Isuzu Philippines Corporation (IPC) exhibited its bread and butter last April 14 to 16 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City during the latest run of the annual Isuzu Truck Fest. Carrying the theme “Trucks for Life,” the brand’s commercial vehicles and trucks were put in the spotlight to showcase its diverse solutions for local businesses.
“One of the key ingredients in our partnership with our clients is the trust that has been forged through time, and which is emblazoned in every Isuzu vehicle,” said IPC president Hajime Koso. “Isuzu trucks are not merely figures in the company’s sales report, but are testaments to the security and assurance that they provide to customers. Isuzu is a responsible partner for life.”
As one of the Philippine market leaders in assembling and selling light, medium, and heavy duty haulers, Isuzu has been producing quality, durable, and reliable vehicles that are anchored on its pioneering diesel technology.
A total of 19 trucks were featured during the Truck Fest, led by the C-Series and E-Series models. Representing the C-Series were the CYH51S (GVW of 9.74 tons) dressed as a dump truck and CYZ51M (10.225 tons) donning a concrete mixer. For the E-Series, the EXR51F (GCM of 45 tons) and an EXZ51K (60 tons) in their bare, flatbed, and fuel tanker forms made an appearance.
Those who do not require that much muscle can take advantage of the light-duty N-Series trucks which were represented on the show floor by the NPR85, NPS, NHR NT, NHR MB i-Van, NQR dropside, and NQR aluminum van with a side door. Lastly, the medium-category saw a display composed of the F-Series FRR aluminum van and the FVM truck.
“There is nothing more valuable than the trust that our customers have put into our hands, and for this reason, we are continuously working hard to provide excellent products and services best suited to the demands of the Filipino market,” Koso added.


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Two colours, one look: Dornbracht’s iconic designs now available with two different finishes
Iserlohn, 24 October 2023
Classic fittings given a new bicolour look: From now, Dornbracht’s Meta and Vaia design series as well as the Tara lever variants can be furnished with two finishes. Handles and spout are given different colours that can be combined in any way. This ensures numerous options for individualisation – and creates a unique look.
Dornbracht offers a curated selection of expressive finishes that effortlessly assert themselves in different interiors. They can be presented in a variety of ways – whether in harmony with their surroundings or as a deliberate and expressive contrast. The new bicolour variants greatly enhance this wide range of designs in the bathroom. For Vaia and Meta, for example, the Dornbracht x-tra Service recommends combining the Dark Chrome and Brushed Dark Platinum finishes: a mix that proves to be as style-conscious as it is elegant. Furthermore, Tara with Matte Black levers accentuates the fine figure that is reminiscent of classical modernism and the Art Déco style – independent of the spout finish.

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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Albert Hurwit was the winner of the 2009 American Composer Competition.
The symphony, based on the composer's family history of persecution and immigration, has been recorded by the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra (with Klezmer Band) conducted by Michael Lankester.
"Strikingly beautiful...glorious and affecting main theme led by a solo violin soaring ever higher in even more luxuriant waves. The whirling energy [of Movement 4] conveys the anticipation and excitement of arrival in America...Lankester draws committed and sumptuous playing from the Bulgarian orchestra" GRAMOPHONE, SEPTEMBER 2005
"A moving and emotional world premiere...The symphony is written in a very direct style...which makes it all the more affecting and emotional in effect. The performance and sound could not be faulted. Let’s hope some American orchestras put Mr. Hurwit’s affecting symphony on their concert programs; I’m sure it would be well-accepted." AUDIOPHILE AUDITION, SEPTEMBER 2005
"A luminous score...'Remembrance' strikes universal chord...Hurwit shows considerable skill transforming his themes and using them cyclically to unify a large scale work" ATLANTA AUDIO SOCIETY, JUNE 2005


RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks, is a technology for keeping data on several hard disk drives that work together as a single logical unit. The drives could be physical or logical i.e. in the second case a single drive is divided into individual ones via virtualization software. In either case, the same info is stored on all the drives and the key benefit of using this type of a setup is that in case a drive fails, the data will remain available on the other ones. Employing a RAID also enhances the performance because the input and output operations will be spread among several drives. There are several kinds of RAID based on how many hard disks are used, whether writing is carried out on all the drives in real time or just on one, and how the information is synced between the hard drives - whether it is recorded in blocks on one drive after another or it is mirrored from one on the others. All of these factors indicate that the fault tolerance as well as the performance between the different RAID types can differ.
RAID in Web Hosting
The hard drives that we use for storage with our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform are not the standard HDDs, but super fast solid-state drives (SSD). They operate in RAID-Z - a special setup created for the ZFS file system that we use. All the content that you add to your web hosting
account will be stored on multiple drives and at least one of them will be employed as a parity disk. This is a special drive where an extra bit is included to any content copied on it. In case a disk in the RAID stops working, it'll be changed without service disturbances and the data will be rebuilt on the new drive by recalculating its bits using the data on the parity disk along with that on the other disks. This is done in order to guarantee the integrity of the info and together with the real-time checksum authentication which the ZFS file system performs on all drives, you'll never need to be concerned about the loss of any information no matter what.
RAID in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you host your sites within a semi-dedicated server
account from our company, any content which you upload will be held on SSD drives that work in RAID-Z. With this type of RAID, at least 1 of the hard drives is employed for parity - when data is synced between the disks, an additional bit is added to it on the parity one. The idea behind this is to ensure the integrity of the information that is duplicated to a new drive in the event that one of the disks in the RAID stops working since the site content being copied on the brand new disk is recalculated from the info on the standard drives and on the parity one. Another advantage of RAID-Z is the fact that even in case a drive stops working, the system can switch to a different one instantly without service disruptions of any type. RAID-Z adds an extra level of protection for the content you upload on our cloud web hosting platform together with the ZFS file system which uses unique checksums to validate the integrity of every single file.
RAID in VPS Servers
All VPS server
accounts which our company offers are generated on physical servers which employ SSD drives working in RAID. At least 1 drive is used for parity - one additional bit is included in the info cloned on it and if a main disk stops working, this bit makes it much easier to recalculate the bits of the files on the damaged disk drive so that the correct data is restored on the new drive added to the RAID. At the same time, your Internet sites will remain online since all the info will still load from at least 1 other disk drive. In the event that you add regular backups to your VPS package, a copy of the data will be saved on standard hard disks that also operate in RAID since we want to make sure that any sort of website content you upload will be protected all the time. Working with multiple hard disks in RAID for all of the main and backup servers allows us to offer fast and reliable hosting service.


A man who hit a vehicle and several garbage bins while trying to park turned out to be drunk, police say.
The 68-year-old RM of Whitewater man was arrested after someone reported his poor parking job in the back lane of the 200-block of 15th Street. Police say breath samples showed he was more than twice the legal limit.
He faces charges of impaired driving, driving over .08, driving while disqualified, and failing to leave particulars at the scene of a crash. He is to appear in Brandon court on Sept. 4.
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It is very important that you use the best apps for your iPhone. The apps should provide a good and unquestionable service. But it is pretty difficult to choose from a long list of Apps that is available in the app store. To be able to stuff your phone with good and useful apps, you must be sure about what kind of apps you really want on your phone.
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Best iOS Apps 2018
Here is a list of Apps that might help you to choose:
This app comes in handy when you have to often travel for work or if you are a person who loves traveling. It automatically sorts the trips, collates your flight or train reservations, cab bookings or any other travel details that might be available in your email account. After collecting all such data you can find that the app suggests recommendations and plans for your trips. You can also save the details locally to your iPhone and use it even when there is no Wi-Fi around or to avoid costly roaming rates.
Vue is a video editor which has been a lot more improved since it was first introduced. It will allow movies up to about three minutes. Those who are bent towards sharing short clips can make the most use of this app. The app can be wonderfully edited by stickers, filters and also subtitles along with adjustment sliders.
This is the much-needed app for all the iPhone users. As the name suggests, it is an app designed for transactions like sending or requesting money and also keeping the account details updated. You can add credit cards to the account without messing with the details.
It takes full advantage of the wide color gamut of the phones especially the latest ones like iPhone 7 or 7 plus. It is a storehouse of a wide variety of customizable filters and special effects to get more good pictures of the already fantastic camera quality that is present. It was developed to make full use of the power of the CPU and GPU of the Apple’s devices. It is thus considered as one of the most powerful editing tools on iOS.
It is a different kind of app with a totally fun based idea of working. It lets you set up what is called “YouTube parties”. You can invite your friends to a live Video chat session where you can watch all your synced videos together. It is indeed a fun and social way to watch the latest viral and trending videos.
It is a very useful and easy to comprehend business news app. The app offers you precise sized summaries and digests almost in the form of simple text messages. You can also click through to more detailed write-ups.
It is a cloud storage app in the Apple devices. Users get at least about 2GB for the online storage of their data. There is the option of file sharing so as to work collaboratively whenever required. It also has a photo scanner of its own for taking snaps and converting into PDFs.


A Survey of Water Use and Sustainability in the United States with a Focus on Power Generation — Electric Power Research Institute
This study presented an assessment of current and future water withdrawal requirements compared with water availability, resolved at the level of counties across the continental US. Various metrics characterizing water use are computed and mapped. These metrics represent, for example, water availability, the extent of water resources development, sustainable groundwater use, environmental constraints on withdrawal, projected growth in water demand and power generation, and growth in demand for stored water. Using these metrics of water use, two composite indices are proposed: a Water Supply Sustainability Index and a Thermoelectric Cooling Constraint Index. The first index identifies regions of the country where water sustainability concerns are likely to be most severe, and the second identifies regions where constraints on cooling water withdrawals for power generation are expected to be significant. Maps of these indices can be the basis for further study at more localized levels. One such case study is presented in this report, for the Phoenix area in Arizona. This case study reveals, in addition to the physical limits associated with water availability because of growing demands, the significance of limits imposed by the existing legal and institutional infrastructure. Overall, this study was a step towards developing a comprehensive assessment of the nation’s water resources, one that has not been conducted for the past twenty-five years, and towards evaluating the possible impacts of water supply limitations on thermoelectric power generation.


text: AT&T is looking to fill nearly 100 jobs in New England, including retail sales and manager positions in Connecticut. Those interested in applying for retail sales consultant or manager positions can go to an open house\/hiring event on Wednesday, Oct. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will be at the AT&T retail store in Trumbull Mall, located at 5065 Main Street in Trumbull. Walk-ins are welcome. Interested applicants can start the process online before the event by clicking here. This is just one way AT&T is investing in the region. AT&T is improving its wireless network in Connecticut. The company made more than 40 upgrades in 2014 and invested more than $750 million in its Connecticut networks from 2012-2014. AT&T jobs are among the best in the world. Full- and part-time positions include competitive wages and benefits. AT&T is committed to diversity and veteran recruiting. It has doubled its hiring goal for veterans and their family members to 10,000 over five years, consistent with its commitment to equal employment opportunities. Military veterans can learn more about careers at AT&T here. \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to welcoming more Connecticut residents to the AT&T family,\u201d said John Emra, president, AT&T Connecticut. \u201cThe hundreds already hired - and those soon to be hired - will help us continue to provide the high level of service our customers expect.\u201d For a list of available positions in Connecticut and to apply, visit connect.att.jobs\/Connecticut.

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MB01 - 65C816/65C02 Computer
This was my first attempt to build a small computer based on the 65XX series of microprocessor family.
In the project I attempted to provide a system based on some common blocks, such as the keyboard interface, so that they can be used
interchangeably with both the 65C816 and the 65C02.
Perhaps in the end it all came too complex, with some design errors, and with some parts that could be simplified or eliminated.
For example, the decision on using GAL, that I have in abundance, instead of more complex CPLD (such as the series Xilinix XC95XX),
not allowed to obtain a circuit leaner and smaller PCBs.
In some cases, the complexity was caused by information not entirely clear in the datasheet of the various electronic components,
for which in the design phase I searched for redundant solutions still have the guarantee of operation.
For example, in the project I put the logic required to insert wait cycles for access to certain chips
(such as the 82C37 DMA, or UM8388 FDC controller, or video controller MOS8563) which proved to be useless with a 4MHz clock.
In addition, having available a series of chips with DIP package I decided not to use SMD components and this also has an impact on the
final size of the various printed circuit boards.
However, will be the readers to judge the final result, well aware that the project can be improved from the point of view of a circuit,
and also at the assembly level.
The screen in the VGA monitor after boot.After the check of memory and IO subsystem, the BIOS detect ATA devices and the type of file system,
then launches the system monitor waiting command.
The screen in the VGA monitor after boot of the second computer.The character font is the standard font of PC in text mode (DOS).
The chosen solution, probably not optimal, was to design a system bus oriented of hybrid type: two parallel buses can accommodate cards in eurocard format,
a part for controlling the power supply system that uses a standard power supply of the PC, and a part of I/O devices capable of controlling the
video output, a standard keyboard PS2, the generation of wait cycles and the management of a system of vectored interrupt (eight levels).
This hybrid bus has been implemented in a mainboard (see description here)
which includes eight slots for housing I/O cards, and two of these slots are exclusively used by the serial card (with two RS232 ports and one RS485 port)
and the floppy disk controller. The serial card is based on a dual-acia R65C52P3 (3MHz) and the floppy disk controller is based on the chip UM8388 used
in the past in personal computers (obviously is able to manage a 1.44Mb floppy).
The FDC board also contains a DMA controller 82C37-5 (5MHz) and a 128Kb buffer RAM and controls the data transfer between the UM8388 and memory without CPU intervention.
An additional I/O slots in this mainboard is exclusively dedicated to the housing of a video card capable of driving a VGA monitor and video controller is based
on R6545EAP (or on a HD6545). The output of this card is digital RGBI and can therefore generate only text in 16 colors.
The video memory is 5 kB (2Kb buffer used by the characters, the attributes used 2Kb, 1Kb used by the color palette). The RAM is shared between the CRTC and the CPU,
and is of type dual-port static. On board there are two clock generators: one at 25.175MHz (standard VGA) and one at 16MHz to drive through a SCART a PAL/NTSC TV.
A small card contains a converter from digital RGBI to analog VGA/SCART.
In the mainboard there are a further six slots used in the following way: a slot for the CPU card, four slots for four modules of RAM (4MB each),
and a dedicated slot for the card that contains the flash memory and additional 2Mb of RAM to utilize as ram-disk (or other).
In the mainboard is also present a VDC MOS8563 used in the Commodore C128, able to drive (via the small card converter) a TV.The VGA-compatible video card was the last built,
so until that time I used the VDC 8563: now this has become useless.
The real time clock is based on the DS1687 (with internal oscillator), while to generate long intervals of time and to generate the beep-beep is used a counter 82C54
In the mainboard there are two interfaces to connect ATA hard disk or CF, but the transfer between the ATA bus and memory is handled by the CPU and not by the
DMA (the circuit would be very complicated to handle transfers to 16-bit bus ATA , but in the future I want to carry on a ATA interface with DMA).
The interface for the keyboard (standard PC keyboard with 5-pin DIN connector, the old type) is based on a PIC18F4420 microcontroller, which manages the serial
communication with the keyboard, converts those keys in ASCII or in control, and communicates with the CPU via an interrupt (IRQ or NMI).
To exchange data between the CPU and the PIC so fast I used the file register 74LS670 (or 74HCT670), and a simple communication protocol.
Some key combinations (such as CTRL + ALT + DEL) are intercepted by the PIC that generates a non-maskable interrupt to the CPU.
Two R65C22P4 and a WDC65C21 are present to handle various control lines (for example to set waiting cycles for access to I / O devices).
The interrupts are prioritized and vectorized to eight levels through the use of the classic encoder 74LS148 (or 74HC148) and a latch register which hold the vector
during the rising edge of PHI2.
To avoid timing problems, RDY line of the CPU is controlled by a totem-pole output and not an open-collector output.
In each I/O slot is a dedicated line RDY, and also in some mainboard chip involving the use of wait cycles (which later proved to be unnecessary),
so I simply connected in AND all the RDY lines of the various slot and I avoided the use of the wired-and configuration with passive pullup.
||Either 65C816 or 65C02 with PHI2 selectable at 4MHz or 2MHz (by dip-swith in cpu board)
||65C818: all linear address space filled with 16Mb
|65C02: 768Kb banked plus 128Kb for DMA
||65C818: 512Kb plus optional 512Kb
|65C02: 256Kb banked (8 banks of 32Kb)
||2Mb banked (256 banks) in a window of 8Kb
||64Kb with MOS8563 on-board
|5Kb with optional video board
||Two ATA port (data transfer in PIO-mode) for attach PATA hard-disk and/or Compact Flash (via adapter)
|One FDC port (virh DMA transfer) for attach standard PC floppy (DD/HD floppy)
||Standard PC keyboard old type (DIN connector) or PS/2 (miniDIN) via adapter
||Two RS232 port with full handshake (baude rate selectable from 50 to 38.400 bps)
|One RS485 port (baude rate selectable from 50 to 38.400 bps)
||PAL/NTSC compatible with MOS8563 on-board and SCART connector.
Video attributes: alternate font, reverse, blinking, underline, 16 foreground colors. Screen org.: 80 columns x 25 rows. Font: VGA 8x8
|VGA compatible with optional video board.
Video attributes: reverse, blinking, underline, 16 colors foreground/background (only 32 or 64 combination at time possible).
Screen org.: 80 columns x 25 rows. Font: VGA 8x16.
||Six free I/O slot eurocard standard
|Planning for the future
||A new FDC/ATA board with full DMA (either for FDC and ATA port)
|Board with standard printer port and floating point co-processor MC68882
|Audio board with SN76489
|Standard IEEE-488/GPIB board
|A standard PS2 mouse controller
In the coming days I update the site with a detailed description of various boards, and the programming model (memory maps, maps I/O).
At this time the computer has all the basic functions for video, ATA interface, keyboard, serial interface, interface for the floppy, and an small system monitor very simple.
In addition, I also implemented in software operations with integers up to 64 bits, and the four basic operations for floating-point numbers
(80 bits, with 64-bit mantissa, 19/20 significant digits). I was able to implement a function for formatting strings that works exactly (or almost) as the standard sprintf() function in C.
Now I'm developing the driver to handle the FAT file system (FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32) with support for long file names, and for the dynamic memory management
(in the style of the standard malloc() function in C).All this in assembly language for maximum system performance.
In the coming days I update the site with the software that I have developed so far.

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Here are the School Council reps for Sixth form..
.. and now an update on what they have been doing.
The sixth form council reps have been busy making plans to improve the sixth form centre and social area. Miss Mulholland has provided Art canvases and Mrs Jackson has asked the building supervisor to put this up in the space. Glenn Lucas secured movie posters for the social area and the team have agreed to work together to decorate the social area with these.
The team have decided to have a raffle to raise money to further improve the sixth form centre facilities. Prizes will include, a night for two at the Europa hotel, pamper packs from superdrug, itunes vouchers to name but a few. The raffle will be open to staff and pupils and the draw will take place on Friday 29th November.
The council reps will also be working with the organisation ‘Hope Harbour’ and will be appealing to the whole of sixth form to get together and gather items for their Xmas campaign for the homeless in Belfast. A small number of the team will also be volunteering with Hope Harbour in the evening to help feed the homeless community and give out sleeping bags in a couple of weeks’ time.

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Alleged renders of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro show a triple cam and in-display fingerprint
Unlike the Google Pixel 3 XL, the Mate 20 Pro hasn’t been subject to so many leaks and early previews. With that said, this is the first time we’re seeing full renders of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro and although we can’t confirm that these are 100% the real deal, we can check it against previous rumors.
The renders are in three different finishes: Blue, Black, and Twilight. All color options have black bezels, as per the industry standard these days. Of course, the most attractive one is the Twilight, which looks more like the recently announced Morpho Aurora color for the P20 Pro that was announced last month at IFA.
These renders coincide with a few previous rumors. For example, we see the dual curved on either side of the display like on Samsung’s Galaxy flagships. We also see the same triple cam setup arranged in a square, just as Huawei teased and as we saw in the renders of the alleged Huawei Freebuds 2 Pro. There is also no fingerprint scanner on this render, which could confirm the possibility of an in-display fingerprint scanner.
We’ve heard that the non-Pro Mate 20 may have a water-drop notch instead of a wide iPhone-like one, but considering that the Mate 20 Lite uses a “regular” notch. Despite the case render leaks, we don’t think this will be the case (pun intended). The same case renders suggest that the Mate 20 might have a fingerprint scanner and might feature the same square triple camera setup.
The new triple camera setup is believed to drop the monochrome sensor in favor of a wide-angle RGB sensor so in addition to doing up to 5X zoom, you may also be able to switch between a standard and wide-angle camera - allegedly, of course.
The Mate 20 Pro will be the first device to use Huawei’s new HiSilicon Kirin 980 CPU, Huawei’s first CPU with the 7nm process. Aside from that, not too much more is known about the Mate 20 Pro. Well, there are a few camera features (underwater mode) that were uncovered, as well as the possible resolutions of both devices' displays. There is also the possibility of a battery larger than 4,000 mAh.
All will be revealed on October 16 at Huawei’s launch event in London.
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the back most ugly phone?
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How bout that rumored 116 dxomark score for the M20 Pro.Loving it . Huawei take my money
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for some reasons huawei phones make him upset...we should leave him alone.


Director Justin Kurzel is looking to transfer the star power that Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard infused into his fantastic version of Macbeth into a far more recent legend. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed was the answer to the modern gamer’s prayers in 2007, blending the flawless detail of entire cities in the Holy Land with parkour style gameplay and hidden blade action.
However, in this intriguing first look we see the present incarnation of assassin Callum Lynch (Fassbender) experiencing his first foray into past life regression – by taking on the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody was expecting that!
Hopefully Assassin’s Creed will manage to circumvent the pitfalls of so many other video game adaptations (cf Prince of Persia) by appeasing fans of the franchise while simultaneously offering something for the uninitiated. There’s certainly something very attractive about this trailer, which shows Lynch forcefully inserted into the body of his assassin ancestor to take on some 15th-century heathens.
The soaring visuals, impressive free running action and use of Kanye West’s ‘I Am A God’ sets just the right tone. But unlike in the game, not all judgement can be avoided by hiding in the hay.
**Update: 18 October, 2016**
20th Century Fox have just released a killer new trailer. Watch it below and let us know what you think @LWLies
Assassin’s Creed hits cinemas 1 January, 2017.
Published 12 May 2016
Steven Soderbergh rallies together another strong A-list ensemble, but the result is surprisingly lacklustre.
The gap between movies and video games is closing. But what will happen when the viewer has control over the script?


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The “Jolly,” as it is familiarly and affectionately known, is back, and Pine Island could not be more thrilled.
Legendary Onion farmer Vincent Kosuga, who had created controversy by buying and selling onion futures in the 1950s, opened the original Jolly Onion Inn in 1961. Two owners followed Kosuga. The restaurant/banquet hall had been a popular place for Orange County residents to eat, but it was a special focal point for the Black Dirt region—a place where locals went to celebrate weddings, to talk business, to listen (and dance) to polka king Jimmy Sturr and other entertainment. In 2008, however, the restaurant was buffeted by the recession and was forced to close.
It took 10 years to find a new management team with restaurant experience and the finances for the November 2018 re-opening.
After the restaurant went out of business, William Brown, owner of Lowland Farms, acquired the building and became a financial partner of the restaurant. Tom Mastrantoni, whose family owned the Roccoroma food market in Goshen, became the director and another partner. Armand Vanderstigchel, a Dutch native who has written about Adirondack cuisine, joined as chef and co-owner. A fourth partner is handling the bar.
“The Jolly Onion Inn has been a treasured landmark in Pine Island for decades,” says Pine Island Chamber of Commerce Vice President Janet Zimmerman. “It’s been sorely missed. Our neighbors have been looking forward to a new Jolly Onion Inn for years, and they are just ecstatic that it’s happened.”
Vanderstigchel’s menu accents central European cuisine—German Jagerschnitzel, Polish pierogies and Dutch bitterballen (meatballs). “Our onion soup is becoming quite famous,” Vanderstigchel says. “We make 180 gallons a week.”
“Given our experience in our first few months, I’m confident that the restaurant will be a success,” Brown says. “We have tremendous support locally, and Pine Island—in the heart of the Black Dirt region—is an increasingly attractive destination for people from the city and suburbs who want to get out to the country or farm area.”
The Jolly Onion
625 Glenwood Rd, Pine Island
(845) 981-7272; thejollyonion.com

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Hey everyone! The month of May is Mental Health Awareness month so of course we had to take this opportunity to talk about that. Post graduation depression is REAL and enough people aren't talking about that reality, so today I'm going to give a few tips on how to stay mentally healthy.
After you graduate and enter into the "adult world", it's very easy to get overwhelmed. You're starting a new job (or going to graduate school), you're probably moving, being financially responsible for yourself, and just overall adjusting to all of the new responsibilities that come with being a grown up. You also probably are seeing other people doing "well" or "better than you are" and that can be frustrating to watch. But I am here to tell you that things are NOT a race! Everyone's journey is different and you cannot compare yourself to your peers, that does way more harm than good. So here are some of my tips on keeping your mental health in check.
Self Reflection/Goal Setting
Growth does not happen overnight and in order to get to where you want to go, you have to reflect on what you're already doing. Check in with yourself and make sure you're doing the thing that you love, that you're actively working towards your goals, and that you're staying true to yourself. These are all extremely important things because if you're allowing other people to influence your decisions, or are settling on your goals then you won't be happy. There will be no real motivation to better your situation because it's not even something you wanted to do in the first place. Constant self assessments can help you realign, recoup, and rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit so you're always working at your full potential.
Find an outlet
I cannot stress enough how important this one is. Outlets are amazing! They allow you to place all that negative energy into something positive and to take a few minutes to yourself. An outlet can be anything from working out to writing to coloring to baths, basically anything that calms you down. It's important to recognize when your body is telling you to relax. For me, if I start becoming extremely unmotivated, sleeping a lot, or being completely antisocial/to myself I know that something is wrong. Those are the moments when I take a step back, find the source to my problem, and fix it. Personally, coloring works for me. I swear by adult coloring books with some music playing and just getting lost in the moment. Cooking also helps recenter myself, I love being in the kitchen cheffing it up. But whatever works for you, use it. We all need mental health days sometimes.
Talk to someone
There is absolutely nothing wrong with talking to someone about what's going on with your mental state, whether that by a family member, best friend, or unbiased third party. Therapy is truly a viable option for people and DO NOT LET ANYONE TELL YOU IT ISN'T! There's this stigma in our community that therapy is a waste of time and money, that simply just is not true. Sometimes our problems are too much for us to handle alone and venting to someone and letting them guide you through working through those problems is very beneficial.
Use the word "No!"
Last, but certainly not least, learning how to say, "No" is one of the hardest things to do, but it reallyyyyyy helps in keeping your mental health in check. You cannot do everything, for everybody, all the time. You need balance and sometimes you have to say, "No". This is something I'm constantly learning, because I am horrible at it, but it's something I'm trying to work on. Deciding not to do something or go somewhere does not make you a bad person and if anyone holds that against you then you need to reevaluate their place in your life. We all have choices and you are always free to decline things that you just simply don't want to do ANDDDD offer no further explanation. You have to take care of yourself. first and foremost, and then worry about everyone else after the fact.
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A Canadian Islamic educator is part of the team that has developed the newest iPhone app for the Hajj.
“We want to make their Hajj easier and safer,” Muhammad Alshareef told the Star. “Many people only go once in a lifetime and there is a lot of confusion.”
Up to 3 million people make the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to affirm their faith in Islam as part of their religious duty. This year, the journey to Mecca is expected to be Oct. 13 to 18.
“People lose their way. They’re going to do a ritual, They don’t realize they’re going to be lost on the way back to their tent. The app tells them to geotag your tent right now when you arrive,” Alshareef explained.
The Umrah Salam app, developed by Hajjnet, a Dubai startup, isn’t the first mobile phone aid for the Hajj — there are dozens for iPhone and Android at various levels — but it aims to be among the most sophisticated.
This first version, Alshareef said, is available only to Apple users and only in English. Last year, Hajjnet tested a beta version. They hope to have Arabic versions and an Android application by next year’s Hajj.
“Last year was a turning point,” said the Winnipeg-born Alshareef, who advised Hajjnet during development and tested the beta version on his 20th journey to Mecca.
“People could witness the Hajj in real time. My mother in Toronto said it was her favourite Hajj because I was doing Instagram and Facebook and she could see it as I went.”
One feature, for example, lets pilgrims post reminders about what or whom they want to pray for.
“It’s like a note feature,” said Alshareef. “It’s always there in the toolbar on the bottom. When they are at a location and they want to pray, they will have their prayers that they have written.”
In next year’s version, the developers hope to add a function that would send an email to the person being prayed for, he said.
Does technology interfere with spirituality?
Not at all, said Alshareef. Technology lets the pilgrim concentrate on spirituality and share the intense experience of the Hajj with family and friends around the world.
Developers were careful to stick to the accepted basics of Islam.
“We don’t need an imam to approve geotagging your tent.”
The app, which is free, divides its functions into preparation, guidance and experience.
Among the features: An audio guide that helps with pronunciation of ritual prayers, advice on what to pack and how to properly dress once there, the details of the end-of-Hajj hair shave, and a counter to help you remember how far you are in your Tawaf, the seven counterclockwise circuits of the Kaaba, the most sacred site in Islam.


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Coffee good for the liver? Study highlights health benefits
Coffee is good for the liver, according to a recently published study. Additionally, increasing your coffee consumption can help prevent deaths related to liver disease. A group of researchers looked at data from previous studies on coffee and liver cancer. They found that drinking more than two cups of coffee a day might offer protection against this.
Is Coffee Good For The Liver?
So in their published article, the group describes how to calculate their numbers. The researchers thus explain why they believe governments should encourage people to drink more coffee. They referred to previous study results that said those who drank 2 to 3 cups a day had a 38% reduced risk of HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) compared to non-coffee drinkers. This also indicated a 46% reduced risk of death from chronic liver disease. When people drank four or more cups a day, the risk reduction for HCC is 41%. For death from liver cancer it is 71%. Other cohort studies have also reported risk reductions of a similar magnitude.
Several studies over the past few years have shown that drinking coffee has many health benefits when consumed regularly. One of those benefits that stand out from the rest is a lower risk of developing liver cancer. In this new study, researchers wondered what would happen if all the non-coffee drinkers in the world consumed two or four cups of coffee a day. So the Australian research team decided to assess the potential impact of increased coffee consumption on global mortality. They examined the effect of consuming more than two cups and more than four cups per day per capita on liver-related deaths.
To check whether coffee is good for the liver, the researchers extracted and examined data in the Global Burden of Disease 2016 dataset. They filtered the study results for statistics on liver cancer. The team found there were 1,240,201 deaths from liver cancer that year. The researchers then pulled statistics on coffee drinking and added both sets of data to a model showing associations between coffee drinking and reductions in liver cancer. The model showed that if everyone in the world had had two cups of coffee a day in 2016, there would have been 452,861 fewer deaths from liver cancer. And if all four cups had drunk, there would have been 723,287 fewer deaths.
The researchers believe that governments and health officials should start promoting coffee consumption to reduce cancers in the liver. “Coffee clearly helps your liver,” said Dr. Douglas Dieterich, hepatologist at the Department of Liver Medicine and Gastroenterology on Mount Sinai. This study shows the effects of previous studies on a larger scale. Dieterich also said he recommends coffee to some of his patients as it can help with certain liver diseases. Coffee is also good for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC). This is an autoimmune disease of the liver that affects the biliary tract and can lead to cirrhosis, the researchers said. The mechanism by which coffee offers protection against liver disease has not been clearly established, but it appears that caffeine is not the protective chemical. Of the many compounds in coffee, diterpene and chlorogenic acid are the most studied in liver disease, according to the study’s authors.
High coffee consumption was also correlated with improved insulin sensitivity. This suggests that coffee may have protective effects for liver disease progression by weakening insulin-induced liver fibrosis. Based on the study results, the researchers said coffee was an easily accessible and relatively safe health measure. In addition, this could theoretically lower liver mortality worldwide. However, the Australian research team also stresses that more research is needed to confirm the benefits of coffee against high mortality.
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We'll battle All Blacks to the end, vows Dan Biggar as Wales seek to avoid Blackwash
Dan Biggar has promised not to ‘serenade’ the All Blacks in Dunedin on Saturday as Wales face a series ‘Blackwash’ after three more casualties were flown home.
Loose-head Gethin Jenkins, lock Bradley Davies and flanker Josh Turnbull all returned to Cardiff on Wednesday, as Warren Gatland made two changes to his side for the final Test.
Props Rob Evans and Tomas Francis both start at the Forsyth Barr Stadium, where Wales have one final chance of ending a run of 28 defeats by the world champions.
Dan Biggar has called on Wales for one final, big effort in the third Test against New Zealand on Saturday
WALES TEAM VS NEW ZEALAND
Rhys Patchell (Cardiff Blues), Liam Williams (Scarlets), Jonathan Davies (Clermont Auvergne), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins), Hallam Amos (Newport Gwent Dragons), Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Rhys Webb (Ospreys), Rob Evans (Scarlets), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs), Luke Charteris (Racing 92), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, CAPT), Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons).
Replacements: Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Aaron Jarvis (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Ellis Jenkins (Cardiff Blues), Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Rhys Priestland (Bath Rugby), Scott Williams (Scarlets).
‘We are certainly not there to make up the numbers,’ said No 10 Biggar. ‘We have played some decent rugby, but been hit by their purple patches. We are not going to Dunedin to serenade the All Blacks, it is about getting in amongst them again and pushing them as hard as we can.’
With the All Blacks making five changes to their starting line-up, Wales have a golden opportunity to secure their first victory over Steve Hansen’s side since 1953.
Blindside flanker Elliot Dixon makes his debut, while Julian Savea returns to the starting line-up alongside George Moala, Charlie Faumuina and in-form Beauden Barrett.
‘With the series won, it came down to risk and reward,’ said Hansen. ‘We felt the rewards of seeing these new players in the Test arena, after watching them for three weeks on the training pitch, outweighed any risks.
‘It'll be exciting to see these new players making their mark for the first time in the black jersey. That said, we're expecting another brutal Test match, with the expectation that Wales will again chuck the kitchen sink at us.’
Loose-head Gethin Jenkins (above), lock Bradley Davies and flanker Josh Turnbull have all returned home
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Very different Western reactions to the suffering in Ukraine and the Arab world show that there is a profound rift among cultures.
Join us on Monday, April 11 from 16:00 till 17:30 Beirut time for a panel discussion with Mohanad Al Hosaini, Emma Beals, Nadia Harman, Nadine Kheshen, Armenak Tokmajyan and Maha Yahya.
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Women are underrepresented in Algeria's business sector. While the state has launched several initiatives to help, more needs to be done to combat misogynistic ideas about women's roles and the institutionalized discrimination to which they have given rise.
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The event aims at kickstarting a discussion on the future of aid, given the multiple needs of children inside Syria and in neighbouring countries, in a complex political context and emerging crises.
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The complex situation along Syria’s northern border with Turkey makes any settlement there difficult.


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No. 710,45. I Patented Oct. 7, 1902.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
LUMAN BLACKMAN, OF TOPEKA, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO LESLIE EARNEST AND EDWIN SILLS, OF TOPEKA, KANSAS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,415, dated October 7, 1902.
Application filed March 1, 1901. Serial No. 49,438. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, LUMAN BLAcKMAN,a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Topeka, inthe county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented new and usefullmprovements in Brick-Kilns, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to improvements in brick-kilns in which the heat essential to the burning process is conveyed from a series of furnaces to a central kiln wherein the green brick are piled and the heat diffused therein with the idea of securing its uniform action upon all thebricks in the kiln.
In my. improvement herewith illustrated Iobtain the desired object by a new and novel construction of the kiln, furnaces, and heatconduits, thereby doing away with many costly,cumbersome, and room-taking devices, thereby reducing the cost of general and particular construction and as a result the cost of the product as an article of manufacture. Secondly, the same devices of construction that enable me to economically and uniformly 2 5 distribute the heat produced in the furnaces also insure an equal and uniform reduction of the temperature essential to the final tempering of the brick.
My invention further consists in arranging the furnace-fires approximately at the top of the wall, whereby the heat-flames instead of rising toward the roof of the kiln are immediately diverted to the grated'floor-conduits, and as a result there is practically no more 5 heat at the roof than at the floor-line.
My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view taken through the line a I), Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a par- 40 tial top view with the arched roof of one end of the kiln torn off and a part of the main wall and the roof of the furnace torn away to show a part of the floor-line and to discover the grated opening into the conduits,- the flame-breaking wall, flame and heat conduits, and face of the grates in the furnace. is a vertical sectional View taken through the line 01 c, .Fig. 2, showing the floor-line conduits to chimneys. Fig. 4 is a partial side 5o elevation of the kiln proper, giving the exterior lines of general construction and also at O the fire-bricked opening in the main wall.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several drawings.
The kiln as a whole maybe of any size, provided the general lines of construction herein shown and described are followed.
As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the base or foundation of the kiln is set below the groundlevel not only for the purpose of a secure foundation, but also as a means of preventing the active radiation of heat. A secondary purpose is served by bringing the roof of the kiln within the reach of those in charge thereof, thus making it as'a whole convenient for Watching and operating.
In'the construction'given A is the base or foundation line, A the floor-line of the kiln, and A the ground-level. The furnaces B are equidistantly placed along the sides of the kiln, there being one chimney allotted to each furnace, except at the extreme ends where two extra chimneys G and O are provided for the purpose of securing the direction of an additional portion of the heat thereto, or, in other words, insuring its uniform diffusion in the ends and throughout the interior of the kiln. Two of the four extra chimneys C and G are placed in the gable 8o ends of the kiln and are of greater height than the side chimneys. Connecting with the said two end chimneys and running the full length of the floor-line are the grated conduits D, which open into the kiln through the brick-grated openings D. (See Figs. 1, 2, and'3.) Within the floor and directly in front of each of the side chimneys are the conduits D, which open up direct communication to the chimneys through the grated open- 0 ings D.
. The kiln is constructed with heavy side walls, that they may be equal to the strain imposed on them and also be able to contain the various conduits andflame-breaking walls 5 employed in this device and which are hereinaftermore fully described. These conduits and flame-breaking walls are separate from each other, as shown at 0, Fig. 4:, and are formed of fire-brick, being constructed on the lines of durability and for the purpose of enabling the mechanic to easily replace themv when needed.
The roof is composed of a flat brick arch S, held in position by the tie-rods'E and buckstays E. In construction the roof is preferably divided into sections, the division-line being shown at S.
The furnaces are so constructed as to become an integral part of the side walls.
In each of the chimneys are placed the dampers F, they being equal to the perfect control of the current of heat, diverting it to any portion of the kiln required to insure an equalization of the temperature therein.
In the crown of the roof are placed the inspection-ports G, and at the floor-line in the end walls are like ports G G, while close to the'under side of the arch of the roof and at each end thereof are the openings H, the same being auxiliary to the other ports and openings in the kiln, all said openings being utilized in the tempering process. Each gable end of the kiln is penetrated by the large arched openings K, whose sill is on the floorline of said kiln and which are used for the ready admission of the green brick, as well as for the emptying of the kiln of the perfected product.
In Fig. 1 we have a vertical section of the furnace B and of the wall-opening heat-conduit,taken through the line a b, Fig. 2. These furnaces are fitted up with suitable grate-bars, as indicated at L, with doors M, and ash-pit or draft-doors N.
Within the furnaces and close to the top of the combustion-chambers 0 are the heat and flame conduits O O. The conduits O are preferably two in number; but a greater or less number may be used, if desired. The entrance into the interior of the kiln, however, is preferably divided into three separate conduits O O O, the partition-walls between them forming a portion of the flamebreaking walls 0 0, these walls being shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and are formed by the inner conduits 0 being located higher up in the main wall of the kiln proper than the outer furnace-conduits O.
The flame-breaking walls 0' prevent the flame or untempered heat from directly striking the crown of the arched roof, and as all draft-lines lead to the fioor and through the grated parts thereof to the base of the fines and as the said floor-openings to the flues are distributed with the idea of securing an equalized heat-current it must obtain that the desired result is practically accomplished through this arrangement without the heatflame touching the roof of the kiln.
The heat from the furnace is conveyed to the kiln a very short distance and not through a long combustion-chamber. The heat is directed horizontally into the kiln, the draft drawing it gradually downward. These features permit the admission of heat practically as soon as it leaves the furnace, but at the same time prevents injury to the roof or crown or to the bricks by the heat. It will be understood that in order to accomplish these objects it is necessary to locate the furnaces near the roof.
In operation the kiln is filled with brick openly piled, so that every available portion of them be exposed to the action of the heat. The end doors and port-holes are then sealed and fires started in the furnaces. As soon as the heat becomes general and constant and in a measure equalized the temperature at the extreme ends and at the center of the kiln is taken, when the heat of the kiln as a whole is regulated by means of the chimney-dampers. The vitrifying or burning continues until the shrinkage of the brick in the kiln indicates the perfection of the process, whereupon the kiln is emptied.
Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
The combination with the floor, walls and arched 'roof of a brick-kiln; of a central longitudinal flue in the floor thereof extending the full length of the kiln, a chimney at each end thereof and communicating therewith, a series of transverse, perforated areas of floor between the walls of the kiln and the central fine, a series of separate and independent transversefiues in the floor, one being provided for each area, said flu'es communicat ing with the perforations of their respective floor areas,a chimney for each transverse flue, a damper in each chimney, a series of furnaces adjacent to the top of the kiln, an angular conduit through the wall of the kiln and each furnace whereby said furnaces and kiln are connected, each conduit having a horizontal outlet located approximately at the base of said arched roof, on a line with the roof of its furnace and between the two adjacent transverse perforated floor areas.
In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.
LUMAN BLACKMAN. Witnesses:
JOSEPH GRoLL, J. A. ROSEN.
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Rachel discovered samba in 2001 and her life was changed forever. Learning samba ignited a passion for dance and for Brazil’s rich culture and exuberant energy. Rachel progressed from learning to performing to teaching samba and other Afro-Brazilian styles while studying at the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England. She performed with the Center’s percussion group, Samba Tremeterra, for ten years. In addition to her training at the BCCNE, Rachel has studied samba no pé, samba de gafieira, afoxé, axé, and other Brazilian dances with teachers based in New York and all over Brazil.
In addition to dancing, she has nurtured her own cultural immersion over the years with annual travel to Brazil, Portuguese language study and integration into the vibrant local Brazilian community.
Rachel is a founding member of SambaViva.
Randi (Sambista Rainha) is American with a Brazilian heart, according to her friends and fellow dancers, and expresses her love of Brazilian culture through dance. Randi teaches samba and Afro-Brazilian dance in the greater Boston area, and has been teaching dancers, students and Brazilian cultural enthusiasts for over 10 years. Randi discovered her passion for samba and Afro-Brazilian dance while studying at Tufts University and then continued to expand her repertoire through her involvement with the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England and travel throughout Brazil. She has paraded with Rio de Janeiro samba schools including Salgueiro, Rocinha, Estácio de Sá and Caprichosos de Pilares.
Randi has trained with local Brazilian artists in the Boston area and has traveled to Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bahia), New York, Los Angeles, Arizona, San Francisco and Paris over the years for ongoing training and mentoring. In an effort to convey the joy of samba to others she performs professionally in the SambaViva Dance Troupe based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, Mariona understands dance as a way of self-expression, of cultural preservation, of healing, of connecting with people and of breaking boundaries. She studied ballet for 10 years in Barcelona under renowned Master ballerina Maite Bisetti and is also a certified Hip Hop and Latin dance instructor. A multi-faceted musician and artist, Mariona’s passion for Brazilian culture flourished by listening to her father’s Bossa Nova collection since childhood and also studying different forms of Brazilian dances both in the United States and Brazil for the past 6 years. Mariona is committed to spreading the limitless joy, richness, and beauty in Brazilian dance and culture for many years to come. Axé!
Melissa has been dancing samba since 2010, and has been dancing for more than 25 years in total. Her background is primarily in ballet and jazz, but she also has performance experience in modern and lyrical dance, as well. She began taking samba classes while living in Portland, Oregon, and developed a passion for the rhythms and energy of Brazilian culture. She performed with the Lions of Batucada while in Portland, and joined SambaViva after moving to the Boston area a few years later.
It is no coincidence that Inès fell for samba and Brazilian culture a few years ago. When she was a child, in Tunisia, her mother taught her how to belly dance, isolate and control her hips, and move graciously her arms and upper body. Later on, Inès developed a curiosity for a variety of West African dances, Caribbean dances and contemporary dance. Inès started dancing samba no pé in 2013 with Rachel and Randi and continuously worked on improving her skills with professionals in Brazil but also around the US and in France. Her passion for Brazilian culture expresses itself through her trips to Brazil, her professional interests in Brazilian cinema and literature, the teaching of Portuguese language, and her endless dedication to dance samba. Through her performance, Inès sees an opportunity to connect her Burkinabé and Tunisian roots with samba, as well as explore new connections in terms of rhythms and body movements.


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Polygon users can browse file they intend to upload, it supports JPG, PNG and MP4 videos. Polygon in collaboration with Opensea has integrated PoS in its system with the goal of providing users with faster and cheaper transactions.


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By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, under new management, has worked hard to put rules and policies in place to fight the perceptions of corruption that plagued justices over the last year.
But the recent sentencing of former chief justice Allen Loughry on Wednesday to two years in federal prison was a stark reminder that some of the sores from the summer impeachment fight between the court and the Legislature have not completely healed.
Several pieces of legislation are working their way through the legislative process to reform the state’s highest court and restore the balance between the branches of government.
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I finally started keeping my promise to add missing older stuff to the site. For now I replaced all the movie & television stills where I had untagged HQ versions. Also I added the odd additional still, some artwork posters and on set pictures. Enjoy! Gallery Updates 001 L’Histoire du garçon qui voulait qu’on l’embrasse – 1994 > Stills 001 La Belle Verte – 1996 > Stills 003 Taxi 2
James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Bridges Among Voice Stars for ‘Little Prince’ James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Bridges, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro and Paul Giamatti are on board to voice characters in a big-screen take on The Little Prince, the classic French novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The adaptation is shaping up to have a stacked voice cast, including three recent Oscar winners in Bridges, Cotillard and Del Toro.
The Cannes Film Festival is now over and Marion’s last appearance took place on Friday, May 24 as she stepped out to promote James Gray’s The Immigrant. Marion attended both the photocall and the premiere of the movie alongside James Gray and co-star Jeremy Renner. She wore white to both events, an Alexander McQueen short dress for the photocall and press conference and a Dior evening gown for
One down, one to go! Marion shone at Cannes on Monday for the premiere of her first film in the festival, Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties. Early in the day, wearing a gorgeous Antonio Berardi dress, she attended the photocall for the film alongside Guillaume, Zoe Saldana, Clive Owen and James Caan. She seemed to be having a lot of fun laughing about with Zoe and signing autographs for the fans
As the Cannes Film Festival unfolds, Marion Cotillard has made her first appearance at the event. On Friday she attended the Chopard Lunch and posed alongside Fan Bingbing, Livia Firth, Colin Firth, and Laura Baily. The lunch promoted a partnership between Chopard and the Alliance for Responsible Mining for a closer relationship between luxury and sustainability. Marion looked cool and summery in a Vivienne Westwood dress and Jimmy Choo tan


You probably don’t think of elegant and sporty describing the same car, but that’s what the Mercedes AMG GT 43 4Matic is. The aim of the luxury brand was to bring to market a coupe that combined sports car performance with the elegance of a four-door vehicle. The 43 packs a 3.0 litre turbocharged inline-six engine under the hood that’s good for 367 horsepower and 369 lbs-ft of torque.
When the electric supercharger kicks in, those numbers jump up to 429 horsepower and 384 lb-ft. As a standard feature, the car comes with a 48-volt electric system. Mercedes also opted to keep their EQ Boost tech on the car for an extra 22 horsepower when you need it.
The AMG nine-speed automatic mates with the engine and features a torque converter, sending power to the rear based all-wheel-drive 4Matic system. Top speed peaks at 270 kilometres per hour, with a 0-100 time of just under five seconds.
For now the 43 is available in Europe, with plans of releasing in the US soon, at a price of USD$111,375.


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State CEOs have dim view of growth, survey finds
Only 4% of Wisconsin CEOs say they expect good growth at their companies in the next six months, according to a new survey from Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.
Thirty-seven percent expect moderate growth, and 16% expect a decline in business, the poll of 128 executives found.
The semiannual survey results noted that most of the executives thought Wisconsin had a pro-business climate but there were heavy concerns about the national and global economy.
"I keep calling the global economy the bipolar economy because there's good news one day and bad news the next. At the end of the week, we can't determine which direction we are headed in," said Kurt Bauer, WMC president and chief executive officer.
Taxes and regulations continue to be the top policy concerns, along with the national economic slowdown, Bauer said.
Only 24% of the executives surveyed said they would be creating jobs in the next six months, down from 62% in the WMC survey released last June.
Forty-two percent of the executives said the economic slowdown was their top concern, while 18% said it was health care, 13% said regulations and 14% said taxes.
"There is good reason for businesses to be uncertain and cautious going into 2013," Bauer said. "The uncertainty that's weighed heavily on the business community and has delayed major investments unfortunately still persists."
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce is the state's largest business trade group. The survey was sent to 1,200 WMC members, but only 198 responded.
"Usually, we do much better," Bauer added.
Other reports haven't been as negative. Similar to 2012, next year is expected to have slow growth, led by North America and partially offset by Europe, according to a recent report from Robert W. Baird & Co.
"While caution prevails, no company was seeing early signs of major erosion in business from current levels. Most have active cost-reduction plans in place," Baird analyst Richard Eastman noted about the advanced industrial equipment sector.
Recent national business updates from the Associated Press


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TOKYO — A decade after pulling its ICB brand from the U.S. market, Onward Kashiyama is staging a comeback with Prabal Gurung at the design helm.
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“ICB stands for International Concept Brand, but after we closed the last store in Europe, in Paris’ Saint Germain, last spring, it was no longer international,” said Onward’s president and representative director Akinori Baba, who took his post last September. “Onward Kashiyama is a Japanese company, so we were only looking at the Japanese market. But around the time of the earthquake last year, I started thinking about the origins of the brand, and [decided] that it should return to its international origins, to be…truly global, rather than just Japan and the rest of Asia.”
The first items designed by Gurung are due to hit U.S. stores in August or September, and will be revealed via a digital fashion show on Wednesday. The show will be the first hosted on a new platform to be launched by production and public relations firm KCD.
“We didn’t want it to get buried [among all the other shows]. I had thought that a [traditional] show is something that you feel with your five senses, but in reality, the buyers and editors are so busy during fashion week that they don’t have time to feel those things,” Baba said. “We wanted to experiment with something new, and since digital infrastructure has come this far, we felt like we had to use it.”
Initially the line will be available at between 10 and 20 stores across the country, and the company also plans to reintroduce it to the European market from spring 2013. In Asia, it will be available in countries such as China and Taiwan, as well as in Onward’s home country of Japan. Onward plans to have the brand carried in around 100 stores worldwide within the first three years of its international relaunch, and hopes the line will achieve sales of about 10 billion yen, or $128.8 million at current exchange rates.
“Instead of forcing expansion, we want to maintain the value of the brand. So at first we’ll be keeping the stockists limited,” Baba said.
Onward hopes to open a freestanding ICB store in New York as soon as next year.
Baba said ICB will be positioned in the market alongside brands such as Carven, which have a rich history, but are being made modern with the help of a talented young designer. He described the initial offering as a hybrid of ICB and Gurung’s own style — chic, wearable pieces incorporating intricate detailing and luxurious fabrics. Prices will range from $106 to $140 for pants, $118 to $438 for dresses, and $158 to $558 for jackets.
According to the executive, the relaunch of ICB in the U.S. and Europe represents the first of what could turn out to be many steps toward building a more internationally oriented company. Onward owns or licenses such international brands as Jil Sander, Tocca, Joseph, Missoni and Paul Smith, but it is less well known, particularly outside of Japan, for creating its own brands.
“I think the idea of how we can increase the value of the brands we have is very important, and I’d like to continue with that moving forward,” Baba said. “Now Japan is at the center [of our business], and we also have brands that are based in and made in Europe. And elsewhere in Asia we have locations that sell Japanese brands. But if we consider that we have the ability to create and make things in other Asian countries, we could start a brand based in Asia as well. In the U.S. we also have apparel facilities. If we can both make and sell products across and among all of these four areas…I think it would be very interesting. It’s like localism within globalism.”

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Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Honoring Yancey County’s Confederate Dead
80 names listed
Lest we forget, these men died for their freedom and independence. "Deo Vindice."
78 names listed
Erected 2009 by Colonel John B Palmer Camp 1946, Sons of Conferate Veterans, and Martha Reid Silver Confederate Memorial Association.
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil. In addition, it is included in the Sons of Confederate Veterans/United Confederate Veterans series list.
Location. 35° 55.02′ N, 82° 17.934′ W. Marker is in Burnsville, North Carolina, in Yancey County. Memorial is at the intersection of East Main Street and Town Square, on the right when traveling east on East Main Street. The marker is on the lawn of the Yancey County Courthouse. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 110 Town Square, Burnsville NC 28714, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 11 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Yancey County War Memorial (here, next to this marker); Otway Burns Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); Burnsville Asa Gray (approx. 10.4 miles away); André Michaux (approx. 10.4 miles away); Honoring Mitchell County's Confederate Dead (approx. 10.4 miles away); North Carolina Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (approx. 10.6 miles away); Elisha Mitchell (approx. 10.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Burnsville.
Additional keywords. Neo-Confederate propaganda; white supremacist propaganda; Lost Cause propaganda
Credits. This page was last revised on June 21, 2021. It was originally submitted on August 23, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 204 times since then and 45 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 23, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.

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Non spicy cabbage Baek Kimchi (White Kimchi) stuffed with a variety of vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Relatively mild, slightly sweet, and quite refreshing.
This cool, refreshing, and tasty Stuffed Cucumber Kimchi will surely perk up your rice meals. It has a crunchy texture and is easy to prepare.
These quick and easy Pickled Cucumbers are great as a snack or condiment for your sandwiches. They are delightfully cool and crunchy.
These tangy and spicy Pickled Stuffed Eggplants make a wonderful condiment or side dish. They whet your appetite and are delicious served with steamed rice.
Learn how to make Kerisik (Pounded Toasted Coconut) in this video tutorial. It helps thicken sauces and provides flavor and texture to a dish.
Homemade sweet, sour, and spicy Pickled Ginger is a delicious accompaniment to hard boiled eggs and sushi. Also great as a palate cleanser.
Pickled Green Chilies and Garlic are wonderful eaten with noodles. This spicy condiment is often served with stir fried noodles in Malaysia and Singapore.
Today I am going to share a very simple dish using the homemade salted eggs from my previous post. Ochazuke is rice in green tea normally accompanied by a variety of condiments, nori, and leftover side dishes seasoned with a little salt or soy sauce. Salted egg makes a wonderful accompaniment to ochazuke as it…
Simple homemade Salted Eggs using the brining method with chicken or duck eggs soaked in a simple salt solution for 3 to 4 weeks.
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Aah…for the simple pleasures in life! There are some dishes that seem so homespun and yet when you encounter them in a buffet spread, everyone makes a bee-line for it. This Malay condiment is often found at “rice stalls” during lunch time. It goes very well with rice and curry but is also very good…
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In the latest example of the widening gap in climate change policies between the USA and Europe, the Government of Norway last week announced the world’s largest new tax on carbon emissions, stating in explicit terms its desire to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate against global warming — just two weeks after the US House of Representatives passed legislation which, to the extreme opposite, explicitly bans the regulation of greenhouse gas.
On October 8, the Government of Norway announced that it would nearly double the carbon tax rate for its offshore oil and gas production in 2013, setting one of the highest carbon tax rates in the world. The announcement is part of a comprehensive “Climate Agreement” provision within the national budget plan for 2013. The budget will:
- increase funding for climate research
- increase funding for sustainable technology development
- increase energy use requirements in building regulations
- increase funding for public transport
- increase funding to prevent deforestation
- increase funding to assist developing countries to exploit renewable sources “instead of using fossil energy sources”
- prioritize public transport, including increased funding for footpaths and cycle paths
- increase CO2 taxes for passenger vehicles, along with incentives for public transport, in order to “reduce private automobile use”
Full details of the Norwegian budget can be viewed here.
By contrast, on September 21, the US House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 3409, called ‘the worst environmental bill in history,” which proactively seeks to prevent greenhouse gas reduction and any measures to mitigate against climate change. The bill is explicit:
- it bans the EPA from ‘taking any action to address climate change”
- it bans CO2 emission regulations from power plants
- it bans CO2 emission regulations from cars
- it eliminates the EPA’s authority to regulate coal mining waste
This is in addition to other recent votes in Congress which:
- overturn the EPA’s scientific findings that climate change endangers human health
- eliminate language that acknowledges global scientific concerns about climate change
- eliminate climate change education programs administered by the National Science Foundation.
- eliminate funding for EPA’s greenhouse gas registry
- approve the Keystone “Tar Sands” Pipeline (Nebraska version) with exemptions from environmental concerns
- refuse to pay the EU-wide ‘airline carbon emission tax’ on carbon emissions
- ban the US from providing funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- prevent the United States from participating in climate negotiations
The Norwegian carbon tax is the latest in an international trend to set national tax rates on carbon, due to the inability to achieve an internationally binding global tax. By 2013, 33 nations will have some form of national carbon taxes in place. (Note: Some ‘sub-national jurisdictions’ — taking matters into their own hands as national governments dither — have set their own carbon taxes, including British Columbia and California).
The opposite approaches to climate change policies between Europe and the USA — which means, by scientific definition, how these bodies choose to deal with greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels — must take into account the enormous influence of the fossil fuel industry in the United States Congress. One of the leading proponents of banning the EPA from regulating fossil fuel emissions, for example, is Senator James Inhofe (Oklahoma) — the recipient of over $500,000 in contributions from the fossil fuel industries. The fossil fuel sector (Koch Industries, Murray Energy, et. al). is his single largest industrial financier.
In total, the fossil fuel industries — whose profit margins are directly threatened by increased greenhouse gas regulations — have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to US Congressional campaigns, the vast majority (75%, according to the Center for Responsive Politics) going to Republican lawmakers who are, in turn, at the forefront of banning greenhouse gas emission regulations.The difference between the USA and Europe on climate change policies is illustrated, perhaps most simply, by the very use of language. Here’s what the European Union says about climate change on its official website:
- “Preventing dangerous climate change is a strategic priority for the European Union.”
- “Europe is working hard to cut its greenhouse gas emissions substantially while encouraging other nations and regions to do likewise.”
- “Reining in climate change carries a cost, but doing nothing would be far more expensive in the long run.”
- “The scientific evidence shows that the world must stop the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2020”
In striking contrast, the US House Republicans voted, in March 2011, to eliminate language which stated, simply, that “global warming exists” in a proposed bill.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, during the Presidential debates watched by millions, have both proclaimed support for increased fossil fuel production — while the phrases “greenhouse gas” or “climate change” weren’t uttered — one time — by either candidate.
It’s almost as if Europe and the United States live on two different planets, governed by two different laws of science.


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How long after flowering does corn grow?
The ears will swell and develop into corn kernels along a central cob as pollination takes place. Suckers may also develop from corn plants, and sometimes they may even produce an ear. Usually, two ears grow on each corn plant. Once pollinated, corn matures rapidly, usually 15-20 days after the first silks appear.
How long does it take corn to mature after it tassels?
After corn silks are fertilized by the tassels at the top of the stalk, they’ll shrivel up as the ears mature. This happens about three weeks after the silks form. The corn kernels become ripe just about the same time as the silks become brown and shriveled.
How long before corn shows up?
If the soil temperature is averaging 50 to 55 F (10-12.8 C) at the time of planting, corn may take three weeks to emerge. Temperatures averaging 60 F (15.6 C), may have emergence in 10 days to 12 days.
Should I cut the tassels off my corn?
Detasseling helps to pollinate corn plants and encourages or prevents cross-pollination. Removing the Tassel isn’t necessary if you only grow a single variety of corn, but it can increase crop resilience and yield.
How many days after corn silks is it ready?
Complete silk emergence from an ear generally occurs within four to eight days after the first silks emerge from the husk leaves. As silks first emerge from the husk, they lengthen as much as 1.5 inches per day for the first day or two, but gradually slow over the next several days.
What happens if you pick corn too early?
If you pick it too early, it won’t reach maximum sweetness and might be too hard. If you wait too long, the kernels may be too tough and starchy. … Poke a kernel with your fingernail. A thin, white liquid will emerge if the corn is ready to be picked.
How many ears of corn are on a stalk?
Most sweet corn varieties will have one to two ears per plant because they are mature rapidly and are generally short statured plants. Early maturing sweet corn will have one ear while those that mature later have two harvestable ears.
What month do you plant corn?
The highest yields were achieved with planting dates between April 5 and May 5. A planting date that was too early (between March 20 and April 5) or too late (between May 5 and May 20) yielded significantly less.
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|Planting Date WindowMay 5-May 20||Yield (Bu/Acre)*183 b|

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OTTAWA — The federal Green party has accepted an election candidate’s resignation over a social-media post in which he mused about sending pig meat to devotees of Muhammad.
However, the party appears to be standing by another nominee who is being accused of belittling the Holocaust.
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Concerns about the candidates flared Thursday as Green Leader Elizabeth May prepared to take part in an evening campaign debate in Toronto.
Erik Schomann stepped down as the party’s nominee for the Ontario riding of Simcoe North shortly after the National Council of Canadian Muslims urged the Greens to drop him.
In a statement Thursday, the party said it has zero tolerance for sexism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny, homophobia or hate speech of any kind.
The council pointed out an old photo of Schomann, helping roast a pig, that referred to the controversy over a Danish newspaper’s 2005 publication of cartoons depicting Muhammad, the founder of Islam.