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Ex-chair of tribe that welcomed Pilgrims goes on trial
A former chairperson of the Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors aided the Pilgrims goes on trial Tuesday for bribery, extortion and other federal charges related to the tribe’s planned casino project.
Cedric Cromwell’s criminal trial opens in U.S. District Court in Boston after being delayed for months by the coronavirus pandemic. He’ll be on trial with co-defendant David DeQuattro, the owner of an architecture firm in Providence, Rhode Island.
Federal prosecutors say Cromwell used his position as chair of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe to extort tens of thousands of dollars in bribes and engaged in a conspiracy to commit bribery with DeQuattro.
They say DeQuattro provided Cromwell with payments and other benefits valued at nearly $60,000 in exchange for nearly $5 million in contracts. Prosecutors allege Cromwell then spent the payments on personal expenses.
Cromwell’s lawyer, Tim Flaherty, has said his client denies the charges and looks forward to his trial, adding that Cromwell was a “transformational leader” who helped improve the future of the tribe, which traces its ancestry to the Indigenous people whom the Pilgrims encountered four centuries ago.
DeQuattro’s lawyer, Martin Weinberg, also has denied the charges, saying his client simply donated to Cromwell’s political campaign.
The Cape Cod-based tribe’s casino plan has faced years of legal setbacks, but it got a boost in December when President Joe Biden’s administration affirmed the tribe’s sovereign reservation.
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Cuitlacoche, also known as Huitlacoche, is a fungus that grows on ears of tender corn, making the kernels eventually swell and darken into a dense inky mass. Not a very appetizing description for a food that is both delicate and complex in flavor and absolutely addictive.
Because of the dark gray-black color of the cuitlacoche, this dish
is also known as "black rice" or "arroz Negro". It's actually one of
the easiest ways in which to get acquainted with cuitlacoche.
Sauté the dried rice kernels in hot oil using a large, heavy pot.
Add the onion and the garlic and cook, stirring constantly, until the rice is golden brown.
Add the chopped cuitlacoche and cook until the juices run out and evaporate.
Stir in the hot broth and the corn, plus the salt and pepper to taste.
Lower the heat and cook, covered, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender. about 23 minutes.

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TVS Motor Company increased the prices of Apache RR 310 and reduced the prices of the Wego scooter Thursday. The automaker also silently launched a special edition of Apache RTR 160 christened White Race Edition.
The White Race Edition is based on the previous generation RTR 160, which is still on sale and is not to be confused with the newly launched Apache RTR 160 4V. The Apache RTR White Race Edition has been priced at Rs 79,715 for the base variant that comes with single disc brake while the version with disc brakes on both ends costs Rs 82,044, ex-showroom Delhi. The Apache RTR 160 Race Edition is priced identically to the Matte Red edition, which was launched in 2017, and about Rs 1,000 higher than the standard RTR 160.
The special edition of the Apache RTR 160 is a pure cosmetic job. As the name suggests, it gets the milky white color as the base and red paint touches on the fuel tank, front mudguard and rear body panels give a contrasting effect. The Race Edition also gets a 3D TVS logo on the fuel tank.
There are no changes to the engine and cycle parts. The Apache RTR 160 is powered by a 159.7 cc air-cooled engine that produces 15.2bhp of and 13.1Nm torque mated to a five-speed transmission. The TVS Apache RTR 160 Race Edition comes fitted with telescopic forks up front and dual shock absorbers at the rear.
TVS Apache RTR 200 4V Race Edition 2.0
TVS had also launched the Race Edition for the elder sibling, Apache RTR 200 4V, last month. Priced from Rs 95,185, the Race Edition 2.0 is offered in Carburetor, EFI, and Carburetor with ABS versions.
Apache RTR 200 4V Race Edition 2.0 flaunts Anti-Reverse Torque (A-RT) Slipper Clutch technology. The motorcycle also sports new racing-inspired graphics and a fly-screen for enhanced aerodynamics.


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These are the words of the Blessed Mother on this day:
Dear children of God, pray that God, the Father, the Almighty whose name is most holy, may increase your faith, that you may accept without reservation that the greatest part of God 's creation remains a mystery to the mind of man. Full knowledge of all that exists in your world cannot be totally comprehended by the mind of any one man. Only the Creator has total knowledge of all that He has created.
Yet He has empowered the mind of man that man may be able to recognize the truth. Many are they who say that what the human intellect cannot comprehend, cannot be the truth. You need faith to proclaim that the truth is in the Creator, it does not proceed from the human mind.
The human intellect can only draw from the truth what is needed for human salvation. Otherwise you will fall victims of confusion which robs you of the truth, the one and eternal source of your being.
Yes, as children of God we are all rooted in the truth. The Christ, the Saviour, Jesus, my son, is the Truth. This is the mystery wherefore many are tempted to say that because Jesus is known to be human, all humans are equal to Him. Yet in faith I understood that I was not equal to Him.
Jesus was born from the compassion of God, the Father, the Almighty for the children He created that they may enjoy eternal happiness in the Kingdom where all is truth and where truth is comprehended by all. That Kingdom was lost to you when some amongst your fathers allowed confusion to enter the human intellect. From that, humans began to forget that glory belongs to God, the Father, the Almighty alone.
The way to the Kingdom is through your salvation, through Jesus, my son in whom truth resides.
You can return to the truth through your faith which you can increase through prayer and only with the help of Jesus, my son. This is my eternal petition to God, the Father, the Almighty in the person of Jesus, my son. I ask that the Holy Spirit of God may increase your faith.

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A new book opens up debate about the power of the journalist and media organisations reporting conflict in Indonesia
In an effort, perhaps, to practice what his book, Journalism and conflict in Indonesia: From reporting violence to promoting peace preaches, author and journalist Steve Sharp now runs his own media company (www.telingamedia.com) out of Townsville. The site includes content from eastern Indonesia to the South Pacific and describes its mission as more far reaching than simply that of providing news: ‘Knowing each other will bring us together – on our own terms. As we float in a sea of mutual ignorance and confusion, telingamedia.com swims against the tide.’
Sharp’s new book is a study of print media coverage of conflict in Indonesia with a particular emphasis on the region of Maluku in the years 1999-2001, when as many as 9000 people are estimated to have died. The research focuses on an important period of Indonesia’s history of ‘transition’ from authoritarian regime to democracy. It is the story of journalism and the conflict in Maluku that is without doubt the most interesting and unique contribution the book makes, showing us what the newspapers were reporting at the time of conflict.
The book opens up debate about the role of media practitioners in pursuing accurate rather than inflamed coverage of such conflict. Sharp looks to illustrate how the Indonesian mainstream print media has the capacity to escalate violence, or to alternatively adopt practices which might better promote peace. He argues that ‘peace journalism’, where the media are involved in assisting with ‘conflict resolution’, is the solution. This is the opposite of ‘war journalism’, which focuses on the reporting of violence and who is winning or losing. It involves media production processes being rearranged so that deeper causes and effects of violence are explained. In the Maluku case, Sharp writes, peace journalism means ‘understanding volatile centre-periphery politics’, and can be achieved by encouraging journalists to resolve conflict through specific media management and training strategies.
Like many major academic studies, Journalism and conflict in Indonesia is an adaptation from a doctoral thesis; in this case a 2011 PhD completed at Griffith University. The challenge of converting a thesis to a book is evident in its early chapters and, for any early career researcher looking to publish their PhD, is worth analysing. The opening account sets up the book’s aims, which are to examine the ‘capacity for media narratives to contribute to the escalation of violent conflict’. What follows in the early chapters are comprehensive literature reviews of existing work in the field, which while well researched might cause readers to find themselves wanting to get to the more engaging new material Sharp presents here about the war in Maluku.
Journalism and conflict presents two main critiques of the reporting of conflict in Maluku. The first is that the conflict was subjected to a ‘primordialist media narrative’. Sharp defines ‘primordialism’ as ‘a strong sense of group identity based on some primary form of affiliation’. He explains that, rather than offering consistent alternative readings, the reporting in Kompas and Republika ‘became vehicles for mining a far simpler and accessible corner of national historical memory – base religious primordialism’. Sharp contends that in both newspapers, the reports ‘facilitated the militants’ war communication’ and contributed to the escalation of violence.
Sharp’s second critique is that the reporting was Jakarta-centric, with ‘talking heads’ expressing partisan political feuding far away from the battlefront. He found there were few reports originating ‘on the ground’ where the conflict was occurring. This is unsurprising given that Sharp’s research does not include textual analysis of local news media. Instead, he analysed reports from Kompas and Republika, two newspapers based in the capital. Sharp concludes that ‘the media’s failure to address shifting power relations between political elites in Jakarta and Maluku was a spectacular failure of journalism that did nothing to assist a negotiated peace and may have contributed to the war’s significant escalation’.
The book’s main title Journalism and conflict in Indonesia is in keeping with the recent trend of broad titles at Sharp’s publisher, Routledge. Would it really have made much of a difference to sales if the more accurate word ‘Maluku’, was somewhere in the title of this book? Presumably the answer is yes. There are two main problems with this ‘policy’ of broad titling. First, we are faced now with similar titles on media and journalism in Indonesia. David T. Hill's biography of Mochtar Lubis, broadly entitled Journalism and politics in Indonesia (2012) and perhaps even Hill’s and Krishna Sen's book Politics and the media in twenty first century Indonesia (2011) are two recent examples. The second, and far more compelling concern with regards to this book, is that the generic title suggests Sharp’s primary research encompasses coverage of a variety of conflicts in the Indonesian archipelago. ‘Conflict’ in this book is predominantly the Maluku violence of 1999-2001 and ‘journalism’ is seen through the lens of reports in two Jakarta dailies.
Indonesia’s media have evolved considerably since the Maluku conflict, both at a regional and national level. The Press Council, media ombudsmen, journalistic unions and even media practitioners themselves have seemingly reduced the capacity for fervent ‘primordialist media narrative’ of conflict and violence. This is not to say it will not rear its ugly head in the future, but overall the advancement in professional journalism in Indonesia since the immediate years following reformasi has been encouraging for those of us who monitor the Indonesian media. As larger multi-platform conglomerates become a feature of the Indonesian media landscape, media narratives in the archipelago are likely to become increasingly Jakarta-centric. In this regard, Sharp’s work is important in showing the consequences of what he describes as ‘local political conflict traceable to Jakarta’.
Steve Sharp, Journalism and conflict in Indonesia: From reporting violence to promoting peace, Routledge, London, 2012.
Ross Tapsell (firstname.lastname@example.org) is a lecturer in Asian Studies at the Australian National University.

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I was fortunate enough to visit New Orleans a couple of times. It’s a great deal of fun with lots of history. Amazing food has a style all its own. The music is one of a kind with live street bands that add to the fun. The atmosphere fills the night life with excitement, where there is always something for visitors to do day or night. I loved stepping into the beautiful flower gardens surrounding St Louis Cathedral every day. It was a pleasant walk from my hotel room where I stopped along the way to enjoy a small coffee shop and delightful bakery, yum. There were little shops to explore as well. things change at night as the street light and people are everywhere. The horse drawn carriages add to the New Orleans charm and style. New Orleans has a certain feel to it, a look all it’s own. I was only there a couple days, but I am sure there is a lot more to see and experience. Anyone been to New Orleans? What was your favorite place to eat? Favorite thing to do there?
I loved visiting St Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. It is surrounded by beautiful flower gardens, great food, fun music and people with heart. Had a good time while I was there

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The Streaming Television Review: HBO’s The Gilded Age
“You can tread too carefully,” are the words spoken most seriously by one of the more mischievous servants of the grand new mansion built on the corner of 61st Street and 5th Avenue, trying with all their might to unleash some tension and drama in the downstairs hallways. While upstairs, the residents are basically following the same rules, just with higher brow ways and means. It is a compelling warning though, one that the producers, director, and Julian Fellowes, the creator of HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age“, took in a bit too seriously. The expensive looking series, which debuted on Crave TV here in Canada on January 24th, is directed with a grand scope and vision by Michael Engler (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt“) and Salli Richardson-Whitfield (“The Wheel of Time“). I just wish the intricacies of the interpersonal interactions were treated with a bit more sharp fun and care, and less melodramatically.
It is, most delightfully, filled to overflowing with plots, issues, complications, and Broadway legends taking on epic parts at every turn, giving it a solid air of event television, worthy of the stunning period visuals the production and cinematographers Vanja Cernjul (“Crazy Rich Asians“) and Manuel Billeter (“Ozark“) have created. It could also have been easily called The Gilded Cage, as the characters all seem trapped in their detailed ancestry and social status, either wanting things to change rapidly, for differing reasons, or for them to remain exactly as they have been for years. Moving forward, for them, the old money of New York City is the scariest thing possible, and stalling the inevitable will be what this series is all about. Hopefully with a bit more connection then what the somewhat stilted first episode delivers.
Watching as the impressive white statuary is delivered to that newly built mansion owned by the wealthy, new-moneyed Russells, is an eye-catching wonder, thanks to the impressive work of the design team led by production designer Bob Shaw (“The Wolf of Wall Street“). Every interior is dripping with extensively researched and orchestrated detailing, particularly the Russell’s, which looks more like a cold and opulant palace than anyone’s idea of home. Standing up tall most regally on that status-grabbing corner, the mansion is one for the future, designed for socializing and receiving the wealthiest of New York City, circa 1882.
Yet, across the street, or should I say battleground, is old money personified, where Agnes Van Rhijn, played extremely well by the fabulous Christine Baranski (“The Good Fight“; Broadway’s The Real Thing), holds societal court in her tight well-gloved fist. She, along with her sister Ada Brook, deviously well crafted by Cynthia Nixon (“Sex and the City“; Broadway’s The Little Foxes) and Agnes’s son, Oscar, portrayed by Blake Ritson (“For Elsie“), will never be stepping through those doors, if Agnes has anything to say about it. Nor will anyone of her tight and closely watched social circle. Oscar is the little seen wild card, at least in that first episode. He’s one to watch, as he has some secrets that we are just given a wee glimpse of. But “The Gilded Cage” is really focused on, much to Agnes’s discomfort, the newly arrived niece, Marian Brook, played tightly and not-so-engagingly by Louisa Jacobson (“Gone Hollywood“). The young generational rebels will be the ones to watch, fighting against a system they no longer believe in. Times, they are a-changing, Agnes, and within their safe and solid old neighborhood, the air sizzles with an unwelcoming aroma.
“The old have been in charge since before the revolution,” Agnes tells us most distinctly, demonstrating that she has no intention of letting that power slip away. Baranski digs most wonderfully into the part, dismissing the Russells without barely lifting her eyes to watch their arrival. She’s electric and on point, along with Nixon, who both give the sisters an edge and complication that works its magic, even when the script barely supplies those needed requirements.
Created by Julian Fellowes, with writing duties shared with Sonja Warfield (“Will & Grace“), the straightforward structuring suggest everything that we could have hoped for from the man who majestically created “Downton Abbey” and the wonderful “Gosford Park“, so it is utterly surprising to find such flatness in the pace and energy. The worlds and words feel appropriate and well placed, but lacking in drive and fire, falling flat on the well carpeted ground when they should be flying across the room. The wicked spark is missing (oh, where are you when we need you, Dame Maggie?), even in the fiery formulation of the aspiring socialite Bertha Russell, played to the nines by Carrie Coon (“Gone Girl“), who along with her wealthy and ruthless railroad tycoon husband, George Russell, portrayed solidly by Morgan Spector (“Boardwalk Empire“), demands to be taken seriously. Even when they should know better.
From watching only the first episode, “The Gilded Age” really needs to find its hook. “Downton Abbey” had its snobbish undercurrent that sizzled with contempt, but it also shined with loving care and solid attachments. The balance worked, especially in the back hallways with the servants. There was drama and conflict, but also an understanding and connectivity, even between the classes that drew us in. “Gosford Park” is also a perfect example of well crafted brittleness mixed with an emotional undercurrent of care. I can’t quite remember how I felt watching the first episode of “Downton Abbey“, but it certainly grabbed hold of my heart as it moved forward. So I’m hoping that “The Gilded Age” finds its subtle way in, but within that first hour and a half, in the words of a good friend who I think nailed it when he wrote me that the first episode was all “about her [Bertha] throwing a party that no one cared about.” And why should we? We couldn’t help but wonder how she didn’t see the end result coming, even before the first invitation was delivered. Curiousity in a house is not enough to overcome the ideals people like Agnes hold tight.
“The Gilded Age” is a panoramic social exercise, filled with somewhat bland dialogue emeshed with a number of compelling scenarios that could, if executed with a bit more spark, redefine itself. Race, something that Fellowes has yet to address in his other two period-piece classics, does find space in the back rooms of the Van Rhijn’s, even if half of her staff is quite upset by the presence of Peggy Scott. Played beautifully by Denée Benton (“UnREAL“), the character elevates the surrounding stuffiness, hinting at some compelling things to come. She might just be the match waiting to be struck. Giving me some hope for the future of “The Gilded Age“. I’m excited and curious how the series will tackle this tense integration, more than the quick, almost too obvious flirtatious interaction between Jacobson’s Marian, who, so far, is far from interesting, and the handsome, somewhat rebellious Larry Russell, played sweetly by the handsome Harry Richardson (“Dunkirk“). The lines have been crossed by these two, hopefully sparking some fire in both those houses. Now what’s that line from Romeo and Juliet?
Happily, especially for this theatre junkie, the Broadway elite is most lovingly paraded out, both upstairs and down, with beautifully crafted appearances by Kelli O’Hara as Aurora Fane, Donna Murphy as Mrs. Astor, Katie Finneran as Anne Morris, Linda Emond as Clara Barton, Audra McDonald as Dorothy Scott, Michael Cerveris as Watson, Bill Irwin as Cornelius Eckhard, Debra Monk as Armstrong, Celia Keenan-Bolger as Mrs. Bruce, Patrick Page as Richard Clay, Kelley Curran as Turner, Kristine Nielsen as Mrs. Bauer, and Claybourne Elder as an intriguing John Adams. We only are given glimpses of them all, but I’m hoping they are going to given ample screen time to shine in their tv spotlight.
Exciting stuff, I’m praying, and entertaining to see these pros hard at work, but for now, when that first episode came to its lackluster unsurprising ending, the energy, even with all those spectacularly beautiful costumes designed by Kasia Walicka-Maimone (“Moonrise Kingdom“) on display throughout, the show just doesn’t snap like it should. So far. It feels somewhat lazy and predictable, failing to fit humor, wit, or intrigue within its splendor and standardized dialogue. But I still have some hope that it could all turn on a dime. The ideas are there, and the conflicts, waiting to find their fuel and their fire. Here’s crossing our fingers and toes that as the episodes are released, one every Monday at 9pm ET, their all-so American blunt directness will spark something far more compelling than a failed party and a melodramatic threat in response. Pretty please?
“The Gilded Age” debuts Monday, January 24 at 9 p.m. E.T. on HBO.

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While a cup of coffee or tea is a well-established part of the morning routine for many people, you may not realize how much it affects your teeth. If you don’t take the proper precautions, drinking coffee or tea continually can eventually lead to unsightly yellow and brown teeth stains. Here’s some more info on why this happens and some measures you can take to prevent and remove it.
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Landscape planning and planting for small home properties; an elementary discussion of theories and practices, by Joseph P. Porter and Robert S. Reich.
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Ithaca, N. Y., N. Y. State College of Agriculture. Dept. of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture, 1947.
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- Symphony No. 6 ("Sinfonia semplice"), FS 116
- Symphony No. 5, FS 97 (Op. 50)
Concluding their exceptional audiophile series of the symphonies of Carl Nielsen on DaCapo, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic present the "Symphony No. 5" and the "Symphony No. 6, Sinfonia Semplice," the two most challenging works in the cycle. Nielsen was not comfortable with the changes modernism brought to classical concert music, and his misgivings are conveyed in the increasingly abrasive counterpoint and violent interruptions he provided as commentary in both works. While the "Fifth Symphony" retains traditional aspects of symphonic structure, and many passages are quite ravishing, it is most notable for the explosive ad libitum snare drum solo which threatens to derail the first part, and the dissonant fugues that dominate the second part. Even more unsettling is the "Sixth Symphony," which is far from a simple symphony. From the tonally unstable and volatile first movement, through the sarcastic Humoresque and the enigmatic Proposta seria, to the forced comedy of the Theme and Variations, Gilbert and the NYP convey the bitterness and frustration Nielsen felt toward the end of his career, and the performance is quite disconcerting, as it should be. The orchestra's playing is vivid to the the point of being startling, and it holds nothing back in the most climactic moments. Highly recommended.
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A strong conclusion to a justly applauded modern cycle. Thus far, Maestro Gilbert and the NYP have demonstrated a certain affinity for the Danish master’s first four symphonies in consistently perceptive, dramatically intuitive performances. Symphony No. 5 is no less compelling. Maestro Gilbert’s sense of pacing, balancing and building are congruent with the composer’s vision. While all sections deliver, the strings in particular display a special sheen and cohesion. As good as this version is, the groundbreaking, incendiary Bernstein/NYP recording continues to loom large some 50 years after its release, remaining the preferred version for many. Upon its premiere, the accompanying Symphony No. 6 confounded audiences who were accustomed to the composer’s straightforward “heroic” style as exemplified by the previous 3 symphonies. They found the ironic twists and turns of this last symphony perplexing. Some critics even detected a declining inspiration they attributed to the composer’s faltering health. To this day, the concluding few measures are markedly ambiguous, almost derisive as if Nielsen were thumbing his nose at us. Maestro Gilbert nimbly maneuvers the tricky disparate elements within this symphony through careful balancing and observance of the composer’s precise dynamic and rhythmic markings, thereby making a solid case for this work. The players are with him all the way. The sound pickup is finely etched and three dimensional throughout both works, most prominently in the SA format. Finally, the excellent liner notes deserve mention.


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For the past week we have had a fantastic group of participants who came together to complete a residential on the Isle of Arran. Over the course of 6 days they completed the John Muir Discovery Award, their Gold DofE Residential section, tracked otters and plenty of wildlife, visited Holy Island, undertook work with the Arran Rangers to help clear invasive species and both visited and took part in helping the COAST project at the Arran show...phew!
The participants kept a blog over the week, all penned by themselves with photos of their experiences and what they got up to. Take a look at their photos and read their experiences by following the link below.
We have another group of participants who have just arrived on the island today, ready for a week of run, challenges and adventure. It is their job to take over the blog so don't forget to tune in each day to see how they get on - can they beat the beach art from last week?


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Soulful sufi singer Kavita Seth is better known for Bollywood songs like ‘Tum Hi Ho Bandhu’ from COCKTAIL, ‘Ik tara’ from WAKE UP SID.
After a long time she is seen crooning for a commercial Bollywood film. She has now sung ‘Prem Mein Toh Re’ for the film BEGUM JAAN which has two versions - one is hummed by legend Asha Bhosle and the other one is sung by Kavita Seth.
In conversation with Kavita Seth as she speaks about her song from BEGUM JAAN and also croons several songs.
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acupressure for tinnitus
Tinnitus refers to a ringing in the ears that frequently accompanies hearing loss. Based upon the statistics from the Hearing Health Foundation, an approximated 48 million individuals in the US and nearly 477 million worldwide experience these symptoms, particularly as they grow older. While initial tinnitus hardly ever shows a severe condition, it can be really challenging to deal with as it advances and becomes more serious. acupressure for tinnitus
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We still see the glass as half full, given likely decent global economic growth, healthy corporate p...
The Wall Street Hillbillies
05/21/2012 10:45 am EST
Tales of corporate bumbling and greed have come to define this market. Call it the Dimon discount, writes MoneyShow.com senior editor Igor Greenwald.
The stock market is a family of sorts, in the sense that the performance of its parts reflects on the whole, tying together disparate corporate fortunes.
Some do better than others, but outsiders often have trouble sorting out the good apples in the bunch. And their growing preference for cheap ETF baskets means the contents often rise or fall together.
Lately, falling has been the only ride on offer, of course. As fictional families go, the stock market these days is more Clampetts than Ewings.
Old man J.D. has struck pay dirt, only to go gambling with the proceeds and come home with nothing but a bottle of hooch and some poison hedges. Neighbor Aubrey has been drilling like crazy with borrowed money, and is now up against it.
One of the kids made it big with that whole Facebook (FB) thing, only to have fast-talking cousin Nasdaq (NDAQ) screw up the coming-out party with bad software. Which left the bankers, J.D. among them, to maintain appearances with money already earmarked for more hooch-making.
It’s a pretty sorry family alright, the sort more likely to be featured on Cops than on the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. No wonder mom and pop have found a myriad good reasons to park their money elsewhere, so that when institutional support buckled over the last couple of weeks, stocks ended up getting tarred and feathered.
Is there hope for this zany clan? If so, it can only reside with the equally kooky family of nations. Which spent the weekend begging its rich German aunt to pay the light bill before power gets disconnected.
Chancellor Angela Merkel nevertheless left Camp David with the same misunderstanding she brought there, namely that austerity and growth are two sides of the same coin rather than incompatible magnetic fields.
And though Uncle Wen threw the market dogs a bone overnight by stressing growth, he is not generally known as a merrymaker. Which leaves the faithful waiting on St. Bernanke to dispense another miracle cure, lest the dark forces of entropy prevail.
The good news is that the script could hardly get worse, and ratings have nowhere to go but up. The cast is in the midst of a shakeup, albeit not as radical as some viewers may like.
They’ve just jeered Handsome Prince Mark and his overpriced social networking darling off the stage, and are in a mood for a mud-wrestling bout, or perhaps an execution or two. It’s an ugly scene and an ugly crowd. But at least the price of admission is right.
For the patient, this farce could yet end up golden. Just don’t expect an aesthetic triumph. That’s a different show entirely.
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SAMUEL COLMAN (American 1832-1920)
The Cathedral at Quimper, France - 1876
Watercolor heightened with gouache on paper
Signed, titled, and dated lower right
20.6 inches x 8.4 inches
$1,000 - 1,500
€ 890 - 1,335
Price Realized: $3,250.00
American Art Galleries, New York auction of Samuel Colman paintings, March 25, 1903, Lot 44 where acquired by George and Katherine Notman and subsequently descended through the family.
The Notman Art Collection
In this modern age of digitalization and instant online access to old books, publications, inventories, sales records and the like, it might be hard to imagine that there still existed somewhere a heretofore unknown important collection of art located in the very heartland of America-Iowa. Yet such is precisely the case of the Notman art collection whose works have inconspicuously remained together in the same family for three generations never having been published or publicly displayed since they were first acquired well over a century ago.
The offered collection, which consists of a total of 55 works, features paintings by some of the most prominent American artists such as Marsden Hartley (American 1877 - 1943), John Marin (1870-1953), Samuel Colman (1832-1920) as well as others, and each having been acquired directly from the artist or through a gallery representing the artist in his or her lifetime.
To understand the collection and how it came to be, one must first go back in time to what Americans call the Gilded Age or what the French popularly referred to as La Belle Époque or the Beautiful Era. Indeed it was in this beautiful era in which many of the great American collections were assembled by patrons of the arts such as the Notman's and subsequently went on to become the foundation of many a prominent museum's collections. It was then this generation which so well understood that as a culture we are defined by the arts and as such it was in their very nature (as formed by their environment) to patronize them. Yet now, at the dawn of the 21st century, it seems truly amazing to see such a wonderful collection as the Notman's, assembled so many years ago, be unveiled to the public and enter the market.
One could say that the story of the collection really begins in Edinburgh, Scotland with the birth of Peter Notman in the year 1820. Together with his older brother, John (1810-1865), like many of their day in the 'old country,' they set sail for America in 1834 to seek their destiny. Both first settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where John would go on to achieve great notoriety as an architect. Whereas, Peter would become engaged in the insurance industry and eventually move from Pennsylvania to New York and rise to the presidency of the Niagara Fire Insurance Company and Sanborn Publishing. In 1850, Peter Notman (1820-1893) married Jane C. Dunlop (1829-1905) of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and together they had five sons and two daughters. It was their second son, George Notman (1853-1929) together with his wife Katherine (1859-1946), who would build the collection now being offered at auction.
George Notman was born in the affluent residential neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights into the well to do family of Peter Notman in the year 1853. In 1880, he married Brooklyn native Katherine Howard whose mother (Pamela Colman) was the sister of noted American artist Samuel Colman (1832-1920) and who is represented in this collection by 17 paintings. George Notman would make his way to the top of the American copper mining industry, eventually rising to become the secretary and treasurer of the Phelps-Dodge Corporation, a position he held for over four decades. In 1885, George and Katherine built a magnificent summer residence in the Keene Valley (Adirondacks) New York named Eaglestowe which remains in the family to this day. Katherine, who attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, studied music under Joseph Mosenthal (1834-1896) and was a noted leader in the New York state Suffragist Movement. Together they had three children, sons Howard (1881-1964) who would become an artist in his own right, Arthur (1882-1961), and daughter Winifred (1890-1979).
It would appear that the first foray into collecting art by George and Katherine Notman began in earnest in 1903 at an auction held by the American Art Galleries in New York. A New York Times newspaper article dated March 26, 1903 (page 9) begins with the headline "SALE OF COLMAN PAINTINGS - Artist's Own Pictures and His collection of Other Canvases Bring $22,275.00 at Auction." Interestingly, the article goes on to list each of Colman's paintings by medium and title followed by the successful buyer. Additionally the American Art Annual, 1903-1904 edition (Vol. IV), also records the sale, by lot, title, size and buyer's last name. A total of 17 paintings by Samuel Colman (the uncle of Katherine Notman) are listed as selling to the Notman's and of which 8 are offered now at Jackson's. One of the paintings acquired by the Notman's at the 1903 auction, a large oil on canvas measuring 32 x 72 inches and titled, Kanawha River Valley, was donated by the Notman's daughter (Mrs. David C. Prince-Winifred) and daughter-in law (Mrs. Arthur Notman) to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1968, collection number 1968.111.
Both of the Marsden Hartley paintings offered were likely acquired at the gallery of American photographer and modern art promoter Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). Stieglitz's Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (also known as gallery 291-a reference to the address on Fifth Avenue) was one of the first galleries to exhibit modern art in America. The offered paintings (Autumn Maine Landscape and Song of Winter Landscape) would seem to correspond to a group of paintings exhibited by Hartley in May of 1909 from a series titled Songs of Autumn and Songs of Winter.
The likely connection with the Notman's and Stieglitz's gallery was the relationship between Katherine Notman and artist Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951), who were first cousins as well as nieces of artist Samuel Colman. In 1907, Alfred Stieglitz gave Pamela Colman Smith an exhibition of her paintings in New York at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession making Smith the first painter to have a show at what had been until then a gallery devoted exclusively to the photographic avant-garde. Stieglitz was intrigued by Smith's synesthetic sensibility; in this period, Smith would paint visions that came to her while listening to music. The show was successful enough that Stieglitz issued a platinum print portfolio of 22 of her paintings and showed her work twice more, in 1908 and 1909. It was the year of her last show there (1909) which corresponds with the time period of exhibitions of Marsden Hartley's and John Marin's works now offered for sale at this auction. Another possible connection between the Notman family and Stieglitz is the Notman's relationship (albeit distant) to the noted Scottish born Canadian photographer, William Notman (1826-1891), who had a studio in New York and whose work was known by Stieglitz.
Both of the Hartley's in the Notman collection remain in what are most certainly their original frames by George F. Of, a noted New York frame maker who it is well known to have worked closely with Stieglitz and the modernist artist he exhibited. Of the five John Marin (1870-1953) watercolors being offered from the Notman collection, three retain their original "Photo-Secession" gallery label and all would appear to be referenced in Sheldon Reich's catalogue Raisonne on John Marin. Additionally they too, with the exception of one, are contained in frames by George F. Of.
Also included in the Notman collection are watercolors by Robert Swain Gifford (1840-1905) - a founding member of the American Watercolorist Society, as well as Charles Louis Mozin (1806-1862), Paul Marny (1829-1914), oils by Adirondacks painter George C. Parker (1862-1934) and drypoint etchings by Paul Cesar-Helleu (1859-1927) and Whistler. Additionally, a few pieces of decorative arts will also be offered including three southwest Native American pieces collected by Notman's when visiting the copper mines in Arizona that his firm managed, as well as a piece of Tiffany and some American art pottery.
The collection now being offered made its way to Iowa from Brooklyn via the son of Arthur Notman (1882-1961), John Hancock Notman (1919-2006), who moved to Clinton, Iowa in 1949 where he would eventually become the general manager of the Clinton Herald Newspaper and the Trenton (NJ) Times Newspaper. His wife Gertrud (née Genske) of 57 years, died in Clinton in the year 2015.
Jackson's International is indeed honored to present this wonderful collection to a generation of new art enthusiasts.

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At Karaworo, Maigari palace, Augwan Tiv , Kabbawa and the New Layout in Lokoja, the state capital, NAN reports that the officials and election materials arrived well ahead of time.
Mr Abiodun Suleiman, an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at polling unit 16 located in Lokoja, told NAN that he and other officials arrived the polling centres with the election materials at about 6:30 a.m.
He said that the accreditation of 1, 686 voters that would vote at the polling units began exactly at 8 a.m., saying that the card reading machines were working perfectly.
NAN observed that the turnout of voters was also impressive in most polling centres visited across the state while security personnel, including the police and personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, were deployed in strategic locations.
At Lokoja Local Government/NEPA polling units on Murtala Mohammed Road, eligible voters were accredited by the use of the card reader while the process was smooth due to the presence of security personnel.
Malam Isa Abdulrahman, an Assistant Presiding Officer in the area, told NAN that the exercise was peaceful, as adequate materials had been made available for the election.
At Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area, the materials and officials also arrived polling centres as early as 7 a.m.
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At Ayeteju/Kajola,Odoakete-Bolorunduro,Odolu,Ayewa and Okekoko wards of Kabba, NAN reports that the electoral officials, including members of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), were also on ground as early as 7: 10 a.m.
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Match ends, Solihull Moors 0, Barrow 1.
John Rooney's second-half strike proved enough as Barrow claimed their fourth-straight National league victory with a narrow win at high-flying Solihull.
The home side got off to a strong start with Alex Gudger testing Barrow goalkeeper Joel Dixon with an effort from the far post following Jamie Osborne's free-kick in the opening five minutes.
The Bluebirds came close to opening the scoring though a number of Rhys Turner chances, while Jacob Blyth's header just missed the target on the stroke of half-time.
Rooney fired wide two minutes after the break as the away side pushed for an opener with Jermaine Hylton denied at the other end.
Barrow broke the deadlock with 15 minutes remaining as Rooney curled the ball into the bottom corner from the edge of the box for his fifth goal of the season to see his side move up a spot to 11th as a result.
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- 4StorerBooked at 87mins
- 8CarterSubstituted forMaxwellat 57'minutes
- 9YussufSubstituted forStensonat 62'minutes
- 10HyltonSubstituted forCarlineat 73'minutes
- 4TaylorBooked at 87mins
- 17WilsonSubstituted forJamesonat 27'minutesBooked at 90mins
- 18TurnerSubstituted forDysonat 61'minutes
- 28AgustienSubstituted forHindleat 70'minutes
- Sam Allison
Second Half ends, Solihull Moors 0, Barrow 1.
Kyle Jameson (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Jason Taylor (Barrow) is shown the yellow card.
Kyle Storer (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Tyrone Williams (Solihull Moors) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Solihull Moors 0, Barrow 1. John Rooney (Barrow).
Substitution, Solihull Moors. George Carline replaces Jermaine Hylton.
Substitution, Barrow. Jack Hindle replaces Kemy Agustien.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Matthew Stenson replaces Adi Yussuf.
Substitution, Barrow. Olly Dyson replaces Rhys Turner.
Substitution, Solihull Moors. Luke Maxwell replaces Darren Carter.
Second Half begins Solihull Moors 0, Barrow 0.
First Half ends, Solihull Moors 0, Barrow 0.
Substitution, Barrow. Kyle Jameson replaces Brian Wilson.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


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Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and former President Donald J. Trump clashed on Friday before two crowds of social conservatives in Washington, with dueling speeches that demonstrated just how influential evangelical voters are expected to be in the presidential primary.
Promising to “put on the full armor of God” in his fight for the religious right, Mr. DeSantis made his most full-throated case yet as a presidential candidate for a social conservative agenda — and pledged to battle what he called the left’s “woke mind virus.”
“The battle lines are we must win the fight to restore religious freedom as the founding fathers intended it,” Mr. DeSantis told the Pray Vote Stand Summit, organized by the Family Research Council on Friday evening, promising to create new “divisions of conscience and religious freedom” inside federal agencies like the Education and Labor Departments.
Less than two miles away, Mr. Trump simultaneously spoke at another social conservative gathering, pressing his case that he had delivered for the religious right as president and would do so again.
“I love you,” Mr. Trump told the leadership summit of the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee. “And I hope you love me.”
The overlapping speeches to the same two audiences highlighted the significant role that Christian conservatives will play in the 2024 nominating contest, beginning in Iowa, where white evangelicals are projected to be a sizable share of the likely electorate in January’s caucuses. Mr. DeSantis in particular urgently needs to make inroads with evangelical voters if he has any hope of closing his current polling deficit with Mr. Trump.
Quoting from the Bible and announcing new measures he would enact as president — including an executive order to ensure that private funding to nonreligious schools would also be available to faith-based private schools — Mr. DeSantis painted a dark portrait in his two speeches of a country suffering through a “national malaise,” with the religious right under intense siege.
He attacked the expansion of transgender rights, defended school-choice policies and invoked parental rights repeatedly. He also promised to repeal the Johnson Amendment, which forbids tax-exempt entities like churches from participating in political campaigns for or against candidates.
“The left views leftist ideology as effectively the national religion,” Mr. DeSantis had told the women’s group earlier in the day. “They will tolerate our faith — as long as it doesn’t impact their agenda.” Mr. Trump echoed similar themes — with a strikingly different style that included attacking Mr. DeSantis by nickname and meandering into extraneous topics.
“We want to have choice in schools and we want to have choice in cars,” the former president told the Concerned Women for America, pivoting in his speech from religious liberty to an aside about electric vehicles.
He mocked Mr. DeSantis as a political mimic, down to the way the governor sometimes tosses hats into crowds. “He gets low and he flicks his wrist,” Mr. Trump said, suggesting that Mr. DeSantis was copying his routine. “We don’t like these copycats, do we?”
And he reveled in his current advantage in the polls, telling the women’s group that Mr. DeSantis “went down like an injured bird out of the sky. And I’m actually quite happy about that.”
Mr. Trump, who has been indicted four times and faces potential trials throughout 2024, also cast himself as a victim of unfair prosecutions and suggested that if elected again he could ask his attorney general to indict political opponents. He also said that he would “appoint a special task force to rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who has been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”
The twice-divorced Mr. Trump was not a natural ally of social conservatives in his first campaign. But he hewed closely to their priorities as president and appointed three Supreme Court justices who helped to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had been a decades-long pursuit on the right.
“Women are not looking for a pastor or a husband when considering a presidential candidate, they are looking for a bodyguard, someone who will fight for them and their families on the issues they hold dear,” said Penny Nance, the chief executive of Concerned Women for America.
Asked if anyone could catch Mr. Trump in 2024, Ms. Nance said, “Well, that’s a heavy lift.”
At both events, Mr. Trump entered to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” and soaked in the applause, waiting for the song to end before he began to speak.
Mr. DeSantis has actively courted evangelical leaders, particularly in Iowa, where he began his campaign with a speech at an evangelical church in the suburbs of Des Moines. He is traveling to the state on Saturday for another chance to woo evangelical voters at an event that is drawing most of the leading candidates in the 2024 race — except Mr. Trump. Mr. DeSantis has already visited more than half of Iowa’s 99 counties.
Mr. DeSantis has tried to use abortion as a wedge against Mr. Trump with social conservatives, noting on Friday that he had signed a six-week abortion ban in Florida known as the Heartbeat Protection Act. Mr. Trump has implied that the law is “too harsh.”
But the issue has not helped the governor with primary voters. In a New York Times poll at the end of July, Mr. Trump was favored over Mr. DeSantis in a hypothetical head-to-head race 70 percent to 25 percent among voters who strongly supported a six-week ban.
Mr. Trump’s appointment of the justices that overturned Roe continues to resonate. When Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, mentioned those appointments, the crowd burst into applause. “He has fought for the unborn in America,” Mr. Perkins said.
Mr. Trump, in a hushed tone, addressed the complex politics of abortion at length on Friday, noting that, “We had midterms and this was an issue.” Following the overturning of Roe, Republicans lost a number of key races in which Democrats ran heavily on the issue of abortion.
But Mr. Trump attempted to cast Democrats as the “radicals” on abortion but also warned about the need for Republicans to “speak about it correctly.” He added: “Many politicians who are pro-life do not know how to properly discuss a topic which is so important.”
For Mr. DeSantis, the challenge of unseating Mr. Trump was apparent from the thunderous greeting for the former president by the two crowds and from the warm words of the leaders of the two groups.
After Mr. Trump ended his speech to the Concerned Women for America, Ms. Nance laid her hand on Mr. Trump and urged the crowd to join her in prayer: “Thank you God for giving us a president that was willing to do the hard thing to make America strong.”
She had not offered such an onstage prayer for Mr. DeSantis.

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Procedia Engineering 148 ( 2016 ) 275 – 281
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Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of ICPEAM 2016
4th International Conference on Process Engineering and Advanced Materials
Hydroprocessing of Crude Jatropha Oil Using Hierarchical
Structured TiO2 Nanocatalysts
Madiha Yasira, M. Tazli Azizana,*, Anita Ramlib, Mariam Ameena
aChemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia
bDepartment of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 32610, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia
Hydroprocessing of crude jatropha oil (CJO) has been studied over different hierarchical structured titania (TiO2) nanomaterial
supports doped with Ni and Ce metals. Three different hierarchical structured TiO2 suport material were used including
commercial TiO2 nanopowder, titania nanotubes (TNT) and titania nanosheets (TNS). The TNT and TNS support nanomaterials
were synthesized using hydrothermal chemical route. However, the catalyst loading was performed using wet impregnation
method. All the catalysts were characterized using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM), Transmission
Electron Microscopic (TEM) and Accelerated Surface Area and Porosimetry (ASAP) analysis. NiCe/TNT catalysts exhibited
highest conversion of triglycerides to hydrocarbon products as compared to NiCe/TiO2 and NiCe/TNS. The main products
involved in the HC reaction are straight chain hydrocarbons ranging n-C15 to n-C18. However, the reaction pathways observed
are: hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) and decarboxylation/decarbonylation (DCO/DCN). DCO/DCN was found to be the major
reaction route under the studied conditions.
© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Peer-review under responsibility of the organizing committee of ICPEAM 2016.
Keywords: Hydroprocessing; TiO2 nanotubes; TiO2 nanosheets; Crude Jatropha oil; Hierarchical structured nanomaterials
Depleting world’s energy resources and increasing greenhouse gasses are emphasizing towards the search of
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© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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renewable energy sources. Biofuels obtained from vegetable oils are considered as sustainable and environmental
friendly alternate for fossil fuels due to sulfur and nitrogen free emissions [1, 2]. Hydroconversion (HC) of
triglycerides from vegetable oils have attracted immense focus of researchers as the hydrocarbon products obtained
from the reaction are similar to fossil diesel fuels, therefore commonly known as ‘green diesel’ [3, 4].
Hydroprocessing of triglyceride yields straight chain hydrocarbons of 15-20 carbon range. The process involves
reaction of triglyceride molecules with H2 gas at high pressure usually above 30 bar and temperature in the range
250-350 0C in the presence of suitable active catalyst . The reaction of triglycerides follows three main reaction
routes: hydrodeoxygenation (HDO), decarboxylation (DCO) and decarbonylation reactions (DCN). HDO reaction
pathway yields the hydrocarbon products with the same carbon number as in the parent glyceride molecule but
DCO/DCN gives the product with 1 carbon less than the parent molecule. Therefore, various research works have
been done tailoring the selectivity towards a specific route of reaction to get desired product. It has been proved that
the catalyst is the key factor not only for controlling reaction but also for selectivity towards a certain route of
reaction [1, 6].
For HC reactions, the most extensively used catalysts are sulfided metal catalysts and noble metal catalysts [7, 8].
Transition metal catalysts requires sulfiding the catalyst with sulfur containing compounds such as CS2 or H2S, in
order to activate the catalyst [8, 9]. However, prolonged reactions using these catalysts can cause sulfur
contamination of the products which in turn effects the quality of the biofuel obtained. On the other hand, noble
metals are also not suitable for large scale usage because of their high costs. Commonly used metal oxide supports
include zeolites, carbon, mesoporous silica, TiO2, Al2O3, SiO2, MCM-41 and SAPO-11, while active metals include
the combination of NiCo, NiMo, CoMo and NiW etc. . Though, very less research work has been done using
rare earth metals like Lanthanides and Actinides. It has been reported that rare earth metals when combined with
transition metals proved to be very active catalysts due to their tremendous properties like, thermal stability, less
carbon deposition, high catalytic activity and good dispersion capability [11-13]. It has been stated that cerium metal
greatly enhance the activity of Ni/Al2O3 catalyst for hydrogenation reaction . Thus, the main objective of this
work is to synthesize the hierarchical structured TiO2 nanomaterials doped with Ni and Ce metals in order to utilize
for the hydroprocessing of crude jatropha oil.
TNT Titania nanotubes
TNS Titania nanosheets
CJO Crude jatropha oil
2.1. Catalyst synthesis
2.1.1. Synthesis of TiO2 nanosheets (TNS)
Titania nanosheets (TNS) were prepared using the following procedure. Initially, hydrofluoric acid (HF) (37%
solution), and ethanol were added to commercially available titania nanopowder (Degussa P25) with 99.7% purity
(Sigma-Aldrich), in a Teflon-lined stainless steel autoclave. The autoclave was kept at a temperature of 150 0C for
24 h and then allowed to cool until room temperature. The white precipitates obtained after the hydrothermal
treatment were vacuum-filtered and washed with ethanol and deionized water alternately. The sample was then dried
at 90 0C overnight to obtain titania nanosheets denoted as TNS.
277 Madiha Yasir et al. / Procedia Engineering 148 ( 2016 ) 275 – 281
2.1.2. Synthesis of TiO2 nanotubes (TNT)
In a typical procedure, TNTs were prepared using a hydrothermal process by mixing commercial TiO2
nanopowder with ethanol and NaOH solution (10 M), followed by hydrothermal treatment of the mixture at 180 0C
in a Teflon-lined autoclave for 24 h. After the hydrothermal reaction, the products of the reaction were washed and
dried properly and denoted as TNT.
2.1.3. Metal loading
All the catalysts support materials including commercial TiO2 nanopowder, TNT’s and TNS’s were loaded with
Ni and Ce metals using wet co-impregnation method with percentage loading of Ni = 10 wt% and Ce = 20 wt%. The
Ni and Ce loaded catalysts has been prepared by adding aq. solution of Ni(NO3)2 (Merck) and Ce(NO3)3 (Merck) on
the support solutions separately, followed by stirring at room temperature for 1h. The impregnated samples were
dried overnight at 90 0C then calcined at 300 0C for 6h.
2.2. Catalyst characterization
The synthesized catalysts were further characterized in order to understand their morphology and textural
properties. High resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM) images were recorded using Zeiss LIBRA
200 FE, operated at 200 kV with the magnification of 80,000 and 200,000. Electron microscopy images of samples
were taken with Variable Pressure Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (VPFESEM, Zeiss Supra55 VP)
equipped with X-ray energy-dispersive (EDX) microanalyzer. The pore volume and surface area of the samples
were obtained by N2 adsorption-desorption isotherm at 73 K on Micromeritics, ASAP 2020 apparatus. The sample
was degassed at 300 0C for 240 min prior to N2 adsorption.
2.3. Catalytic activity measurements
Crude jatropha oil (CJO) purchased from Bionas Sendirian Berhad, was used as the feedstock. Purified H2 gas
(>99% purity) was utilized for HC experiments. The experiment was performed in a 100 ml high pressure stainless
steel batch reactor. All the catalysts were activated prior to the reaction in the presence of H2 at ambient pressure
and 400 0C temperature for 1 hour. The HC reaction was carried out at 50 bar H2 pressure and 300
0C with 5wt% of
Liquid samples were tested using gas chromatograph HP 5890 equipped with flame ionization detector (GC-
FID). The method uses derivatization with N-methyl-N-trimethylsilylfluoracetamide (MSTFA) in the presence of
pyridine. After silylation, the sample was dissolved in n-heptane and analyzed using gas chromatography equipped
with non-polar column type DB-5: L = 30 m; d = 0.25 mm; film thickness 0.25 μm. Nitrogen was used as the carrier
gas (2.5 cm3 min-1). The following analysis conditions were used: 1 min at 50 0C, followed by a linear increase at 15
0C min-1 to 180 0C, next linear increase at 7 0C min-1 to 230 0C; last ramp at 10 0C min-1 (5 min).
The conversion (C) of CJO was calculated as follows:
C = 100% ‒ CTG (1)
Where CTG is the pe

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Grand Canyon South Rim Snow?
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I hope you made reservations for hiking. Permits in the Grand Canyon can be hard to get without a reservation, which are usually made months in advance. The Grand Canyon is one of the most heavily visited parks. The rim may have snow but within a few hundred feet down inside the snow and ice dissappears and as you decend it gets warmer. At the bottom at Bright Angel Camp and Phantom Ranch the temperture may be 50 degrees warmer than the rim. December and January were my favorite months to hike the canyon when I spent them there between 1983 and 2003, because it is so much warmer inside. Summers can be brutal as temps at the bottom reach 120 F in the shade. Otherwise spring in March and April and Fall October and November are the nicest times to go.
I am not sure what the snow conditions are like but do know they are expecting highs in the upper 40s. Here in Flagstaff we are about 1000-2000 feet lower than the South Rim and much of the last snow that fell between here and the rim is gone. It last snowed on the end of the year weekend.
If you cannot get an immediate permit for hiking, you can get on standby by getting to the backcountry office very early in the morning and getting a number. Then if someone else who has made a reservation does'nt show, they go down thru the standby numbers till they get to you. And you then can get your permit.
If you do have to stay on the rim because you could not get a permit on your first try, the campground may be cold, tho being from Fairbanks it might seem mild compared to up there. I worked at the south rim many years ago and there was this young woman from Alaska who even in midwinter wore shorts and a tshirt saying, "This is not cold!, You should live in Alaska in the winter!"
Even tho it is winter and not as hot and dry as summer, be sure to carry plenty of water. The inner canyon is a desert and water is still not available in many places. If you hike down the Bright Angel Trail, the first water will be at Indian Gardens about four and half miles down. Then after that it will be 5 miles to the Colorado River and then 2 more miles along the river to Bright Angel Camp and Phantom Ranch. Going down you may not drink as much and it will only take a few hours to do. But coming back up will take most of the day unless you are used to climbing Denali every day. Its a 5000 foot descent to the bottom in about 9 miles. And when you return it is 5000 feet back up. The lack of having water and something to munch on that will keep your energy level up is manditory. In places the trail seems very steep and you may find yourself huffing and puffing and feeling very exhausted. Take you time and rest and drink water often. Don't make your first trip into the canyon your last.
When I was in my prime in my 20s and 30s I could hike out in 5 hours and I was hiking the canyon everyday from October to April. I have met day hikers coming down and at the river with nothing but a camera in one hand and a soda can in the other (which is empty cause they drank it many miles back). They usually want to know how much farther it is to the Phantom Ranch and I ask them if they are staying there tonight? Most of the time they say "no, we are staying on the rim at one of the hotels" And I say well its whatever time in the afternoon and that it will take them at least 5 hours to hike back if they leave now or it will be dark. "Oh, its okay if we can't make it out the park service will take us out by mule" Yes, I say when you have died and you are strapped over the mule!
It is a strange reality but the canyon can be very hard. I have done it hundreds of times in 20 years and still do not like hiking out. It takes me much longer now in my 50s, tho I have not hiked there since I was 47 in 2003. I hike around Flagstaff and up the San Francisco Peaks in summer and thats as much uphill as hiking out of the canyon at about 5000 feet. Last summer it took me 5 hours to hike Mt Elden which is only about 2000 feet.
Good luck, stay at the Grand Canyon Hostel in Flagstaff for the cheapest night. Its very comfortable and you'll meet many others from around the world. Its on South San Francisco Street south of Hwy 66 and the railroad tracks a couple blocks. Its about $20 a night with a kitchen and hot showers. Or you could stay where I work the Monte Vista Hotel and pay about $120 a night. Its a historic oldplace built in 1926-27 and is said to be haunted by a little girl who died there in the early 1900s.
Anyway if you go to: http://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm This is the Grand Canyon National Park website, there yoiu can find access to all the information about the canyon including weather and snow conditions.
Have fun and tell us all about your trip when you get out!
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Hi Gary, thanks for the reply!
It's nice to hear that the last snow between Flagstaff & the Rim is mostly gone. I've been watching weather reports & webcams but it's hard to really know what's on the ground. I do plan to camp on the rim the first night so I'm interested in what's there. I see that they're forecasting a chance of snow Wednesday but not calling for it to accumulate.
I don't have the backcountry permits yet. I spoke with the rangers at the backcountry information center as I was planning the trip (at the beginning of the month) and with the information they gave me I'm moderately confident I'll be able to get them in a day or two. The permits take at least 2 weeks lead time to make it through the mail, and I was pushing it for time so I'm winging it.
What I'm not winging is everything else :) I always cringe when I hear "I'm from Alaska, this isn't cold!" Freezing is freezing is freezing, and I don't care if 25 degrees feels warm (which it sometimes does) it can still kill you if you're not paying attention.
While I'm not coming loaded for bear (as it were) I will have winter gear with the anticipation that I could be in 10 degrees & 2 feet of snow, and will be carrying & drinking water. We are bone dry up here, especially in winter so I'm very accustomed to hydrating.
I plan to do a 3-day corridor loop: day 1- down South Kaibab, stay at Bright Angel Campground, day 2- up Bright Angel to Indian Gardens Campground, day 3- Bright Angel & out. I'm in moderately good shape, but I am concerned about the elevation which is why I'm not coming up in one day.
Thanks also for the Flagstaff recommendations. I may look into the Hostel, but I don't do ghosts!
Well good I hope your three day trip goes well! Thats the way to do it down in one day then have a couple days to explore. If you get down early enough be sure to hike up the North Kaibab Trail into an area called the Box. Its a narrow section just a mile above Bright Angel Camp.
Also be sure to buy a post card at the Phantom Ranch store, and have it mailed from there. It will bear a postmark saying "Delivered by mule from the bottom of the Grand Canyon."
And on the way up to the rim after stopping at Indian Gardens and get a camp spot, hike out to Plateau Point about a 1.5 miles one way easy level hike. At the point you can look up and down the Colorado River and look down on it which is nearly 1000 feet below.
Be sure to use the food boxes at the campgrounds even if you are just going to the bathroom. There are Ringtailed Cats, Spotted Skunks, Ground Squirells and Ravens that would love you to leave your vittles on the picnic tables or in your tent where they can munch while you are out.
The Ravens and ground Squirrels are like the ones in Alaska.
I worked in Denali Park in the summer of 2006. I worked at the Denali River Cabins from May to the end of July.
I also lived in Alaska back in 1977 to 1979 living and working in Anchorage during the winters and took the summers off to hike in Denali. I bicycled across Alaska after my summer in Denali in 2006. I flew from Denali to the North Slope and then cycled all the way down to Homer Spit, and returned to Anchorage. The hitched a ride with a Frenchman back to Denali, over to Paxson then down to Valdez where I caught the ferry back to Seward and took the Alaskan Railroad back to Anchorage. I stayd in Anchorage till the end of the year then flew back to southern Utah
What do you do in Fairbanks? Are you leaving Alaska or just taking a vacation? Are you flying into Phoenix and renting a car to get here and the canyon? Let me know when you are in town and I would like to meet you. I know a lot about the Grand Canyon after 20 years hiking it. There are also a lot of interesting places to see around Flagstaff.
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Ahh, you're one of those crazies who biked the Haul Road eh?
I'm semi-joking :) I do think that the folks who bike that route (Slope to Peninsula) must be a little nuts, but at the same time, it must be a pretty amazing thing to see so much of the state by bike. Did you do any hiking in the tundra north of the Brooks Range? That is friggin amazing country yes? Up closer to Prudhoe it feels like the sky goes forever... Anyhow, that's quite a trip you did. I haven't traveled the Denali Highway end to end for quite a while and I'd like to bike it one of these summers. Harder to plan when you actually live here :(
This trip is a vacation, I'm not planning to live outside AK ever again. Don't want to go on & on about land ownership and such, but the public lands here are a pretty big deal to me. We've lived in Fairbanks for 9 years (my husband & I have a photography studio here) and I grew up in Eagle River. There's still a lot of the state where I'd like to live, so I'm not sure I ever see a need to leave!
It would be great to meet while I'm in northern AZ, but I'm doing kind of a whirlwind trip through and I've set a pretty tight schedule for myself. I'm flying into Phoenix, picking up a car and going straight to the GC. Once I'm out I'm driving across to NM, north through CO and visiting my Grandma in Western Nebraska. I plan to camp at Petrified Forest & Bandelier then I have family in Colorado Springs that I'll stay with for a night. I may end up at KOA's instead of Petrified Forest & Bandelier, I'm in negotiations with my husband. He's concerned about my safety as a solo camper, so we'll see what shakes out. If I do end up waiting for backcountry permits I'll shoot you an email and see if you're available for a last minute day hike or something? It would likely be around the 21st.
Thanks again for the Canyon tips/info. I can't wait to get there!
Yes, I did hike the tundra above the Brooks Range. Saw many foxes and yes the sky looks huge up there with no mountains in the northern area to block the view. I thought the days were long when I worked in Denali but down there the Alaska Range makes the sun drop below the horizon. Not so above the Brooks Range where the ground is so flat that when the suns goes to its lowest point its still above the horizon like a 3 hour sunset/sunrise.
I left my job at the Denali River Cabins the 29th of July and by the first was up at the North Slope. The pilot that took me there from Cantwell bought me dinner at the oilmans cafe. I met a lot of the workers there and they thought I was nuts to be cycling all the way down to Homer. But I assured them I had done many bicycle tours before and other than the vastness of the country it should go without a hitch.
The mosquitos were'nt too bad, and it rained so much like every other day. The tempertures were about 60-70 degrees. The hardest part of the ride over the Brooks Range was all the truckers, being the road is not paved thru the range the dirt and dust was almost too much. I had to wear a bandanna around my face and I even stretched a piece of clear plastic over my glasses to keep the constant dust out of my eyes.
Going down the south side of the Brooks Range was okay and it took me about 30 minutes to go 56 miles at one point. I was swerving in and out of the truckers and RVs. At one point there was a two dead moose that had wandered out during the night and were hit by two trucks. The huge bodies laid besdie the road and were quite mangled.
The best part of the trip was when I crossed the Yukon River, getting out in the middle of the bridge and seeing the water roll by. Only the Mississippi in the lower 48 compared to the view.
In 1983-84 I rode my bike leaving September 1st 83, from Jackson Hole WY to Rochester NY, then down to Hope, AR. Then after a the winter in Arkansas I headed west across Texas to Tucson AZ, then back north to Jackson Hole. The whole trip not counting time in Arkansas took me 6 weeks and 7000 miles. I was 27-28 years old. I have done many other rides mainly from Jackson Hole to Arizona in the fall and back in the spring, about every other year since 1985 to 2007. My first ride was from Jackson to Hope AR in 1982. Before that I had hitchhiked everywhere. In 1977 when I was 21 I hitchhiked 8000 miles around the entire USA, I went from ARkansas to New York, to Wash DC to Denver CO, to Glacier MT to Seattle WA, to Los Angelos AC and back to Arkansas from June -September. I then hitched back to Seattle in October 1977 and flew Alaska Airlines to Anchorage. I worked at Wendys from October to January at the Post Office Mall downtown on 4th Ave and C Street. In January I got a job at Bob Big Boy on Northern Lights and C Street and worked till May. I quit and went up (hitchhiked) and spent the summer of 78 in Denali Park till late August. Then hitched back to Anchorage and worked back at Big Boys till the following summer and went back to Denali again in 79 for another summer. I went back to Anchorage once again planning to stay another winter and worked at the Capt Cook Hotel in downtown but around Christmas was layed off so I decided to come back to the lower 48. I didn't work again till the summer of 1982 when I first started going to Jackson Hole. I had saved about $4000 in Alaska and had all new backpacking and camera equipment. I spent from Jan-May of 1980 in Yosemite winter camping, then just hitchhiked and backpacked all over the west.
Since then in 80 I have spent my life working the summers in Jackson and taking the fall winter and springs off backpacking in places like the Grand Canyon, Zion, Yosemite, Glacier , the Tetons and down around Tucson. My life has been semi-retired only working about 3-6 months a year. I am currently living and working here in Flagstaff AZ saving to take a year or two off exploring southern Utah after the spring of 2012.
I live cheaply when I am not working, living only out of my backpack and spending no more than it takes to eat month to month. I can live on about $1200 a year if I only bought food and lived in my tent. I will be 55 this Friday and hope to continue this lifestyle till I am in my 70s. Chances are I may die in the mountains, as food for Ravens and scavengers.
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SG Biofuels raises $17 million for jatropha development
Bioenergy crop company SG Biofuels has closed a $17 million (€13 million) round of fundraising to go towards further developments of its hybrid jatropha seeds which can be used for biodiesel production.
The series B of financing was led by Thomas, McNerney & Partners; and Finistere Ventures and current investors Flint Hills Resources and Life Technologies were also involved.
Using the money, SG Biofuels will broaden its research and development facilities towards global commercialisation.
Jatropha does not compete with food, as it is non-edible, and can be grown on difficult crop cultivating lands. Through the use of molecular breeding and biotechnology, SG Biofuels is attempting to improve the yields of the crops, whilst at the same time reducing input costs. The seed is being improved so it will be able to be grown in a variety of conditions around the world.
The company has signed up customers so that it can develop 250,000 acres to be used for its jatropha crops, including an agreement with JETBIO, Inter-American Development Bank and TAM Airlines.
Of this land, 75,000 acres will be dedicated to growing crops in Brazil to produce bio jet fuel.
‘The funding comes at a time when we’re experiencing significant commercial adoption of our hybrid Jatropha and will be instrumental as we continue to expand our global footprint,’ says Kirk Haney, CEO at SG Biofuels.
The company also recently had two new members join its board of directors - Pratik Shah, partner at Thomas, McNerney, and Jerry Caulder, MD of Finistere Ventures.