EDUCATION chiefs are celebrating after receiving the green light to build a new state-of-the-art Marland Hill Primary School.
Rochdale Township planning sub-committee has approved an application by Shepherd Construction to build a 420-place school, with a 26-place nursery and a hearing-impaired unit for 16 children.
While it is being built, pupils will be transferred to the old Oakenrod Primary School, where they will remain until their new £5M building opens in September 2006.
The current Marland Hill Primary School site is now being prepared for demolition work, which is expected to start in eight weeks.
The bigger two-storey school will have a new sports hall, computer room and library and high-tech interactive whiteboards in each classroom.
The school will be good news for children with severe hearing difficulties who live in Rochdale and have to go to school in Heywood.
Sixteen youngsters with severe hearing difficulties will be transferred from Mossfield Primary School, which is planned for closure in September 2006, to their own specialist unit at Marland.
Headteacher Yvonne Weatherhead said: "I am thrilled with the proposals and looking forward to the children moving into their new school soon."
John Bollington, schools development project director, said: "The original building is a former secondary school built in the 1920s, which is now outdated and has served its purpose.
"The new school will house up to 420 pupils and it will also have many extra facilities. We currently have 330 pupils and when the new school opens there will be opportunity for additional pupils.
"Existing staff will be transferred to the new school."
On 30 August the planning sub-committee will consider a new building for 266 pupils on the Hamer Primary School site with facilities for 100 special needs children, and a new 225-place special school for Oulder Hill Community School.
Councillor Colin Lambert, education chairman, said: "I am glad that the proposals for Marland
Hill Primary School have gone through.
"We will be teaching children in a 21st century school and it is time we had more."


Microgrids act as insurance if the central electric grid fails. So it’s fair to ask, how do you keep the microgrid from failing too?
It’s a legitimate worry since microgrids increasingly provide back-up power for critical facilities — hospitals, emergency services, telecommunications towers and the like.
This is an issue IPERC (short for Intelligent Power & Energy Research Corporation) has been grappling with for years. The military is one of the New York company’s main customers. So it has heavily focused on microgrid reliability and cybersecurity. IPERC designs mobile military microgrids to withstand harsh and hostile environments.
From all of this work, the company has come up with kind of back-up to the back-up, resiliency within the already resilient microgrid to serve not only the military, but also utilities, communities, campuses and others connected to the central grid.
Called Distributed Cyber-Secure Architecture, the system mimics within a microgrid the same philosophy that underlies distributed energy. Security lies in redundancy created by several self-sufficient operators that work together — rather than one central controller that may crash the whole system if it fails.
In this case, distributed computers interact together to control various aspects of the microgrid, such as generators, buildings, and distribution systems. The palm-size computers all constantly talk and respond to each other.
“I liken it to a big group hug,” said Peter Curtiss, IPERC technical director. “All of the computers get together and say what do we do that is in the best interest of this power network as a whole?”
IPERC has been working on the distributed architecture for a decade and offers it as part of its GridMaster microgrid control system.
Computers that Job Share
Each small computer has an assignment. For example, a unit may be dedicated to a particular generator within the microgrid. But the computer also can job share; it can step in and take over another task depending on what’s best for the microgrid at any given time. For example, if a computer fails in serving as the master controller, another becomes master.
The controllers operate under general algorithms that allow for a flexible and changing microgrid. New generation can be added or operations modified, and the microgrid will reconfigure without human intervention.
“If one of the generators fails for whatever reason, it’s not a big deal. The computers talk to one another and say, ‘Well, this one over here we can’t talk to anymore. So we’re going to re-evaluate the total number of existing assets,'” Curtiss said. “The system self-heals.”
He added: “People out in the field don’t have to spend a lot of time — in fact they don’t have to spend any time — trying to configure the grid. It happens automatically. The idea is that we don’t want people in the field to configure the grid because they’d have to understand it and because our experience is that they get it wrong.”
The nodes work together to sort out priorities within the microgrid, which is especially important during periods of load shedding.
“Some computers might be associated with loads that are not as important as other loads. If necessary, those loads would have to be sacrificed in order to make sure the absolute critical loads stay energized,” he said.
For example, in a hospital the lights in an operating room are crucial; energy to the coffee maker is not so important. So the controllers decide what stays on and what can be turned off temporarily.
“Decisions are made based on the observed characteristics of all of these different kinds of equipment,” he said.
Hard for Hackers
IPERC is accustomed to dealing with a client that is highly sensitive to cybersecurity issues, the military. Now the utility industry is becoming increasingly alert to the problem, too, after several serious attempts to hack U.S. energy infrastructure.
With this heightened concern about the electric grid’s security, the question becomes, “Why invest all of this money into infrastructure upgrades, yet leave it vulnerable to a 17 year old with a computer,” said John Carroll, IPERC’s business development director.
Why invest all of this money into infrastructure upgrades, yet leave [the grid] vulnerable to a 17 year old with a computer?
The distributed nature of the IPERC system helps ensure cybersecurity in what is already a heavily encrypted system. “The distributed architecture inherently lends itself to security and resiliency,” said Aura Lee Keating, IPERC’s cybersecurity/IA manager.
This super resiliency negates the need for a third-party ad hoc security system that wasn’t necessarily tailored for the microgrid, she said. The microgrid is designed under the assumption that firewalls can be breached.
“So we secure at every level. Down to distributed level we have strong security measures in case there is an attacker getting into the network somehow, which isn’t easy,” Keating said. “But if that should happen, the control host themselves will ignore that traffic because it’s not approved and known to be good traffic.”
Adding distributed architecture does not add any significant costs to the microgrid, according to IPERC, which describes its controller system as priced competitively with others in the market. The small, distributed computers generally cost less than $1,000 each.
“We’re not using high powered processors in all of these computers because we don’t have to. By distributing a bunch of fairly small, low-powered computers, it’s almost like the insect colony — each individual insect isn’t powerful on its own but the colony as a whole is powerful,” Curtiss said.
The company says it is seeing interest in its system from a range of customers: communities concerned about maintaining power to vital services, embassies, hospitals and others.
IPERC recently scored a major win with its key military market with the first-ever Department of Defense accreditation of a microgrid control system.
…the industry has been shoe-horning in legacy tech.
The accreditation was issued after rigorous security testing of its GridMaster control system at Camp Smith in Hawaii, a capstone project of the three-phase SPIDERS (Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security) program, which IPERC worked on. At Camp Smith, the company led the design of controls, communications, and cybersecurity. The system withstood 19 different security attack tests.
“From a competitive perspective the industry has been shoe-horning in legacy tech, and now we are seeing the advent of some next generation systems, patented systems like this one that will revolutionize how utilities and microgrid development occurs,” Carroll said.
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Khodrocar - Lack of strategy to develop and improve the quality of the automotive industry, especially the parts industry, leading to quality problems in the final products of this industry and product production chain. Strategic development and quality improvement of the parts manufacturing industry was placed on the agenda of the National Quality Association of Iran, and finally a strategic model and basic programs for the development and quality improvement of the auto parts industry were designed.
The association has announced its readiness to implement this plan in the form of 4 phases to the first vice president, with the implementation of which zero to one hundred qualities in the production lines of parts manufacturers will be examined.
"The car industry is struggling with problems, some of which are political and go back to sanctions, and some of which are related to quality, which can be examined from different angles.” Farshid Shokr Khodaei, deputy manager of National Quality Association told khodrocar reporter.
"Some of the problems in the discussion of car quality go back to the subject of design, and despite all efforts, the possibility of raising the quality will be only to a certain level. Meanwhile, the challenges related to after-sales service include another part of the issue of quality. It has its roots in related parts manufacturing, which ultimately leads to dissatisfaction and after-sales service.” He said.
"Over the years, Sapco and Sazeh Gostar have taken similar measures and have plans to improve quality, and even provided financial and moral support for this measure to improve the quality of automakers, but over time this issue has been forgotten. It seems that the path of parts manufacturer, automaker and after-sales service is being upgraded in terms of quality, because the issue of customer satisfaction is a serious issue.” He said.
"In this way, the experience of countries such as Japan and the United States will be used. In-country training will also be evaluated to measure the consulting capacity for training 1,200 component makers in the country, and finally phase one will be designed.” He said.
"After a quick evaluation of the company and review of the financial statements, the company will be inspected and finally a report will be prepared in which the report of major defects of the company will be announced. Sapco, Sazeh Gostar and Megamotor, which are affiliated with the parts company, will be involved in this matter, after which the association's consultants will be sent to the company to solve the big problem that may be technology, management knowledge, liquidity and the like. Solve with the help of the company and achieve a three-year plan.” He mentioned.
"After this stage, the consultations will be specialized and a set of empowerment packages will be presented to the company, and the cost of these consultations will increase to one-sixth of the samples as the number of companies increases, so the action that the association intends to take is to The place of increasing the number of parts manufacturing companies should organize the price of its consultations in such a way that the best consultations in the country are provided to the parts industry at the most appropriate prices.” He continued.
"As long as the automaker is not willing to solve the quality problem, parts manufacturers are not willing to invest in this area, so a reward and punishment system should be defined so that the investment aims to improve the quality of the two achievements of long-term contracts and more timely payments.” He said.
"The association will determine the route through the Auto Parts Manufacturers Association, the Automobile Manufacturers Association and the Homogeneous Industries Association and after-sales service association. Therefore, wherever there is the highest number of dissatisfaction and breakdowns in cars, the work starts from there, so car manufacturers should provide the necessary statistics and information to the association.” He told.


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English model by means of Geoffrey Skelton; Verse variation via Adrian Mitchell; Intro by means of Peter Brook. This model comprises musical score.
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The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as played through the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton below the course of the Marquis de Sade (German: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade), often shortened to Marat/Sade (pronounced: [ma.ʁa.sad]), is a 1963 play by way of Peter Weiss. The paintings was once first released in German.
Incorporating dramatic parts attribute of either Artaud and Brecht, it's a bloody and unrelenting depiction of sophistication fight and human agony which asks no matter if real revolution comes from altering society or altering oneself.
Set within the ancient Charenton Asylum, Marat/Sade is sort of completely a "play inside a play". the most tale happens on July thirteen, 1808, after the French Revolution; the play directed through Marquis de Sade in the tale happens through the Revolution, in the course of 1793, culminating within the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat (which came about on July thirteen, 1793), then fast brings the viewers brand new (1808). The actors are the inmates of the asylum, and the nurses and supervisors sometimes step in to revive order. The bourgeois director of the health facility, Coulmier, supervises the functionality, followed via his spouse and daughter. he's a supporter of the post-revolutionary executive led through Napoleon, in position on the time of the creation, and believes the play he has organised to be an endorsement of his patriotic perspectives. His sufferers, although, produce other rules, and so they make a behavior of conversing strains he had tried to suppress, or deviating fullyyt into own opinion. Suffice it to claim that they, as those that got here out of the revolution no larger than they went in, should not fullyyt proud of the process occasions as they fell.
The Marquis de Sade, the guy after whom sadism is called, did certainly direct performances in Charenton with different inmates there, inspired by means of Coulmier. De Sade is a major personality within the play, accomplishing many philosophical dialogues with Marat and watching the court cases with sardonic entertainment. He is still indifferent and cares little for sensible politics and the inmates' speak of correct and justice; he easily stands by means of as an observer and an recommend of his personal nihilistic and individualist ideals. some of the most robust scenes of the play depicts him being whipped on his personal directions, and such daring scenes are usually not on my own, nor restricted to the predilections of the Marquis himself.
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Student loan forgiveness: Here's the estimated number of eligible borrowers by U.S. state
The federal government this week unveiled how many student loan borrowers in each state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are eligible for President Joe Biden's debt forgiveness, while also reiterating how cancellation could help narrow the racial wealth gap.
The state-by-state figures highlight the number of borrowers who qualify for the $10,000 in cancellation as well as the number of Pell Grant recipients eligible for an additional $10,000 in loan forgiveness. The Pell Grant is targeted at borrowers with the greatest financial need based on their free application for federal student aid, known as FAFSA.
Overall, more than 40 million borrowers are eligible for its student debt relief plan, according to White House projections, and nearly 20 million borrowers could have their entire remaining balance forgiven.
“Georgia has the third largest student loan debt in the country,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) said at the press conference related to the data release. “And 70% of Georgia borrowers will get $20,000 in student loan debt relief.”
Here's how it breaks down.
The White House also noted that 90% of forgiveness will go to those who make less than $75,000 and none will go to those earning the top 5% in incomes, countering some Republican lawmakers who have criticized student loan forgiveness as benefiting the highest wage earners.
“More than 99.7% of student loan borrowers did not attend Ivy League schools,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said at the press conference.
Further, the Biden administration said forgiveness would likely help shrink the racial wealth gap, pointing out that almost 71% of Black undergraduate borrowers are Pell Grant recipients and 65% of Latino undergraduate borrowers are Pell Grant recipients, which are eligible for the most relief.
“Canceling student debt is a racial justice issue,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), said in the press conference.
Ronda is a personal finance senior reporter for Yahoo Money and attorney with experience in law, insurance, education, and government. Follow her on Twitter @writesronda
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Los Angeles:Former football star David Beckham is reportedly planning a big birthday celebration for his wife Victoria.
Zee Media Exclusive: Varun, Alia promote `Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya`
Kareena does not want to do films with husband Saif!
Alia Bhatt dedicates her Samjhawan Unplugged to Varun
Ranbir Kapoor, a big fan of Messi !

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Federal lawmakers on Wednesday celebrated news that Electric Boat received $150 million worth of new business from the Pentagon to perform additional work under two previously announced Virginia-class submarine contracts.
The Groton manufacturer will get $102.8 million as part of the Virginia-class submarine program, and $46.5 million under the New England Manpower Initiative.
“Electric Boat is growing because of the workforce’s dedication, efficiency and skill, and I’m thrilled that the Department of Defense once again recognizes Connecticut’s contribution to our national security,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in a statement.
According to information available on the department’s website, 98.15 percent of the work will be carried out in Groton, with EB’s facilities in Newport and Quonset Point, R.I. completing the orders.
The Defense Department said the contract modification will “maintain, update and support the Virginia-class submarine, including technology insertion throughout its construction and post shakedown availability period.”
In April 2014, EB inked the largest contract in the history of the U.S. Navy, winning a $17.6 billion agreement to build 10 Virginia-class submarines over the next five years.
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, said he was pleased that EB secured additional investments by the government.
“The funding announced by the Defense Department continues Electric Boat’s ongoing efforts to design, build and maintain the most effective submarines in the world. Since 1999, the New England Maintenance Manpower Initiative has been an effective partnership between the Navy and Electric Boat to support the non-nuclear repairs of operational submarines to keep them available for their important missions,” he said. “And the continuation of lead yard services and design improvements for the Virginia Class reflects the tremendous value that the hardworking men and women in Groton and New London provide to our submarine fleet and our nation.”


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Miley Cyrus Pays Tribute To Ellen DeGeneres
For Ellen DeGeneres 61st birthday, the talk show host celebrated with a star-studded show, and one guest honoured the birthday girl in a sweet and stylish way.
Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson were on-hand at The Ellen DeGeneres Show to perform their new hit song, “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart,” and Cyrus paid a special tribute to DeGeneres through her accessories according to People.com.
During her performance, Cyrus was spotted wearing wide-leg pants with an oversize sweatshirt, T-shirt and layers of chain necklaces, but it was her pair of earrings that stood out the most. Cyrus accessorised with a pair of earrings that were small recreations of DeGeneres’s groundbreaking April 14, 1997 cover of TIME magazine.


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|Title:||Restoration of wetlands: successes and failures on scalds comprising an iron oxide clogged layer with areas of acid sulfate soils|
|Citation:||Plant and Soil: international journal on plant-soil relationships, 2018; 433(1-2):289-307|
|W.K. Gardner, R.W. Fitzpatrick, C.A. Hindhaugh|
|Abstract:||Background: This paper reports on successes and failures experienced over nearly two decades while attempting to remediate degraded scalds typified by iron clogged layersinterspersed with patches of acid sulphate soil on the Eastern Dundas Tablelands in Victoria, Australia. In 2004 (Gardner et al. I Overview Plant Soil 267:51–59, 2004a, Plant Soil 267:85–95, b), it was suggested that redox processes similar to acid sulfate soil reactions were acting to exacerbate and amplify salinity effects in the landscape. Methods: Soil permeability to 1 m depth was measured and compared to that at 3-5 m depths. Additional analysis of soils in the discharge zone were undertaken (mineralogy, SEM, XRF, XRD) to seek evidence of typical acid sulfate reactions which had not been found in 2004. Water quality (EC, pH) and hydraulic pressures were measured in 2005- 2006, after shallow trenchs were dug across the site, and revegetation attempted with a range of native species. Following observations of improved growth at leaking peizometers, those with above ground water levels were drilled to allow water to escape. Assessment of revegetation outcomes were conducted in 2006 and 2016. Results and discussion: Soil permeability was lower in the upper 1 m layer of the soil than at 3-5m depth, Clear evidence of acid sulfate soil mineralogy was found, however small scale variation was the norm. Clogging of soil macropores was observed, which could be manually cleared. Fracturing the soil to increase discharge either with explosives or excavation of both shallow and deep trenchs failed because the increased discharge was insufficient to overcome evaporation and salt concentration, and redox processes continued which would eventually clog the soil again. Success was achieved with leaking piezometers to 4.5 m depth, which allowed the groundwater to reach the surface without reducing ferric oxides. Rushes planted at the discharge point maintained an oxidised environment thereby halting the redox processes. Evaporation effects were prevented because the increased discharge occurred at a point. This combination allowed a range of native species to flourish and after 10 years, to spread beyond what we estimate the leaking piezometers would support. Conclusion: Evaporation causing concentration of salts is very important, but this is linked to the redox processes, which cause soil clogging and reduced permeability, and thus the evaporation and salt issue. Success was achieved when the reduced groundwater could access the surface in an oxidised environment, at a sufficient rate to prevent salt concentration by evaporation. The revegetation has expanded beyond what could be supported by the original discharge, suggesting that the plants are breaking the clogged soil layers and increasing discharge. The successful colonising species typically produce specialised structures such as dauciform and proteoid roots which are able to reduce and chelate iron oxides.|
|Keywords:||Dundas tablelands; Victoria; Australia; dryland salinity; salt efflorescences; soil clogging and reduced permeability; sulfuric and hypersulfidic materials; land reclamation; revegetation; wetlands|
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A new study proves that scant attention is paid to the simple act of washing hands. Here’s why it is more important than you think!
Washing your hands after a visit to the loo or before you eat is a no-brainer. But how thoroughly do you wash your hands? It’s a habit so passive, that you may be ignoring its importance or doing it wrong, without understanding the health risks your contaminated hands invite.
A new Michigan State University study on 3,749 Americans has found that only five per cent of people who used the restroom, washed their hands long enough to kill infection-causing germs. Moreover, 33 per cent didn’t use soap and 10 per cent didn’t wash their hands at all.
This may not surprise many of you, who are used to seeing people in your office loos darting out without bothering with the hand-wash.
According to the Public Health Association, only 53 per cent of the population in India wash hands with soap after defecation, 38 per cent wash hands with soap before eating and only 30 per cent wash hands with soap before preparing food. This could lead to a wide range of health problems.
Dr Anil Balani, consultant physician at Lilavati Hospital, Bandra, says, “Contaminated hands can set off feco-oral diseases like cholera and typhoid, especially during the rainy season when sanitation is poor and flies abound. Unclean hands also trigger diseases like gastroenteritis, worm infestations and jaundice. A simple habit of washing your hands with soap, inside out (see box) for 10 to 15 seconds will guard you against various viral and bacterial diseases.”
The benefits of hand-wash — its primary role in infection control was first pointed out in 1847 by a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmerweis — are well-recorded. According to data provided by UNICEF India, hand washing with soap, particularly after contact with excreta, can reduce diarrhoeal diseases by over 40 per cent and respiratory infections by 30 per cent. Diarrhoea and respiratory infections are the number one cause for child deaths in India. Infection-causing germs abound in the most innocuous of places: A kitchen rag, a tap, even mobile phones. A 2012 study by two London universities found that one in six mobile phones and 14 per cent of the currency handled had fecal bacteria on it. What shocked the researchers was the density of germs — 11 per cent hands carried as many germs as a toilet bowl. The danger with fecal bacteria is that it can survive on hands and other surfaces for hours, especially in warm and moist conditions.
Researchers say that our hands probably carry at least 3,000 different bacteria belonging to more than 100 species. Many are not pathogens. But the few rogue ones are enough to land you with a shivering, viral fever in the rains. Dr A K Gvalani, head of surgery at KEM Hospital, Parel, agrees. “Poor hand hygiene can cause skin infections as you are likely to touch other body parts. From giving you common cold to an eye sty, you would never know what damage unclean hands can cause to your health.”
Dr Gvalani also points out that unwashed hands are a significant factor behind the high incidence of hospital-acquired infections, as well. “It often causes wound infections in hospitals. Fortunately, in most established hospitals today, doctors liberally use hand sanitisers each time,” he says.
With bad hand hygiene identified as the biggest contributor to the almost two million hospitalacquired infections that kill one lakh people in the US every year, hospitals there are testing a new wristband monitor that reminds doctors to wash their hands when they enter a patient’s room. Not only does the IntelligentM bracelet give doctors and nurses a buzzing signal to wash hands, it also sets off further warnings if the cleansing isn’t up to the mark.
The ideal hand-wash
A good hand-wash should last at least 15 seconds. Start with wetting your hands, then use soap and work up a fine lather. First scrub palm to palm till the wrists, then the backs of hands, interlacing fingers, rubbing thumbs and finally cleanse it under running water. Don’t leave the sink without drying your hands on a towel or under a dryer, as germs thrive in moist environments.

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The woman reached over and patted Sadie’s hand. Her fingers were dry, like old twigs, and cooler than Sadie’s, who was powerless even to flinch away. “You didn’t have to kill the dog.” She choked on her tears, and wiped her sleeve across her face. “Or hurt my friends.” “Your friends were—overprotective.” She rolled her tongue over the words. “I had to stop the police. And the dog? What do you say? Collateral damage. I needed to get your attention before time ran out for all those people.”
“What do you want with me? Are you going to take some of my blood?” She spat the words out, folding her arms. “My dear child, Sárika.” The woman leaned back in the car, and smiled at Sadie. “I’m going to take all of it.”
Before you roll your eyes and think, “Not another book about vampires,” I am going to put your fears to rest. This is not a book about vampires, but one about sorcery, history, power and even angels. I’m talking about the debut novel of Rebecca Alexander, The Secrets of Life and Death. Her name is one you should definitely remember.
Ms. Alexander’s novel begins with an excerpt from the journal of Edward Kelley in the year 1585, who along with his master, noted alchemist Dr. John Dee, is about to embark on a journey at the invitation of King Istvan Báthory. The King requires the help of the two men to save his ailing niece, the Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Fast forward to the year 2013, where Professor Felix Guichard has been summoned to a crime scene involving the death of a young girl. The Professor, who studies the occult, is asked about the symbols drawn on the dead girl’s body, symbols that draw the attention of another. Jackdaw Hammond (possibly the coolest name ever), knows all too well what the symbols mean and their significance. She has the same symbols on her body, which are keeping her “alive.” I use quotations because Jack was supposed to be dead. She’s what’s called a “borrowed timer,” which I won’t explain too much here because I don’t want to give it away. Professor Guichard and Jack are eventually brought together when a series of events occur, uncovering a mystery that spans 400 years.
The Secrets of Life and Death kept my interest, as each chapter went back and forth in time. Using historical figures in books can be a tricky subject, but Ms. Alexander did a great job of making the events believable. Kelley’s descriptions of his and Dr. Dee’s harrowing time trying to save the Countess had me lost. The descriptions were very detailed, full of magic, fear and danger. The chapters dealing with Jack and Professor were just as engrossing, with an equal amount of magic, fear and danger. What are the symbols and what do they mean? Ms. Alexander takes her time explaining their meaning, as well as how Kelley and Dr. Dee are part of the mystery. The buildup is deliberate and well-executed without being cheesy or campy. I would not be surprised if this book is optioned into a film, as the events that take place would be visually stunning. I highly recommend The Secrets of Life and Death and urge readers to purchase a copy.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

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Boudh/Sonepur: Around 50 personnel of the forest department had a narrow escape when around seven landmines went off at Lakadpaju forest in Boudh district on Sunday.
Reportedly, the forest department has started efforts to destroy the growing ganja cultivation in the district. Every day, illegal marijuana crops in hundreds of acres of forest land are being destroyed.
A 50-member team of the forest department had gone to destroy the illegal ganja cultivation in the forest yesterday. While crossing the road, seven landmines exploded one by one. However, no one was injured in the exposion.
Following it, some wires were seized from the scene. Meanwhile, a big question has been raised about who is responsible for the explosion, ganja mafia or Maoists.


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Select a zip code near you to use as the target community in this week’s discussion and summative assessment. Select the zip code that includes city government offices (e.g., city hall, city library), retail stores, schools, and housing.
Review at least 1 community health needs assessment (CHNA) report prepared by the closest nonprofit hospital serving the selected community.
Search online for [name of hospital] CHNA or for your [zip code] and CHNA report.
Select 1 issue of importance for the community as identified in the CHNA. Use this issue to describe levels of prevention in the assignment and to identify possible roles for local community and public health nurses.
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Identify your selected community’s zip code and the health issue of concern for that population.
Provide examples of each level of prevention as applied to the selected health issue in your identified community. For example, if you had identified Alzheimer’s disease (AD) as a health issue, the levels of prevention and associated examples might be:
Primordial: Encourage cognitive abilities in infancy and childhood, such as pretend play activities, and smoking prevention strategies in adulthood.
Primary: For people without any signs or symptoms of AD, individuals are encouraged to stop smoking, exercise, and participate in cognitive exercises, such as board and video games.
Secondary: Identify preclinical AD and/or early screening and identification of AD with screening instruments; continue primary prevention strategies.
Tertiary: Continue primary and secondary prevention activities and physical therapy; involve case managers.


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Confirmation of PU.1 binding to FPR1 promoter by EMSA.
A. The following oligonucleotide dimers were used in the binding assays: gp91phox with a known PU.1 binding site (positive control); FPR1 with a putative PU.1 binding site; two FPR1 oligodimers with nucleotide substitutions (underlined) in the putative binding site. B. In vitro synthesized 35S-PU.1 was incubated with or without gp91phox and FPR1 wild-type and mutant oligonucleotide dimers, as shown. C. Dose-dependence of 35S-PU.1binding was shown using 10–200 ng of gp91phox and FPR1 oligodimers.

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Jack Ringheim says it’s good to be alive, a day after media outlets including CHEK News quoted a Victoria Police report saying he was dead.
“I feel fine, I really do,” he said with a laugh Saturday.
“We had a bit of a shock when we had a phone call from our friend in Chemainus who phoned to say that she’d heard … that I’d died years ago.”
Jack, 87, and his wife Audrey, 84, were home at their Victoria apartment Friday, when their friend was watching CHEK News at Six and saw a report based on a release from Victoria Police asking for help locating the owners of a box of photos and memorabilia that had been found by security at the Royal BC Museum in May.
“The items include a teapot, a Masonic apron, and a series of photographs of diving and a sports team from Slocan, B.C. from early in the 20th century,” said the police statement. “Of particular note is a mark indicating at least one item belonged to Jack Ringheim of Chemainus, B.C. Inquiries there revealed that Mr. Ringheim passed away several years ago, and efforts to locate members of his family have been unsuccessful.
Ringheim took the news of his demise in stride when he saw the report on CHEK News at 10.
“I just thought it was a mistake to start with and figured well OK I’ve seen these mistakes happen before, it’s no big deal,” he said.
But what surprised the couple was seeing the items, which belonged to Audrey’s father, that the family didn’t even know were missing.
“It’s his Masonic apron which I’ve kept, and he would be 116 if he were living now,” said Audrey.
The couple says they moved to Victoria from Chemainus 40 years ago, and had planned to take the photos and Masonic apron to a musuem in Slocan later this month when they planned to travel to the area for a family reunion.
The box containing the items had been in storage with their son. Their best guess is that it went missing during a garage sale earlier this year.
The couple’s daughter Ann Ringheim says the teapot, which has a matching sugar cup and creamer, belonged to her great-great-grandmother. She’s been in touch with police to get everything back.
“Through sort of the shock of hearing dad died, the fact all this stuff was found [when] we didn’t even realize it was gone is fabulous, so we’re really thankful for that,” she said.
The Ringheims are a bit baffled why police said they’d made efforts to find them when the entire family, including Jack and Audrey, are listed in the phone book. Victoria police say it was someone at the Chemainus Masonic Lodge who had told them Ringheim had died, but aren’t sure why investigators didn’t call the listed numbers as part of the locate the family.
Still, police said they’re happy to be able to return the heirlooms.
And the Ringheims will be happy to have them back.
“It will be nice to get it explained and over with, but nice to get everything back,” said Jack. “And to assure all my friends that I’m hale and hearty and still golfing up a storm.”

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Shraddha Kapoor is filled with excitement regarding her brother Siddhant Kapoor's next work. Shraddha shared her excitement on her Instagram story. She posted a picture of the poster of Siddhanth's project.
Shraddha shared the poster of the movie Khabees on her Instagram story. The poster features a guitar on which there is a smear of blood. There are white wings to the guitar. Inside the guitar, there is a silhouette of a band playing instruments. The movie is produced under 'The Production Headquarters in UK.' It will be produced by Mohaan Nadaar and directed by Sarim Momin. The movie stars Mustafa Abbas, Tanishaa Mukherji, Siddhanth Kapoor, Aradhana Dhawan, Chirag Bajaj, and Bharat Dasholkar. Shraddha, captioning the story, talked about how she is super excited for her brother's next project. She also tagged the people involved in the movie in her story.
Tanishaa Mukherji has announced the movie on her Instagram. While sharing the poster of the movie, Tanishaa talked about how the movie is a new genre in the thriller. Here is the post by Tanishaa:
Shraddha Kapoor's other brother is becoming a part of the Bollywood film industry as well. Siddhanth and Shraddha's brother Priyaank K Sharma will be debuting in the movie Sab Kushal Mangal. The movie also stars Riva Kishan and Akshaye Khanna. Shraddha had shared the news of her cousin's movie on her Instagram as well:
Shraddha Kapoor herself is working for two of her upcoming movies. She will be seen next in Remo D'Souza's Street Dancer 3D alongside Varun Dhawan. She is also shooting for the third instalment of the action thriller Baaghi, named Baaghi 3. She will be seen with the action hunk Tiger Shroff in the movie.
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How to import olive oil from italy? The secret to the success of your store or restaurant is in offering healthy and wholesome products to your customers. In fact, in Italy genuine ingredients represent not only the care and attention to the quality of the raw material, but also the love with which something is made. For this reason, you should choose to import olive oil from italy. You will offer your customers something that is hard to find in your country with the assurance that it is real Italian oil. In fact, there are plenty of products around that have an Italian name but are not Italian at all. When you open the package and taste, you immediately notice that it doesn’t taste like olives. That’s the difference. Commonly used oils are blends of other oils, of different qualities. In Italy, on the other hand, it is not called olive oil unless you can taste olives on your tongue.
This would be reason enough to switch to import olive oil from italy, but there is more. In fact, making available an oil that is truly Italian means being serious and recognizable as such by your potential customers. “Good, really Italian oil is sold there!” and this word of mouth from a shopkeeper who doesn’t tease or a restaurant that offers really good food can be beneficial to your business. How do you go about getting this really good oil?
First of all, look for an Italian producer, because only that can guarantee you that the oil produced is Italian. Plus, remember that Italian oil is never just Italian-it is Sicilian, Tuscan, Apulian, etc. Each of these oils has its own particular, intense and unique flavor. Offer real Italian oil in your business and visit the official website to learn more about the individual characteristics of this green gold!

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At IDF 2013, Intel has finally fully unveiled Bay Trail, the tablet SoC that replaces Clover Trail. Bay Trail will come to Android and Windows 8.1 tablets this fall, and the initial benchmarks (carried out by third parties) look very strong indeed. CPU-wise, Bay Trail outperforms the entire ARM stable, including Cortex-A15 and Qualcomm’s latest efforts, and on par with AMD’s Jaguar-based Kabini, while consuming much less power. GPU-wise, Bay Trail is more middle of the road, with benchmark scores that compare to the iPad 4, but falling behind Tegra 4 and Snapdragon 800 by some margin (20%+). Overall, Intel seems to have finally produced an Atom part that can compete in both terms of power consumption and performance. The big question now is whether Bay Trail can secure a big product win: After all, without a beautiful and desirable product that can compete with the iPad and Nexus, Bay Trail doesn’t stand a chance.
Bay Trail, at its most basic, is a brand new mobile SoC with up to four Silvermont CPU cores (no Hyper-Threading) and the HD 4000 graphics found in Ivy Bridge. Silvermont is a new out-of-order CPU architecture that’s around three times faster than its predecessor, Saltwell. In Bay Trail, rather than the 16 cores found in Ivy Bridge’s HD 4000 GPU, you only get four — a significant and massively needed boost from the single-core PowerVR SGX GPU in Clover Trail, but by no means game-changing. These cores are DirectX 11 and Open GL ES 3.0 compatible. The GPU basically means that Bay Trail can run Android and Windows 8.1 and tablet-oriented games without issue, but it won’t be playing Crysis any time soon. The CPU operates at speeds of between 1.3 and 1.5GHz (stock) and 2.4GHz (Turbo), and the GPU can clock up to 688MHz.
In addition to the new CPU and GPU, Bay Trail has dedicated hardware for video encode (H.264, MPEG-2) and decode (H.264, VP8, MPEG-2, etc.), and on the dual-channel models (Atom part numbers without the “D” designation) you get a heady 17.1GB/sec memory bandwidth to LPDDR3 RAM. Dual-channel models will be capable of resolutions up to 2560×1600, while lower-end models will only support 1920×1200 and lower. On the storage side of things, SDIO, SD card, and eMMC are supported, while for expansion USB 3.0 is supported.
Bay Trail performance
Without a doubt, the most important factors that will dictate whether Bay Trail stands a chance of success are performance and power consumption. Where Medfield and Clover Trail earnt Intel a space at the table, forcing device makers to take the chip giant seriously, Bay Trail needs to actually be as good as or better than the latest ultra-mobile chips from Qualcomm, Samsung, and AMD.
Benchmarks from sites such as Anandtech and PC Mag paint a very rosy picture for Bay Trail’s CPU, which is best-in-class amongst other ultra-mobile chips, but the GPU is middle-of-the-pack. The chart below gives you a good idea of Silvermont’s impressive performance under Windows:
Managing half the score of an Ivy Bridge CPU is really quite impressive. In single-threaded integer workloads the difference is even smaller.
But GPU-wise, though the HD 4000-derived core is more than four times faster than Clover Trail, it’s still slower than AMD’s Brazos. As Anandtech notes, though, this mid-range performance is enough that Bay Trail can run Team Fortress 2 at 1366×768 under Windows 8.1.
On the Android side of the equation, Intel’s Bay Trail FFRD (form factor reference design) stomps all over the Nvidia Shield (Tegra 4/Cortex-A15) and the Nexus 10 (Snapdragon 800) in almost every test imaginable — and once some bugs are ironed out in Intel’s build of Android 4.2.2, Bay Trail’s dominance should be cemented.
For the GPU, Bay Trail is slightly ahead of Snapdragon 600 (Adreno 320), but a good 30% behind the Snapdragon 800 (Adreno 330) and Tegra 4. Bay Trail’s GPU should be more than good enough for current Android apps and games — but it’s certainly not best-in-class.
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There are an estimated 2.4 million criminals locked up in U.S. prisons. To put this in perspective, we hold 25% of the world's prison population while we only account for about 5% of the world population. Something isn't right here.
77% of our 2.4 million criminals are there for victimless crimes. That's 1.85 million human beings. This means they were under arrest for actions that didn't harm anybody (except probably themselves), mainly for drug crimes.
The problem with this is the idea that the government's job is to protect us from our own bad decisions, but that's not it's job. Of course drugs are a huge problem in our country, but the government isn't helping by throwing addicts who need mental and physical help into prisons. It is a health issue, not a legal issue.
And President Obama seems to get that. Kind of.
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Geepers, an Australian startup backed by Internode founder Simon Hackett has unveiled its ambitious plan to be the primary source of location information for people and premises, globally.
Despite the wide use, and abuse, of the term 5G for future mobile broadband technologies, there is a growing consensus that the quantum leaps in technology that have characterised generations one to four of cellular mobile telephony over the last 40 years won't continue.
Optus announced its new look last week. It has abandoned its menagerie of wild animals in favour of a cute cartoon character and insists that the changes are more than skin deep, that they reflect a new customer-focussed Optus.
The people who have been running the Telecommunications Society of Australia (TSA) since its absorption into the Australian Computer Society in 2007 have walked away from the ACS and set up a new organisation, the Telecommunications Association.
The Competitive Carriers Coalition has called for a comprehensive post-election review of Australian telecommunications regulation, warning that Telstra's market power is once again on the increase.
We've all seen those notices at airports, railway stations, on buses and elsewhere: "If you see something, say something." It's the government's attempt to get every single Australian involved in - and personally responsible for - the nation's security. Thankfully the threat level is very low and most of us, I suspect, have little concern and little expectation of finding anything untoward.
Mobile device management and security provider, Good Technology, has integrated its Good Dynamics secure mobility platform, its Good Collaboration Suite, and a range of ISV and custom-developed enterprise apps to create the Good Secure Mobility Solution, billed as the first integrated product suite for securing combinations of apps to enable mobile workflows.
Optus has retired its menagerie of wild animals that have been at the core of its branding for several years and replaced then with a cute cartoon character, provisionally named 'Ollie as part of major rebranding exercise.
The CSIRO says that Australian farmers can help to tackle the global food shortage and significantly increase their productivity by taking advantage of new smart farming technologies enabled by next generation broadband networks.
The recent intellectual property suit filed against ZTE in Australia by 'patent troll' Vringo has brought the contentious issue of patent trolls to our shores from the US where feral trolls are such a pest that the Obama Administration is trying to get legislation through Congress that will curb their actions, but that is not going to be easy. Patent trolls are protean creatures. One man's patent troll is another man's legitimate licensor of intellectual property.
MOOCs: massive, open online courses. And that's according to no lesser personage than Bob Metcalfe, widely recognised as the co-inventor of ethernet and the formulator of the prediction on networking now known as Metcalfe's Law.
Australians' love affair with smartphone and tablets and their insatiable appetite for content and applications have been good to Telstra. They have boosted its first mover advantage with LTE significantly, but that advantage will be magnified even further when Telstra introduces joyn.
For many, the question of what will drive demand for the NBN's bandwidth remains unanswered and while the there are multiple initiatives seeking to provide answers, Australia would do well to emulate the USA where a new body, US Ignite, has been created to do just that, but with very broad membership and hugely ambitious goals.
Deloitte Australia has teamed up with US based Kaggle to exploit opportunities thrown up by a growing shortage of data scientists - people skilled in the use of big data analytics.
A new industry alliance, the CloudEthernet Forum, has been formed to address the issues raised by virtualisation and cloud services spread across geographically dispersed data centres.
Here we go again. News of another wireless 'breakthrough' has become mainstream news and sent press and commentators into a flurry of speculation as to whether or not it spells doom for the NBN.
Optus has launched TD-LTE mobile services in Canberra for data only: it will offer a TD-LTE dongle and TD-LTE pocket WiFi hotspot, both will operate on HSPA+ or 3G networks outside TD-LTE coverage areas.
Watching ShoreTel demonstrate its iPhone/iPad telephone handset dock last week I decided I was witnessing the beginning of the end for the deskphone as we know it.
Specialist IT&T recruitment company, Talent International, has launched a loyalty program designed to retain contractors - claimed to represent the first such program in the IT recruitment industry - along with other initiatives designed to make its services more attractive to both IT professionals and employers.
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Had my first photo shoot with Miss Nancy today we had good correspondence before the shoot. She arrived on time and ready for the shoot. Had a nice selection of outfits and is very easy to work with, takes directions well with good ideas of her own. I would highly recommend as she is a lovely person to work with. Very happy with our shoot Dave
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104lbs (47kg) (7.5st)
62in (5' 2") (157cm)
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Model, Female, 23
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25 Aug 2016
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Hiya! Thanks for checking out my portfolio. At the moment I am doing shoots on a TFP/CD basis as I need some different shots to build my portfolio up. I'm into anything and everything apart from nude and topless but everything else I'm up for! I'm into anything different! I have a few images I would like to recreate in my inspiring images collection and my other album (not my portfolio). Just so you are aware, I will take a chaperone to each shoot with me, until I get to know the photographer for my own safety and well being. If you do not like chaperon's DO NOT CONTACT ME. I am ALWAYS willing to try out new things & be a little outrageous! My idol in the modelling world is Dannika Daisy & Gabriella Grigo. I'm 100% a model that will add colour + a good giggle to your portfolio. Please give me a message if you wish to work with me & leave some love, you're guaranteed to get some back. Look forward to hearing from you!
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Experience I have had some good and bad experiences with my modelling so I prefer to take a chaperone along with me for the first shoot or meeting before the shoot to get a general sense of a person (First impressions are everything). I have worked with a great photographer who I am wishing to still work with in the future as I love to build relationships with people, I feel then you can get more emotions out of a model & them completely comfortable with you.
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May 3, 2017
IOU partners with EVO to cross-promote funding and credit card processing
MONTREAL -- IOU Financial Inc. is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with EVO Payments International. Through this strategic partnership, IOU's direct clients will be able to take advantage of EVO's innovative merchant services solutions, save money and allocate more capital to growth.
"EVO's customers will also now be able to bundle their merchant services with fast and reliable non-collateral loans from IOU. These loans can fund working capital requirements or expansion programs," said Christophe Choquart, IOU's VP of strategic partnerships.
"This strategic partnership emphasizes values shared by both IOU and EVO, namely to help small business owners with best-in-class payment systems and funding tools," added Choquart.
"Strategic partnerships are an important part of IOU's organic growth strategy, which is to connect with like-minded service providers to offer our common merchant customers an easy-to-use, cost-efficient, one-stop-shopping experience. We will continue to connect with key ecosystem players to provide small business owners with access to fast, high quality and responsible funding," said Phil Marleau, IOU's chief executive officer.
Further details about partnering with IOU can be found at www.ioufinancial.com/partner.


You can’t keep everyone.
Not that NHL teams necessarily want to but even the Stanley Cup champions for each season can’t keep their teams completely intact. It can’t happen in the era of the hard salary cap, even as it has crept up to $73 million for the upcoming 2016-17 season.
Players come up for new contracts – especially good, young contributors – and particularly cap-strapped teams often face tough decisions on whom to keep and whom to move for financial relief and flexibility.
A new layer of tough calls must be made now that Las Vegas has been approved to become the NHL’s 31st team and an expansion draft will be conducted next summer so the Black Knights/Aces/Gamblers/Whatevers will be ready to take the ice for 2017-18.
And NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is determined for this team to competitive right out of the gate. The other 30 teams will only get to protect a handful of players – either seven forwards, three defensemen and a goalie or eight skaters and a goalie.
Below is the full list of expansion draft rules set out by the league. What it means for the Ducks is that a quality player they may really want to keep is not going to be on their roster and there won’t be anything they can do about it.
Teams, for instance, must protect those with no-movement clauses. So that means the Ducks must protect Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, Ryan Kesler and Kevin Bieksa if they remain on their roster – which we’ll assume will be the case unless one is somehow traded – when they submit their list on June 17, 2017.
There’s no debate on the goalie as it will be John Gibson, with Frederik Andersen now in Toronto and moved partly so the Ducks could get what they wanted for him. Things get dicey beyond that.
The Ducks must decide which is more important, protecting an extra defenseman or three more forwards. Hampus Lindholm and Sami Vatanen should be locks for protection and that’s three defensemen with Bieksa. Clayton Stoner and Simon Despres, even though he’s just 24, can be exposed. Despres has to come back from a concussion-plagued 2015-16 season.
But what about Josh Manson, who’s cheap, already solid and still on the upswing as a player? And there is Cam Fowler. If Fowler isn’t dealt by the Ducks, whether at the draft or sometime during the season, do you look at protecting him instead?
Protecting either keeps a solid, young core intact as Shea Theodore and Brandon Montour are exempt and can’t be claimed. Doing that, however, allows the Ducks to protect only one other forward.
Rickard Rakell would be that forward. He’s their only high-skilled young scorer that’s made an impact in the NHL. The Ducks don’t have too many locked up beyond the Big Three and they don’t need to worry about Nick Ritchie being exposed but they do have Jakob Silfverberg and Andrew Cogliano, valuable wingers who aren’t one-dimensional.
There is also center Nate Thompson but he’s a fourth-liner that’ll be coming off a second straight major injury and an unrestricted free agent next summer. A good player with a locker room presence but replaceable. But the prospect of losing Silfverberg or Cogliano is very real, especially if the Ducks go with protecting another defender.
Silfverberg ($3.75-million salary cap hit) and Cogliano ($3 million cap hit) have term left on their contracts so opening up a salary slot might be advantageous for the budget-minded Ducks but losing a helpful player that’s been part of consistent playoff teams will leave some hurt.
Maybe this Las Vegas team doesn’t choose either. But it has to spend at least $43.8 million on drafted players and 20 of those must be under contract for 2017-18. And with GM Bob Murray’s emphasis on defense, there is a good chance that the Ducks will go with the eight-skater protection approach.
Be prepared to see the hard-working Silfverberg potentially score 20 goals or the equally hard-working Cogliano set the NHL’s all-time consecutive games record with the Black Knights/Aces/Gamblers/Whatevers.
It won’t be a total loss for the Ducks. Owners Henry and Susan Samueli are going to make out with $16,666,667 million of Bill Foley’s $500 million expansion fee. So there’s that.
Here are the expansion draft rules, as provided by the NHL:
* Clubs will have two options for players they wish to protect in the Expansion Draft:


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A Gentleman’s Dignity finishes its journey! BFF4 live happily ever after. Such a sweet and peppy drama. I know the story has no life and death situation but it based on mainly relationship and hoe the four best friends who are fairly aged, established and yet immature deal with their love life and in the end win tthe happiness of their life. The romantic DJ will remain in my heart as one of the most romantic ,witty and caring boyfriend of my Korean drama memory. My only complaint WHY THERE WAS NO TRIP ??? WHY???
But the PROPOSAL was DAEBAK!!
Any way this my last post with new raw episode of AGD!!
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The Akron Planning Commission on Friday, Nov. 20, recorded a vote of 3-2 in favor of a conditional use variance that helps pave the way for a 197-unit residential development proposed by Petros Homes in the Merriman Valley.
But those who attended the meeting to speak against the development left believing the commission had voted 3-3. That tie vote would have put the matter off for another vote at the next commission meeting in December. That's the vote they and viewers saw on the meeting's Zoom platform. However, city officials said later, when the meeting was in its fourth hour, that the vote actually was 3-2 in favor of the conditional use.
The city discovered that a commission alternate, GAR Foundation program officer Bronlynn Thurman, had been called upon to vote when she should not have been, said Akron press secretary Ellen Lander Nischt. That swung the vote to 3-2 in favor of passage, Nischt said.
Thurmond could not be immediately reached Friday to say whether she felt her vote was unfairly disqualified.
"I'm dismayed, confused and infuriated," said opposition leader Andrew Holland, an Akron business owner and longtime Merriman Valley resident who organized six of the 15 people asking the commission not to approve of the development. Holland said he only learned of the new vote tally when a reporter asked him about it, hours after he left the 9 a.m. meeting.
Nearly all of those who spoke at the meeting, aside from those with the city or Petros Homes, asked that the development not be approved until a promised master plan for the valley is completed next year by Akron and Cuyahoga Falls, who share the valley.
Those in attendance had other concerns as well, including that the development would enjoy Akron's 15-year abatement on new construction that some said should not be applied to a development in the valley — especially after Greg Modic, Petros' president of land development, told the commission that "the folks living in these units are going to have a lot of disposable income."
Another concern was how the abated development might affect the nearby Woodridge School District, which is in the valley and takes in students from Akron, even though it's not part of the Akron Public Schools.
Woodridge Schools superintendent Walter Davis said his district only gets $680 per student per year from the state, which he said was one of the lowest payouts to any district in Ohio. He said he worries the abated development will send more students to his district, but not more money, forcing the Woodridge to seek more local tax dollars than many other districts need to raise.
"You can see how reliant we are on local tax revenues," Davis said. "It cost nearly $11,000 to educate a child in our schools. Then comes tax abatement … essentially the education of those (Akron) children is being subsidized by the residents of our district living elsewhere."
Davis called for more communication and collaboration. He said the city of Akron already abated taxes that his district would have shared in without telling the district. Davis said he only learned of those abatements when developers began putting up signs telling people they could use them.
The manner in which attendees learned of the changed vote also caused consternation. Holland said he and others, including members of his 300-strong coalition formed in early October under the name "Preserve the Valley," were asked by city officials to clear the Zoom call after the Merriman Valley development was discussed. At that point, only the tie on the commission's zoom meeting to vote had been taken or reported.
After they'd left, the city changed the vote.
Now the matter will go to the full City Council for potential approval of the conditional use, which would clear the way for the development. Petros CEO Sam Petros previously said he was closing on a purchase of the proposed development's 78-acre parcel on Akron-Peninsula road with or without the approved permit for conditional use.
The proposed project would be built in clusters of four, six and eight townhomes, each between about 1,300 square feet and 1,600 square feet in size, Petros said earlier this month, with 28 units offered for sale and 169 leased. For-sale units likely would be offered at between $230,000 and $260,000, while rents on the others would be between $1,400 and $2,000 per month, he added.
Petros and Akron's director of planning and urban development, Jason Segedy, who recommended the commission vote in favor of the development permit, said the city and developer have worked extensively to make the development something that would fit in and work for the valley and its residents. Segedy said the two put in "hundreds of person hours" over an 18-month period, since Petros first proposed the development to city officials. It was first reported on in the media earlier this month.
The discussions between Petros and the city reduced the number of units from around 800 to 197 and caused Petros to commit to setting aside most of the parcel for preservation.
That doesn't satisfy Holland, who vowed to continue to fight for a master plan being completed before such developments are approved.
"Oh, hell no," Holland said when asked if he would give up his opposition.
"You're always told as a child it's hard to fight city hall. I guess that's true, but we're not going away. … We're going to quadruple down."


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The Big Picture premieres on October 16th. The film’s creators have published a new promotional video in which the actor, Ranveer Singh is shown making an exciting entrance onto the stage.
The channel wrote, “Ranveer ke saath shuru hoga sawalon ka ek naya silsila. Dekhiye The Big Picture, ek anokha quiz show, 16th October se, Sat-Sun, raat 8 baje, sirf #Colors par.” The video starts with the actor clad in a blue suit enter the stage and in the background, Bajirao Mastani’s song Malhari is being played.
The actor looked dapper as he also shared the pleasantries with the audience and even shakes a leg with them.
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Love, Conservation and Crossing Australia
When two wild adventure loving humans come together anything is possible, meet Alice and Ángel. Alice Forrest is a marine biologist, conservationist, and wanderer from NSW Australia, who made Byron Bay her home. Ángel Grimaldi is a wildlife veterinarian, adventurer and photographer from the Canary Islands in Spain. These two star crossed lovers are a match made in eco heaven, and after just a few days of living together decided to simplify their lives, buy a Toyota Land Crusier and adventure around Australia.
How did they meet? Alice and Àngel first 5 years ago in Costa Rica. They were both volunteering on sea turtle conservation programs in the Ostional National Park. After a four year gap, they were reunited in Spain last year. Alice was chasing dolphins in the Azores, and Àngel was working as a vet in an aquarium. They hired a van and road-tripped the north east coast, during which they fell in love. Soon after Àngel joined Alice in Australia.
Just a few weeks after Àngel arrived in Oz, the two pooled their resources and purchased Ohana- a Toyota Land Cruiser 4 x4 (which they fondly named Ohana- a Hawaiian word for Family). They worked tirelessly for two months on fitting out the Landy- Ohana in preparation for her big adventure. Using recycled materials whenever possible they minimized waste and reduced their costs, the outcome- a clean, eco efficient and road worthy home on wheels.
I caught up with Alice and Àngel right before they left Byron. They were fresh with excitement, filled with hope and a most contagious optimism. It was a rainy afternoon which only brought more delight to Alice and Àngel, as they relished in the opportunity to finally enjoy the new home they created. We shared tea, stories and hugs. Alice has always inspired me, and as we grow closer my admiration of her integrity, intelligence and vigor for life increases. It is wonderful to know these two beautiful souls found one another. Like their lives of passion, Alice and Àngel's adventure is born from love, their original intention- to cross the Nullabor and head north up the Western Australia coast to Esparence. My interview finds these wanderers some where quite unexpected, read on to find out where they are now, what living in out of your car is like, and how to keep following your dreams.
Names: Alice Forrest & Ángel Grimaldi
Where are you now?
Right now we're in Sulawesi!! Our latest Visa run was from Perth to Indonesia, so Ohana is parked at a friends place and we're currently in transit (which is why we have wifi ). Just spent a couple of weeks on a remote island in the Wakatobi group where we met sea gypsys!!! Next step Bali and Nusa Lembongan for freediving, then home to Ohana at the end of the month.
How is your vanlife going? Have any unforeseen challenges come up?
Van life is pretty great, loving it so far. Decluttering and getting rid of a lot of our stuff has definitely given us more freedom. Takes a lot less time to decide what to wear, and it's easy to access the things we need the most, like freediving fins, snacks etc. Things that I thought would be annoying, like unfolding the bed every night, have turned into routines that I actually love. Plus we've added simple routines that make every day beautiful, like our morning coffee (brewed on the stove and drunk out of our favourite cups).*Ohana's running great and has already taken us to some amazing places!
Most mornings we wake up in new places with fresh air and beautiful views, sometimes even spotting dolphins from our snuggle bed. Luckily Ángel is an amazing problem solver and planner and managed to iron out most of the kinks before we left. While we mostly shower ocean-style (aka swimming) we have a rubber shower head and hose that attaches to the tap (one person pumps while the other showers out the back) and a water tank. And the food is now beautifully organized, and stocked up on the important basics (smoky Tabasco sauce, curry paste, coffee...)
Unforeseen challenges have involved:
- peeing in domesticated areas (I have no qualms about peeing on the side of the road, but if it's sunny and there are houses next to the van it's a much bigger challenge)
- The fridge - its old, and drains all our solar power, especially with the unseasonal rains we keep encountering. Luckily Exmouth, our next destination, has plenty of sunshine!
- Getting our plants across borders. Our Aloe Vera lost all its soil but is doing well. Basil didn't make it.
One unexpected perk of minimalising to is that everything we own now is my favourite - my favourite mug, blanket, swimsuit, knife, etc. We culled everything we didn't need and we're left with just the things that make us happy whenever we use them).
What was it like crossing the Nullarbor Plain?
To be honest, the Nullarbor was not as tough as expected. Between the two of us we drove extra long days (one day was almost 800km), listened to a lot of TED talks, and spent a lot of time looking for camels (didn't see any, just a lot of flat scrubby plain and the occasional wrecked kangaroo or car). The petrol stations were a lot more interesting, and a lot more expensive, than expected. They featured whale sculptures, snakes in jars, grey nomads, and Emu Lager (which tasted amazing at the end of 800k's of driving).
The highlight was definitely the Straightest Road in Australia, and the cliffs of the Great Australian Bite. Temperatures ranged from meltingly hot to beanie-and-a-woolly-blanket cold. Other than that it was fairly uneventful, the best bits were either end of the Nullabor! On the way across South Australia we saw amazing plains and sunsets, and visited friends in the Eyre Peninsula. We camped on the side of lakes and metres from the ocean. We also chased some elusive leafy sea dragons, and introduced Ángel to the world-renowned Australian delicacy, Hot Chips with Pineapple Fritters. Then Esperance and the pristine waters of Twilight Cove at the other end.
Is there anything that happened along the way to change the way you feel or think about living a nomadic life in your automobile?
Ángel:: Luckily our months living in a van prior to the Troopy prepared us pretty well for an extremely close and personal living situation on wheels. Nothing has really changed - i still feel like life is good in our rolling home as it gives us more resources to spend on what makes us happy (like organic fruit and veg, or this trip to Indonesia), plus the mobility to visit friends and have adventures. The facilities of the truck, the kitchen and fridge especially, have made life easier but overall im still just enjoying the freedom of a nomadic existence.
Alice:: the nomadic existence has been a welcome break from all the months of working (to save up for the nomadic part). Also being able to explore, especially four wheel driving, has made me love van life even more. We've become experts at analyzing GoogleMaps for out of the way roads that bump along to private beaches, or incredible viewpoints with the whole Milky Way above us, or sandy tracks to the edge of the water. I love having unique and beautiful views, changing every day. And I love being able to look over our feet, snuggled under a blanket, and see the sea.
Do you have any advice for people who are thinking about living the Vanlife?
Still just what we spoke about, making realistic plans (but with a healthy dose of imagination). And then just doing it. Going for it and making it happen. A lot of what you need gets discovered along the way. Ángel also says that it's important to remember that van life isn't forever, and that living without a toilet or whatever other obstacles are in the way shouldn't stop people from just giving it a go. One day we hope to have a bit of land, a tiny house (ideally a treehouse), a veggie garden and some rescue animals. Sometimes we daydream about it, especially when we get stuck for food and have to visit chain supermarkets for our veggies, and we remember that one day it will be different. Even for lifetime van-lifers there will be new and different vans, everything is impermanent.
Has living together in your car affected your relationship? If so how?
Ángel:: Yes, positively. Living together all the time in a tiny space pushes you to put forward your best side all the time, develop your empathy, helps you to be flexible and adaptable, and to play several roles (like best friend, person to listen to problems, chef, debate opponent).
Alice:: Agreed. Being on the road and away from our close friends in Byron means that Ángel is now not just my best friend, but also all my other friends, plus boyfriend, plus mechanic, plus caretaker on the crappy days, plus chief adventure buddy on the awesome ones. It obviously brings you closer in a physical way (that only those who have lived in a van with no bathroom facilities will understand), but also has made us dependent on each other in a positive way. We're both very independent people, who are happy on our own, but we've found this rhythm or lifestyle where we are just having way more fun together, and living in a van is the best way to experience that.
Do you have final destination in mind, or is this trip more about the journey?
Ángel:: the destination is Ningaloo Reef, to see the migration of the biggest creatures on earth (we're hoping for whale sharks and humpback whales). But the fact that we have a destination doesn't mean that's the end of the project. Who knows where we'll go from there? Our whole plan was to develop the car, then explore some wild coastlines on the way to join the migrating whales. After that we're open to anything!
Alice:: While Ningaloo is as far as we've planned, the journey is the real adventure. There are so many epic spots to check out along Australia's coast, and so much to explore.
This is also a time to figure out where we want to go next, and what to do with our lives. When Ángel arrived in Australia, we just wanted to see if we were happy together. Then we wanted to see if we could take this happiness and put it in an awesome truck and drive to Western Australia. Now we're deciding whether to keep driving, or run away to Central America, or go chase narwhals, or climb mountains in Patagonia. (And also, at some point, to factor jobs and visas into the situation) What better place to decide than in our beautiful rolling house on an amazing wild coast?! The destination will be awesome, but ultimately it's still part of the journey.
Ángel:: Yep, this is just one step in a life philosophy. Right now we're on the road, taking Ohana and ourselves to Ningaloo, but it's giving us the tools and experience for what comes next.
To stay inspired, informed and follow these amazing souls as they travel the world conserving, adventuring and loving one another check out Alice and Ángel @Ohana_and_the_Sunset_Hunters

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When it comes to healthy beverages, there are plenty fruits that you can pick. The only thing you need to do is to blend those fruits and turn them into juice that you can drink for breakfast, after going to the gym, or even when you are just watching your favorite TV show.
Many fruits are available to choose that you can make as healthy juices. They have good colors that can make you drool, and taste that are surely satisfying to the appetite. The most important of all is that you absorb the essential nutrients in your body. If you want the best and healthiest fruits for a glass of juice, here are five of them.
1. Lemon Juice
Lemon is one of the best and common fruit juice ingredients for many years. This is because lemon is a fruit that give lots of benefits for the health. Do you know that there are hidden secrets of lemon juice that concern optimum health? Yes, this is true as lemon contains magnesium, limonene, bioflavonoids, citric acid, vitamin C, pectin and calcium. That is why this fruit is known as antiviral and antioxidant. It boosts the immune system, helps lose extra pounds, and flushes bacteria or toxins down from the body. So, drink up lots of lemon juice everyday to make your cells healthy.
2. Cranberry Juice
Cranberry is also a very healthy fruit. This primarily cures urinary tract infection (UTI). It is also known for its antioxidant and vitamin C benefits. This juice can be mixed with water and other sweeteners of your choice just to minimize the acidity of the juice. But you can always prepare a pitcher or a glass of blended fresh cranberries without mixing anything.
3. Coconut Juice
The water of coconut, which is also called as miracle water, is a good alternative beverage of soda and other sugary drinks. Coconut water is pure so expect zero sugar at all. There are also no chemicals added. Its transparent color makes it a good water alternative to drink as well. Like cranberry, coconut juice is also able to treat UTI. It cleanses the urine storage by means of urinating. When you drink a glass or coconut juice, there is a tendency for you to urinate and remove toxins stored in your bladder.
4. Concord Grape Juice
Grapes are a common ingredient in many types of beverages, including wine. But to keep this drink healthier, it is better that you make it as a simple juice. You need to absorb the antioxidant benefits of this fruit, so do not try mixing it with other ingredients, especially an alcohol. According to research studies, it shows that Concord grape juice is a good drink to minimize blood pressure and reduce heart disease. Therefore, take time to drink a glass or more of this fruit juice, too.
5. Pomegranate Juice
This fruit is also among the healthiest ingredients for juice drinks. It contains lots of vitamins that can help your body become healthier and skin to look younger. It is also a good protection from certain diseases, including cancers like prostate cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
6. Blueberry Juice
Another fruit that is rich in antioxidant properties is blueberry. It is also known as a great source of vitamin C and fiber. There are also research studies conducted in which they found out that blueberry is beneficial for age-related cognitive abilities. Nevertheless, this fruit is not only nutritious but also very delicious to sip on a daily basis.
Remember how healthy lemon, coconut, cranberry, pomegranate, Concord grapes and blueberry are. They are available almost all seasons, so making juices for your regular drink won’t be a problem. It should be your habit to daily drink fresh fruit juices, especially if they contain lots of vitamins, like the ones mentioned on the list above.
Whatever fruit your pick to drink, they will make you free from diseases and protect you from suffering ailments, or at least help prevent and cure illnesses that you probably have right now. There should be no excuses and other purposes to sip a glass or two of these juices if it can contribute to your optimum health.

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