracks how Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray-Harker, as well as Eliza Doolittle, are sexualised in being associated with phonographs and gramophones in these texts. These three figures are also associated with Irish politics, starting with the “national implications” (62) of Lucy and Mina’s surnames, and linking Eliza’s declaration of autonomy to the passing of the Third Home Rule Bill (drawing on contemporary, pejorative descriptions of the Irish Parliamentary Party as gramophonic).
In focusing on two male authors in the chapter, Cammack explains, “The Irish New Woman authors, for instance, were less concerned with symbols, and especially not those that seemed to objectify and sexualize women, and were more interested in addressing women’s issues head on” (59). Perhaps this is the case. It might, though, have been useful to know which authors Cammack has in mind, or quite what other issues were being addressed and how, not to mention how this chapter’s argument might be related to broader critical efforts to connect technology and the New Women, who have often actually seen new technology, such as the bicycle, as a vehicle for female emancipation. The passing mention later in the chapter of the gramophone in Edith Somerville’s 1919 novel Mount Music (and the whole related issue of the distinctly gendered role of the spiritualist medium in the period) felt like a missed opportunity in this respect. Here and elsewhere across the study, some kind of implicit, narrowing notion of an Irish canon seems to be in play. For instance, several of Molly Keane’s novels are mentioned in passing in other chapters without being critically engaged with in any detail. It would have been more helpful too to have a greater range of less familiar texts engaged with from the 1890s through to the 1930s, instead of the closing coda’s swift gallop through the gramophone’s enduring literary role into the latter half of the twentieth century. This ends with a consideration of Brien Friel’s 1971 play The Gentle Island and its use of the by now anachronistic gramophone as a manifestation of “the political and cultural strain left unresolved from the early part of the twentieth century” (17), a claim which this book does not have the scope to substantiate and think through to any satisfactory degree.
Related to this canonicity, seems to be the title’s broader label of “Irish modernism.” By this stage in its life, this term seems to have become ubiquitous for reasons that are as much promotional as heuristic. It allows a space to be cleared in the marketplace of the academy for the gathering of these texts, rather than offering any more tangible entry point for their analysis. At one point, for instance, we are told that At Swim-Two-Birds is “now considered a central work of Irish modernism, bridging the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett” (151). I am not sure what such a comment actually really tells us about this text or the broader nature of Irish cultural production in the period. At the least, some greater reflection on the term’s uses and limitations, as well as some more concerted attempts to draw further related notions of period and mode into the discussion (the gothic, naturalism, expressionism and so on), would have helped draw out a more distinctive sense of these texts’ differing yet, perhaps, interrelated attempts to represent and comprehend Ireland’s shifting modernity. Lacking is much reflection either on the relationship between modernism, Ireland, and the study’s other guiding terms, material culture, memory, and trauma. Appropriate too would have been a clearer sense of the intersections between Irish modernism and the recent turns made towards the material and the technological in modernist studies more generally. One also wonders if a too-ready conflation of politics in Ireland with the politics of Irish nationhood made some works too difficult to accommodate in this critical narrative.
Putting to one side such reservations, however, the final two chapters offer a compelling series of extended readings of how gramophones feature prominently in works that directly engage with the tumult of the Irish revolution, as well as the complexity of its aftermath into the 1930s. The third chapter, “Gramophonic Violence: The Gramophones of the Irish Revolution,” pairs The Last September and Juno and the Paycock. It opens by situating the gramophone “in the broader scope of the global conflict of World War I, as well as its use in describing and treating a larger psychology of the era” (95). This again draws on some fascinating historical material, such as the way in which the machine was specifically advertised to serving soldiers on the Western Front, and the contentious role it played in the treatment of shellshock. From this emerges an illuminating reading of how in Bowen’s novel different relationships with the gramophone seem to signify diverging senses of conflict and trauma among the British and Anglo-Irish characters. In O’Casey’s play, a still closer connection between the gramophone and violence is seen as occurring via the record-like body and mind of Johnny Boyle, whose traumas are described as “physical mnemonics for Ireland’s cultural scars” (120). At the moment of the play’s final fade into a halting, stunned admission of chaos, “the silent gramophone embodies Ireland’s dead and its stunned and traumatized living” amid the horrors of civil war (128).
The fourth and final chapter, “Gramophonic Strain: Residual Tension in Post-War Literature,” offers a welcome turn towards the non-canonical, in focusing on Robinson’s under-regarded 1925 play Portrait. This draws to considerable effect on the workings of the gramophone’s mainspring mechanism, an understanding of which it shows to be key to the effectiveness of the play’s shocking denouement. Important too is the way in which Cammack recovers the circumstances and responses to the play’s original production, as well as the wider interest Robinson, as Abbey Theatre manager, showed in the gramophone’s theatrical possibilities. The chapter also draws on a welcome degree of historical specificity in its analysis of At-Swim-Two-Birds. Thinking through the novel’s suggestive time frames, intergenerational narrative, and use of myth in terms of both the history of Ireland and the gramophone itself yields a subtle sense of the novel’s ending as politically and psychologically ameliorative. This important account will, I hope, gain significant traction in pushing the growing band of O’Brien scholars back towards the difficult task of engaging with the historical and political implications of this most elusive of writer’s “meticulous details” (158). Indeed, in its marrying of careful textual analysis to historical detail and conceptual sophistication this lucid and engagingly written study should have a significant impact on future considerations of the intersection between technology and memory in Irish writing.

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Pilot study of sunlight exposure and vitamin D status in Arab women of childbearing age
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AbstractVitamin D deficiency is common in Arab women, In a pilot study we investigated the effect of sun exposure at recommended levels on the vitamin D status of Arab women. Eight healthy Arab women of child-bearing age consented to expose their face, arms and hands for 15 minutes per day twice a week for 4 weeks within the privacy of their courtyard and to avoid changes in dietary vitamin D intake. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25[OH]] levels were measured pre- and post-intervention. Although vitamin D levels remained sub-optimal, median serum 25[OH]D levels were significantly higher post-intervention [23.0 nmol/L] than pre-intervention [17.6 nmol/L]. Extending sun exposure for more than 4 weeks should be investigated as part of strategies to improve vitamin D status in high-risk Arab women who lack outdoor sun exposure to the skin
Dawodu, A., Kochiyil, J. & Altaye, M. (2011). Pilot study of sunlight exposure and vitamin D status in Arab women of childbearing age. EMHJ - Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 17 (7), 570-574, 2011 http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/118660
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A dental crown is a permanently attached cap that covers and protects a damaged tooth. These caps strengthen the teeth and can also be used to correct misaligned or misshapen teeth. Dental crowns are usually made of gold, porcelain, or ceramic.
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There are numerous benefits to be gained using the SP1000. These benefits range from reduced demand charges from your power company to increased load carrying capabilities. There are also huge environmental benefits associated with power factor correction. This means your company is reducing its carbon footprint and helping the environment.
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Most electric utility companies charge for maximum metered usage based on either the highest registered demand in kilowatts (KW meter), or a percentage of the highest registered demand in KVA (KVA meter), whichever is greater. If the power factor is low, the percentage of the measured KVA will be significantly greater than the KW demand. Improving the power factor through the use of the SP1000 will therefore lower the demand charge, helping to reduce your electricity bill.
Increased Load Carrying Capabilities In Existing Circuits
Loads drawing reactive power also require reactive current. Installing power factor correction capacitors at or near the inductive loads reduces the current carried by each circuit. This reduction in current flow resulting from improved power factor can allow the circuit to carry additional loads, saving the cost of upgrading the distribution network when extra capacity is required. This can save your company thousands of dollars in unnecessary upgrade costs. In addition, the reduced current flow reduces resistive losses in the circuit.
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Although the financial return from conductor loss reduction alone is seldom sufficient to justify the installation of capacitors, it is sometimes an attractive additional benefit, especially in older plants with long feeders or in field pumping operations. System conductor losses are proportional to the current squared and, since the current is reduced in direct proportion to the power factor improvement, the losses are inversely proportional to the square of the power factor. This leads to better overall system efficiency.
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Varbergs Kusthotell, Varberg: Se 667 recensioner, 426 bilder och bra erbjudanden på Varbergs Kusthotell, rankat #6 av 6 hotell i Varberg och med betyget 3,5 av 5 på Tripadvisor.
Cafe and sports bar. Situated 1.9 miles from Varberg, this waterfront hotel offers sophisticated accommodation with an on-site luxurious bookable spa. Guests can enjoy free WiFi, access to a fitness centre and free private parking. Rooms are located in the main building or in Villa Apelviken.
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How For Good Luck was born A small scale business based in Varberg, Sweden. Founded in 2013. Linköping. Lund.
But parking is a bit from Varbergs Kusthotell - Detta hotell ligger vid havet, 3 km från Varberg.
This grand hotel is 1640 feet from Varberg Train Station. It offers free WiFi, modern rooms and impressive views from the rooftop Asia Spa. Guests can enjoy a popular breakfast buffet. The location was very good and also the room was clean, but that's it.
(980 reviews). Visit in Varberg.
"Warberg as a seaside resort is… among the most excellent. Its open When Wallin wrote his guidebook, there was not yet a railway in Varberg. Summer
Nami was a great surprise. Really nice atmosphere, friendly service, excellent food ( ramen, sushi, 7 km north of Varberg.
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Beach On the southwest coast of Sweden you will find Varberg resort with beach houses and facilities for a great holiday! This HD stream is towards Apelviken Strand, a popular wide beach, excellent for surfing year-round. Have a look at this locality in Halland County, in Sweden, on our street view map by scrolling down the page. Excellent Elinstallation i Göteborg AB. August Barks Gata 30b 421 32 Västra Frölunda .
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Tourists can also enjoy the city's monuments and seaside. In Varberg, there are 12 hotels and other accommodations to choose from. Sightseeing and Staying in Varberg. Notable city landmarks like Kallbadhuset and Varberg Fortress might be worth a visit.
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What to do in Varberg. 1 activities available. Northern Europe; Sweden · Varberg. Top activities; Top sports; Map; All activities; Other spots
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Visiting Varberg. Visitors to Varberg are sure to enjoy the spas. Tourists can also enjoy the city's monuments and seaside. In Varberg, there are 12 hotels and other accommodations to choose from. Sightseeing and Staying in Varberg. Notable city landmarks like Kallbadhuset and Varberg Fortress might be worth a visit.
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The Friday Café (Cambridge)
The Friday Café, a weekly daytime drop-in program, offers a welcoming space where homeless and housed adults can gather and get to know each other. Serving an average of 150 guests a week (or as many as 300 on winter Fridays), it offers food and coffee, rest and resources to people living on the margins—but most importantly, community. At the Friday Café, people experiencing a wide variety of life circumstances can relax, share a meal, and talk together as friends.
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Greater Boston Food Bank
Volunteers at The Greater Boston Food Bank play a critical role in helping to end hunger in Eastern Massachusetts, and their role is even more critical now given the increased need for food as a result of the pandemic. GBFB is committed to keeping our network in operation and getting food to our neighbors in need but we can’t do that without you.
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Hazel Hill Is Going To Win This One
As part of an initiative to increase dialogue between classrooms, foster inclusivity, and expose students to diverse voices, MS343 selected a school-wide novel for students to read and discuss during small group. The book, Hazel Hill is Going to Win This One, is a funny, feminist, and queer contemporary middle grade debut that follows twelve-year-old loner Hazel Hill, who, after one of her classmates is harassed online, devises a plan to catch the school’s golden boy in the act.
Following the school-wide reading, this week, MS343 welcomed author Maggie Horne to speak about her work to the whole school, and then to meet with a select group of students for a lively discussion and book-signing.
MS343 student photographer Aleise Borrero and Targeted Instruction teacher Mx. Demacopoulos were there to capture the event.
Thank you to all who participated, and an extra special thank you to Ms. Horne for traveling all the way from Ottawa, Ontario to share her beautiful work with our community!


The Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum) was introduced into the southeastern United States in late 1800s and has rapidly naturalized throughout the region's coastal ecosystems. Because tallow forms monotypic woodlands, we hypothesized that allelopathic interference is a mechanism by which tallow maintains and expands its presence. Laboratory experiments were performed using black willow (Salix nigra), baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) and tallow, as test species, to examine the hypothesis that aqueous tallow extracts inhibit seed germination and seedling root growth, shoot growth and mass. Extracts were prepared from tallow litter, woodland soil from under tallow trees and fresh tallow leaves. Samples were collected during October, January, April and July to determine any seasonal differences in allelopathic potential. Germination, root and shoot lengths and seedling mass differed (P < 0.05) among treatments for willow, baldcypress and tallow. Black willow germination did not vary (P > 0.05) among control and April litter or April soil treatments; the treatments designed to mimic conditions when black willow naturally germinates. Although germination was lower (P < 0.05) in April fresh leaf and July litter, soil and leaf treatments than control treatments, black willow does not germinate during July nor do black willow seeds contact fresh tallow leaves during April. Germination rates for baldcypress and tallow during April and July litter and soil treatments were higher (P < 0.05) than control treatments. Similarly, baldcypress seedling root length, shoot length and mass were the same or higher than control treatments (P < 0.05). Tallow seedling root length, shoot length and mass were lower (P < 0.05) in controls versus April and July litter and soil treatments. Our experiment questions the validity of allelopathic interference as a mechanism enhancing tallow invasion or maintaining woodlands once established. Because of its enhanced germination and seedling growth when exposed to its own experimental treatments, tallow may in fact be perpetuating its own woodland(s) by self facilitation, rather than inhibiting other plant survival by allelopathic interference.
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Wichita State crash: Randy Kiesau remembered
Gary Baumwart sent me an email this week I thought was worth sharing. Last Friday, I wrote about the 50-year anniversary of the Wichita State football plane crash that claimed 31 lives in the mountains of Colorado.
I wrote about Rusty Featherstone, an Oklahoman who played on that 1970 Wichita State team and who has made a commitment to never forget the four Oklahomans killed in that crash: Duncan’s Don Christian, John Marshall’s Johnny Duren, Clinton’s Randy Kiesau and Putnam City’s Tom Shedden.
I received great feedback on the Wichita State story.
I wrote quite a bit about Duren, who was a great friend of Featherstone, and Christian, who was a great friend of Dave Lewis, who I also interviewed.
But I didn’t have as much on Kiesau and Shedden. And Baumwart filled in some of the gaps on Kiesau. Here’s what he wrote:
“This is a football story from the past. I am not much into writing. Short and sweet.
“I was on my way to the office to do some office paperwork and decided to write this story. I was going west on old 66 to El Reno, and a car was going the wrong way and heading my way. I slowed down and let the driver go on. I told her, ‘You are going the wrong way!’ I sure was glad I was not meeting her on top of the hill.
“This was about 5:30. This is when I decided to write this story about one of my closest friends. Randy Burt Kiesau.
“Yesterday, you wrote an article on the Wichita State plane crash that killed 31 people. This sent me back to the tragic day, 50 years ago, when Randy was killed. He said that he would die young and would be a plane crash. That day, I cried. I knew almost every one of those killed.
“Randy and I played football at Clinton High School. Clinton has been known to play a little competitive football, especially during Randy’s heydays. Remembering and honoring Randy will refresh the great memories (precious memories) we shared together.
“We started out together in fifth grade at Washington in Clinton. He was very competitive. His dad and mom ran the family business, the Kiesau Funeral home there in Clinton. Randy and I played all sports: football, basketball, softball and track.
“He was of one fastest runners in high school. He gave Roy Bell a good race. Sometimes Randy was known to have a little attitude.
“Interesting story: Randy and I decided to quit football in junior high. Naturally, I went along with it and we quit. That did not go very well with Randy’s dad, Vern. Later on, Vern became the president of the Quarterback Club for 1967-68 season. So the coach let us back on the team, fortunate for me, because he was a whole lot better player than me. The what-if comes back to bite me on that. However, Randy truly loved his high school football days. He did it for the love of the game.
“The dynasty of Clinton football championships began in the middle ‘60s. Clinton won the first championship in 1965. Runner-up in 1966. National champions in 1967. First team to go undefeated at Clinton in 1967.
“Randy was the third running back for Clinton. The backfield included Roy Bell, James Williams and Randy. Randy was the player that kept Clinton’s season undefeated with a 40-yard fake punt against Hobart. Out of that championship team there was maybe 10 players to receive major football scholarships. Amazing!
“Randy received a full scholarship to play for Wichita State in 1968. The spring of 1969, I would go up to Wichita to watch spring football practice ... I would room with Randy. I would go to class, film room, and watched weekly practices. I got to meet all the coaches and players.
“Each year at Clinton’s football banquet, the Kiesau Award is given to the player who contributes the most to the team both with his play and leadership. Randy’s No. 22 is retired, and the Kiesau Award was created in 1970. I have many more pictures and stories from his 20 short years. I miss him.
“His parents , Vern and Zerita Kiesau have passed. Miss them all. On his gravesite, it says ‘To know him is to love him.’”
Great stuff, Gary. Anniversary dates cause us to reflect. Landmark anniversaries give us all a new perspective. Ten years on a job. Twenty years married. Thirty-year high school reunions.
But 50-year anniversaries are particularly impactful. They signal that we’ve lived a long life. To have lived 50 years without a great friend is quite sobering. Thanks, Gary, for giving us a little more light on Randy Kiesau.


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Herbed white bean and Italian sausage stew. This recipe is by Melissa Clark and takes 2 hours. Tell us what you think of it at The New York Times - Dining - Food.

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METHOD TO MY MADNESS, the fiery and soulful new album from six-time Blues Music Award-winner Tommy Castro and his band The Painkillers, is now available in beautiful translucent blue 180 gram vinyl LP, including free download card.
Hailing from the San Francisco area, Tommy Castro, along with his band, The Painkillers (bassist Randy McDonald, keyboardist Michael Emerson and drummer Bowen Brown), play music that is guaranteed to fire up any fan of tough, rocking blues.
METHOD TO MY MADNESS featuring ten new Castro originals, was produced by Tommy (his first time at the helm) using no recording studio wizardry, just the unadulterated raw, urgent sound of the band.
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UTEP stops Tulane 84-71Jan 28, 2010 - 4:49 AM EL PASO, Texas(AP) -- Jeremy Williams and Christian Polk scored 21 points each to lead UTEP to an 84-71 victory over Tulane Wednesday night.
Randy Culpepper had 14 points and Claude Britten 12 on 6-for-6 shooting for the Miners (14-5, 5-1 Conference USA). Britten played just nine minutes because of foul trouble.
UTEP shot 54 percent from the field in the game and opened up a 22-point lead just past the midway point of the second half. Williams was 11-for-12 from the free-throw line and Julyan Stone grabbed 13 rebounds for the Miners.
Kris Richard led the Green Wave (6-13, 1-5) with 18 points. Kendall Timmons had 14 and Asim McQueen 10.
Williams and Polk each scored 11 points in the first half as UTEP raced to a 37-23 lead at the break. Tulane never led in the game.
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- Ex-NBA coach Dunleavy Sr. takes first college job at Tulane Mar 28
- Tulane AD: Ed Conroy out as Tulane men's basketball coach Mar 14
- UTEP coach Floyd suspended 1 game Feb 27
- St. John's buries Tulane to continue roll Dec 28
- Tulane challenges No. 17 St. John's Dec 28
- No. 13 UW pulls away from Tulane Dec 23
- Green Wave hoping to hand Huskies first loss of season Dec 22
- No. 3 Arizona outlasts UTEP Dec 20
- Third-ranked Wildcats hit road to battle Miners Dec 19
- Three UTEP men's hoops players dismissed after gambling probe Jan 7
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105/205 forms a high-strength, moisture-resistant solid with excellent bonding and barrier coating properties. It will wet out and bond to wood fiber, fiberglass, reinforcing fabrics, foam, and other composite materials, and a variety of metals.
105/205 Epoxy can be thickened with WEST SYSTEM fillers to bridge gaps and fill voids and can be sanded and shaped when cured. With roller applications, it has excellent thin-film characteristics, allowing it to flow out and self-level without “fish-eyeing.” Multiple coats of 105/205 Epoxy create a superior moisture barrier and a tough, stable base for paints and varnishes. It is formulated without volatile solvents resulting in a very low VOC content. It has a relatively high flash point, no strong solvent odor, and does not shrink after curing. It is not intended for clear coating natural finished wood.


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Supercar driver James Courtney will showcase a new livery on his Tickford Racing Ford Mustang this weekend, with Australian caravan company Snowy River Caravans taking over naming rights sponsorship for the next two rounds.
Mustang #5 will be decked out in Snowy River Caravans branding at both the Perth SuperNight and Winton SuperSprint, adopting a black, white and green design.
Courtney is coming off a string of mixed results at the Australian Grand Prix. The 41-year-old had two top 10s but limped to 22n/a in the final match.
Perhaps the most memorable moment of her Melbourne 400 weekend was a battle with Chaz Mostert that resulted in a final turn, denying Courtney a podium.
Ironically, Courtney’s new color scheme bears a striking resemblance to that of Mostert’s Optus Walkinshaw Andretti United car.
Ahead of Supercars’ first visit to Wanneroo Raceway since 2019, Courtney is confident he can translate car speed into results.
“Perth is one of our longest road trips of the season so it’s fantastic to have Snowy River caravans with us,” Courtney said.
“It will be a very exciting weekend for the Championship, racing under the lights again in WA, and we are delighted to have the Snowy River team on board.
“We had really good speed at the Grand Prix a few weeks ago, but we didn’t convert that into the results we deserved, so we’re very motivated to make the most of this weekend.”
The partnership between Tickford Racing and Snowy River Caravans (part of the Regent Caravans group) comes at the right time for the new partner, who are expected to open a dealership in Perth shortly.
“We are delighted to have Snowy River Caravans supporting James Courtney and Tickford Racing at the upcoming Supercars Series in Perth and Winton,” said Andrew Crank, CEO and Managing Director of Regent Caravans.
“The combination of James, Tickford and Snowy River provides great appeal for our business, and our entire team is thrilled with our involvement.
“Both events provide great opportunities for our brand, we have a new location opening in Perth and Winton is a popular camping event giving us both a great opportunity to interact with Supercars fans and show them our impressive range of award-winning caravans.
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Courtney will be looking to move from 14and in the standings for the Perth SuperNight, which takes place in Western Australia from April 30 to May 1.
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Increasing power consumption, CO2 reduction, growing mobility or progressing automation – none of these future megatrends is possible without powerful electric drives. The electrification of the automobile powertrain is considered crucial, as the whole sector is facing difficulties resulting from the substitution of the conventional combustion engine. Besides advancing ideas on the design of powerful electric drives, the organization of the manufacturing processes and systems is of great importance. The 6th International Electric Drives Production Conference(EDPC 2016) offers an outstanding platform for the exchange of experiences for developers, researchers and potential users.
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A day ago, superstar Kamal Haasan and director Shankar announced along with Lyca Productions that Rs. 4 crores compensation was given to those who were impacted in the major accident that occurred on the sets of Indian 2 earlier in February.
Assistant Director Krishna, Art Assistant Chandran, and Production assistant Madhu passed away in the unfortunate accident. Their families received cheques of Rs 1 crore each. The lightman who was severely injured in the mishap was provided Rs 90 lakh as compensation. The crew members who sustained minor injuries were given Rs 10 lakh.
“The director and I were also present at the spot. It could have happened to anyone of us,” Kamal Haasan told media on August 6 during a small meet with the press. “We have a bigger responsibility for preventing such accidents in the future. A week after the accident, we all met to discuss what we can do about this. But, due to the COVID, we were unable to meet again.”
Speaking of resuming the shooting, Kamal revealed, “In foreign countries, big thinkers have researched and recommended ways we can safely work on film sets during this COVID pandemic. I think we should also implement those precautions here.”
Directed by Shankar, Indian 2 is a sequel to 1996 film, Indian. It also stars Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, and Siddharth among others.
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Critical Visualization Studies
For the first Get Wired @ Lunch discussion, Mark would like to explore the implications of recent critical work in visual and media studies on our modeling and mapping endeavors. His hope is that we can begin a sustained dialogue about the (hopefully productive) tensions between critical work in visual studies and our practices of historical geospatial visualization. He’s selected two essays from a recent issue of Visual Studies to serve as a launching point for our discussion: The algorithmic turn: photosynth, augmented reality and the changing implications of the image by William Uricchio Geomedia: on location-based media, the changing…
Visualizing Venice Wired! Workshop
This first workshop, offered by the Wired! Lab with support from Duke University’s Department of Art, Art Hiostry & Visual Studies and the Visual Studies Initiative, focused on digital visualization technology for Archaeology, Architecture, Art History, and Urbanism. The workshop was open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Schedule: Monday, June 7 Welcome & Overview, Introduction and Goals Introduction to 3D Modeling: Google SketchUp Tuesday, June 8 Data-driven Web Applications Wednesday, June 9 Contextual Mapping and Geo-Spatial Representation GPS-tagged images and KML in Google Maps and Google Earth Thursday, June 10 Geo-Spatial Historical Visualization Friday, June 11 Object Capture: Digital…
The Cathedral in the DiVE: Animating Medieval Architecture
In 2007-2008, Duke senior Charles Sparkman created a 3D model of an imaginary French medieval cathedral for a Visual Studies Fellowship. As Sparkman explains in the video below, he began developing the project first in Caroline Bruzelius’ Gothic Cathedrals course. After his model was completed, it was animated with the help of Rachel Brady and presented in the DiVE in the summer of 2008. Projects like Charles Sparkman’s contributed to inspiration for creating the Wired! Lab.


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When poetry touches the soul, everything starts making sense. The inner world seems real and the outer one becomes bearable. When thoughts mixed with words travel through the empty spaces of mind, poetry happens to me. It always has been a mysterious force guiding me through. With two published books and one amaturish blog, I consider myself blessed to have started this journey. An old diary with think brown cover and an over used, end bitten pen. That’s where real magic begins! May you find your undiscovered meanings in my poems. May existence make sense. Even if just for a little while.
When something exists, the opposite does too Black and white, hot and cold, old and new Love and hate, heaven and hell, left and right North and South, peace and war, day and night To give, to fix, to begin,
With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow I often ponder the precise circumstances that any thing 2 be born this way as a poker face Tracing back lineage of self or arbitrary individual unpredictable as the Dow Reckoning a series of
Down through the millennia grand armies have marched across plains of destruction. Battle cries forever lost in the ether, spilt blood absorb and recycled. Names of the warriors forever lost, unknown to the future. Civilizations have come and gone some
A toddler unrobes the secret of death. Modifies the circadian rhythm of honeybees, opens the daisy clock. Cage of tears. The virus had the acrid odour of sulphide. Decay. It never happened before. Spring was helpless. Primrose forgot to secrete


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Born in 1988, Matt Karat began moving his first steps in music since his childhood. He studied classical guitar first and than became a bass player for some Rock bands. At the same time he started experimenting with electronic sounds and rhythmics using virtual and classical instruments.
Sounds, noises, anything can be music because every new object can be innovate his tracks making them more complex.
From 2012 he began performing in local clubs and parties including the slovenian Ambasada Gavioli where he played with his friend Andres Moreno. In 2015 he released his first Ep “Dreams” for the Tokyo Red Recordings label and than he collaborated with Sydney for Dave Davis’s LAARK label.
Both in sets and productions, Matt Karat switches between electronic styles that allows his music to never be taken for granted.


An 18 MW pilot tidal power project is being developed in an existing tidal barrage on the Annapolis River Estuary in southwestern Nova Scotia to evaluate the performance of a prototype STRAFLO turbine. An environmental assessment to identify potential impacts on regional biophysical and socio-economic features was completed.
Construction of the barrage had already substantially altered the environment. The assessment focussed on impacts associated with construction and operation of the power plant itself, and the increased maximum operating elevation of the impounded basin. Environmental issues associated with the power plant included release of suspended sediment, scour in existing channels and at adjacent shorelines, flood flow management, and passage of anadromous fish through the barrage. Concerns with increased basin water levels included interference with existing agriculture, flooding, and accelerated rates of bank erosion.


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4. Critical Thinking as an Applied Model for Intelligence
5. Pandemics: COVID-19 as a Consequential Real-World Problem
Reasoning by Analogy and Judging the Credibility of the Source of Information
6. Making Cost—Benefit Assessments for Actions That Would Slow the Spread of COVID-19
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Regarding the resignations, the Speaker should call and listen to us, PTI members of the National Assembly
Islamabad (92 News) – PTI members of the National Assembly took a big letter regarding the resignations. They say that the speaker should call us and hear about the resignations.
The PTI MLAs approached the Islamabad High Court regarding the resignations. In the petition filed, it is requested that the court should direct the Speaker to fulfill his constitutional responsibility regarding acceptance of resignation. The court ordered the Speaker to summon the petitioners and other 112 members. The Speaker should investigate that those who resigned voluntarily resigned under Article 64.
The petition states that as per law the Speaker cannot entertain the resignations without hearing the petitioners. The election has not been announced yet, the resignations of 123 members have not even been seen together. Therefore, the resignation letter of the petitioners has not been effective.
It is further stated in the application that when the resignation of Member of Assembly Shakur Shad was accepted, he applied. The Speaker accepted the resignation without hearing. On Shakur Shad’s request, the High Court suspended the notification of acceptance of his resignation.
The hearing will be held tomorrow on the request of PTI assembly members. Chief Justice Athar Minullah will hear the application.

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Maler city council has stated that the drainage systems on the roads of Male’ city are cleared and cleaned and are not the reason for the flooding caused in the capital.
Hussain Shareef, member of Male’ city council spoke to “Sun” today and stated that the drains are cleaned regularly.
“Drains in some areas can only be cleaned on weekends since schools are located nearby and would cause inconvenience if conducted on weekdays. The worst-hit is the areas near IGMH. The drains in these areas are also cleaned regularly.” Said Shareef, who also said that it would take less than 30 minutes for the water to recede through the drains.
“Usually, Stormwater pumps are used to deal with the floods. These pumps would drain the water in around 20 minutes.” Said Shareef. He also said that the reason that it took more time for the water to recede maybe due to the heavy rain.
“Some people sweep the construction waste into these drains and that causes us difficulties. The drains become blocked due to such actions.” Said Shareef and pointed out that the drains are cleared regularly since the Council was assigned the task of overseeing the roads of the city.
The capital experienced some heavy rainfall today that caused a lot of inconveniences to the public. MNDF had been operating to drain the water that collected in the Male’ running track area and IGMH hospital area.


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Commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021 will soon begin receiving emergency relief payments totaling approximately $6 billion through the Farm Service Agency’s new Emergency Relief Program to offset crop yield and value losses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week.
“For over two years, farmers and ranchers across the country have been hard hit by an ongoing pandemic coupled with more frequent and catastrophic natural disasters,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “As the agriculture industry deals with new challenges and stressors, we at USDA look for opportunities to inject financial support back into the rural economy through direct payments to producers who bear the brunt of circumstances beyond their control.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Democrats hoping to claw their way out of a deep minority in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives got some good news this week when their candidates filed petitions to get on the ballot in 180 of the chamber's 203 districts.
The flood-the-zone strategy, inspired in part by a surprising showing for their party in Virginia in November, is designed to put more of the chamber in play and ramp up pressure on Republicans to defend their 121-82 majority.
Some of those candidates can expect legal challenges to their petitions or their qualifications, but their sheer numbers suggest that Democrats are benefiting from energy and enthusiasm that could change the Legislature's balance of power.
"Obviously, 2016 was not exactly what we were hoping for and we had a very intentional strategy to challenge Republicans in every district," said Nathan Davidson, director of the House Democratic Campaign Committee. "We didn't quite get there, but it was very intentional to be actively recruiting in every place."
The 180 districts would be the most for Democrats since at least 2000. That beat 2006, when Democrats ran in 175 districts. That year, Democrats rode a national wave to control of Congress, while at home, a populist furor over lawmakers' self-granted pay raise fueled the defeat of 24 incumbents and briefly put Democrats in the majority.
Allegheny County Rep. Mark Mustio, who leads House Republican campaign efforts, said numbers alone don't mean much.
"There are some of their candidates that have significant problems - we know that," Mustio said. "Some of them, we hope, will stay on the ballot because they're unelectable."
The House Republicans' electoral challenges this year are compounded by their 20 retirements and other vacancies, compared to seven for Democrats. Any seat without an incumbent becomes more attractive to the other side.
There are 51 House Democrats with no Republican opposition at all this year, compared to 22 Republicans without a Democrat taking them on.
The filings mean that 78 Republican incumbents are in line to get Democratic challengers in the fall, including all GOP representatives in the four suburban counties around Philadelphia, in the Lehigh Valley and in the Pocono Mountains. All are battleground areas in the politically divided state.
That's more than three times the 24 sitting Democratic lawmakers who have the prospect of a Republican opponent in November. Primary write-in campaigns, legal challenges or dropouts could change those numbers.
The dynamic is similar in the state Senate, where 18 of the 25 seats up this year are held by Republicans. Both parties have candidates in the four open seats, all currently represented by Republicans. There are 13 Republicans and two Democrats who are in line to face opposite-party challengers in the fall. The Senate is currently in Republican hands, 34-16.
The state House strategy positions Democrats to take advantage if this turns out to be a wave election year.
Davidson said his side is reaping a crop of new volunteers.
"More than 50 percent have been new people who have come out of the woodwork and said, 'The world is changing and I need to do something,'" he said.
Seeking re-election this year is Democratic state Rep. Tom Caltagirone, whose former aide's claim of sexual harassment was settled with a $250,000 payment from taxpayer funds.
Republican Rep. Nick Miccarelli, the subject of a sexual misconduct complaint by two ex-girlfriends, also filed for another term, as did Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, awaiting trial on public corruption charges that include an allegation of accepting bribes from an informant.
A constitutional amendment to shrink the number of state legislators will not be on the primary ballot, but could still go before voters in November.