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Nationwide has become the latest lender in the UK to reduce rates on some of its mortgage products.
The company has announced that from today it is lowering the price of its two, three and five-year fixed rate deals by up to 0.25 per cent.
In addition, the lender is also waiving the £599 reservation fee for its existing borrowers who are looking to switch to its fixed and tracker products.
Discussing the changes, Nationwide's mortgages head Martyn Dyson said: "Once again we are in a position to reduce rates on a number of deals available to customers wishing to remortgage, switch their current mortgage deal or take a further advance.
"As part of our commitment to rewarding customer loyalty we are also now waiving the £599 fee for existing borrowers wishing to switch deal."
Nationwide's decision comes after a number of other lenders have also reduced rates on several of their mortgages.
Abbey, RBS and NatWest have made changes this week, while Yorkshire Bank is also offering some of its products without arrangement fees for a limited period.
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Pub. Date: April 19th 2011
If you've seen the news lately (in the USA), then you've probably seen Tim Tebow. Honestly I never understood the whole phenomena around him, but after seeing his amazing overtime pass against the Steelers in the playoffs (2012), I was curious.
Over the course of the last five years, Tim Tebow established himself as one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of college football and a top prospect in the NFL. During that time he amassed an unparalleled resume—winning two BCS national championships, becoming the first sophomore in NCAA history to win the Heisman trophy, and in the face of massive public scrutiny, being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos.
Now, in Through My Eyes, Tebow brings readers everywhere an inspirational memoir about life as he chose to live it, revealing how his faith and family values, combined with his relentless will to succeed, have molded him into the person that he is today. As the son of Christian missionaries, Tebow has a unique story to tell—from the circumstances of his birth, to his home-schooled roots, to his record-setting collegiate football career with the Florida Gators and everything else that took place in between.
At every step, Tebow's life has defied convention and expectation. While aspects of his life have been well-documented, the stories have always been filtered through the opinions and words of others. Through My Eyes is his passionate, firsthand, never-before-told account of how it all really happened.
First off, if you don't really like football and you don't care much about Tim Tebow, I don't think you'd like this book. He reminisces a lot about high school and college games he played in. I don't want to discourage those who are looking for information on his life beyond football though, he does talk about family a lot and of course his faith.
I can't say enough how inspirational this book really was. He is truly an inspiration for everyone, not just aspiring football players. You really get a feel of who he is through this book. Everything he does he does as best he can, times a thousand. He puts more effort into things than anyone else and that includes his faith.
I really started reading this book to hear about his faith. Everything I had seen about Tim Tebow had some mention of his faith, so of course I was most curious about this. It was really amazing to see what a deeply devoted Christian he really is, not surprising but amazing. For any star athlete to really have that faith AND share about it is something inspiring because there are so many people that want to put them down. His faith really is the most inspiring thing he shares in this memoir.
I don't really know what else I could say besides this: read this book. You may be skeptical about Tim Tebow, you may be merely curious, whatever it is if you have the slightest urge to pick up this book I want you to do that. Don't hesitate because I honestly believe you will be touched by what Tim Tebow has to share with you.
Rating: 5 stars / 5 stars

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When you were a kid, did you ever dream of creating a house made out of Lego bricks, big enough to live in? Or how about building an actual full-sized model airplane? James May, one of the hosts of Top Gear, had those same dreams and decided to make a TV series about them – hoping to make those dreams a reality.
James also produced the show to introduce the kids of today with the toys of the past, to get them away from video games and feel a sense of accomplishment from building something. And over the course of each episode, he brings together people from different communities in England to work on each project.
In “Airfix,” they build a full-scale model of a World War II Spitfire fighter plane. “Meccano,” which is kind of like the pieces of an erector set, is used to build a 75 foot working bridge in Liverpool. Other episodes are about creating a 2.95 mile “Scalextric” race track (kind of like Hot Wheels), laying out the world’s longest model train track, and building a house out of Lego bricks. (James actually spends the night in the house, saying he got the best night of sleep in his life!)
My favorite episode is “Plasticine.” One of my hobbies is working with plasticine, or polymer clay. James and 2,000 volunteers create a life-sized plasticine garden to exhibit at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show.
In some episodes everything works out great, other times the results are disastrous. But either way, the show is fun to watch, just to see if James will achieve his goal.
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My name is Fidelis. I am a youth worker and disability inclusion advocate, promoting intervention services to improve the lives of at-risk youth and people with disabilities in rural and urban communities of Nigeria.
I would like to thank you once again for your generous and kind donation to our cause. So far, your support has improved the lives of over 50 persons living with disabilities in Nigeria. In 2018 when we launched the Basic Employability Skills Training and Scholarship (BESTS) Project, little did we know the impact. With little, we did 3 major empowerment programs in Nigeria between 2018 and 2019. Over 70% of our beneficiaries gained the competence, clarity and confidence to pursue a rewarding career. Some started their businesses, while others had access to more professional development opportunities
That's the good news. And we remain thankful.
But, the not-too-good-news is, we have been hit by the impact of Covid-19. One of our mentees spoke to us on how difficult it has been to feed and have access to the 'basics'of life during the lock-down. That is why we are launching the RISE Project - a Covid-19 relief for Persons with Disabilities in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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Hi, I'm trying to make a touch sensor pad using a grid of temperature sensors that would be covered with a thin, heat-conducting rigid sheet. I need these sensors to be able to pick up the temperatures on the sheet above them when the sheet is touched with the fingers and give the readout to the microcontrollers that will be polling them. This will mostly be used in room remperature conditions. Do any of you know of a good temperature sensor for this kind of application? Thanks in advance.


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Klogr have revealed the cover and tracklist of their new EP+DVD Make Your Stand due out on May 13th 2015, a standard bundle as well as
a fanbox edition are available to order now.
MAKE YOUR STAND - TRACKLIST
1) Live in Trezzo: 45 minutes live show filmed at the Live Music Club in Trezzo (November 2014, supporting Guano Apes)
2) Behind the scenes: 120 minutes of documentary ("Till You Decay", "Till You Turn 1&2", "Black Snow European Tour", "Make Your Stand")
01) Breaking Down
02) Make Your Stand
03) Breathing Heart
04) Draw Closer (Live)
05) Zero Tolerance (Live)
06) King Of Unknown (Live)
07) Failing Crowns (Live)
08) Vultures Feast (Live)
09) Hell of Income (Live)
10) Silk And Thorns (Live)
11) Bleeding (Live)
12) Guilty And Proud (Live)
13) Guinea Pigs (Live)
The EP had been produced by Roberto Priori e Klogr, co-produced by Jody Gray, recorded at Zeta Factory Studios, mixed and mastered at
Pri Studio. Artwork by Joba.
The new tracks on Make Your Stand were composed and performed by the new line-up of Klogr: (Rusty on vocals and guitars, guitarist PQ, bass player Joba and drummer Rob).
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Klogr have announced new dates for a promotional tour in Italy.


Introduction to Inspecting Dams for Owners and Operators
This seminar provides an introduction to inspecting and evaluating dams. The target audience is dam owners and personnel responsible for the operation and maintenance of dams. The principles, concepts and procedures taught are applicable to any dam owner or organization conducting dam inspections and evaluating their compliance with current design and maintenance standards. Participants will be familiarized with a variety of dam types and their appurtenances, instructed in the function of typical dam features, and become aware of common dam failure modes and the conditions that can lead to these failure modes. The importance of performing dam inspections will be discussed along with what to look for in order to be able to identify potential deficiencies before they become a problem. Acceptable standards for the condition and operation and maintenance of dams will be presented and their significance will be reinforced with examples from recent dam failures.
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You know what you SHOULD be doing.
Better diet, better exercise, more discipline, better organization, take on more responsibility, contribute more to charity, etc.
There are even things not at the forefront of your mind that well meaning friends, family and acquaintances remind you of… Are you drinking too much coffee… diet soda… alcohol?… Are you contributing the maximum to your IRA or 401k?…
There is an endless list of positive things you should be doing.
If you’re lucky you’ve changed some of your behaviors and adopted good, new habits.
But how many good habits lay unused in your big brain?
It’s normal. Everybody has some limit on their capacity to change behavior. The best of us, do our best.
Now, think about how fast you’ve changed when there were bad things heading right for you… or when you had already been hit by them.
I bet you hustled!
You made things happen. You have moved mountains to solve those painful problems. In fact, I bet you were willing to pay cash money to help alleviate some of those problems.
This is why marketers should “Sell Painkillers not Vitamins!”
This saying is very popular in sales and marketing circles, and for good reason.
It’s a fundamental principle of marketing and one of my favorites.
It has nothing to do with pills or products and everything to do with positioning or framing our messages.
It’s far easier to motivate someone to take an action to alleviate their present pain than to prevent a future one.
You have to position your offer as the cure to the prospect’s current pain. The bigger the pain the better.
It doesn’t matter the source of the pain. Physical, psychological and emotional pain are all equally valid.
Even complete luxuries can be positioned as painkillers. They alleviate real psychological pains. It’s the pain in not keeping up with one’s peers or losing social status.
A series of experiments conducted by Eisenberger and Lieberman at UCLA resulted in Social Pain Overlap Theory (or SPOT.)
They showed that losing social connections activates the same parts of the brain as actual physical pain. Hence most folks will do almost anything to prevent it.
Another example of psychological pain is found in people who are collectors. Some people feel discomfort when they have an incomplete collection. They need to complete the collection to alleviate their discomfort… to scratch that itch.
Once you’ve identified the pain your offer cures, you agitate the problem. Maybe they are only mildly aware of their problem.As marketers we’re going describe the problem and it’s consequences with such vivid detail they can’t ignore it.
This video does a great job of describing the pain:
Next you’ll educate the prospect on how they came to have this pain… you’ll describe the mechanism that caused their pain.
Then in the terms of this new mechanism, show them how your offer disrupts or short circuits the mechanism, thereby alleviating the pain.
This video does a great job of describing the mechanism of addiction:
Imagine if you are marketing a recovery center with these types of solutions.
Now describe the promised land… This is what life will be like after the pain has ended. The description of this state should be equally vivid as the description of the pain.
This is a powerful tool that can be used for good or evil, so don’t let me catch any of you twisting your mustache (proverbial or otherwise) at the possibilities.
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To mark World Cancer Day on 4 th February, Breast Cancer Ireland has announced it’s funding of The Orla Byrne PHD Scholarship, awarded to student Louise Watson at RCSI – a four-year study into understanding key regulatory networks in breast cancer brain metastases.
Triple Negative Breast Cancers (TNBCs) are characterised by high rates of metastases, relapses and chemoresistance. It is now well recognised that breast cancers are not all the same and can be divided into a number of subtypes, which need to be treated differently. When compared to other subtypes of breast cancer, TNBCs often have the […]
Researchers From the University of Chicago & The BCI Research Centre at RCSI Closing in On Metastasis of the Brain
Brain tumours in general are some of the hardest to treat cancers. Whether it is a primary tumour in the brain or whether it is a metastasis, it is very difficult to treat. Drugs that target specific signalling pathways are generally thought to be superior to cytotoxic chemotherapy, when they work, because they typically avoid […]
New Breast Cancer Ireland part funded research led by RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre investigators, reveals a new potential therapy approach to treat brain metastasis in breast cancer with existing drugs. Most breast cancer related deaths are as a result of treatment relapse leading to the spread of […]

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Future Forward: The Future of Heat Transfer May Lie Underground
This particular webcam interview was recorded by Todd Danielson, the editorial director of Informed Infrastructure. You can view a video of the full interview in the window at the top of this page.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy website (www.energy.gov), approximately 50,000 geothermal heat pumps are installed in the United States each year. Charlie Copeland is hoping to increase that number as much as possible to avoid what he calls not “climate change,” but an existing “climate crisis.”
“Whatever we can do to diminish the use of fossil fuels is something we go to work on … hard,” he explains about his business. Copeland and his engineering firm are proponents of many forms of renewable energy systems, and one he’s particularly keen on is the geothermal heat pump. Heat pumps operated with electricity generated from wind and solar, in lieu of fossil fuels, is the goal of many states such as New York.
Typical air-to-air heat pumps operate based on outdoor air temperature, which depending on locality can range from 0 degrees Fahrenheit to more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit outdoors. Geothermal heat pumps, however, rely on the relatively constant temperature of the ground (below the topsoil layer), which typically is in the 50-degree Fahrenheit range (10-15 degrees Celsius). Geothermal pipes containing water or a mixture of water and antifreeze are buried in the ground horizontally or vertically. This improves the efficiency from roughly 300 percent for air to air to as much as 600 percent for ground sources. Geothermal pipes are connected to a standard heat-pump system that moves heat in and out of buildings, residences and individual rooms.
During the summer, for example, the system absorbs warm air in a building and pumps it into the colder ground, which cools the fluid and returns it to the building to cool the interior. During the winter, the opposite takes place, where warmer ground temperatures can be concentrated to warm the pumped fluid and therefore the building.
“As long as you don’t overload it with too much heat, you can use that underground surface to either reject heat or absorb heat,” explains Copeland. “And you’re doing it at a constant temperature in the 50-degree range and not at 95 or 100 degrees, or 10 degrees.”
Location, Location, Location
Geothermal heat pumps can be used in a surprisingly large number of circumstances, but obviously not everywhere (at least to be economically viable). “It certainly doesn’t work for a 50-story building sitting on a little tiny piece of land,” admits Copeland. He also notes that not all local soils can absorb that much heat from cooling.
To help developers and owners—including individual homeowners—research if a geothermal heat pump is suitable for their location and/or lot, Copeland’s firm helped develop the New York City Geothermal Screening Tool as well as a simpler tool geared toward residents in Westchester County, N.Y., called Westchester GeoPossibilities (geopossibilities.ny.gov).
“The New York City tool is a very detailed tool that looks at different types of structures,” explains Copeland. “There could be 15 different types of structures, from a simple warehouse to a sophisticated office building to a residential tower to a single residence to a museum.”
The New York City tool uses sophisticated USGS underground geological survey maps that show how much rock and soil are underground, or if there’s an aquifer that can’t be touched. The Westchester tool, according to Copeland, is more oriented toward residential buildings. Developers hope it demonstrates that the original New York City screening tool can be adapted for a suburban county, creating a new model that’s more broadly applicable across the nation.
Applicable for Your Designs?
Although economic feasibility depends on each situation—and there are many variables that must be considered—Copeland believes all infrastructure engineers should at least consider geothermal heat pumps for their designs.
“Even if you’re limited on area, I wouldn’t give up on it,” he says. “[Perhaps] putting in an electric-operated cooling tower that rejects heat to the atmosphere can be a way of complementing geothermal.”
As international news and research reports continue to point to the need to limit climate change to avoid catastrophe, perhaps geothermal heat pumps running on electricity from renewable energy sources can contribute toward a more-sustainable future.


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Top news of the day from across the health care landscape.
Adding sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin to insulin can give patients with type 1 diabetes greater glycemic control than insulin alone, The American Journal of Managed Care reported. According to the article, the small prospective study included just 27 patients, for whom empagliflozin was added off-label per protocol within clinical practice. After 52 weeks, the results showed reduced A1C from 8.0% ±0.7% to 7.2% ±0.8%, increased time in range for capillary glucose monitoring, and decrease in weight and systolic blood pressure in patients who took empagliflozin, the article reported.
A new study found built-in racial bias in a widely-used hospital algorithm that predicts which patients are most likely to need follow-up care, STAT reported. According to the article, the study showed that only 18% of the patients identified by the algorithm as needing more care were black, compared with approximately 82% of white patients. Overall, the study authors found that by retraining a new algorithm using patients’ biological data rather than insurance claims data, there was an 84% reduction in bias because the previous algorithm failed to account for the nearly 50,000 chronic conditions experienced by black patients, the article reported.
Taking hypertension medications at bedtime may help better control blood pressure during the night and lower the risk of death or illness due to cardiovascular disease, Reuters reported. According to the article, the study followed approximately 20,000 patients for a median of 6 years who were randomly assigned to take their blood pressure-lowering medications first thing in the morning or at bedtime. Overall, the study found that patients who took their medications at bedtime cut their overall risk of dying from cardiovascular causes nearly in half compared with those taking their drugs in the morning.


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Earl Hyder started making headlines as an all-city and all-state football player and an all-state baseball player at Lincoln High School.
He continued playing amateur baseball in the area’s City, Sunset and Valley leagues for more than a dozen years. Two of those teams won American Amateur Baseball Congress national championships and another placed second.
Hyder was an outfielder on the 1956 Stanley Shoemen team that became the first club west of the Mississippi River to take the title. In 1960, his two-run homer against Detroit in the title game helped the Cheney Studs take home the trophy. He had 11 hits in 20 at-bats during the series, a .550 average, and he earned All-America honors that year. Sandwiched in between the title years was a second-place finish with the Woodworth Contractor’s in 1958.

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ANZ has downgraded its forecast for Australian GDP growth to 1.5 per cent year-on-year (y/y) by the end of 2023, down from its previous forecast of 1.8 per cent growth.
The change was made to account for a sharper slowdown in household consumption growth during 2023 than the big four bank had previously factored in.
“We expect Australia will avoid recession, particularly given the tailwind from the recovery in net migration. We see flat-to-falling GDP per capita from mid-2023 through 2024,” said ANZ senior economists Catherine Birch and Felicity Emmett.
According to ANZ-observed spending data, household spending lost momentum early in the holiday season, which the bank said could signal the beginning of a cyclical slowdown.
“We see household consumption growth dropping from 6.0 per cent y/y at end-2022 to 1.5 per cent y/y by end-2023 as the catch-up in services spending runs its course, the cost of living eats into real incomes, and higher interest rates bite,” said Ms Birch and Ms Emmett.
“But large household savings buffers, the strong labour market and a further pick-up in wage growth will be protective factors. Significant pipelines of residential and non-residential construction work will also help cushion the slowdown in broader economic growth.”
ANZ’s Australian GDP forecast for the end of 2024 remains unchanged at 1.2 per cent y/y. The bank noted that global developments will be important for the domestic outlook.
“Recessions in the US and Europe will weigh on global growth in 2023 and, in turn, on Australia’s external accounts. But the expected recovery in China will be a positive,” Ms Birch and Ms Emmett said.
“The iron ore price has been a beneficiary so far, but Australia’s tourism and education exports will get a sorely needed lift if easing COVID-19 restrictions in China boost travel abroad.”
As for inflation, ANZ has slightly reduced its forecast and expects an annual peak in headline CPI of 7.8 per cent, rather than 8.0 per cent, will be reached in the fourth quarter of this year, reflecting lower-than-expected food price inflation and the annual CPI re-weighting.
“An extended period of restrictive rates will be required to bring inflation back to target, notwithstanding the slower growth trajectory,” Ms Birch and Ms Emmett predicted.
“We see the cash rate peaking at 3.85 per cent by May 2023, with no cuts until late 2024.”
However, underlying inflation is expected to be “particularly sticky” in ANZ’s view after hitting a forecasted peak of 6.6 per cent y/y in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Next year, the annual headline inflation rate is predicted to drop to 6.3 per cent in Q1, 5.0 per cent in Q2, 4.1 per cent in Q3 and 3.2 per cent in Q4.
Meanwhile, annual trimmed mean inflation is forecast to sit at 6.5 per cent in Q1, 6.2 per cent in Q2, 5.3 per cent in Q3 and 4.6 per cent in Q4.
“Our expectation of a sharp decline in headline inflation in 2023, largely reflecting easing global and supply-side pressures, will give the RBA some breathing room and help keep inflation expectations anchored,” said Ms Birch and Ms Emmett.
“This creates the opportunity for an extended pause, which will morph into a complete stop if the economy tracks the way we expect. But if it doesn’t, the global experience suggests the risks remain tilted towards a higher cash rate. Activity indicators will be a guide to the extent that demand and hence inflationary pressures are abating.”
Jon Bragg is a journalist for Momentum Media's Investor Daily, nestegg and ifa. He enjoys writing about a wide variety of financial topics and issues and exploring the many implications they have on all aspects of life.

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New Music Report from Dan Close
We’re into a fresh new year and with that comes some great new music. Here’s what to listen for as you tune in to The Voice of Hope.
We just came though the Christmas season celebrating the Light of the world – Jesus. David Leonard’s latest single “Keep the Light On” reminds us of our constant need of God’s light shining in our lives. When things seem dark and our struggles are great, God will direct us like a lighthouse in a storm.
Leanna Crawford is starting the year strong with her new song – “I Know a Place.” It’s about the hope we have in heaven, and how everything we look forward to can be known today, by putting our trust in Jesus. Be encouraged as you sing along and know that you don’t have to wait…Heaven can
be here today.
“Don’t Stop Praying” is the newest single from Matthew West and as the title suggests, it is about never giving up on the prayers we offer up to God. No matter how big the requests may seem to us, our God is WAY bigger and is faithful to answer our prayers according to His will.
Brandon Heath begins his 24th year of making music with a catchy new tune called “He Does.” Brandon goes through the verses rhetorically asking “Wouldn’t it be great if…” to answer all of the questions with a confident “He does.”
Keep listening to WIVH in 2024 for these songs plus other new music from MercyMe, Sanctus Real, Jeremy Camp, Katy Nichole, and MORE!
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This article should be an eye-opener for hyper-nationalist Pakistanis who want to shut down debate on what is wrong with Pakistan’s policies. In 1971, Pakistan had to commit genocide to keep East Pakistan from becoming Bangladesh and still lost. Bangladesh was poorer, with less international standing. Now, Pakistan is seen as a troubled nation while Bangladesh is flourishing. There is a lesson here for Pakistanis, if they get off their high horse of ‘Don’t criticize Pakistan,’ ‘all critics are traitors,’ ‘Pakistan is the greatest’ etc.
Getting to Bangladesh
The News November 20, 2017
Before we become a Britain or a Germany, I am inviting my dear countrymen to become a Bangladesh. Before we become the least corrupt nation on the planet, I am suggesting to descend a few steps down, provided we do some other things right. Our narrow political narratives may have their advantages, but they also carry a huge cost. These narratives are giving us tunnel vision, forcing the nation to bark up the wrong tree.
Corruption is a curse and we must do whatever we can to ensure transparency. But is it our only problem? Are we even defining it properly? Do we know what it takes to minimise corruption? Will we become a developed country only by electing a saintly leader as our prime minister, whose mere presence on the Pride Rock will rid our country of corruption within days?
We remain obsessed with what many development professionals refer to as the problem of ‘getting to Denmark’ – ie how to turn a developing country into a developed one. Unfortunately, there are many complications associated with this agenda. The people of developed countries themselves don’t remember how they got there because it took them such a long time. Not only this, the institutions of a country reflect its cultural values. So, be a bit careful when someone tells you that he has cracked the code just by playing cricket in a developed country.
Dealing with this problem, Mahbubul Haq and Amartya Sen suggested a faster and more efficient route by analysing the way Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) covered centuries of distance in a few decades. We have had the advantage of observing them while they took the leap. The two South Asian economists gave us the development approach known as ‘human development’.
Our opportunity of learning from changes in our neighbourhood has not ended. There are other nations around us stealing the march right now and it will do us no harm to learn a thing or two from them.
Identical twins are favourite subjects of psychologists studying the great nature vs nurture question. Pakistan was born with a congenital twin, surgically separated less than five decades ago. Bangladeshi is a Muslim South Asian country equally unstable and more chaotic than Pakistan. What is even more interesting is that it is far more corrupt than the Islamic republic it separated from. And yet it is making progress by leaps and bounds, overcoming its birth defects including a narrow resource base, very small land mass and vulnerability to extreme natural hazards.
According to the Corruption Perception Index prepared by Transparency International, Bangladesh is almost on the bottom of the heap of corrupt countries. It ranks 145 on a list of 176 countries. Pakistan is proudly 29 notches up and is placed at 116. Not a great place really, but I am making comparisons here. What’s even better, Pakistan has improved its ranking sustainably during the last decade. In 2006, Pakistan was at 142 out of a list of 163 countries listed that year.
Yet Bangladesh’s GDP is growing at a whopping 7.1 percent , creating jobs, throwing up a vibrant middle class and reducing poverty – things that will soon work against corruption in that country. It was the sixth year in a row that GDP growth in the country was greater than 6 percent and most analysts expect this run to continue.
What is even more impressive is that Bangladesh’s rapid growth is reaching the poor. In 1991, well over 40 percent of Bangladeshis lived in extreme poverty. Today, according to a World Bank estimate, extreme poverty has gone down to less than 14 percent; so about 50 million fewer Bangladeshis are in extreme poverty as a result of the improving economy.
We have barely touched 5.3 percent GDP growth after a decade. Contrary to the popular narrative, Pakistan’s economic development went down as it became less corrupt. I am not saying that the co-relation is a causation here. I am merely saying that we did not pay attention to other equally important factors.
In fact, some of the measures aimed at fighting corruption might have caused serious economic harm to Pakistan. For example, the way our superior courts dealt with economic matters has inflicted a serious blow to foreign direct investment (FDI) and the overall business environment in the country, while also attracting billions of dollars of international penalties we may be forced to pay very soon.
Bangladesh’s exports during 2016-17 were $34.02 billion, while Pakistan’s exports during the same period stood at $21.938 billion. Bangladesh’s GDP per person is now higher than Pakistan’s. Converted into dollars at market exchange rates, it stands at $1,538, while Pakistan’s is about $1,470. That means that a common Bangladeshi is slightly better off than a common Pakistani.
I am not claiming that I have cracked the Bangladesh code because I have been there four or five times. I only know that Bangladesh is not making progress due to a messiah or because it has become a very clean country. I wish our experts would take a break from their tours to Europe to study their neighbourhood better. In my opinion, three factors stand out.
First, while Pakistan’s economy has been stuck with crony capitalism – sugar industry, spinning and real estate – Bangladesh has been able to promote value addition and exports through Small and Medium Enterprises and by unleashing entrepreneurship in the country.
Secondly, Bangladesh has made great progress on many social indicators. Bangladesh is on the top of the South Asian countries in gender equality. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has ranked it 72nd among 144 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report 2016. Pakistan was placed on 143rd.
Bangladesh has been able to bring down its population growth rate to 1.1 percent while we are growing at 2.4 percent. It means that in all likelihood, our indicators will get worse in comparison to Bangladesh. Such improvement in population growth rate cannot happen without improving women’s health, bringing down infant mortality, empowering women and raising level of awareness.
NGOs have played a great part in Bangladesh’s social development. They have organised rural communities, empowered women, set agenda for social development, put demands on the government and tried to fill the gap in the delivery of different services. Bangladesh’s powerful civil society runs much of its education and health services. In Pakistan, NGOs are being treated like criminals. They often require written permission from the DC sahib to carry out a small social survey in a village.
Third, despite being a deeply religious country, Bangladesh has not turned religion into a millstone around its neck. Though religion is the only thing that differentiates it from Indian Bengal, Bangladesh does not rely on religion for its national identity. It remains a secular country and has been able to deal with religious extremism better than Pakistan.
There is a chicken and egg relationship between transparency and development. Transparency helps economic development, but economic development plays a bigger role in bringing down corruption. Since the government of a prosperous country can pay its employees well, it can set aside administrative and technological resources to end corruption. On a social level, as the middle class expands and becomes influential it makes a stronger demand from the government for transparency.
A demagogue may promise to put Pakistan on Mars but the problem of corruption cannot be solved simply by putting a clean man on the top. Perhaps Liaquat Ali Khan was the most honest head of the government in our history. However, the allotment mayhem during his period corrupted the whole society to an unprecedented level and set the precedent for large-scale corruption in the country. While our leaders are selling us dreams of turning us into a Britain, we may be losing our chance of becoming a Bangladesh or a Sri Lanka.


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Bergen-based 3RW Arkitekter and Copenhagen’s NORD Architects have revealed images of their competition-winning design for a new healthcare center in Randaberg, Norway, as construction on the project has broken ground. The center, designed to look and operate like a “modern Norwegian hamlet,” will be built over four construction phases ending in 2019.
The design of the health center draws from the Norwegian vernacular building typology known as a grend, where a small cluster of modest houses is arranged to create an intimate micro community. The center will contain facilities for various healthcare programs and will link to the nearby town and mountain through a series of green courtyards and walking paths.
“The vision for the project is to create a new typology that will organize one of the most important welfare tasks in society and cover all aspects of the healthcare terminology,” explain 3RW. “The idea of a hamlet where the well-being of home and treatment accommodations of a big institution are mixed, will inspire future institutions. The new healthcare facility o ers a broad range of di erent treatments under one roof — from nursing homes to doctors’ consultations and therapy.”
“The building measures 5500 m2 but seems much smaller thanks to a design where the building is scaled down into smaller entities. Each unit is built with natural materials and o ers a homely atmosphere. A solid base in natural stone connects the houses like the stone fence in the local west coast landscape. The rest of the materials are almost exclusively built in wood. Between the houses, a myriad of courtyards, recreational gardens and greenhouses de ne a green and welcoming atmosphere.”
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Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett is a self-described “foodie.”
“That’s the love my husband and I [have]. We think a date is going to the grocery store, a really great grocery store. I love ethnic foods. I love to understand not just the taste of the food but understand why and how it’s related to people,” she said.
Plaskett said the Virgin Islands’ most cherished dish is callaloo because it can teach people about her home.
“Each island has their own way of doing it. In the Virgin Islands, callaloo, it’s a spinach-based soup so its made with greens,” she said. “Part of why we have foods that have a lot of those spinach and roughage of the greens in it is that it really helps the digestion of foods that were the scrap food that the slaves were given, whether that’s pig feet or the smoked meats.”
While she cooks for her staff often, callaloo is a special treat.
“My staff only gets [it] once a year — I don’t have time for that,” she quipped.
Watch: Del. Plaskett Shares Lechon and Other Island Food With D.C. Staff
Roll Call joined Plaskett and her staff for one of their traditional Virgin Islands potluck lunches, which they try to have at least a couple times a year.
“I’ll bring something into the office that’s native from the Virgin Islands … just to bring everybody’s spirits back up a little bit,” she said. “It’s also kind of cathartic for me to do the cooking in the evening or the two days it may take to make a dish.”
She made lechon, which is a pork roast seasoned with a mixture of cilantro and garlic, onions and peppers.
Staffers brought in chicken dishes and rice dishes.
“Everybody eats chicken right?” Plaskett explained. “But because of the influence from India, we always usually have curry chicken.”
“One of the staples is rice, but we season it up,” she added. “You can’t always have plain old white rice all the time. We have peas and rice, which is usually pigeon peas … and it also has onions and garlic seasoning. You’ll see thyme and olives that are in it that gives it a really flavorful taste.”
Her all-time favorite food was not part of the potluck. She said it’s a staple during hurricane season.
“It’s salted cod. We soak it and take some of the salt out, and then we stew it with onions and tomatoes, olives. I usually put capers in it, and that’s served with sweet potatoes and steamed green figs. Then we also have boiled eggs that we serve it with,” she said. “As a child, that was my birthday dinner. That was the dinner that I craved all the time.”
When Plaskett gets ready to head back to D.C., she will contact her local fisherman and pick up fish to put on ice for the plane ride home. Her family then eats Virgin Island fish at least once a week.
Right now she’s focused on hurricane relief back home “to really ensure that the money that was appropriated is actually getting on the ground,” she said.
Plaskett is also seeing that mobile schools are in place and hospitals are coming back online. After that, she plans on taking her first full family vacation in six years.

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- A TikToker ordered pizza on Super Bowl Sunday, but it accidentally got re-routed to her ex's address.
- The delivery driver recapped the juicy mishap and even provided "tea" on her ex's new relationship.
- The moment went viral, and has spun into a heartwarming fundraiser for those living with his rare genetic disorder.
A TikToker's pizza order that got accidentally sent to her ex-boyfriend's address began a viral saga that's turned her delivery driver into an unsung hero — and has even inspired a fundraiser that plans to give thousands of dollars to those living with a rare genetic disorder.
It all started when Deanna Warren, a 26-year-old pediatric nurse from Rochester, NY, ordered pizza for her Super Bowl party. But Guida's, a local shop from where she ordered, had her old address on file. She'd moved out of her ex's home in May, she said.
Last weekend, Warren shared a TikTok recounting what happened when she received a call about the embarrassing mix-up and what her driver witnessed when he tried delivering the order to her ex's house. "Not only did he deliver my pizza," Warren said. "He served the tea."
A video of the moment, captured by Warren's Ring security camera, has racked up 13 million views. In it, the driver, 43-year-old Dave Meyers, said Warren's ex first refused the pizza. His new girlfriend then came to the door inquiring about the name associated with the order. When Meyers said it was for "Deanna," the new girlfriend had, erm, an interesting reaction.
"She's like, 'That's his ex-girlfriend!" Meyers recalled what the new girlfriend said, before she became more suspicious. "'Oh my god, is that because she saw you today?'"
Warren and her friends gasped in unison as Meyers recounted the run-in. She told Insider the gossip was juicy in and of itself, but the way Meyers told the story made it even better. "His laughter was truly contagious," she said.
Warren hadn't seen her ex that day, and she confirmed that, but the mistake turned out to be more entertaining than embarrassing. "This man came, he served, he went above and fucking beyond — he was one of the girls in that moment," she in a follow-up TikTok.
Meyers told Insider it's in his DNA to be chatty and personalize every order. "If you just hand the pizza to somebody and you're like, 'Have a nice day' – that's just not me," he said. "I like to put something else extra on that."
The viral mishap has spun into a heartwarming fundraiser
As the ordeal went viral, commenters applauded Meyers' affable sense of humor.
But Super Bowl Sunday had been a tough day for him, marking his final shift at Guida's after three years at the pizza shop, Meyers told Insider. He'd given his notice three weeks prior, committing to finishing the football season, and is now working for a regional beer distributor.
When the two connected over text, Warren learned Meyers had quit due to a rare genetic disorder, Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD), which causes weakness in shoulder and hip muscles.
"It was the worst day I've ever had," Meyers said of his final day on the job, adding that he'd fallen at the shop and cut his hand on a piece of metal. "I had two wrong addresses that day. Not only did I fall in the shop, but I fell on a lady's step, and I had the pizza in my hand and kind of fumbled it...My legs were just really bad that day."
But he called his viral run-in with Warren "the most satisfying ending ever."
Warren wanted to help Meyer in some way. She initially offered to share Meyer's Venmo information in a separate TikTok. But, according to their texts, he said he preferred that any fundraising efforts spread awareness about LGMD and benefit those with more severe cases.
"I have complications, there's no question," Meyers told Insider. "But I'm able to work, I'm able to go out and socialize."
Warren then thought to launch a GoFundMe campaign on Meyers' behalf, which has already raised $4,200 of a $5,000 goal on Wednesday.
Meyers, who doesn't have social media and said he finds the whole ordeal "unreal," told Insider he doesn't plan on keeping the money but instead wants to redistribute it to others who are "really bad off" and having trouble paying their bills.
And Warren wants to help him spread the message to her 16,000 TikTok followers – which has grown since they've both become online famous.
"Not many people know about this disease," she said. "I personally would love to continue documenting the story, hopefully alongside Dave."


News of a new Honda CBR600RR for 2021 reached even me, deep in my COVID bunker. Once again, it reminded me that four years ago, I boldly predicted not just the demise of the CBR600RR model, but of the entire 600 class.
I admit I got that one wrong. Nonethheless, after watching Honda’s teaser video and considering some of the few facts we do know already about the 2021 CBR, such as the fact that it won't be sold in the major markets of Europe or the United States, my response is still, “Wait, wut?..”
Why update a model that is only sold in a few markets and doesn’t appear to be selling well even in those countries? Its raison d’être seems to be homologation for the World Supersport Championship and the many national and regional Supersport championships (e.g., MotoAmerica), but it's not at the front of any of those racing series. Why wouldn't Honda do the easy thing and put the CBR600RR out of its misery?
Presumably Big Red will elucidate its strategy when it officially unveils the new machine at the end of this week. But since Common Tread didn’t fire me when I got that earlier “death of the 600” story wrong and it’s fun to speculate, permit me to do so.
Why update a model sold in just a few regions?
Honda’s worldwide website lists 13 “Global Models” that are sold in every market. They range from the Gold Wing to the Super Cub via the Africa Twin, but the only pure sport bike among them is the CBR1000RR. Every other Honda model — and there are dozens and dozens of them, produced at 33 plants in 22 countries — are “Local Models.” Over 150 national and regional distribution subsidiaries pick and choose which of those models they’ll carry.
When I first predicted the outright demise of CBR600RR in 2016, it was because Honda decided it would be too expensive to make a slow-selling, decade-old design conform to Euro 4 emissions standards. Honda basically let the EU ban the sale of CBR600RRs effective January 2017.
Using Honda’s directory of distributor sites, I virtually circled the globe looking for places that still sell the CBR600RR. I learned that many countries that aren’t in the EU — beginning with Honda’s home market of Japan — have also dropped it. Is it sold in Korea? Nope. Indonesia? Nope. Malaysia, India, Brazil, Russia? None of them sell it.
The only places I could find that do still sell it are the United States, Australia and Hong Kong. (Full disclosure: I didn’t visit all 150-plus subsidiary websites, most of which are published in languages I don’t read, often in alphabets I can’t even identify.)
I checked a 2020 CBR600RR in one U.S. dealer’s inventory, to determine whether it was actually a ’20 model or a holdover from some earlier year. The VIN began with “JH” indicating that it was one of the Honda models actually made in Japan. (American Honda’s Jon Seidel confirmed by email that they’re made in Honda’s Kumamoto factory.) The VIN I looked up had a K in the 10th digit position, indicating that it was in fact made earlier this year. So I presume Honda’s been manufacturing them more or less continually, albeit in reduced numbers.
Seidel also confirmed to me that the 2021 CBR600RR is not coming to the U.S. market. So why is Honda bothering to build it?
What we know, what I speculate
People who’ve parsed the few photos and bit of video released to tease the new model have concluded that the changes are mostly bodywork and electronics. The frame and cycle parts appear identical and Honda’s stuck with the now-dated undertail exhaust. The presence of ride modes (seen on the large TFT dash in the video) suggest the bike will now have an IMU. Five or 10 years ago, the IMU and dash would have been expensive bragging points, but now Honda’s engineers are just pulling them from the CBR1000RR’s parts bin. Those would be affordable changes for a model sold in limited numbers.
But those numbers seem extremely limited. In the UK, experienced motorcycle journalists say that the new bike will not conform to Euro 5 standards, and thus will not be sold in the UK or EU. It will, we hear, now meet the old Euro 4 standard, which will allow Honda to sell it in its home market of Japan for another two years. (Japan will move to a Euro 5 equivalent standard in late 2022, which will again render it obsolete.)
Unless... it’s going to reenter the European (and by extension, global) market by meeting Euro 5 requirements. The Italian racing-and-sport bike site GPOne dug into this possibility and was unable to confirm or deny it. So, I suppose this has to be considered a possibility, although it’s a slim one.
Without going too deep into the engineering, it’s hard to meet Euro 5 standards with a high-revving, inline-four middleweight, because to make competitive power, they need lots of valve overlap. That’s to say there’s quite a long period in which both inlet and exhaust valves are open at the same time. That’s not necessarily “dirty” up near the redline, but the testing regime includes a lot of low-rpm time where such engines pump out quite a bit of unburnt fuel.
To make it meet Euro 5, Honda would probably have to give it variable valve timing and a bigger catalytic converter, which would be prohibitively expensive.
Is this a homologation special for the Supersport class?
If Honda wants to be competitive in World Supersport, it would take a lot more than the new electronics we expect, based on what we've seen so far.
At the World Championship level, all Supersport machines must use the same Mectronic MKE7 ECU. So, if the rest of the 2021 CBR600RR is functionally identical, there’s really no chance that it will challenge the Yamaha R6’s hegemony over there.
I think that if Honda was building a real homologation special, we’d see a visible differences in assemblies like the fork, brakes, swingarm, and wheels. Those aren’t evidenced in the teasers. I suppose there could be differences under the skin, such as larger throttle bodies, titanium connecting rods and valves, new pistons, etc. Those kinds of updates would make the new bike pretty expensive, and would really only make sense to me if Honda was planning to really invest in Supersport competition both at world, regional and national levels.
I emailed MotoAmerica's Chuck Aksland to ask whether a motorcycle homologated in Japan but not sold in the United States would be legal in the U.S. series. He replied that, in general, MotoAmerica would allow any motorcycle approved by the FIM. Tantalizing, but American Honda then told me there was “no way” they’d sell onesies and twosies for racing only, so we won’t see it here.
It doesn't add up as a serious effort to put the Honda at the front of Supersport grids, and it would take a serious effort. There is currently no Honda in the top 15 in the standings in World Supersport and no rider is competing full-time in the MotoAmerica Supersport series on a Honda.
Winglets are the new “Bold New Graphics”
So the 2021 CBR600RR isn't likely to be the kind of serious race bike Honda needs to be competitive in the class again, but at least it has “MotoGP-inspired” winglets that look racy. I reached out to three people with a lot of MotoGP technical knowledge to ask whether the small winglets on the new CBR could possibly be effective or are winglets the new “Bold New Graphics”? The most generous answer I got back was, “The winglets on the CBR600RR look like they are 90 percent Bold New Graphics and 10 percent might-be-useful-when-racing.”
If the 2021 CBR600RR is just a reskin of the previous model with new electronics and it changes nothing in the Supersport racing class, that doesn't mean it won't be a good motorcycle. The addition of an IMU, enabling really modern ABS and traction control, would make it a better and safer road bike. It's kind of a shame that American Honda isn’t going to offer it here.
The last time I rode a CBR600RR, I loved it as both a practical street ride and a potential track day mount. It didn’t matter to me whether it offered the last two percent of performance needed to win against the Yamaha R6 on a race track. It was still eminently capable of shred-your-license shenanigans.
If I'm wrong about all this and the new bike’s a real homologation special, with a bunch of trick components under the skin, or if somehow Honda is really going to make the new CBR600RR meet Euro 5 regs, then we may see a renewal of the battle for middleweight sport bike supremacy that was once among the hardest fought segments in motorcycling.
Right now, the only thing I can really be sure of is that my four-year-old prediction of the death of 600s is still premature. It will be at least another couple of years before I can finally say “I told you so.”


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Learn how an ACDF can reduce neck pain.
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The vast majority of procedures at the BioSpine Institute are performed through a ¾” incision; however, there are a limited number of procedures that may require a slightly larger incision.
What Is an Anterior Cervical Discectomy with Fusion (ACDF)?
An anterior cervical discectomy with fusion (ACDF) is a procedure designed to remove herniated disc material in the cervical spine. In the case of a cervical injury, the surgeon reaches the damaged disc from the front of the spine through the neck.
After the disc is removed, a space between the vertebrae is empty. The pressure is released from the pinched nerve roots, and the pain is relieved. To prevent the vertebrae from collapsing and rubbing together the surgeon fills the open disc space with a spacer, and they are stabilized with a plate to allow bone growth and a solid fusion. The two vertebrae form one solid piece of bone in 3 to 6 months.
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The Christopher Robin's Car Doom Spin attraction, secretly boring in the fading sunlight
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The Christopher Robin's Car Doom Spin entrance is like a slink inside Doomtown. The attraction cars are formed like Beanie the Cab, and when you drive you can spin them by twisting the toasters.
- If traveling with immature adults , they'll whine extra loud if you walk past this attraction alone.
- Before working this attraction, it's recommended that you go on something more demanding.
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- If you have an ounce of sense, maintain your children and legs inside the other guests at most times.
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This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019. On Saturday 2nd March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. The event reported on in this post took place on 9 March, and was organized by Samson Ngumenawe at Kyambogo University in Uganda under the Association of Student Surveyors Kyambogo (ASSK), an association that unites all lands students in Kyambogo. It unlocked the potential of open data to students, most especially finalists that are undertaking their research projects.
The open data awareness event featured different topics including crowdsourcing data using OpenStreetMap, introduction to open geospatial tools like Quantum GIS and Java OpenStreetMap Editor, open data querying tools like overpass-turbo, OpenStreetMap downloader, quick OSM, and HOT export tool.
The event was dominated by students from the department of lands and architectural studies with the biggest number of students from the surveying and land economics classes. The unforgettable event was cheered on how it created an opportunity for students to access open data for research projects.
Ms. Robinah Nakiwa a fourth-year student of Land Economics running a research project on “The role of land use plans in the development control for buildings in upcoming towns” was stranded with how to acquire the number of buildings in her study area until she became aware of the availability of open geospatial data on OpenStreetMap. Her study area was however not fully mapped and this called upon the intervention of MapUganda to help in mapping all the buildings in Bombo Town Council on OpenStreetMap where the researcher was able to query them using overpass-turbo and performed a count that she later used to generate her sampling frame. This was done in a short while and it saved resources that would have been used in the process of data collection. “A lot of thanks go to everyone that has ever contributed to OpenStreetMap, the local OSM contributors the organizer of the Open Data event at Kyambogo University. Keep the community growing.”
Ms. Edith Among a fourth-year student of land surveying and land information systems was also able to query highway data from OpenStreetMap and went ahead to do her final year project on finding the optimum route for solid waste collection trucks in Njeru Division of Jinja Municipality.
The challenging part of the event was lack of financial support. This created hindrances in providing necessities like internet bundles, event materials like stickers and banners, refreshments and communication.
I believe that the next event will be bigger and it will create a great impact.
Open Data Day is the annual global celebration of open data. Each year, groups from around the world organise local events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society.
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Childhood and Youth Research on a Series of Values You have to use Suggested approach
The main sources of material for this assignment are:
1)Module Reader Chapter 1 by Kellett (cite as ‘Kellett (2014)’ in your assignment)
2)Module Reader Chapter 2 by Fraser et al. (cite as ‘Fraser, Flewitt and Hammersley (2014)’ in your assignment)
3)Module Reader Chapter 3 by Cooper (cite as ‘Cooper (2014)’ in your assignment)
4)Module Reader Chapter 4 by Bucknall (cite as ‘Bucknall (2014)’ in your assignment)
5(Pahl, K. and Pool, S. (2011) ?�”Living your life because it’s the only life you’ve got”: Participatory research as a site for discovery in a
creative project in a primary school in Thurnscoe, UK’, Qualitative Research Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 17–37.
Childhood and Youth Research on a Series of Values Suggested a structure
In your introduction, you could outline the idea that the approaches that researchers employ draw on a series of beliefs, values, and images regarding children
and young people.
In the main part of your discussion, you could refer to distinct research examples which illustrate the diverse ways in which childhood and youth research is carried out, and how these approaches are underpinned by the beliefs, values, and images held by researchers about children and young people and the methods suitable for exploring their everyday lives.
In your conclusion, it is important to draw together any main points about how values, beliefs, and images of childhood and youth are influenced by
disciplinary boundaries, and the impact that these differences may have on the methodology used in research.
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It’s an unhealthy relationship when it’s physical abuse there are marks to prove. You will find scars through the past that tell tales you don’t just tell to anyone. It’s the bruises you hide. It’s the mark you claim were triggered since you had been fell and clumsy. It’s having to really try and conceal the fact of exactly exactly what the connection really is or ended up being.
But psychological punishment isn’t as an easy task to spot. Psychological punishment messes along with your mind. The flags that are red unnoticed to normal individuals or even into the individual being emotionally abused. They don’t realize there is certainly problem with exactly how they’ve been treated with regards to may be all they know.
In accordance with therapy today this is of psychological punishment is “an effort to get a handle on, in only exactly the same way that real punishment is an endeavor to manage someone else. The only distinction is that the psychological abuser will not utilize real hitting, throwing, pinching, grabbing, pressing or other physical kinds of damage. Instead the perpetrator of emotional abuse uses emotion as his/her gun of preference. ”
Straying away from the period of emotional punishment is hard but just what is hardest is unlearning the things you’ve been taught in a unhealthy relationship. It’s hard entering a relationship that is new somebody who treats you well and simply most probably to something good but unknown.
1. Whenever she’s been emotionally abused she won’t trust herself.
Whenever some body emotionally abuses you, these are generally constantly putting you right down to aim for which you question every option you make. And as you proceed through relationships of perhaps selecting comparable people, you start never to trust your judgment after all.
2. It is going to devote some time on her behalf to trust you.
Whenever she finally fulfills someone decent, she’s planning to question the partnership and you also. Even if you’ve offered her no reason to concern you it isn’t you, she does not trust it is everybody inside her past who may have taught her the incorrect aspects of love and relationships. This becomes a trial to somebody brand new because you’ll be the main one assisting her to master just exactly what she really deserves. And she’s likely to concern if she also deserves it.
3. She may push you away.
Individuals reject what exactly is unfamiliar for them. So give her time to come around at her very own speed. Function as the instance she compares other people too not merely another explanation she distrusts individuals.
4. She’s always planning to blame by herself for things.
The victim is always the one at fault in emotionally abusive relationships. And whether she’s the culprit or perhaps not she’ll constantly just take full responsibility for every thing that is happened.
You’ll find her apologizing for items that she shouldn’t be saying sorry for.
To her, it’s easier this way but know when you should sit her down and n’t admit she was incorrect. Understand when you should simply just take duty on your own errors and start to become usually the one saying sorry.
5. She may never be probably https://datingranking.net/swingstown-review/ the most confident.
They get really thick skin and learn to not listen to that negative voice criticizing them or they crumble because of it when it’s emotional abuse you’re dealing with, people go one of two ways, either. That sound instantly dictates and controls their life belittling them and placing them down even if they person isn’t around anymore.
It’s the flaw somebody described constantly.
It’s the small commentary which can be on perform.
Loving somebody who has been emotionally abused means rewiring their mind and teaching them to see by themselves in a various light than exactly exactly what they’ve started to understand and exactly what they’ve been told.
6. She never ever is like she’s sufficient.
Regardless how much she accomplishes or perhaps the things she does right, she’ll never feel just like it is good enough. People that are have actually originate from places of psychological abuse are constantly striving become great sufficient for just one one who is not pleased. To your person that is average it is amazing whatever they do nevertheless they will not give by themselves credit where credit is born.
7. She’ll overcompensate.
She’s always likely to take to too much. She’s always likely to away do you realy. She’s always likely to simply simply take what to the next level. She’s programmed to constantly take to unbelievably hard. You get overcome with guilt because suddenly your best doesn’t feel like it will ever match up when you’re in a relationship with someone like this. But pulling her apart and explaining she does not should do these exact things is definitely a essential conversation. But she won’t understand because trying too difficult comes very naturally to her.
8. She’s going to anticipate great deal of battles and you also making.
In terms of psychological punishment, the abuser utilizes the strategy of neglect and abandonment. As though them making after a battle is punishment. An abuser will usually spin fights into pointing down, “if you did this it wouldn’t have triggered us to overreact. ” They shall never ever use the fault fully. The strategy of neglect will keep the person always on side and therefore dates back to control. You have power over them if you can control someone’s emotions.
In a relationship that is healthy through an issue and being released with a remedy would be unknown to her. But when you can show her that is just how it is allowed to be, you aren’t simply teaching her about healthy relationships. It is so even more.
9. And she’ll put herself down.
An individual has place you down enough the abuser does not need certainly to anymore. It then transitions into self-destruction of her saying every negative thing she’s heard.
When she’s putting by by herself down and saying things that are negative need to countermand it and realize somebody has given her a few of these things. Don’t look down upon her for deficiencies in self- confidence or items that weren’t within her control. Just build her up from there.
10. She’ll challenge in asking for just what she wishes within the relationship.
She’s used to relationships that aren’t about her but instead pleasing some other person and always putting them first. You will possibly not feel as if you are providing her just what she desires or requires because she doesn’t state it but consistently dealing with her well is the greatest action you can take.
11. She’ll have trouble with interaction.
She might bottle things up and get away from discussing things. The fact is whenever you’ve experienced an emotionally abusive relationship, you figure out how to be quiet and a simply small quieter. As though silence shall avoid battles.
In a healthy and balanced relationship which is her biggest barrier to conquer learning just how to effortlessly communicate problems.
12. She’s unbelievability fragile.
You’ll realize exactly how delicate and delicate and psychological she actually is. She’s learned empathy the way that is hard. She’s learned how exactly to conceal things many people don’t have actually to even endure. She’s learned all about unhealthy and bad relationships. Having discovered all this work and having overcome it you aren’t likely to see her as broken and poor like others have. Just exactly What you’ll see is thereforemebody so beautiful you are not able to know how anybody could mistreat her.
13. She’s more powerful than she’ll ever offer by by herself credit for.
She might look at herself and keep to a lot of baggage from her past however when she meets the proper individual they instruct her other people’s problems aren’t hers to transport therefore hefty and she never deserved become their emotional punching bag.
Kirsten may be the writer of But if your wanting to keep, a novel of poetry in regards to the experiences we find it difficult to placed into words.


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SWARCO and AFUSOFT support digitalisation of German motorways
Roadside infrastructure will deliver warnings directly to vehicle dashboards in the future
Germany's operator of the highest-ranking road network, Autobahn GmbH des Bundes, is driving forward the digitalisation of roads with the nationwide roll-out of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS). The aim is to use infrastructure-to-vehicle communication to provide early warning of hazards, improve traffic flow and increase overall road safety.
The bidding consortium consisting of system integrator SWARCO Traffic Systems GmbH and AFUSOFT Kommunikationstechnik GmbH was recently awarded the contract for Lot 3 of the C-ITS project of Autobahn GmbH. The project involves the comprehensive equipping of Region 3 (north-east, east and north Bavaria branches of Autobahn GmbH) with a total of 551 roadside communication systems (ITS Roadside Stations, IRS), including the associated service and maintenance. The contract term covers four years from the start of the contract with eight further optional extensions of twelve months each.
"The overall system consists of the IRS and the cooperative ICS (ITS Central Station) as well as the connection to upstream and downstream systems," explains SWARCO Product Manager Kevin Seipel. "For this purpose, the mobile warning trailers are equipped with the IRS, which communicate with the vehicles in the form of radio telegrams, provided they are already equipped with the necessary technology. In an initial measure, warnings are transmitted to work sites of short duration in particular."
"We have been equipping mobile warning signs and LED signs in various federal states with our secure communication systems for over twenty years and have been developing and supplying ITS technology for traffic telematics for ten years now," explains Professor Erich H. Franke, Managing Director at AFUSOFT. In addition to the actual devices, this also includes the distributed communication network that processes the data in a tamper-proof manner. Safeguarding the privacy of road users and, last but not least, protection against sabotage and spying are top priorities.
In order to avoid hazards and improve traffic flow, road users receive information on their vehicle display long before they reach the actual roadworks, so that they can adapt their driving style in advance and thus significantly reduce the risk of accidents.


The Middle East air cargo industry continues to be the bright spot in an otherwise depressed worldwide cargo market, which as a whole dropped 1% for the 12-month period ending last September. The Middle East market, in contrast, has remained relatively robust, growing 8.2% during 2011 and 14.1% for the first 10 months of 2012, according to Brad Hart, 's regional director for cargo marketing. Its growth is projected to continue at 5.7% per annum over the next 20 years, particularly as the region continues its movement toward economic liberalization.
While the Middle East itself is not a large origin-and-destination market, it sits astride the fabled “Silk Road,” the crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa for trade goods moving not only east and west, but north and south.
This hub activity is becoming particularly significant with the growth of “on-demand” goods such as telecommunications equipment, which in turn is forcing a change in supply-chain management to meet the evolving market.
The Middle East is also home to three of the world's fastest-growing international air carriers—Dubai-based Emirates, Doha-basedand Abu Dhabi-based —all of which are aggressively promoting their cargo and passenger markets, along with the home-base airports that are spending millions to support that expansion.
The passenger operations of all three airlines are showing rapid growth, and they are ordering newer and bigger aircraft. These procurements relate directly to increased freight operations, since belly cargo accounts for about 70% of these airlines' total freight.
Emirates is the biggest of the “Big Three,” ranking second in tons carried among the world's airlines. Emirates operates, and 747ERF freighters, most leased from Dubai Aerospace, but it can put 10-12 metric tons of cargo in the bellies of its when operated with full passenger loads.
The carrier has had an aggressive global expansion program, particularly to the Americas, Europe and Africa, according to Ram Menen, divisional senior vice president for cargo. He notes that Brazil, in particular, is a growing market for Emirates, which now offers service to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The airline launched 15 new routes in 2012, with the latest being Dec. 10 to Phuket, Thailand, giving it a total of 128 destinations.
Emirates is now the world's largest combination carrier in terms of cargo volume (second only to express-carrier Federal Express), and third in terms of freight ton kilometers (FTK), says Menen. While Emirates reported an increase of just 1.7% during its 2012 fiscal year, it saw a 16% increase in volume during the first six months of 2012. Emirates began service in 1985 and now handles more than 35% of the region's air cargo through its SkyCargo operations. For fiscal 2012, SkyCargo recorded $2.6 billion in revenue, an 8.4% increase over fiscal 2011 and 16.2% of the total Emirates Group revenue.
Etihad, which started service in 2004, reported a 21% increase in tonnage carried during the first six months of 2012. The airline moved to 19th in tonnage carried by the world's airlines in 2011 from 25th in 2010.
Qatar Airways, in comparison, is growing rapidly, with almost 200 aircraft on order, including Boeing 777 and Airbus-200 freighters. Qatar moved to 11th in tonnage carried in 2011 from 17th in 2010.
Saudia is another important cargo carrier, “although it has a bit more of a traditional approach to the business,” says Didier Lenormand, Airbus's head of marketing for freighter aircraft, “not so much focused on hub activities, with service to countries with large populations compared to population of any of the [Persian] Gulf states that are small.”
Saudia ranks 24th among international carriers for cargo volume. However, most of its cargo goes by freighter—71.1% main deck vs. 28.9% in the lower hold, compared to an average 27.8% by freighters for the Big Three. Saudia's tonnage grew by 13% in 2011 and by 16% in 2010, according to Boeing.
The two other largest cargo carriers in the Middle East, Egyptair and Gulf Air, ranked 47th and 50th, respectively, among the's top 50 airlines for freight tons carried.
Overall, airfreight traffic through the Middle East is expected to triple in the next 20 years, although at a reduced rate, according to Airbus's world forecast. Historically, it grew from just under five billion FTKs to just over 10 billion at a rate of 5.9% in the past 20 years, but it is expected to grow at a rate of only 5% to about 30 billion in the next 20 years, increasing by 2.8 times.
Overall, Airbus forecasts the Middle East fleet will increase to 42 midsized and 80 large freighters by 2031 from 19 midsized and 31 large freighters in 2012. However, the number of freighters being operated is not indicative of the market because the predominant percentage of cargo is carried in the bellies of the combination carriers.
While there are numerous reasons for the growth of air cargo in the Middle East, two of the major ones are simply a dedication toward growth by the major airlines and what Menen calls egocentricity. It goes back to the Silk Road concept.
“You have 5.8 billion people within eight hours' flight time [from Dubai]. Extend that up to 14 hours and you have about 6.2 billion. Two-thirds of those are east of [Dubai] and of that, two-thirds are [in] India and China. So that is the basic ingredient of the success of this region, why it has become a major hub,” says Menen.
The biggest market for the Middle East continues to be Western Europe, with 1.4 million metric tons of air cargo representing 42.3% of the total Middle East traffic, according to Boeing's 2012-13 World Air Cargo Forecast. This tonnage is projected to average 5.7% per year over the coming two decades.
Asia was the second-biggest market for the Middle East, with 1.2 million metric tons representing 35.4% of the market, followed by Middle East-North America, with 283,000 metric tons comprising 8.4% of the air cargo traffic.
China is still a major source of air cargo for the Middle East, although as the economy on China's east coast improves, the cheap labor driving the manufacturing of goods is moving toward northwestern China.
India is also growing as it moves from a traditional service-centered economy into a manufacturing-based one.
“And don't forget Africa,” Menen says. “It is a continent unto itself with over 1 billion people. Fifty-five to 56% of the world's minerals are in that continent, and just east of here are the factories of the world. We are already seeing a lot of infrastructure development. That is always a good sign because they are leapfrogging technology.”
Only 8-10% of cargo entering the Middle East actually stays there, says Menen. The rest is transient. This allows the Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi airports to serve as hubs, with very large aircraft such as Boeing 747s and 777s and Airbusflying goods between major cargo centers while the smaller and and Airbus serve the smaller markets.
Airports and airlines in the region are spending a good deal of money to develop their individual hubs to enable them to channel a lot of cargo business away from other areas. “That is basically what you do with a hub,” says Airbus's Lenormand.
Dubai's new Al Maktoum International Airport, near the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone, is an $8.2 billion project to build what will be the world's largest airport when it is finished in 2027. It is now open only to cargo operations. When complete, it will have 16 cargo terminals with a 12-million-metric-ton capacity.
However, Emirates plans to use that capacity only for ad hoc traffic. Menen tells Aviation Week that Emirates plans to continue using its large cargo center at, investing $7.8 billion to expand it into a new “mega cargo facility.”
Doha also is building a new airport, at a cost of $15.5 billion, that is being designed to handle A380-sized aircraft and 50 million passengers per year by 2016.
Abu Dhabi is undergoing a $6.8 billion redevelopment project for a third midfield terminal as well as new cargo and maintenance facilities, the Momberger Airport Information report says.
Beyond infrastructure and airline expansion, another impact on growth in the Middle East is the increasing need for supply-chain management, involving logistics and inventory management.
Manufacturers have used “just-in-time” shipments to control their inventory for making finished products, but the delivery of those finished products is also becoming more time-critical.
A major item is telecommunications. “Go back to the [cell] phones we used to carry,” Menen says. “They were bricks. If you take a thousand units of those bricks and compare them to a thousand units of the Apple iPhones of today, you have just a 10th or 15th of the shipment size. So there is a shrinking [of product volume] going on, but the cycle time, or live time, of these electronics is getting shorter and shorter. The value of any electronic shipment drops by 1.0-1.5% per week. So the shelf life is very, very short.”
Because of these shorter usages, Menen says the manufacturing and product shipping process “takes careful choreographing.”
The Middle East freight forwarders are now starting to transform from their traditional role of simply picking up and delivering the freight to being “full-blown supply-chain management companies,” says Issa Baluch, a senior fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and founder of the Swift Group in Dubai, a leading logistics provider in the UAE.
The Swift Group also is “working hard toward achieving the goals of e-freight,” the movement to eliminate paperwork involved in the movement of airfreight, thus reducing time, cost and effort in the industry, says Baluch.
Menen notes that “we don't use paper any more” at the Dubai hub, and that by 2014 “the industry is looking at taking the paper waybill away.”


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This is event sequencer for proper RX to TX transition, and the return to RX mode. This sequencer based on modern STM8s CPU. Internal CPU clocking guarantees high precision and long-term stability, NO CAPACITOR, no external timing network, everything is digital. Sequencer has four high current MOSFET switches on output, they switching in 3 step (stage) with delay. Delay time can be selected by onboard jumper from two values – 15ms or 45ms.Three of MOSFET output port is “OPEN DRAIN” and “ground” active. Fourth MOSFET output port has external DC +12-30 input line (+IN) that switched ON (to +OUT line) in RX mode and has same timing diagram as stage2.
Output ports not protected, just BARE DRAINS, so – be carefull, don’t forget to use diodes in parallel with relay coils.
Sequencer can be switched to TX or RX mode by two ways – by external footswitch or from USB. You can use USB TX/RX switching from PC with any amateur radio software via RTS signal of virtual COM port. Sequencer uses CP2102 as USB to COM interface and doesn’t require a manual Windows (for Windows VISTA and later) driver installation.
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Board size is 65 x 50 mm
Output ports: 4ports, 50v/3a max
Input ports: Footswitch, USB
Delay time: 15 ms or 45 ms, onboard jumper selectable
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MUNICH/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Siemens (SIEGn.DE) Chief Executive Joe Kaeser applied the finishing touches to his overhaul of the German industrial group with the announcement on Friday of 7,800 job cuts designed to streamline management and speed decision-making.
The roughly 2 percent cut to the trains-to-turbines group’s global workforce will generate productivity gains of about 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion) by the end of 2016, Siemens said, as the company strives to close a profitability gap with rivals such as General Electric (GE.N) and Switzerland’s ABB ABBN.VX.
The profit margin at Siemens’ industrial businesses fell to 10.2 percent in the past quarter, from 11.3 percent a year earlier, against 14.3 percent at ABB and 18.6 percent for GE’s industrial division.
“This completes the restructuring of our company,” said Kaeser, who took over in a boardroom coup in 2013 and outlined his vision for the company in May last year.
A senior company source said that the group’s portfolio restructuring is also mostly complete.
Since Kaeser took over, Siemens has agreed to buy U.S. oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand DRC.N and the turbines division of Rolls Royce RRL.L. On the disposal side, it has shed its hearing-aids unit, exited its BSH household appliance joint venture [ROBG.UL] and is hiving off its healthcare operation as a standalone business.
Siemens said it would reinvest the billion euros of productivity gains in the growth areas of supplying electricity for industrial projects, automation and digitalization, 800 million euros of which will be split evenly between sales operations and research and development. The rest will be invested in fixed assets.
About 3,300 of the jobs cuts, which Siemens said should be completed within two years, will be in Germany, where the company employs 115,000 people. Siemens pointed out that it had hired more than 11,000 people since the start of its financial year in October and said it would avoid compulsory redundancies.
The company source said the restructuring costs for the job cuts would be in the mid-to-high hundreds of millions of euros.
Siemens, the products of which once included nuclear power plants, personal computers and semiconductors, has shed more than a dozen businesses since the turn of the century, many in the consumer sector where it struggled to connect with customers or where margins were driven down by Asian competitors.
At its height in 2001 Siemens employed almost half a million people and had annual sales of 87 billion euros. At the end of the past financial year, its 343,000 employees generated sales of 72 billion euros.
A source familiar with the matter had said on Thursday that Siemens planned to cut more than 7,000 jobs.
Siemens shares were down 0.8 percent at 95.57 euros by 1046 GMT, in line with Germany's blue-chip DAX index .GDAXI.
Editing by Thomas Atkins and David Goodman

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