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In 2010, Israeli economist Shir Hever stated: “Overall the Israeli diamond industry contributes about $1 billion annually to the Israeli military and security industries … every time somebody buys a diamond that was exported from Israel some of that money ends up in the Israeli military so the financial connection is quite clear”.
Diamonds are Israel’s most important export commodity, accounting for 30% of manufacturing exports, worth $22 billion in 2011. Even though diamonds from Israel fund the Israeli military which stands accused of war crimes by the Human Rights Council, the jewellery industry allows these diamonds to contaminate the diamond market masquerading as conflict-free diamonds.
The US market consumes 50% of the global diamond production and half of the diamonds sold there come from Israel. Given this reality it is little wonder that when the Texas Jewellers Association recently announced plans for the first ever Israel – Texas diamond fair human rights activists who favour a single democratic state in Palestine/Israel started a petition calling on the TJA to end their collaboration with the Israeli diamond industry.
In recent times human rights activists have staged protests in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Basel, Zurich, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Vicenza and New York to highlight the trade in Israeli blood diamonds.
In 2011 a broad spectrum of Palestinian society, represented by over fifty different organisation including trade unions, farmers, fishermen and others, called on people of conscience to reject diamonds from Israel.
In 2013 South African human rights groups, trade unions and major civil society organisations called for Israel to be expelled from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme and an end to the export of rough diamonds from South Africa to Israel.
The London Diamond Bourse is an integral part of the British jewellery industry and this provocative statement by its leader tarnishes the entire industry which human rights activists already accuse of laundering Israeli blood diamonds under the umbrella of the discredited Kimberley Process regulatory scheme.
Simon Rainer, the present head of the British jewellery Association, previously posed the question : “what if a democratically elected government is using diamond wealth to suppress indigenous populations?” Well that is precisely what is happening now in Gaza. Revenue from the Israeli diamond industry is being used by the regime to slaughter Palestinians. The violence, which many observers believe amounts to war crimes, is being encouraged by the head of the London Diamond Bourse – a major centre for the distribution of diamonds from Israel throughout the British jewellery market.
According to data published by the Israeli Bureau of Statistics, in 2013 Israeli diamond export to the UK were valued at $ 475 million.
Palestinians are by far the biggest victims of blood diamond-funded violence. The diamond industry is “one of the cornerstones of the Israeli economy” and revenue from that industry is used to deny Palestinians the most basic of human rights — the right to life. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s diamond-funded military. Millions of Palestinians suffer daily humiliation and denial of the inalienable rights as they languish in refugee camps across the Middle East, eke out an existence under occupation and brutal subjugation in the occupied Palestinian territories, and endure discrimination in their daily lives under the apartheid regime in Israel.
Just three days ago on 19th July 2014 India’s largest Diamonds Hawala Scam was unearthed in Surat. According to ED officials in Ahmedabad, the investigation started on the basis of ICICI Bank’s police complaint (FIR) in Surat. ED has filed charge sheet against 79 accused on Friday and out of three main accused two are arrested and one is absconding. Afrosh Hasan Fata and his associate Bilal Haroon Gilani are residents of Surat while the third main accused is Madan Jain, a resident of Mumbai. Afrosh Fata was arrested two months ago, while on Thursday Madan Jain was arrested and also produced before Ahmedabad metropolitan court for further remand.
Afroz Fatta with Narendra Modi
“We believe Afroz is being helped by some powerful people in Surat and that is why he has been summoned to Ahmedabad,” the ED officials said.
After the ED investigation progressed crucial links of Afroz Fatta with Narendra Modi emerged with. Congress leader now seeks answers from Narendra Modi on his covert relationship with those involved in money-laundering after releasing Mr Modi’s pictures with Afroz Fatta.
Hours after the Congress claimed on Monday that Narendra Modi has close links with alleged hawala operator, who was raided by the Enforcement Directorate last month, the BJP hit back releasing a photo of Mohammad Azharuddin with the Surat-based Afroz Fatta.
What is to be noted however is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Afroz Fatta seems to be very well connected with both BJP & Congress politicians, celebrities and underworld as well, as already hinted by ED officials.
A report published in January of this year by a Paris based task force FATF (Financial Action Task Force) titled Money laundering and Terrorist financing through trade in Diamonds revealed that India is one among five countries where the trade accounts of the diamond business are used to launder illegal funds amounting to millions of dollars.
Some of the risks and vulnerabilities of the diamonds trade, identified in this report are
The conversation given out in the charge-sheet is reproduced below. It tells of a harrowing anti-national conspiracy.
Purohit: I have contacted Israel. One of our captains has been to Israel…very positive response from their side. They have asked us to show them something on the ground.
Our website had not been launched yet. We just gave them on paper…they asked us to wait and watch for six months.
We had asked for four things…continuous and uninterrupted supply of equipment and training. Second thing allow us to start our office with saffron flag in Tel Aviv.
Number three…political asylum. Number four support our cause in UN that Hindu nation is born.
They have accepted two things. They don’t want to fly our national flag in Tel Aviv saying they don’t want to spoil their relations with India. Also they are saying that they cannot support us on international forum for two years.
Purohit: Let me also tell you our meeting had been fixed with King Gyanendra (of Nepal) on June 24, 2006 and then in 2007…the King had accepted the proposal…20 people from my side will train as officers there every six months…I’ll get 40 persons every year and 200 persons will train as jawans…I’ll get 400 soldiers. You being an independent nation, ask for Aks from Czekoslovakia, we will pay the money and the ammunition. The king has accepted…
Purohit was in touch with Nepal king for a separate state
The Dayanand Pandey tapes mentions one ‘Captain’ who visited Israel and took training there. Who was he talking about ?
Apart from huge controversy over 26/11 involving his role of ‘deliberate inaction’ that among other things also led to the death of Hemanth Karkare and the production of entire film on 26/11 by Ram Gopal Varma to be a propaganda to salvage his image, in addition to other such movies; interestingly Rakesh Maria also comes from a film production background. His family owns ‘Kala Niketan Film Production’ in Mumbai.
Maria is also accused of charges ranging from not having gone to the site of the attacks even once in three days, to misleading then police commissioner Hasan Gafoor about the deaths of Kamte, Karkare and Salaskar.
A 2005 IB report cast doubts on the veracity of the intelligence Maria had provided about the terrorists in 2003 Mumbai blasts case. The report suggested that Maria and his team had concocted the names of terrorists who didn’t even exist. In 2005 itself, Maria’s team was disbanded by then Police Commissioner RS Sharma.
His cabin is often surrounded by journalists who wait for the evening darbar, or “Maria’s darbar” as it is called, where his department feeds the press stories of its gallantry which find their way into the newspapers the next day.
Coming down heavily on Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria, recently the state Chief Information Commissioner has raised doubts about whether he was trying to hide some information on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks by withholding and providing misleading information about the call logs of wireless conversations between the police control room and slain IPS officer Ashok Kamte’s van on the day he died.
In a recent order, state’s Chief Information Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad has also asked the state government to institute a commission of inquiry into the entire incident, to look into why misleading information was provided in an incident of such prominence as the 26/11 terror attacks.
26/11 Investigators on a Hit-List of Diamond Mafia
The real Indian Martyr Hemanth Karkare was also assassinated because he uncovered the whole story when posted in Austria.
So what did Hemanth Karkare and the others uncovered that got them killed ?
It is well known that a conference of diamond traders was going on in the Taj when the attack took place on 26th November—some diamond traders were killed. But quite a few managed to escape.
Karkare had stumbled upon the source of funding of nearly all major terror attacks in India – The Israeli Jewish Diamond Mafia
In fact, in their reports on the charge-sheet the Times of India and Asian Age conveniently omitted the Israel angle. Both the Hindustan Times and the Mumbai Mirror carried the Israeli angle in detail. In fact the Mumbai Mirror published a telephone conversation between the accused; a conversation which is a landmark in the history of criminal investigation in India, as it exposes, for the first time, that Mossad and Israel were not only supporting terrorism in India, but they were also keen on backing the project for a regime change and suspension of democracy in India.
What Gandhi had to say about Zionism
The nobler course would be to insist on a just treatment of the Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French. If the Jews have no home but Palestine, will they relish the idea of being forced to leave the other parts of the world in which they are settled? Or do they want a double home where they can remain at will? This cry for the national home affords a colourable justification for the German expulsion of the Jews.
I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regarded as an unwarrantable encroachment upon their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds.
Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home including Palestine not by aggression but by loving service. A Jewish friend has sent me a book called The Jewish Contribution to Civilization by Cecil Roth. It gives a record of what the Jews have done to enrich the world’s literature, art, music, drama, science, medicine, agriculture, etc. Given the will, the Jew can refuse to be treated as the outcaste of the West, to be despised or patronized. He can command the attention and respect of the world by being man, the chosen creation of God, instead of being man who is fast sinking to the brute and forsaken by God. They can add to their many contributions the surpassing contribution of non-violent action.”
SEGAON, November 20, 1938 Harijan, 26-11-1938 (Vol. 74, pp. 239-242)
Israel’s “Blood Diamonds” Boost Jeweller Profits as Gaza Bleeds
“Blood Diamonds” and Israel’s Diamond Export Industry
Of Diamonds and Terrorist Attacks in India
How Blood Diamonds Are Smuggled in India
26/11 – What really happened at Nariman House of Confusion
26/11 Investigators on a Hit-List of Diamond Mafia
Has Rakesh Maria tried to salvage his image through Ram Gopal Varma’s film on the 26/11 attack?
26/11 Info panel to probe Maria’s role in manipulating call records
Mossad’s Failed Plot To Recruit Gandhi
Israeli Propaganda in India over Gaza Conflict
Israel’s blood diamonds: Why the free pass from regulators and civil society?
Statement by the EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on reports indicating the Israeli Government’s intention to expand settlements
Will This Israel-Based Company Be Affected By The Conflict In Gaza?
Diamonds Remain Israel’s Main Export Category
“Blood Diamonds” Financing War Crimes in Gaza. President of London Diamond Bourse: “We Must ‘Finish the Job’”


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I believe your article on touring exhibits of Maya art [ART, July 15] gives the mistaken impression that the objects dredged out of the sacred well at Chichén Itzá were resurrected from basement obscurity at the Peabody Museum. The Peabody Museum is a research and teaching institution whose major priority has never been public exhibition. However, the collections from the sacred well have had significant exposure over the past 50 years. Our museum has developed a nationwide collection-sharing program, pioneered by Frances Silverman and Lea McChesney, to make the rich resources of the Peabody available to others. Karl Lamberg-Karlovsky, Director Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.

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A new joint WMO/World Bank commitment was announced with the creation of an Alliance for Hydromet Development aimed at boosting climate and weather science and information for a resilient world. The initiative was announced on 12 October at an event on “Investing in a Climate Adapted World” held during the 2018 International Monetary Fund/World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bali, Indonesia.
WMO, together with the Government of Germany and the Geneva Water Hub, held a Mobilization for Water Data and Peace event on 27 November. Representatives from the Permanent Missions in Geneva attended to help advance the water data and peace agenda for sustainable development and to advocate for easily accessible and reliable water data to inform policy and decision-making in their national governments.
Publish Date: 11 December 2018
Switzerland has announced a major contribution to an international initiative to strengthen early warning systems in vulnerable low-income countries to support climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development. The announcement of 9 million Swiss francs in new funding came at the United Nations climate change conference in Katowice, Poland (COP24).
Publish Date: 6 December 2018
The World Meteorological Organization, together with the German Government and Geneva Water Hub brought together representatives from diplomatic missions in Geneva to help advance the water data and peace agenda.
Publish Date: 27 November 2018
An initiative to strengthen multi-hazard early warning systems in the Caribbean was launched on November 20 during the dry season Caribbean Climate Forum (CariCOF) meeting in Barbados. The Caribbean region is highly exposed to high-impact hydrometeorological hazards such as hurricanes and tropical storms, causing floods, landslides and storm surge. In 2017, Hurricane Irma caused massive destruction in Barbuda resulting in the subsequent full evacuation of the island while Hurricane Maria caused devastation Dominica. Barbados suffered from flooding as a result of Tropical Storm Kirk in...
Publish Date: 26 June 2018
The Caribbean is moving closer to a much-needed regional strategy to strengthen people-centred early warning systems across the islands. This is vital to improve the preparedness and response to major natural hazards, according an expert review of the devastating 2017 hurricane season.
Publish Date: 12 July 2018
Climate change – and the shortages of water and food that come from it – is becoming increasingly linked to conflict, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council...
Publish Date: 7 May 2018
Water stress, pollution and hazards like floods demand better measurement and management Geneva, 7 May 2018 - A global conference on hydrological services will address the urgent need to improve forecasting, management and utilization of water resources in an era of growing water stress, pollution and hazards like floods.
Publish Date: 9 May 2018
The state of the planet’s water resources is recognized as one of the greatest global challenges faced by our rapidly transforming world. A three-day conference on hydrological services therefore sought to address the urgent need to improve forecasting, management and use of water supplies and to tackle the problem of too much, too little or too polluted water.

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‘Photolanthropy’ project supports Special Olympians around the globe
By Chelsea Edgar
As an elementary school student in Hong Kong, Quisha Lee ’24 took fencing lessons with Yu Chui Yee, a Paralympic gold medalist who had lost her left leg to bone cancer at the age of 11. Training with Yee left an indelible mark on Quisha.
“Despite her physical disabilities, she displayed such inspiring strength that pushed me to train harder every time I saw her,” Quisha told Millerton’s Main Street Magazine during an interview this spring. “It was in these moments, where I was in proximity with disabled athletes, that I realized disabilities should never be viewed as barriers or weaknesses, but rather as a means to practice tenacity and gratitude that we all should learn from.”
At Hotchkiss, Quisha channeled her love of photography and her commitment to ending the stigmatization of athletes with disabilities into Soaring Souls: Honor Our Heroes, an exhibition of photos documenting Special Olympians in Connecticut, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The show, which was displayed in the Main Building’s Upper Rotunda this spring and moved to the Peak Galleria mall in Hong Kong in July, highlights her gift for capturing the joyous, exuberant moments in the midst of competition—a swimmer preparing to leap off a diving board, stealing one last glance at the sidelines; or a bocce player with an eye patch, his face lit up in an enormous grin.
Quisha’s passion to support the Special Olympics began as a seventh-grader at Indian Mountain School when she participated in her first Hotchkiss Swimathon to help raise money for Special Olympics Connecticut. She is now a member of the Hotchkiss girls varsity swim team, and she has served since her prep year on the board of the Hotchkiss Special Olympics Club—organizer of Hotchkiss’s annual Swimathon. Quisha swam for her third consecutive year in the September 2022 event, which raised nearly $30,000 for Special Olympics Connecticut and Special Olympics Slovakia. The proceeds helped launch a daycare center in Slovakia that aids Ukrainian refugee families who have children born with intellectual disabilities.
Quisha credits her family with inspiring her philanthropy and photography, which she has dubbed “photolanthropy.” “My parents, especially, have had the greatest influence on my desire to create positive impacts on people around me. They have nurtured me with values of compassion and charity,” she said. Her grandmother encouraged her enthusiasm for taking pictures at a young age. At Hotchkiss, she has continued to hone her photography skills under Colleen MacMillan, instructor in photography, and Ann Villano P’17, instructor in film and George Norton and Jodie Stone teaching chair.
Soaring Souls took shape in the summer of 2022 while Lee was home in Hong Kong. That July, Quisha met 12-time Paralympic gold medalist So Wa Wai and his mother; from there, she met and photographed dozens of other athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. Her work has been supported by Special Olympics Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Paralympic Committee, and Special Olympics Connecticut.
“Quisha’s passion and commitment to enriching the lives of Special Olympics athletes through her talent is humbling,” Special Olympics President and CEO Michael Mason stated in the forward to a booklet accompanying Quisha’s exhibition. “Her photographs challenge others to look beyond differences and embrace the diversity of each individual’s gifts—and, in doing so, experience true kindness and the joy of belonging.”
For Quisha, the ultimate goal for her project “is to create a sustainable and positive impact for the athletes and the organization that have inspired me tremendously,” and she hopes “to address the inequalities between athletes with and without disabilities, specifically in terms of unequal pay, recognition, and community support.” To that end, she has already raised more than $56,000 to support Special Olympics Connecticut through her Soaring Souls exhibit.
Photographing athletes with disabilities has had a profound impact on Quisha. “The mere act of attending training for disabled athletes transformed my worldview; it made me rethink my definition of ‘normal,’” she said. “The Special Olympics and Paralympics athletes I met over the past year showed me the importance of self confidence, motivation, and love. While documenting these athletes of all ages, I truly felt that they were stronger and more inspiring than other athletes I’ve met. They did not view themselves as disabled or at a disadvantage and simply trained to the best of their abilities.”
Quisha believes that images have the power to transform how people see the world, and she hopes that viewers “learn or see something new” from her photography. “Please join me on my journey to spread understanding and awareness of intellectually and physically disabled athletes around the world,” she said. “Together, we can make a difference.”
View more photos by Quisha Lee ’24 at www.soaringsouls.net, where donations for Special Olympics Connecticut are also accepted.


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At the first event during the Madden tournament season, a gunman opened fire on the crowd, firing at least a dozen shots, per a clip of the Twitch broadcast shared on Twitter. Jacksonville police report (via NBC News) “multiple fatalities.” Local NBC News affiliate First Coast News reports that law enforcement officials told them there have been four fatalities with 11 injuries. One participant, Drini Gjoka, tweeted that he’d been hit in the thumb by a bullet.
The LA Times reports that “the shooter was a gamer who was competing in the tournament and lost,” per their interview with tournament participant Steven Javaruski. From that same conversation in the LA Times report, “The shooter ‘targeted a few people’ and shot at least five victims before killing himself.”
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has been sharing updates on their Twitter feed. EA Sports told IGN, “We are aware of an incident at a sanctioned Madden Championship Series competition in Jacksonville. We are working with authorities to gather facts at this stage, [but] this is a horrible situation, and our deepest sympathies go out to all involved.”
Popular streamer Ninja expressed his condolences on Twitter, saying, “My heart goes out to the family, friends and people affected by the Madden shooting today.”


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Lewis (26-10 MMA, 17-8 UFC), a multi-time UFC title challenger and fan-favorite heavyweight, had his night halted in just 55 seconds Saturday when Pavlovich (15-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) rocked him with an early flurry in their main card bout at American Airlines Center in Dallas.
Although Lewis unquestionably was staggered and hit the canvas, he immediately protested the stoppage when Miragliotta jumped in to wave it off. The crowd showered the octagon with boos, fellow fighters complained on social media, and only Pavlovich and his team were left happy.
“I think it was too soon, but to be fair – I think Miragliotta’s a great ref – the way that he fell, probably nine out of the 10 people in this room would’ve jumped on him and stopped the fight, including me,” White told reporters, including MMA Junkie, at the UFC 277 post-fight news conference. “I like the ref, but I wouldn’t really debate that was an early stoppage. That was definitely an early stoppage.
“When you jump right back up like that and you’re ready to go – listen, he was a little rocked, but no more rocked than Julianna (Peña) was three, four times in the fight, and she fought five rounds. Miragliotta made a mistake, and it happens. So I don’t think it diminishes Derrick Lewis at all. I would’ve liked to see that fight go on.”
With the defeat, Lewis has now dropped three of his past four. White said he doesn’t think the result will hurt Lewis, though, and still expects the UFC’s record holder for most knockouts to be relevant in the weight class.

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The detection performance of conventional surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors is limited to a 1pg/mm2 surface coverage of biomolecules, and consequently, such sensors struggle to detect the interaction of small molecules in low concentrations. The present study is attempted to propose the use of a novel SPR biosensor with Au nanoclusters embedded in a dielectric film to achieve a 10-fold improvement in the resolution performance. A co-sputtering method utilizing a multi-target sputtering system is used to fabricate the present dielectric films (SiO2) with embedded Au nanoclusters. It is shown that the sensitivity of the developed SPR biosensor can be improved by adjusting the size and volume fraction of the embedded Au nanoclusters in order to control the surface plasmon effect. The present gas detection and DNA hybridization experimental results confirm that the proposed Au nanocluster-enhanced SPR biosensor provides the potential to achieve an ultrahigh-resolution detection performance of approximately 0.1pg/mm 2 surface coverage of biomolecules.
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OTTAWA, Sept. 13 /CNW Telbec/ - Twenty-five individuals and eight
organizations, who represent the hundreds of thousands of blood and stem cell
donors, volunteers, community groups, sponsors and partners from across
Canada, will be honoured at a national ceremony in Ottawa on Monday, September
17th. This eighth annual "Honouring our Lifeblood" event is hosted by Canadian
Blood Services and is being held at the world-renowned Canada Aviation
Museum-recognizing the strong link Canada's blood system has with aviation
Our 2007 honourees embody the theme of this year's celebrations- "Leaders
of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow." Like the flying pioneers who helped to settle
the wilderness in northern Canada, these individuals here today serve as
community role models who have led and will lead others by passing their
selfless spirit on to their children, their colleagues, and their students.
What: Honouring Our Lifeblood - celebrating Canadians who improve and
save lives through their support of the blood system
Who: - Master of Ceremonies, CPAC host Catherine Clark
- Entertainment, Vancouver Island "Female Vocalist of the Year"
Hayley Sales, with selections from her debut album, SUNSEED
- Keynote speaker, Marc Kielburger, accomplished social advocate,
leadership specialist, New York Times best-selling author.
- Dr. Graham Sher, Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Blood
- 25 individuals and eight organizations who have made outstanding
contributions to Canada's blood system
Where: Canada Aviation Museum
Date: September 17, 2007
Time: Reception: 6:00 p.m.
Ceremony: 7:00 p.m.
Canada's blood system and stem cell registry are based on volunteer
donors. In the next year, Canadian Blood Services must recruit 85,000 new
blood donors to meet the increasing hospital demand for blood. There is a
constant need for blood and blood products in this country every day. Cancer
patients, people who need life-saving surgery, trauma victims and many others
depend on a stable blood supply year-round.
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For further information: Anne Trueman, Manager Media Relations, Canadian
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Russian Blogosphere Survey for April 2, 2015
New car sales are at an all-time low in Ukraine. Only 2200 new cars received registration in Ukraine, 5 times fewer than in March 2014, and 23% less than in February 2015. Which means Ukraine still has not reached the bottom.
The new fad seems to be breaking into safety deposit boxes at banks, where people keep their hard currency, jewels, other valuables. Considering the difficulty of getting at a deposit box, these have to be “inside jobs” by the people who work at banks.
Berezhok is the BMP-2 modernization kit (see photo above) which brings up its firepower to practically the Kurganets-25 standard (30mm cannon, Kornet ATGMs, 30mm AGL, thermal sights, full stabilization). Since the Russian defense budget will not be sufficient to replace all BMP-2s with Kurganets or even BMP-3 vehicles, at least some of the fleet will be modernized. Berezhok is, incidentally, a popular export item.
The whole thing took place in the center of Kiev, and the 6-minute video is well worth watching. It’s not even clear who these people are. Aidar? Donbass? Remarkably, the trader (whose business is a mobile coffee shop) managed to fight them off, with the aid of passers-by and their smartphones.
Poroshenko and Merkel reached an agreement to have 20 wounded Ukrainian soldiers treated in German hospitals. It’s not clear whether Ukrainian neo-Nazis will get to travel to Germany under this program, in spite of the headline, although it cannot be ruled out.
The film is “People Live Here”, and was filmed by a Russian student Ilya Novodvorskiy.
DPR and LPR are continuing their campaign of ensuring all armed formations on their territories are subordinate to official Novorossia structures.
This was brought about by the recent scandal with Daniil Grachev who was hired by the Russian NTV channel to host a TV program. Only later it was revealed, courtesy of intrepid Russian bloggers, that Grachev was once upon a time a die-hard Maidanek who posted a ton of virulently anti-Russian stuff on his social media accounts. So now there is a push to screen Ukrainians who are “escaping from freedom” for their stance during the Maidan.
Crimea-based “Nitka” [Thread] was USSR’s only land-based facility for practicing landings on aircraft carriers. It was leased by the Russia Navy from Ukraine during happier times. Now that Crimea is part of Russia, the need for leasing kinda fell away.
It is to be completed in 2020, with gas deliveries to China to begin immediately upon completion.
The Great Patriotic War on paintings and illustrations by artists from various countries
Lots and lots of illustrations. Worth a look!
Live-fire testing of the T-80U tank
A pretty amazing video showing Russian T-80U tanks being subjected to point-blank range tank gun fire, with the intent of demonstrating the level of their armored protection.
The Admiral Nakhimov was the third Kirov-class battlecruiser to enter service. It was laid up during the 1990s, but now is undergoing a thorough modernization, which will include the installation of Kalibr, Oniks, S-500 missile systems, as well as many other improvements.
The Gorshkov is the lead ship of the new frigate class, the most important current shipbuilding program of the Russian Navy.
The French contract to supply India with Rafale fighters is in danger, in part due to France’s stance on Mistral ship delivery, but also due to competition from Russia’s Su-30MKI. Therefore the French are striving to sweeten the offer.
The economy is of course Ukraine’s, and this installment discusses the dire situation with the Ukrainian agricultural sector: high taxes, lack of hard currency to procure seeds abroad, mortgage foreclosures on family farms, the list goes on and on.


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This comprehensive, textual treatment of the Kaifeng Passover Rite is a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion of the community’s origins in particular and to comparative Jewish liturgy in general. The book includes a facsimile of one manuscript and a sample of the other, the full text of the Hebrew/Aramaic and Judeo-Persian Haggadah in Hebrew characters, as well as an English translation. Following a review of the community’s history, sources for study, and related scholarly work conducted to date, the languages used in the Haggadah and their backgrounds are discussed in detail. Analysis of the order of the service allows for comparison of the Kaifeng Jewish community’s recitation of the Passover liturgy, performance of ritual, and consumption of ceremonial food to other communities in the Jewish Diaspora.
The various parts and chapters of the book, including its extensive and meticulous annotations and bibliographical references, provide much fresh and useful material for scholars and readers interested in pre-modern Jewish, Judeo-Persian and Chinese literary traditions and cultures.
David Yeroushalmi, Tel Aviv University, 2015
Fook-kong Wong, Th.D. (1998) in Hebrew Bible, Harvard Divinity School, is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary. He has contributed entries in NIDB, EBR and
written numerous articles in Chinese journals and books.
Dalia Yasharpour, Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles, is Lecturer of Persian Language and Literature at Harvard University. She is co-author of the Persian textbook,
Proficiency in Persian (Persian Language Resources, 2007) and has contributed articles to such publications as EJIW and EHLL.
"Much has been written about this community, but this is the first detailed analysis of the Passover Haggadah as it was preserved in Kaifeng [...] This volume should interest not only specialists in liturgy but also students interested in far-flung Jewish communities, researchers interested in the Persian Jewish community, experts on Hebrew, and others as well." - Shaul Stampfer,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in:
Religious Studies Review, 38:4 (2012)
"...an important work of scholarship." - Daniel Scheide,
Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University, in:
Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, 2:2
Chapter One: Haggadah Manuscripts of the Kaifeng Jews
Chapter Two: The Community's Knowledge of Hebrew as Reflected in their Haggadah
Chapter Three: Hebrew in the Kaifeng Haggadah
Chapter Four: The Judeo-Persian of KH
Chapter Five: Order of the Service
This book will appeal to a general audience interested in Chinese history and Jewish Studies as well as scholars interested in religious diasporas, Iranian history and languages and cross-cultural transactions with China.


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Economic Abuse May be Considered Domestic Violence
Union County Domestic Violence attorney to represent your interests throughout the process
New Jersey’s Prevention of Domestic of Domestic Violence Act (N.J.S.A. 2C:25-19) lists eighteen different types of abuse which are considered by law to be acts of domestic violence. While most of these actions are physical in nature, like assault, harassment, and false imprisonment, a recent New Jersey case demonstrated how certain actions which can impact an individual financially can also be considered domestic violence.
Acts Which Interfere with Employment May be Considered Domestic Violence in New Jersey
In the case in question, a wife’s estranged husband sought to prevent his wife from returning to her previous place of employment. The husband threatened to call the wife’s employer and get her fired if she tried to return to work, and then followed up on those threats by visiting the place of employment, calling his wife’s employer and his wife, and telling the employer’s wife that her husband and his estranged wife were having an affair despite there being no evidence to support such a claim.
Harassment and Coercion Union County Domestic Violence Attorney
When considering the estranged wife’s request for a restraining order against her husband, Judge Jones had to decide whether or not these actions constituted domestic violence as outlined in the New Jersey Domestic Violence Prevention Act (PDVA).
While the actions taken by the estranged husband were not physical in nature, Judge Jones found that his actions still constituted acts of harassment and coercion, both of which are considered domestic violence. Judge Jones believed that threatening the wife’s economic stability would provide a clear source of fear and anxiety for the wife, and that the husband’s intent to expose the wife’s affair with the employer (regardless of whether or not it is true), constituted acts of coercion, defined as acts which intend to expose a secret or cause harm to an individual, either physically or financially.
In his final statement regarding the ruling to allow a restraining order to be placed against the husband, Judge Jones stated: “here are arguably few threats more potentially harassing and coercive than threatening one’s livelihood and employment.”
Contact a Union County Domestic Violence Attorney Today
Whether your physical or economic safety is being threatened by another party or a restraining order is being filed against you, it is critical that you retain the counsel of an experienced Union County domestic violence attorney to represent your interests throughout the process. Final Restraining Orders are usually permanent legal orders. This permanence can be critical to your financial and physical safety, but also highly damaging if you are being wrongly accused.
At The Law Office of Edward S. Cooper, we have extensive experience helping clients across Westfield, Elizabeth, Union, Plainfield, Linden, and the greater Union County area with domestic violence and restraining order issues of all kinds.
Whatever your situation may be, our law office has the experience, compassion, and legal ability to help you successfully navigate any restraining order process. To schedule a confidential consultation with our office today regarding your domestic violence or restraining order issue, please contact us online or through our Linden, NJ office at (908) 481-4625.

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The pdfMAGS questionnaire has been answered by James Agnew from JENESIS Magazine.
JENESIS Magazine is the premiere magazine for Pittsburgh's urban crowd with a desire to read about fashion, music, sports, politics, as well as a wide variety of other subjects sure to capture attention as well as inform. JENESIS Magazine provides readers with the City's current news, scene reports from various clubs, restaurants and other local happenings. Other features include music reviews, Q&A's and game reviews.
JENESIS is a magazine founded on a dream. Designed to meet the needs of Pittsburgh and others in the world alike, JENESIS Magazine meshes together the fabric of the city's urban society with local and national updates of the music scene, the latest in fashion, news, and events. With hard work, skill and determination, we plan to become not only the city's leading magazine, but the voice of urban Pittsburgh as well. Essentially it started out as a hobby. When I was in the eleventh grade, I worked on various magazine covers as an art project at a Craftsmen's Guild. From there on I always had a desire to do a full magazine on a large scale, but never took the time to do so. I just wanted to give the people in Pittsburgh something they can read that brings things full circle. A magazine that provides the reader with everything a national magazine has to offer, but maintains its emphasis on this city.
JENESIS Magazine is exclusively online and is available for download at www.jenesismagazine.com each month.
18-34 year old men and women. Our vision is for this publication to appeal to people of both sexes, from diverse backgrounds and a multitude of races. Everyone from Professionals, to hip-hoppers, to punk rockers and so on. It's very rare that you find one publication capable of reaching that diverse a group of people. Hopefully we will be able to be added to the list. Even though we would like to have mass appeal, we understand at the same time that if you're targeting too many people, you're not targeting anyone.
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This is a complete guide on Great Dane exercise. I am going to be breaking down the amount of exercise that is required for the breed and also show you some fun ways to exercise your pooch.
Here are some topics that we are going to be covering:
- Best amount of exercise for Great Danes.
- Ways to exercise your Dane.
- Benefits of exercise for Great Danes.
So without further ado, let’s get started.
Do Great Danes Need A Lot Of Exercise?
Great Danes do not need a lot of exercise despite their large size. Studying the history of Great Danes reveals that the dogs were originally bred for hunting large wild game so many people are quick to assume that their Danes require more exercise and body activity.
However, by today’s requirements, Great Danes do not need much exercise as their size would suggest to many dog owners. Despite their large size, Great Danes still don’t require any more exercise than a regular-sized dog breed.
You can effectively exercise your Great Dane by taking them on long daily walks or just having a quick run. The most important thing is to allow your dog to stretch their long legs and allow them to burn some of the excess calories.
How Much Exercise Does A Great Dane Need?
Great Danes generally require 30 to 60 minute long daily walks in order to stay in shape and burn off any excess calories or energy. The breed has a fairly good level of stamina so they can walk for long distances. You just have to monitor any signs of fatigue or excessive panting during the walks so that you can give your Great Dane some rest when it is required.
However, Great Dane owners must remember never to overdo exercise with a puppy during its development stage because consistent strenuous exercise can have long-lasting adverse negative effects on your puppy’s growing ligaments and bones.
A study on the effect of exercise on Cardiac Output in the unanesthetized dog revealed that:
Cardiac output and left coronary artery flow increase 350 to 400% during moderately severe exercise.
The right amount of exercise should be given to any dog according to their age and stage of development. Puppies and senior Great Danes might not require much more exercise that adult dogs that are still at the peak of their development.
Interesting Ways To Exercise Your Great Dane
Here are some of the ways to exercise your Great Dane:
- Taking Your Great Dane On A Walk
- Running Up And Down The Stairs
- Playing Hide-and-Seek
- Running On A Treadmill
- Play Games Of Tug
- Going With Your Dog For A Cycle
- Playing Fetch
- Playing Dog Sports
If you are still wondering the best approach for exercising your dog, here is a great video and a complete guide on Great Dane exercise:
Benefits Of Great Dane Exercise
There are multiple benefits of exercise for Great Danes. Exercise helps your dog to stay in shape and also burn off some of the extra calories or energy that is not being used by their body. Burning extra calories is a good remedy for reducing the risks of Great Dane obesity and other health problems that can significantly reduce the lifespan of your Great Dane.
However, you should bear in mind that an overweight or obese dog should never be suddenly over-exercised; instead he should be allowed to increase exercise slowly.
Here are some of the benefits of exercise to your Great Dane:
- Helps to control weight and reduce the risks of obesity.
- Helps to reduce the risks of heart disease.
- Helps your Great Dane to manage blood sugar and insulin levels if they are diabetic.
- Helps to keep your dog’s thinking and learning skills shar as they age.
There are obviously many benefits of exercise for Great Danes but the bottom line is that it helps your dog to stay in shape. Combining a good diet and exercise program for your Great Dane is an excellent foundation for helping the dog to maintain good health.
Can Great Danes Run With You?
Yes, Great Danes can definitely run with your when they are older. Puppies should not be subjected to strenuous exercise like running since it can damage their joints and cause some orthopedic problems as they grow. The same is also true for senior Great Danes, it is not a good idea to take a senior dog on runs or subject them to similar strenuous exercises.
Do Great Danes Like To Walk?
Great Danes have a good stamina so they are not really uncomfortable with long walks. If you choose to walk with your dog, just remember to observe any signs of fatigue or excessive panting so that you can allow them to rest when it is necessary.
How Often Should Great Danes Be Walked?
Great Danes generally require moderately long walks once per day. The walk can last for 30 to 60 minutes but it is important to plan the walk daily. Experts recommend daily walks for Great Danes since they offer mental stimulation, socialization and fitness for your dog.

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Made to fit most standard taps and hoses and providing a strong, watertight connection, this hose gun starter kit is made for easy use and effortless watering. The hose connectors are universal to ensure fast and easy exchange of nozzles and fittings with most watering systems.
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I would do 9/16. This will give a little more than 75% threads.
75% threads are for bolts and stuff, and made for high-speed tapping.
I just ran some with the 37/64 drill, and I got a full or very nearly full thread form. If it's not complete, it's within .005" on the diameter of complete. I'm looking at a flat on the top of the thread of about .006" and I would guess it's probably what? .004" at 100% thread?
This is with my eye, but I can't have more than .010" flat on the ID thread, and it looks a lot closer to .005"
It threaded to my Tornado threaded bolt gun nice and snug.
I was using a split point titanium coated HSS bit. American made. The import s--t probably cuts .005-.010" oversize, something to look out for.
You know what actually, I know the reason why- the chart is calling out 5/8-18 threads. The 5/8-24 thread is a finer thread, IE larger hole size, so the 75% drill for a 18 pitch is more like a 85-95% drill for a 24 pitch I believe.
It took me a while to remember. It's been a while since I bought the bit.


Oracle Offers New Autonomous Database
Oracle Corp. announces its new autonomous database technology that will cost customers less than half what Amazon charges for Redshift, a similar service.
In his first keynote of Oracle's annual user conference, the executive chairman announced a new autonomous database that can patch itself from cybersecurity flaws without having to go offline.
The automated database, called Oracle 18c, can instantly patch itself while still running, which Ellison says is a big advantage over the current system, in which humans have to schedule downtime for a database.
“This is the most important thing we have done in a long, long time,” he said. “If you eliminate human labor, you eliminate human error. By the way, it’s always embarrassing for me to admit this, but my autopilot flies my plane a lot better than I do.”
Amazon’s Redshift also offers near perfect reliability, although Ellison argued that 18c is better because the e-commerce giant’s figures exclude downtime for adding computing or storage capacity, planned maintenance, upgrades and patching, regional outages and software bugs.
"It didn't work at Equifax," Ellison said, in reference to the consumer credit reporting company that announced a major security breach in early September.
"It doesn't work. We have to automate our cyber defenses. And you have to be able to defend yourselves without taking all of your computer systems offline or shutting down your databases," Ellison said.
At the core of this new database machine learning, which Ellison said will always tune itself without human intervention.
"There is no pilot error anymore, because there is no pilot," Ellison said. "Therefore, we can guarantee an availability time of 99.95%. That's less than 30 minutes a year of planned or unplanned downtime."
Ellison also claimed that Oracle's new database is more elastic than Redshift, which means it can quickly adapt to workloads without wasting resources in the process.
"Amazon's database, Redshift, cannot automatically increase the number of processors to run a bigger workload and then free up those processors. It just can't do it," Ellison said.
Oracle, which is known for enclosing its product strategy around competitive threats, also guaranteed that customers will pay much less for 18c when it is launched in December.
“You take a Redshift Amazon database workload that’s already running at Amazon and you move it to the Oracle autonomous database and we will guarantee in writing, contractually, before looking at the workload, that any of those Redshift workloads will move to Oracle and your bill will be one half or less than what Amazon charges you,” Ellison said. “We will write that in your contract.”


text: Expansion Set to the Zombies!!! is an all event card expansion for the hugely popular Zombies!!! boardgame. These cards are designed to be used in conjunction with any Zombies!!! game or players may use the new deck construction rules included with this set to build customized community or individual player decks. 50 new event cards (2 x 25) rules for building custom event decks Expansion for the Zombies!!! board game (where Players take on the role of a survivor amid city streets sprawling with Zombies).

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Possibly the most daring piece of modern science is the attempt to predict the patterns that galaxies make in the sky. The bold starting point is a statement on what the universe was like at a time when the entire visible universe was compressed into something like the size of a beach ball. That idea takes some getting used to. For starters, the notion that the entire visible universe could even fit into something so small as a beach ball is little short of mind-blowing: there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the visible universe, our Milky Way being just one of them, and each galaxy typically contains several hundred billion stars. Squeezing all that into a beach ball is testament to the fact that the substantial matter of our everyday experience is, in fact, largely empty space.
Once we have a prediction for how the beach ball universe looked, we can use the equations of physics to run the clock forward to the present day. By comparing with the astronomical observations, we can test the model … and it works: the way that galaxies clump together into large-scale structures is precisely as anticipated. By itself, that would be impressive enough, but there is another source of information that allows for a second test.
The Earth is bathed in radio waves that were produced when the visible universe was around a thousand times smaller than it is today. At that time, the universe underwent a crucial change: it went from being opaque to transparent. Specifically, it had cooled sufficiently for the electrons and protons to pair up and make atoms of hydrogen. Prior to this, particles of light could not travel very far before colliding with the electrically charged electrons and protons. After it, the electrically neutral hydrogen provided an environment through which the light could pass unhindered.
The evidence that this is what happened would be the observation that the Earth is bathed by light that has been streaming through a transparent universe ever since this critical epoch. That light was first detected, in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in the form of radio waves impinging on a 6m-wide, horn-shaped antenna in New Jersey. Their observation was evidence in support of the idea that the universe was, at some time in the distant past, hot enough to prevent hydrogen from forming, which was a prediction of the "hot big bang" theory.
Since then, this "cosmic microwave background radiation" has been the subject of considerable investigation and, towards the end of last month, the most precise measurements to date were presented by the Planck collaboration of several hundred astronomers and cosmologists from around the world, including from several UK institutions. Together, they have analysed the latest tranche of data collected by the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, which was launched on the Ariane 5 rocket in 2009. The results are stunning and include precise measurements of the matter content of the universe and a tweak to the best estimate for its age. For now at least, the standard model of cosmology, which describes a universe made up of ordinary and dark matter evolving according to the equations of gravity formulated originally by Einstein, including a mysterious cosmological constant term, is in excellent shape.
Buried in the Planck data is the all-important information on what the nascent beach ball universe was like. The light bathing the Earth is very nearly the same in all directions. This means that it can be characterised, to a good degree of accuracy, by a single temperature: a chilly 2.7 degrees above absolute zero. This temperature is determined by that of the electron-proton plasma at the time when the universe made its transition from opaque to transparent. Crucially though, the plasma was not exactly the same everywhere; some regions were slightly hotter and more dense than others.
Through the action of gravity, matter was drawn into the more dense regions, which therefore grew in size, eventually forming the galaxies we see around us. These initially tiny differences from a perfectly uniform universe also induced fluctuations in the characteristic temperature of the background radiation measured by Planck, which means that the light arriving from different directions does not have exactly the same temperature. The precise mapping of these deviations across the sky is what makes Planck such an important tool to explore the physics of the very early universe. The challenge now is to understand what caused some regions to be slightly hotter or slightly cooler than others.
The best idea we have to explain these deviations from perfect uniformity (and hence the large-scale structure in the universe) involves contemplating what the universe looked like when it was even smaller than a beach ball. The idea, first described in the 1980s, is that the universe underwent a very rapid period of expansion, inflating a region very much smaller than that of an atom to the size of a beach ball in a time very much shorter than the blink of an eye. This behaviour is anticipated in many theories of particle physics, where it relies upon the existence of something called the "inflaton field". We can think of this as something that pervades the universe, acting as a reservoir of energy that drives the rapid expansion. We do not know much about the inflaton field (or fields) yet, but we do know that the laws of quantum physics imply that it must fluctuate from place to place. Crucially, these irrepressible fluctuations provide a natural explanation for the temperature fluctuations observed by Planck.
The Planck data are starting to have an impact in ruling out some variants of the inflationary theory. Future data will help us in our quest to uncover the precise mechanism behind early universe inflation. It is thrilling that through observations of the universe at the largest distances, we are, at the same time, gaining new insights into the behaviour of the universe at the very smallest distances.


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Busting 3 Myths About The Video Game Industry
The video gaming industry is the biggest entertainment industry on the planet. It brings in more revenue than Hollywood, and games consoles or computers have become an essential part of many households. For this reason, it’s important to consider its effects not only on business, but on culture.
It’s strange then, how the culture of thinking video gaming is ‘for nerds’ persists. Even if it were, ‘nerdism’ has translated into popular culture in a big way. The highest-grossing movies involve comic book characters. Video game movies come to the big screen featuring A-List actors. For this reason, it’s important to think about the video games industry, and what myths still persist. This can help you gain a clearer picture either as a professional entity or a curious person. It may also help you relate to this growing industry that seems to show absolutely no signs of stopping.
In this post, we’ll help you regard the industry with more clarity, while also encouraging you to define your tastes and interest in it:
Myth 1: Games Only Come On Consoles
The most public releases of game consoles like the Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo devices we most often see can lead you to think that these are the only options for playing games. Not so, premium gaming laptops can be used to play the best AAA games if necessary, while indie titles can often function on a range of devices. Games don’t only come on consoles, as there’s a whole other range of excellent and immediately accessible games available on PC, that can run on a range of platforms. Just make sure you check the recommended technical specifications before you buy.
Myth 2: Expensive Studios Provide The Best Content
Indie studios are far and above leading the way in terms of innovation and pushing forward ideas that are interesting or risky. Games like Celeste have perfected the platforming formula in 2d while also serving an amazing story that makes sense. No matter what you’re looking for, from a strong story, to beautiful art, to puzzle-like mechanics that make you think and give you a reason to sit back and think laterally, don’t be afraid to purchase cheaper games from small studios.
Myth 3: Games Are For Younger People
While some games are designed to appeal to a younger audience, there are many mature games out there that explore mature themes. For instance, adventures games exploring trauma, or games that discuss identity are out there and being made by creative people willing to take a chance on narrative framing devices or technical challenges that only an adult would be able to interact with. This has taken the medium from serving as more than mere ‘toys’ and instead provides you with entertainment you can think about. But if you enjoy playing Mario, that’s more than a good choice too.
With this advice, we hope you can enjoy the gaming industry on your own terms.

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The experience we had with Shari is something I recommend to every single pregnant mother.
This was our first child and not knowing anything of what to expect, how to handle contractions, when to go to the hospital, or other questions we had about our birth, we decided to hire Shari. Many people I know who anticipate on having a natural child birth with extreme success all had doulas so we figured we would do the same.
Shari met with us a couple times to get to know our personalities and educated us about what to expect and what the birthing process should be like.
In one Midwifery appointment we had an extremely negative experience, we called Shari, and within 1 hour she had us at another doctor office for a second opinion.
Once the birth process began she met us at the hospital and stayed by our side giving us the ultimate experience. We checked in to the hospital at 6:00 PM and by 11:25 PM the baby came out. Shari guided us along the whole way and during contractions she was helping with breathing instructions, how to deal with contracions, and guiding us on when is the right time to move from shower to bath to bed.
The whole experience was 5 star and Shari is a true class act who can help any pregnant mom have the birth experience they want.
She came over a week after the baby was born for some pointers and tips on breastfeeding, swaddling, and other techniques to help make the first couple months much easier.
You can see the passion within Shari's eyes and heart, and there is nobody else I would recommend than Shari Aizenman.
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Determination of the subcriticality level using the Cf-252 source-detector method
Journal article, 2010
Measurement and monitoring of reactivity in a subcritical state, e.g. during the loading of a power reactor, has a clear safety relevance. The methods currently available for the measurement of k(eff) in stationary subcritical conditions should be improved as they refer to the critical state. This is also very important in the framework of ADS (accelerator driven systems) where the measurement of a subcritical level without knowledge of the critical state is looked for. An alternative way to achieve this is by mean of the Cf-252 source-detector method. The method makes use of three detectors inserted in the reactor: two "ordinary" neutron detectors and one Cf-252 source-detector which contains a small amount of Cf-252 that introduces neutrons in the system through spontaneous fission. By observing fissions through the detection system and correlating the signals of the three detectors, the reactivity rho (and hence the multiplication factor k) can be determined. Before the actual measurements took place, a suitable data acquisition system was realized in order to process the signals and compute the auto and cross power spectral densities. The measurements were then performed in the VENUS reactor, using the Cf-252 source-detector and two BF3 neutron detectors. The multiplication factor was determined using the Cf source method and compared with measurements using other methods and with computational results (Monte Carlo simulations). The Cf method was benchmarked at a UOX core to other experimental methods that used the critical state as reference and to calculations. Afterwards, the Cf source technique was analyzed in a MOX core to study the possible impact of a significant intrinsic source on the results. This benchmarking gives the possibility to validate the Cf method as a reliable technique for the measurement of subcritical levels in steady state and for cores with an intrinsic source like MOX or burnt fuel cores. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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The Senate voted 96-0 to confirm the nomination of Sylvia BurwellSylvia Mathews BurwellOvernight Healthcare: GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing condition bill ObamaCare enrollment hits 11.5M for 2017 Obama, Dems eyeing strategy to defend ObamaCare MORE to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The vote Wednesday means that Burwell will officially replace Jacob Lew, who resigned from the OMB post to serve as Secretary of the Treasury earlier this year.
President Obama hailed the unanimous confirmation vote and said Burwell will be instrumental in turning off the spending cuts from sequestration that have been blamed this week for long delays at airports.
"Sylvia has spent a career fighting for working families, and she was part of an OMB team that presided over three budget surpluses in a row. Her experience will be especially important as we continue our efforts to replace the indiscriminate budget cuts that are already starting to cost jobs, hurt families, and inconvenience Americans," Obama said.
“[Burwell] knows budgets are a reflection of our values and priorities,” Murray said ahead of the vote Wednesday. “She knows that working to find common ground is key to solving our country's economic challenges.”
The Budget Committee cleared Burwell’s nomination with unanimous support this month.
Prior to her nomination, Burwell served as president of the Walmart Foundation and before that was president of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She also worked as deputy White House budget director during the Clinton administration.
Sen. Joe ManchinJoe ManchinPruitt sworn in as EPA chief EPA breaks Twitter silence to congratulate new head Dem senator: I may face 2018 primary from Tea Party-esque progressives MORE (D-W.Va.) said he supported Burwell’s nomination not just because she was from his home state, but because she embodies what’s great about America.
“She’s spent most of her life trying to help American families achieve the American dream,” Manchin said.
The Senate also confirmed the judicial nomination of Jane Kelly to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit. She was confirmed on an 96-0 vote Wednesday afternoon.
“She is well regarded in my home state of Iowa,” Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck GrassleyChuck GrassleyFlynn told FBI he didn't talk sanctions with Russian envoy: report Gorsuch hearing date set for March 20 Judiciary Committee wants briefing, documents on Flynn resignation MORE (R-Iowa) said. “So I’m pleased to support the nomination of Ms. Kelly.”
Sen. Tom HarkinTom HarkinGrassley challenger no stranger to defying odds Clinton ally stands between Sanders and chairmanship dream Do candidates care about our health or just how much it costs? MORE (D-Iowa) said Kelly has the qualifications necessary to perform the duties of an appellate court judge because she has a “deep sense of compassion and fairness.”
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Former New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate has found a way to keep his name news.
The deposed Queens senator is still using his state-issued parking placard, according to reports -- a placard he should have returned six months ago when he was expelled by from the state senate.
Recently, the New York Postspotted his silver Honda outside his campaign office. The car was parked legally in front of his Queens campaign headquarters where he is currently overseeing his run for State Assembly. The Post noted the vehicle still was still using the official parking placard.
And officials say they've been trying to get the free pass back.
Officials have even reportedly considered handing over the matter to the New York State Police.
The placard is distributed by the Senate but is officially issued by the New York State Office of Homeland Security. It allows the former senator to park in metered spaces without paying, and in no-standing zones. The permit does not expire until February of next year.
All Senate staffers are required to return the parking perks upon leaving Albany, Senate spokesman Austin Shafran said.
"We'd like to give him every opportunity to return the placards, but that's an option that may be considered if it's not returned," said Shafran.
Monserrate's people couldn't explain their boss' behavior.
"I really don't know why," Mike Nieves Monserrate's campaign spokesman told the Post.
Nieves also emphasized that the placard is legal and that he could not reach the candidate to get an answer as to why he is still using the placard.


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The latest small business haven: Loudoun County
New lending data suggests Loudoun County has emerged as a major growth area for small businesses.
The data, which track commercial loans of less than $1 million and the jurisdiction in which they were made, show that Loudon's loan growth blew by every other major county in Greater Washington last year, with the number of loans granted up 20 percent to 7,311 and the amount lent up 27 percent to $290 million.
Even in actual dollars, Loudoun's growth far outpaced that of Fairfax and Montgomery counties — which each have more than three times as many small businesses as Loudon, according to 2011 Census estimates.
I pulled the lending figures out of recently published reports from the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. The data, which all banks with at least $1 billion in assets must report as part of the Community Reinvestment Act, include commercial credit card loans.
Why do Loudon small businesses seem to be having better luck capitalizing on the economic recovery than others? It didn't happen by accident.
"We have made a real concerted effort to bolster the infrastructure on which entrepreneurs can start and grow," says Buddy Rizer, acting director of the Loudoun County Department of Economic Development, pointing to efforts to help businesses improve their odds of getting a bank loan.
How much of this is driven by the massive influx of residential developments, and all the construction, retail and services jobs created to serve the new residents?
"That's a small part of the story," Rizer told me. "The real story is that 29 percent of our workforce — which is an extremely high number — works in the tech field."
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One of the reasons Menotti must have found the city of Charleston attractive for a festival setting was not only its faded elegance but the number of workable theatres that he could find within the historic district’s intimate confines. One was Memminger Auditorium, which on the outside maintains a Greek Revival dignity but which on the inside (as the photo from the current production of Anthony Davis’s opera “Amistad” shows) has been radically renovated, since the building was seriously damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
With provisional permission from the city, performances of Heiner Goebbels’s riveting performance piece “Surrogate Cities” were held there in 2000; the piece darkly benefited from the theatre’s extremely “distressed” state. But this year the auditorium has reopened for more flexible use; it mixes a stark, black-box functionality with gracious but odd reminders of the city’s architectural past (like the bannistered walkway suspended from the ceiling). During the day, the space is sliced in half by a wood-panelled wall for chamber-music performances, featuring such eminent musicians as the tenor Paul Groves, the pianist Stephen Prutsman, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet; in the air-conditioned space the performances are crisp and vibrant, having none of the ruminative quality that outdoor humidity can enforce upon musicians.
At night an oval stage is thrust into the middle of the hall, and the place belongs to “Amistad,” which Spoleto revived on condition that Davis revise it and trim it down in duration and orchestration. (The piece received mixed reviews at its premiere at Chicago Lyric Opera in 1997). “Amistad” is based on the same historical tale as the Steven Spielberg movie: a group of West Africans abducted into slavery revolt against the crew of the Spanish schooner Amistad, only to face trial in New England after the ship runs aground. (They win their case, and return to Africa.)
I find Davis’s music an effective vehicle for drama, but not so dramatic in itself. Some gestures effectively recall Ives (like a hymn tune sung bitonally by two converging choirs) or Adams, but the rhythmically incisive jazz-influenced parts (Davis is a fine jazz pianist) tend to wade for minutes on end in the same harmonic pools. But this is still an effective evening in the theatre: Thulani Davis’s libretto provides revealing contrasts not only between black and white characters but between the mere mortals and the African deities who hover over the scene, all helped by Sam Helfrich’s deft direction, which places this mythic story within a jarring contemporary context. Emmanuel Villaume conducts with style; Gregg Baker lends his columnar baritone and powerful physical presence to the role of Cinque, the leader of the Africans’ revolt. Performances run through June 7; a handful of tickets are still available. (Photo by William Struhs.)—Russell Platt


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Guns N’ Roses have shared some pro-shot footage from their November 20, 2016 show at Estádio Mané Garrincha in Brasília, Brazil. The 36-minute video was released as part of the band’s “Not In This Lifetime Selects” series and it features the following tracks:
01. “It’s So Easy”
02. “Welcome To The Jungle”
04. “Rocket Queen”
05. “Used To Love Her”
Guns N’ Roses have postponed their European/UK tour to 2022. Gary Clark Jr. will serve as support.
06/04 Lisbon, POR – Passeio Maritimo de Algés
06/07 Seville, SPA – Estadio Benito Villamarin
06/11 Solvesborg, SWE – Sweden Rocks (no Gary Clark Jr.)
06/15 Stavanger, NOR – Forus Travbane (with Turbonegro)
06/18 Prague, CZE – Letnany Airport
06/20 Warsaw, POL – PGE Narodowy
06/23 Groningen, NET – Stadspark
06/28 Dublin, IRE – Marlay Park
07/01 London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
07/02 London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
07/05 Glasgow, UK – Glasgow Green
07/08 Munich, GER – Olympiastadion
07/10 Milan, ITA – San Siro Stadium
Members of Foo Fighters, Ghost, Korn, KISS, 311, and more have contributed signed items to a silent auction in an effort to raise money for Roadie Relief. The auction will run through April 14 at 32auctions.com.
Here’s the various items up for auction:
01. Tommy Thayer (KISS) personally signed signature series Epiphone Les Paul.
02. Phil X (Bon Jovi) signed Gibson Les Paul Jr.
03. Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) piano black Gretsch Drum kit he used at Wembley Stadium in 2008 with All Access laminate from the show.
04. Papa Emeritus IV (Ghost) signed Hagstrom Phantom guitar.
05. A 30 min one on one Zoom with PNUT of 311.
06. 5 different Faith No More bundles that have signed poster, guitar pics and after show pass.
07. Brad Wilk (Rage Against The Machine) signed cymbal (used at last Rage show).
08. 2 – 311 band signed posters.
09. Queen + Adam Lambert signed show poster from their last show plus a pair of Roger Taylor’s drum sticks.
10. Ray Luzier (Korn) signed snare drum (his signature series custom hard shell snare case also signed by him).
11. Metallica bundle including show poster, pair of Lars Ulrich’s used drum Sticks, and one of Lars’s custom snare drum Heads
12. Live performance photographs from shows including: Lemmy (Motörhead), Ozzy Osbourne, Keith Flint (Prodigy), Axl Rose (Guns N’ Roses), Cardinal Copia (Ghost), and Tom Petty.
13. 311 signed skate deck.
14. Artist Thomas Estrada donated custom art commission to winning bidder.
15. Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) signed custom guitar pedal + guitar pics.
16. Avenged Sevenfold signed record.
17. Several concert collectors posters: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden (and more to come).
18. Darkglass Electronics 500 v1 bass amp
19. Aric Improta (Fever 333) custom art work drum head signed by him
20. Ray Luzier (Korn) signed drum head and pair of sticks
21. Foo Fighters Bundle – Taylor Hawkins’ sticks, Dave Grohl’s sweat band and guitar pic and 2 all access laminates.
22. Custom hand made guitar used on episodes of Couch Riffs.
Gerri Miller has sadly passed away following a battle with cancer. The journalist served as the editor for Metal Edge and also contributed to many other outlets such as People, Glamour, Muscle & Fitness, etc. A number of rock/metal artists have taken to social media to pay tribute to Miller:
“Sad to hear of the passing of Gerri Miller. RIP. She was a true believer in so many bands during her time at Metal Edge as writer and editor. My condolences to her family & friends.” pic.twitter.com/r78457ujfB
Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose will be appearing as an animated version of himself in a new episode of “Scooby-Doo And Guess Who?.” The episode will premiere on February 25 at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST on Boomerang. A trailer can be found over at Rolling Stone. A synopsis can also be read below:
“When Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby take a road trip down historic Route 66, they encounter a mysterious group of mud men who steal the Mystery Machine. While stranded in the desert, they check out an abandoned diner ‘to see if they have Wi-Fi inside’ — Daphne’s priorities — where they discover Axl, who turns out to already be buddies with Shaggy and Scooby. As the gang dives deeper into the case, each member begins to disappear, and it’s eventually up to Shaggy, Scooby, and Axl to find their friends and solve the mystery.”
Members of Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Slipknot, Rage Against The Machine, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, and more are set to appear in a new documentary titled “Long Live Rock…Celebrate The Chaos.” The film, which offers “a deep dive into the culture of hard rock music,” was directed by Jonathan McHugh and it will receive a global premiere on March 11. More details can be found HERE. McHugh commented:
“Gary Spivack and I wanted to make a film celebrating the chaos of rock culture. Growing up in New York City, I would do whatever it took to get in to see bands like Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and other rock icons. We are so proud to shine a light on the most passionate fans in the world and the music that drives them.”
During his performance for the “Bud Light Seltzer Sessions Presents: New Years Eve 2021” livestream event, Post Malone performed covers of Alice in Chains’ “Rooster” and Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” with drummer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), producer/guitarist Andrew Watt, and bassist Chris Chaney (Jane’s Addiction). The group were also joined onstage by guitarist Slash (Guns N’ Roses) during “War Pigs.” You can see footage of all that at the 2:11:11 mark in the below video:
Guns N’ Roses have shared some pro-shot footage from their set at the 2019 Exit 111 festival in Manchester, Tennessee. The 32-minute video was released as part of the band’s “Not In This Lifetime Selects” series and it features the following tracks:
01. “Live And Let Die” (Wings cover)
02. “Shadow Of Your Love”
03. “Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden cover)
04. “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” (Bob Dylan cover)
05. “Paradise City”
During a recent interview with Cleveland.com, Slash confirmed that he has been working on new material with Guns N’ Roses and Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators. The guitarist said that fans may get music from both bands in 2021.
Slash said the following when asked about a new Conspirators album:
“We did a week of initial pre-production and there’s 20 songs and we’re gonna start back up next year. I spent a lot of time writing and demoing that stuff. And prior to that Duff [McKagan] and I did some jamming and we also worked on the Guns record, and I’ve had a couple of ancillary recordings and jams on top of that, so there’s been a lot of stuff going on. I’m really not good at slowing down and just sitting around.”
He also added the following when asked about release plans:
“I would like to think that we’d have some new stuff out next year — from both camps, I guess. It’s hard to say, but I would like to think we’ll have stuff out next year, yeah.”
Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses), Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees), Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters), Jefferson Angell (Walking Papers), Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse) and more recently covered “Highwayman” for KEXP’s 2020 SMooCH benefit for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. You can check that out in the below video at the 53:40 mark. The track was written by Jimmy Webb in 1977, before being covered by Glen Campbell in 1979 and The Highwaymen in 1985. The latter was a supergroup featuring Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson.


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We sit in what had once been chairs. They are still chairs, technically, but they are really old now, and I like to complain. We sit huddled together, emitting one mass unnamable stench: cologne? Sweat? Urine? It is impossible to tell. Stalls line the perimeter. The lights flicker, and beneath them stare blank eyes. They watch us like spectators, slowly they call out numbers: 75, 76, 77. I look down, I’m number 188.
Every now and then someone will miss their number, miss their chance, and be forced to take a new tab from the little machine by the door—curiously guarded by a rent-a-cop. We watch them fall, condemned to another day of mindless waiting—and all I can think is: thank God it wasn’t me. There’s a palpable sense of yearning, for time to speed up, for a better system, for breakfast tacos.
79,80,81. We learn how to sit close to one another without touching. We learn how to avoid the homeless woman in the corner yelling obscenities, and that weird yellow puddle in the middle of the floor. As the numbers tick past we look at one another and wonder if there’s enough time to go to the hall and get a Sprite from the vending machine. Too risky.
Sometimes we listen to the conversations at the front. You’re missing your registration, your insurance isn’t current, or, worst of all, you can’t do that at this DMV. Eventually, we stop listening. The conversations are only a reminder of the futility, the inevitable end.
I watch the girl beside me. She’s nervous, her leg shakes like a meth addict’s, or someone on a juice cleanse. She clutches her license plate, her ID, every document she’s ever been given, and her will to live. Her name is Lyla. She doesn’t stand a chance. I watch as she walks to the counter, she hands over her number: 98. She smiles like we’ve been taught to do. She gives them each document one-by-one, but she’s missing something. She starts to panic; she doesn’t have her proof of title. There’s still some fight in her, I know there is. Maybe, I think, maybe somehow she’ll get through. You’ll have to come back, they tell her. She weeps quietly and turns to leave.
I wonder where she is now. She’s probably dead.
91,92,93. I fantasize about the outside world. I daydream about water fountains, about not sitting next to an obese man eating a tuna salad, about getting that wad of gum off my shoe. I imagine the smell of fresh air—I can barely remember the sensation. I can feel myself growing older, my bones weakening, my tongue suddenly preferring the taste of Werther’s Originals to more contemporary candies like Sour Patch Kids, or Air Heads.
We did this to ourselves, I think. We built this system—we are responsible for its treatment. If I make it out of here alive, I’ll be nicer to people. I’ll love harder, I’ll fight for the marginalized, I’ll start RSVPing in a timely manner. But I won’t make it out. I know that, just as everyone around me knows it too. We sit silently, clutching our little paper numbers, 94,95,96, listening to Muzak and wondering if Beyoncé has to put up with this shit.