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Demian Maia is hoping to close the book on his illustrious MMA career with a fight against Diego Sanchez.
From the sounds of it, Sanchez is down.
Maia has issued several respectful callouts of Sanchez over the last few weeks. The most recent occurred on Twitter on Sunday.
— Demian Maia (@demianmaia) April 18, 2020
“Yes @DiegoSanchezUFC! Let’s do it.” – Demian Maia on Twitter.
It did not take long for Sanchez to respond from this callout from Maia. He suggested a fight with Maia on Dana White’s proposed Fight Island — a mysterious island setting for fights featuring the UFC’s international fighters.
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“We’re all excited to get back to our normal!!! @demianmaia @danawhite @ufc fight island?” – Diego Sanchez on Instagram.
Demian Maia last fought in March, in the co-main event of the closed-door UFC Brasilia card. On this card, which went down as the UFC’s last before its current hiatus began, Maia was knocked out by fellow Brazilian submission specialist Gilbert Burns. This loss was preceded by wins over solid opposition in Lyman Good, Anthony Rocco Martin, and former ONE and Bellator champ Ben Askren.
Diego Sanchez, meanwhile, last fought at UFC Rio Rancho earlier this year, when he won a fight with Michel Pereira by disqualification after being blasted with an illegal knee late in the fight. This controversial contest was preceded by a decision loss to Michael Chiesa.
Does a potential fight between Demian Maia and Diego Sanchez interest you? Who do you think would come out on top in this welterweight matchup? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
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The treated experimental soils were incubated for 90 days, and P sorption and buffering capacity indexes were determined using calcium chloride solutions in a range of 0–100 mg P L−1. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to determine wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) response to the experimental treatments. The SM and TSP treatments were the most efficient sources of P for plant use in the greenhouse, as they resulted in the highest wheat growth and P content. The incubation data were fitted to Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin and surface sorption isotherm models. Langmuir model, as the best fitted one, indicated the highest P sorption was resulted by the SM treatment for VLP and LP soils, compared to the other treatments.
- For example, the one alert that may have been generated by the flow, can result in many lower level expert events in LiveWire, helping you to better understand the situation, and leading you closer to solving the problem.
- If the results are used for compiler optimizations, they should provide conservative information, i.e. when applying the information, the program should not change semantics.
- By examining these flow records, operators can identify trends, detect anomalies, and pinpoint potential issues that may impact the network’s overall health.
- Longer time periods are required for Flow studies because the Flow of materials is directly dependent upon the location of equipment which will remain static for one to multiple years.
- In the presence of acid, phosphate reacts with ammonium molybdate to form a yellow-colored complex in which molybdenum is present as Mo.
- You can use an AST to perform a deeper analysis of the source elements to help track data flows and identify sinks and sink sources.
In this sense, microfluidic technologies contribute to the development of new integrated devices providing miniaturization, automation, low cost, low sample and reagents requirements, etc. Integrating microfluidics with electrochemical sensors allows improving the control of fluids on the electrode surface. In this experiment, the performance of a microfluidic thin-layer electrochemical sensor coupled into a flow injection analysis system is evaluated.
Many oxidases react with their substrates to produce hydrogen peroxide, which can be quantified by chemiluminescence. Chemiluminometric monoenzyme sensors based on optical fibers have been developed for FIA determination of hydrogen peroxide, xanthine, and hypoxanthine using microbial peroxidase or xanthine oxidase. To develop bienzyme sensors for glutamate, lysine, and xanthine the microbial peroxidase was coimmobilized with the corresponding oxidases. Route-based delivery methods, such as tuggers, offer substantial opportunities for the reduction of travel distances while moving the same quantity of material during the same time interval.
Flow analysis does not take you down to the packet level, but it does allow you to drill down to an individual IP address. Energy spectrum exhibited by the total flow, and corresponded to coherent structures , while the incoherent parts of the flow composed homogeneous background noise, which exhibited no organized structures. Goldstein and Vasilyev applied the FDV model to large eddy simulation, but did not assume that the wavelet filter eliminated all coherent motions from the subfilter scales. By employing both LES and CVS filtering, they showed that the SFS dissipation was dominated by the SFS flow field’s coherent portion. Large eddy simulation is a technique in which the smallest scales of the flow are removed through a filtering operation, and their effect modeled using subgrid scale models. This allows the largest and most important scales of the turbulence to be resolved, while greatly reducing the computational cost incurred by the smallest scales.
NetFlow Analysis Use Cases
Attempting to determine what will happen under all these differing cases with hand calculations or spreadsheets dramatically increases the difficulty and probability for mistakes when having to modify the governing equations. When performing a flow analysis, you can directly validate that the design requirements will be met. The not too high number https://www.globalcloudteam.com/glossary/data-flow-analysis/ of ready-made FIA methods of food and beverage analysis in the literature should not be a discouragement since it is relatively easy to adapt an existing classical method to FIA. All that is required is the empirical selection of manifold designs and reagent concentrations to produce outputs of suitable magnitude over the working range.
In the VLP and MP soils, , the SM treatment decreased the rates of maximum buffering capacity at 0.38 and 0.52 mL P g−1, respectively. There were high and significant correlations among the soil P buffering indexes with soil and wheat P content. Fertilization affected soil P availability by affecting the Q/I relation and the buffering capacity indexes. It is possible to predict plant response to available P using the tested fitting models.
The quantity/intensity relation is affected by chemical and organic P fertilization in calcareous soils
These housings move from Receiving to the Storage1 location using a method called Crane that moves 1 Tub of 20 housings. From Storage 1, the housings are moved to the Bore location via a Cart method. Another file, called the Parts and Products file, specifies the production volume of Small Pumps during the analysis period , as well as the number of housings required per Small Pump. Since the routing line indicates the number of pumps moved per trip, the FPC application is able to determine the Frequency of flow between the Receiving, Storage1 and Bore locations as attributed to the Housings. In addition to the obvious approach of reducing the travel distances between sequential processes, there exist several other analysis techniques and operating philosophies which can result in substantial reductions in material flow. Co-locating the equipment at these locations would be an easy to identify material handling elimination.
Relevant boundary and loading conditions are set to simulate tensile and flexural testing of the plaque and the finite element calculations conducted. The output deflections allow the average tensile modulus and flexural modulus of the plaque to be determined. Reliable results are obtained because the sample is manipulated inside a closed environment which minimises analyte losses and/or sample contamination. Better precision is achieved with flow methods as compared with batch methods due to the reproducible timing and ease of automation. Cisco has developed various versions of NetFlow, with v5 and v9 being the most widely used. NetFlow v9 introduced support for flexible and extensible flow record formats, making it more adaptable to different network scenarios.
Techniques date to over eighty years ago, but modern analytical flow techniques began in the 1950s with the introduction of segmented flow analysis, followed about two decades later by flow injection analysis. Numerous books have been written over the years on flow analysis in general and flow injection analysis in particular. The most widely used detection systems employ flow cells utilising attenuation or radiation of light. This is the first book to focus on these important detection systems and methods, i.e., spectrophotometry, turbidimetry and nephelometry, and techniques based on fluorescence, chemiluminescence and bioluminescence. A sample is injected into a flowing carrier solution stream that is forced by a peristaltic pump. The injection of the sample is done under controlled dispersion in known volumes.
Bitterness in beer is determined by solvent extraction from an acidified carrier stream and measurement of the absorbance of the solvent stream at 275nm. The reducing sugars in wine have been determined by automation of classical colorimetric reactions using FIA. It is common to see analysts attempt to collect observed time data for every delivery route. While sometimes required with specific, very unique delivery situations, this practice is highly discouraged, due to the fact that it is a very expensive technique that often results in questionable accuracy, consistency and data reusability. The FP application does support the specification of pickup and setdown times with any routing in order to support instances in which this technique is required. In these situations, those route-based pickup and setdown times will override the time determined by the methods used by that route.
Methods Information (see Appendix C for example)
It has been shown that a sample can be effectively preconcentrated in the mechanized sequential injection system on the basis of the membraneless evaporation . The main element of the system was the preconcentration module working under high temperature and diminished pressure. Using different evaporation conditions, various values of the signal enhancement factor could be achieved. The applicability of the method was positively verified on the example of the determination of Zn in certified reference materials of drinking water and wastewater using the capillary electrophoresis method. An example of a GAC-oriented flow technique is the Sequential Injection Analysis .
The country has scarce mineral resources and therefore depends on imports of energy carriers, ores, and other raw materials. The Japanese government fosters research on material cycles and also inaugurated the 3-R concept. https://www.globalcloudteam.com/ The Sustainable Europe Research Institute in Vienna, Austria, has developed a database called materialflows.net. One of the main purposes of MFA is to quantify the metabolism of the elements of the system.
Recent advances in the determination of phosphate in environmental water samples: Insights from practical perspectives
A flow analysis will also validate assumptions made for the design as well as any rules of thumb, hand calculations, spreadsheet calculations, proper equipment sizing and selection, etc. Regardless, running the pipe flow analysis will show us where the issues are occurring and put us all on the right track to fix them using your required criteria and project goals. Using this approach, the analysis time for a 96-well microtitre plate could be reduced to as little as 5min. FIA-MS used in this mode has been usefully employed in the analysis of the products of combinatorial synthesis, and for high-speed analysis of chemical repository sample stability, and in biological screening. The enlargement shows the flow diagram for the eight-position column selection valve.


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Texas State works overtime to get past Florida International for first win, 23-17
Texas State running back Brock Sturges didn't play in the season opener, but he made the most of his debut Saturday night in Miami, scoring twice, including the game-winning touchdown run in overtime for a 23-17 win at Florida International.
Sturges didn't start the game but finished with nine carries for 43 yards and the two scores.
“We didn’t play complementary football all the time, but the kids did a good job of not pointing fingers and continued to play hard,” Bobcats coach Jake Spavital said. “That is not something we would have done last year or in 2019.
"We got off to a hot start offensively but gave up some big plays on defense. Then, when the offense stalled, the defense stepped up and made some big plays. I am proud of how we continued to fight and stayed together as a team.”
Calvin Hill started at running back, registering a team-high 72 yards. Brady McBride, who started at quarterback, added 53 yards on the ground and was 18 of 31 for 165 yards and a touchdown through the air. Marcell Barbee had eight catches (a career high) for 67 yards.
Panthers running back D’Vonte Price rushed for 111 yards on 23 carries but lost two fumbles. FIU quarterback Max Bortenschlager finished 17 of 31 for 259 yards with two touchdowns.
The Bobcats scored on their opening drive on McBride's 17-yard pass to Caleb Twyford on a wheel route. FIU opened the second quarter with a 10-play, 65-yard drive but Bobcats linebacker Binky Coleman forced a fumble, which defensive tackle Nick McCan recovered.
Texas State went up 10-0 two drives later on Seth Keller's 48-yardfield goal with 2:10 left in the half, but the Panthers made it 10-7 at halftime with Bortenschlager's 22-yard pass to Tyrese Chambers with six seconds left. And FIU went up 17-10 in the third on another touchdown pass and a 18-yard field goal.
The Bobcats (1-1) regained momentum in the fourth, however, after safety Zion Chldress forced another fumble and a 36-yard pass from McBride to Javen Banks set them up at the 2-yard line. Sturge's 2-yard run tied it 17-17 with 10:09 left in the game.
In overtime, another FIU fumble — Bortenschlager was strip-sacked by Isaiah Nixon — gave the ball back to the Bobcats at the Panthers' 25; Texas State scored the game-winning touchdown on Sturges' 11-yard run.
“Brock Sturges is a good back, and it was good to see him bounce back tonight and get the hot hand at the end of the game,” Spavital said. “The defense won the game for us. They forced three turnovers and gave us the ball in overtime just needing to kick a field goal to win. I was pleased that we were able to punch it in.”
Texas State will host Incarnate Word (1-1) on Saturday.
“I have been emphasizing the running game to take some pressure off of McBride,” Spavital said. “We need to make some plays for him. But it was good that we were able to establish a running game.”

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- Crystallization and recrystallization
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Design of the unit
Mixing vessels are in fact simplified reaction systems. A typical unit consists of the following parts:
- Jacketed or Non-jacketed vessel depending on the application
- Overhead stirrer with stirrer blades of a required shape
- Support frame (usually with wheels for mobility)
- Optional condenser (is needed when e. g. process is performed under heating)
Main advantages of glass mixing vessels
- Glass transparency allows to observe the process, which is especially crucial for applications like crystallization or dissolving
- Unit can be moved around the production easily thanks to compact design
- Fits perfectly for preparation for different solutions with further dosing directly to a bigger vessel by means of a liquid dosing pump
Some of the processes require heating, which requires the system to be equipped with a reflux condenser to prevent the vapors in the atmosphere of the working space. This is a standard option and can be easily ordered.
For Explosive areas/zones it is possible to order Ex-proof drives, antistatic coating for glassware etc.
It is also important to mention that mixing vessels can have either cylindrical or spherical shape. Spherical shaped vessels have a smaller main flange –DN300 or less, which is fine for many simple processes and helps to decrease the price of the unit.
Normag Systems is also capable to manufacture the system according to your specific requirements like a completely autoclavable mixing vessel.


Dhol players and Bollywood dancers formed part of a three-hour cultural performance celebrating the Hindu festival of Diwali at the Jain Samaj Centre in Longsight.
Organised jointly with the Indian Association of Manchester, guests joined dignitaries including MPs Gerald Kaufman, John Leech and Mark Hunter as a number of young artists performed both modern and classical Mohiniattam and Bharatnatyam dance at the centre based on Stockport Road.
Other guests included Councillor Faraz Bhatti and chief executive of Manchester Council for Community Relations, Khan Moghal.
For Hindus Diwali signifies good over evil but it is also celebrated by Sikh community as it commemorates the release of their Sixth Guru Hargobind from a Moghul prison in 1619 and also the laying of the foundation of the Golden Temple in Amritsar and for Jains marks the attainment of Nirvana-Moksha or the eternal bliss by the founder of Jainism, Lord Mahavira.
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Twice Born: (2012)
The events of this movie is happening in Sarajevo where some of us actually do not know what happens there. A different picture of life where the beauty survived the bombs, the cruelty, the betrayal and the lack of almost everything.
A common love story between a photographer and a lovely lonely woman ends up married in the middle of the war. But what comes next is not common at all !
Twice Born, what a title to choose! Haven’t we all –unwillingly- experienced a rebirth somewhere somehow? A second chance to see the life or know the truth.
She …is dying to get a baby but she cant have one of her own, He …in love with her to the depth and can’t see his life without her gorgeous smile of satisfaction. The solution they both chose was quite dangerous and the sudden turn happened in the sequence of the story was really heart breaking… and the surprising truth will come only at the very end.
I am a big fan of Penelope Cruz… she doesn’t really act, she lives the role and she will be the story… and in my personal opinion she was actually THE Star of this movie. The movie was played back and forth between the past and present… which was good and breath-taking at some scenes but confusing and poor in others.
It is the beauty of screening such a struggle towards a mixture of feelings a woman can ever live with… It is the deep fear at one point, followed by an unbelievable courage to save a life. It is the wrinkles and scars that you can see on the heart before the face. It is all of that … which made this movie to me …twice seen!
A novel by Nicholas Sparks, published in October 2011. Typical like his stories line, just like “The Notebook”, “Message in a Bottle”, “A Walk to remember”.. etc. they all have the same spirit. I love Sparks though, as he cuts through me with his wounded love stories. Does love always have to be painful, or a series of wrong choices. !
A heart breaking story as “Amanda” and “Dawson” were young lovers and their story didn’t work out because of the families or because it wasn’t meant to be. Twenty years later they met, and the old love is back to life again. Twenty years carried a lot of grieves and incidents for both of them and had them reshaped. They shared a weekend away from their real lives. Living in the passionate past, denying Amanda’s crowded present and filling Dawson’s empty one, they just couldn’t think of the future of this revived relationship and where it would take them. Actually, the story is full of sadness mixed with passion and unfinished old memories that were still hanging to the walls of the two lovers minds. Did you experience to be somebody’s first and last? She was for him, as he didn’t know or love or date anybody else but her. Did you feel when someone had engraved herself or himself in your heart and took the best of you until no more love left for anybody else!! . This is what the story is all about. With the old lonely man who cares for both of them in the background, the incidents were ascending dramatically and “predictably” and sometimes unnecessarily until it ended with a sudden sad fact confirming Dawson’s declaration from the beginning.. that he had given Amanda the best of him… literally !
In my opinion, the story is meant to be a movie. You can sense the scenes carefully scripted for movie characters, and soon we’ll find out. I have to admit that Nicholas Sparks usually pours his sentimental ache in his novels, but this one has an overdose potion.
Speaking of Sparks’ emotional status impact on his novels, I would like to quote this from a friend who was sharing reviews about some of Sparks novels: “Sparks has a heart that sparked at sometime in his life … It may have sparked to a light or a flame or ashes. What matter are the words and the emotions, they depict and evoke … It doesn’t need a talent… it just needs someone who felt love...”. Thank you dear friend, couldn’t agree more.

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Was able to get a few more plants into the garden soil this weekend.
Placed two additional Milky Way Cast Iron Plants (Aspidistra lurida 'Milky Way') into the second tier to the left of my pond. Didn't get any before shots, but it ain't too hard to picture what it used to look like. Already had some Milky Ways in front of the rock wall; they got hammered by some of our extreme cold a couple of winters back, but are recovering.
I've always liked their spotted foliage. Mine have always stayed small, especially compared to the regular Cast Iron Plant (Aspidistra elatior).
Also got two Pam's Pink Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus drummondii 'Pam Puryear') to add to a bare spot near a potted Root Beer Plant (Piper auritum), a pass-along from Philip at East Side Patch. Sadly, I have not been able to provide the Root Beer Plant with as much water as it desires - thus I have had to bid it farewell.
The two Pam's Pink Turk's Cap should fill in here and hopefully provide some needed summertime color.
I've already decided I likely need to get at least one, possibly two, more to adequately fill the space.
Such nice weather for planting plants. Though a predicted change in the weather for next weekend got me to go ahead and set up my pop-up greenhouse; it will remain empty for now, but at least I'm prepared.

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Recession providing challenges to anti-poverty agency
Date: 11/4/2011Nov. 2, 2011
By G. Michael Dobbs
SPRINGFIELD Despite rumblings in Congress about severe budget cuts, Paul Bailey, the executive director of Springfield Partners for Community Action (SPCA), expressed confidence that community action programs (CAP) such as his will receive the federal funding they need to continue offering services.
SPCA is the official anti-poverty agency serving Springfield, and, like other CAPs, was facing severe cutbacks in federal funding. Bailey told Reminder Publications at the agency’s annual meeting last week that he was selected as one of two state delegates to attend a national meeting of CAP agencies in Florida recently and after that meeting he felt confident the agencies will receive the funding they need.
“I think things are OK,” Bailey said, but added, “There are more people to serve.”
With the on-going difficult economic atmosphere, Bailey said more organizations are vying for funding. What has helped SPCA is increased success in receiving grants.
“We’re gathering good information and using that information better in grants,” he said. “I think that’s what keeping us in the mix and will drive us in the future. Our development department has stepped up to the plate.”
He acknowledged that 2011 has been a tough year for the agency, which had to suspend working on its strategic plan to respond to those people affected by the tornado in June.
Besides helping to assist in the distribution of food and household items, the agency also raised more than $7,000, which will be used to purchase refrigerators for 10 tornado victims who lost their appliances.
This year, Bailey noted the agency’s most obvious achievement was its move to a new building.
Bailey said, “A Community Development Block Grant provided $50,000 in funding to renovate our heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. A $20,000 CSIP or Corridor Storefront Improvement Program grant helped with the new signs and windows downstairs. Many thanks again to DevelopSpringfield for helping us with those improvements.”
The agency presented 11 $1,000 scholarships, including the second annual Ray Hershel Honorary Scholarship Award, to residents working on continuing their educations.
Bailey said the priority of the agency is providing services to help people become employed for the first time or find a new job. He wants the agency to become an even stronger advocate for poverty issues.
The agency operates New Beginnings Day Care and Bailey said that early education is very important, as is nutrition. He noted that Synthia Scott-Mitchell, director of Community Services, was elected co-chair of the Springfield Food Policy Council, a citywide forum that advocates for improvements and public policy changes around food insecurity and food systems.
As part of the Council, SPCA organized the fourth annual Food Policy and Obesity Conference at the YMCA of Greater Springfield, which was attended by more than 400 people.
As part of the response to the recession, the agency established a partnership with Western New England University School of Law to provide interns to work at the SPCA eviction clinics to help keep people in their homes, Bailey noted.
Bailey said the agency would be conducting a fund-raiser on Nov. 19 at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Holyoke. A percentage of everything purchased there with a voucher that day will be donated to the New Beginnings childcare center.
Activities at the event include:
• 2 to 4 p.m. Create your own holiday greeting card. Supplies provided; children and adults welcome.
• 2 to 4 p.m. Vote for one’s favorite artwork among the entries from New Beginnings pre-school students.
• 2:30 p.m. Story time with Lori Nickerson, director of New Beginnings.
Patrons can also support the agency by shopping online at www.bn.com/bookfairs
from Nov. 19 through 24 and entering Book Fair ID#10523280 during checkout.

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How are Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease connected, and how does Parkinson’s disease dementia differ from Alzheimer’s? Learn about key similarities and differences between these two neurodegenerative diseases.
Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are the two most common neurodegenerative diseases, impacting nearly 8 million people combined in the U.S. The number of people living with each disease is expected to double by 2050.
With the growing prevalence of these and other neurodegenerative diseases, research to determine how they are connected is critical. We know that when we make discoveries regarding one disease, it leads to a ripple effect that yields insights into many others. Below we outline some important connections and similarities between Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and explore how research into one disease may lead to advancements in diagnosis and treatment for others.
What Is the Difference Between Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are both neurodegenerative diseases caused by disruption and damage to certain parts of the brain, with more and more critical brain cells dying as the disease progresses. However, each disease has distinct symptoms due to the specific brain regions affected and how brain signals are disrupted. For example, the most common symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease are memory loss and having trouble thinking, while Parkinson’s mostly causes difficulty with movement and fine motor skills.
What Is Alzheimer’s Disease?
Alzheimer’s disease affects memory and thinking and accounts for 60% – 80% of all dementia cases. Early signs of Alzheimer’s may resemble basic age-related memory issues, but as symptoms progress, people experience severe memory loss, confusion, and difficulty thinking and performing daily tasks.
What Is Parkinson’s Disease?
Parkinson’s disease primarily affects movement, with symptoms like tremor, slowed movements or freezing (the sudden inability to move), and loss of balance and coordination progressively getting worse over time. Dementia symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer’s can occur eventually in Parkinson’s disease, but they are not the primary symptoms.
Can Parkinson’s Cause Dementia?
While dementia usually isn’t a primary symptom of Parkinson’s disease, it is common in the later stages of the disease. Studies have shown that up to 70% of people with Parkinson’s will eventually develop dementia at some point.
Though similar, Parkinson’s disease dementia is not the same thing as Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia refers to a range of symptoms — including memory loss, trouble thinking, confusion, and difficulty concentrating — but there are multiple diseases that may cause dementia. The form of dementia many people with Parkinson’s eventually develop is typically a form of Lewy body dementia (LBD).
Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, but LBD, FTD-ALS spectrum disorders, Parkinson’s, and other diseases can cause these symptoms as well. Because so many different diseases involve dementia at some point in their progression, research breakthroughs in any one of these disease areas will likely shed light on the causes and symptoms of the others.
Alzheimer’s vs. Parkinson’s Disease: What Causes Neurodegenerative Diseases?
Both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are neurodegenerative diseases researchers have linked to toxic protein clumps in the brain. In these cases, faulty versions of otherwise healthy proteins found in the brain form clumps and tangles that damage brain cells and disrupt brain function. For example, in Parkinson’s disease, these toxic buildups damage the parts of the brain responsible for movement.
There are three types of proteins commonly linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s:
While beta-amyloid clumps and tau tangles are more common in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s is mainly characterized by alpha-synuclein buildup. However, toxic buildups of each of these types of proteins may be found at different levels across a range of neurodegenerative diseases.
Can You Treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Together?
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are generally treated with different medications and therapies tailored to their specific symptoms.
Historically, the only treatments for Alzheimer’s were medications and therapies to help manage symptoms. However, several recently approved Alzheimer’s drugs have proven effective in reducing the amount of toxic amyloid-beta proteins that cause the disease. Researchers hope that a similar approach may soon result in treatments that can target the harmful protein clumps found in Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
In Parkinson’s, the brain loses the ability to create the chemical dopamine, which is involved in movement. For this reason, common Parkinson’s treatments include drugs to regulate dopamine levels and deep brain stimulation to trigger parts of the brain responsible for motor skills. People with Parkinson’s may also undergo physical therapy to help manage symptoms. While there are currently no approved drugs that can slow or halt the progression of Parkinson’s, researchers have made progress in early diagnosis — including developing a biomarker test to detect alpha-synuclein last year.
The links between diseases like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other neurodegenerative conditions show that a breakthrough in one disease may lead to advancements in many others. At the American Brain Foundation, we know that investing in research across the full spectrum of brain diseases and disorders will lead to new diagnosis methods, treatments, and ultimately cures for a range of devastating brain diseases.
The American Brain Foundation was founded to bring researchers and donors together in the fight against brain disease. Learn more about brain disease or make a gift to support groundbreaking brain disease research.

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Download Escape Games - Haunted House apk 1.0.3 free for Android smartphone
Apk file size: 17.0 MB
A tourist as part of trips to New York visited blackout haunted house and got trapped there. There are puzzles hints and objects left. Find the hints, solve the puzzles and help him to come out of it.
Open SSL prooblem IS Solved.
EightGames part of our Puzzle and have average installs from 10000 to 50000. Last Update May 7, 2016. Google play rating is 83.2773. Current verison is 1.0.3. Actual size 17.0 MB.
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Good game. Not a fan of the flashlight view.
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OK game. The flash light was a head ache, but the game was good.
Liked it very much.
Like a black fly in my Chardonnay!
Tab S2 Not a fan of the flashlight. Enjoyable until I came to the box. Had 2 use walkthrough 2 figure out that you have to open the box & the jug goes in the box. Gave 4 stars.
Quit at bat & skull puzzle...just not fun, imho.
GET RID OF FLASHLIGHT Game more work then fun. WT is useless. Get seizures with dumb flash light navigation. Games has potential but play is terrible. Glitchy, dumb Im uninstalling

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INSANE: Google Removes Gender Labels From Image Recognition Technology to Stop ‘Unfair Bias’
Google’s Cloud Vision API, an artificial intelligence tool that helps people analyze images, will no longer include gender labels in their software, the company has announced.
The AI tool will be made less effective due to politically correct concerns regarding the LGBT community, as males and females with mangled, disfigured genitalia are now allowed to masquerade as if they are their opposite gender in society.
“Given that a person’s gender cannot be inferred by appearance, we have decided to remove these labels in order to align with the Artificial Intelligence Principles at Google, specifically Principle #2: Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias,” the email making the announcement stated.
Google’s AI principles regarding bias read as follows: “AI algorithms and datasets can reflect, reinforce, or reduce unfair biases. We recognize that distinguishing fair from unfair biases is not always simple, and differs across cultures and societies. We will seek to avoid unjust impacts on people, particularly those related to sensitive characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, income, sexual orientation, ability, and political or religious belief.”
Google is receiving praise from Silicon Valley for their decision to conform to LGBT dogma.
“Anytime you automatically classify people, whether that’s their gender, or their sexual orientation, you need to decide on which categories you use in the first place — and this comes with lots of assumptions,” Frederike Kaltheuner, a Mozilla tech policy fellow, told Business Insider.
“Classifying people as male or female assumes that gender is binary. Anyone who doesn’t fit it will automatically be misclassified and misgendered. So this is about more than just bias — a person’s gender cannot be inferred by appearance. Any AI system that tried to do that will inevitably misgender people,” she added.
Before making their decision to implement the change, developers were invited to discuss the proposal on the tech giant’s forums. Only one individual had the courage to voice the obvious concern about how Google is purposefully limiting their own technology and making it less effective to serve a politically correct agenda.
“I don’t think political correctness has room in APIs,” the developer wrote. “If I can 99% of the times identify if someone is a man or woman, then so can the algorithm. You don’t want to do it? Companies will go to other services.”
With Google becoming a monopoly and growing more all powerful by the day, there may not be any room for competition in the marketplace before long. The Orwellian nightmare will be super inclusive if Google has their way.


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A clunker of a program
Published 9:42 am Saturday, August 1, 2009
The White House announced Friday that the Car Allowance Rebate System, more popularly known as the “cash for clunkers” program, will be able to continue at least through the weekend.
And so continues one of the most ill-conceived programs ever initiated by the federal government.
The program was designed to help the environment (by taking gas guzzlers off the road), to stimulate the economy (by bringing more people to auto dealerships, which have been hit hard during this recession), and to reduce economic inequality (by offering a rebate of between $3,500 and $4,500 toward the purchase or at least a five-year lease of a new vehicle).
Unfortunately, the program fails miserably on all three counts.
First, vehicles being traded in must be less than 25 years old. That means the real clunkers — those made in the ’60s and early ’70s, back when few people knew what OPEC was, Detroit didn’t make fuel-efficient cars and the public didn’t demand them — aren’t eligible.
Second, getting people to come to auto dealerships isn’t going to stimulate the economy. We’re in this recession because banks made too many bad loans to people who couldn’t repay them. Now the banks are being extremely conservative with their money, and loans are hard to come by. Think everyone who comes to the dealership is going to qualify for a loan or get one at an affordable rate? Think again.
Finally, the suggestion that the program will reduce economic inequality is laughable. Remember, the $3,500-to-$4,500 rebate is for a new car. That means that if you’re poor and you’ve been driving a clunker around for years because you have the good sense to know you can’t afford a new car (read that last paragraph again), this program is not going to help you.
The only thing the program has succeeded in doing is that is has burned through $1 billion of taxpayer money. Sadly, it looks like another $2 billion will be torched next.


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Al Qasba Turkish Nights wrapped up its activities in Al Qasba on Friday. The ten day event turned Al Qasbaâ€™s walkways into a Turkish Bazaar scattered with kiosks selling Turkish goods, beverages and souvenirs and ran from February 4-13, receiving a massive turnout from both families and individuals. The Turkish nights were held for the first time in Sharjah and helped promote Al Qasba as a premiere leisure and tourist destination.
Sultan Mohammed Shattaf, Al Qasba Manager, said, â€œAl Qasba Turkish Nights was one of the annual events held by us to promote Al Qasba as a regional and international tourist destination. The bazaar had everything from traditional Turkish food to coffee to souvenirs.â€
He also said Al Qasba will continue to host such events and activities to attract local, regional and international tourists. Shattaf added, â€œSuch events are an investment and part of a strategy to develop the emirate of Sharjah. We want to develop Al Qasba so that it meets the needs of every tourist and visitor who comes here and also has fun along the way.â€
The event attracted many individuals to Al Qasba and introduced them to all that it has to offer including restaurants and tourist attractions. Al Qasba has many state-of-the-art facilities and tourist attractions including restaurants, cafes, Kids Fun Zone, Al Qasba Musical Fountain, Eye of the Emirates Wheel, and the Maraya Art Centre among other facilities. Al Qasba has plenty to offer in terms of culture, entertainment and leisure attractions that represent the UAE and the Arab region.


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While Virginia doesn’t have high mountains like Alaska and Colorado, its wonderful diversity of skiing amenities and breathtaking beauty make up for it. In this article, we’ll provide a detailed review of the two best ski resorts in Virginia that are near Washington DC for beginner skiers.
Located a few miles from Harrisonburg, Massanutten Ski Resort is a beautiful ski area designed to accommodate beginner skiers and snowboarders.
The skiable area in Massanutten is over 70 acres of slightly wooded terrain on one side of the mountain. You won’t find it hard to access beginner slopes when skiing here—they are located near Snow Sports School and right by the Lodge.
You may be afraid of trying out some moves and tricks when learning to ski on crowded slopes, but you’ll be delighted to know that Massanutten Resort has three terrain parks.
Nestled in the foothills of the scenic Allegheny Mountains, Bryce is a year-round resort. The popular local mountain offers tourists a perfect atmosphere to ski and snowboard in colder months.
Bryce Resort has two ski lifts and several conveyors in the beginner terrain, making it easy to get around. Most of the resort's terrain is ideal for beginners, so advanced skiers won't fly over you as you learn.
Bryce Resort has a new terrain park where skiers and snowboarders can test their skills and practice new moves.

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Nope, in the written article the diesel availability in any of Rams isn't even mentioned.
Hah, well there ya go... I guess after hearing him say ecodiesel in the video I just skimmed the article. Whoops!http://driving.ca/nissan/titan/reviews/road-test/pickup-review-2016-nissan-titan-xd
Second paragraph below the pictures
The Titan XD was designed specifically for towing, starting from the front, with a 310-horsepower 5.0-litre Cummins turbodiesel and a six-speed transmission; sure, you can get a smaller Cummins diesel in the Ram, but not with the whopping 555 lb.-ft. of torque this one delivers.


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How to Create Lasting Love
People seek lasting and loving relationships. For many, the result is committing to another through marriage. However, with divorce rates exceeding 40%; with marital counselors busy with dissatisfied spouses; and with people stating that they stay married "for the children," "for their parents," or for financial reasons, it is clear that creating and maintaining a loving relationship over time is challenging. What lessons can we learn from couples who have experienced satisfying long-term loving relationships? Several years ago, I conducted in-depth interviews with 34 couples who had experienced success in marriages lasting 40 to over 70 years. Not surprisingly, the importance of communication was threaded through their comments. Too, their counsel seems generalizable to couples regardless of the length of their marriage.
One lesson learned from these contented couples was the importance of realistic expectations about their partners and about the relationship itself. If people enter into committed relationships with the expectation that their partner will fulfill every need and that the relationship will be perfect in every way, the relationship is doomed. Real life is often stressful and replete with disappointment. The partners I interviewed expected difficulties, but they supported each other through the tough times. These satisfied couples had reasonable expectations about their lives and about their relationships, expressing joy in the fulfillment of more attainable goals.
A second characteristic of the marriages was that the couple accepted each other unconditionally. Just as they had realistic expectations for their marriage, they also had realistic expectations for each other. They loved, respected and empathized with each other as they were, without reservation. Although the manner in which they communicated unconditional love varied from couple to couple, they communicated acceptance frequently.
Another quality of the successful long-term loving relationships was positive distortion. These couples did not view the world objectively, but rather chose to interpret their experiences and each other in an often inexplicably positive way. They did not see an aging partner when they gazed at their spouse, but rather the attractive young person of their first meeting. All long-term relationships experience conflict, but members of contented couples did not interpret their disagreements and arguments as destructive conflict, but rather, took the inevitable disagreements in stride, confident of their ability to resolve them successfully. Another characteristic of satisfied partners was strategic forgetfulness. That is, they “forgot” stressful or negative aspects of their experiences together, choosing instead to focus on the positive. These couples were relentlessly optimistic about their lives and about each other.
Generally speaking, harmonious couples reported less need for autonomy than researchers suggest. In many of these long-term relationships, the partners spent nearly all of their waking hours together and expressed great satisfaction in doing so. Alternately, some partners felt that in order for their relationship to be successful, they needed to maintain a separate, yet complementary, identity with each other. They retained some measure of independence from each other. Autonomy was expressed in multiple ways. For example, for some it was in their choice of hobbies or friends, while for others, it was in their political or civic beliefs and activities. They did not believe their differences were sources of conflict, but were acknowledgements of respect for each other’s need for independence.
Balancing the need for some degree of autonomy expressed by some couples was the more widely stated need for a shared identity. Frequently, this was accomplished through self-disclosure, or the sharing of information with the partner that would not otherwise be available to them. While they acknowledged the need for sharing, some areas were identified as off-limits. For example, some couples avoided sharing negative, worrisome, critical or hurtful information with each other. Not all negative self-disclosures were avoided, but when such information was shared, the partner’s response was supportive. Because compatible couples frequently develop their own special way of communicating with each other, they frequently do not need to disclose their emotions to each other. For example, some couples used pet names for each other that held special meaning. Selective self-disclosure helped these couples create a shared identity that contributed to their successful relationships.
Many of the couples continued to enjoy an active sex life, even after 40+ years of life together. Some even reported an increase in their level of sexual activity in their retirement years, as time was finally available to explore and enjoy their sexuality. Others reported no decrease in their level of sexual activity. However, the majority of couples revealed a decrease in the frequency of sexual activity over time, whether as a consequence of decreased energy levels, physical discomfort, illness or the effects of medication. These couples tended to compensate for the decrease in sexual activity with an increase in other behaviors, such as physical closeness, non-sexual touching, holding hands, hugging and kissing. Over time, satisfied couples used open communication to negotiate their changing expectations. Happy couples were distinguished from unhappy couples not by the frequency or duration of their sexual activity, but by their satisfaction with their particular level of activity.
Experiencing satisfaction in a long-term relationship does not imply the relationship is conflict-free. On the contrary, every normal relationship is characterized by some degree of conflict. These couples coped with relational conflict in diverse ways. For some couples, relational tranquility was so important that conflicts were avoided altogether. For other partners, vigorous conflict was a common occurrence in the relationship. Frequency of conflict did not distinguish happy from unhappy couples. Rather, the way the partners perceived the conflict determined if the relationship was satisfying or not. Conflict was perceived as destructive when it resulted in emotional injury, blame, or it was left unresolved. However, when couples viewed conflict as inevitable, stayed issue-focused rather than person-focused, and shared responsibility for the resolution of conflict, conflict was viewed as constructive and even energizing. These couples used many techniques to resolve their conflict constructively, including avoidance, compromise and collaboration. The key for these happy couples was that over time, they had identified what worked best for them.
Finally, the happy couples were persistent; they persevered. They were committed to relational success, no matter what. Many of them spoke of their absolute determination to stay together, their positive can-do attitude, and their unswerving belief in long-term relational success. While the nature of the relationship changed with the passage of time and with changing family circumstances (changing jobs, birth of children, health issues, retirement), successful couples consistently put the success of their relationship ahead of any other consideration in their lives.
What is clear from this study of contented couples is that there is no secret formula for long-term relational success. Some couples spent nearly every waking hour together, while others pursued independent interests. Some couples enjoyed an active sex life, while others expressed emotional closeness in alternative ways. Some couples rarely argued, while others fought openly and on a regular basis. What distinguished happy couples from unhappy ones were their realistic expectations for each other and their relationship, their unconditional love and acceptance of each other, and their ability to communicate in a positive, empathic and supportive way as they successfully negotiated the storms and bright days of their marriages and their lives.


Electric heaters are commonly used appliances in life, so we must pay more attention to safety performance. Now the electric heater circuits on the market already have an overvoltage protection function, but in order to enhance safety performance, temperature switches are generally added to the circuit to control High temperature as the secondary temperature protection element of the electric heater further improves the safety performance of the electric appliance.
Electric heaters include electric heaters, electric hand warmers, etc. The temperature switch can be used to control the power-on time of the electric heater. After the heater is powered off, the heat is still concentrated in the electric heater and slowly released outward. The electric heater must have temperature control and overheating protection, otherwise it is easy to cause danger, so the secondary temperature protection of the electric heater must be considered.
For electric heating products, both the temperature control function and the overheat protection are relatively strict. Therefore, when choosing a temperature switch, you must consider the process of structure, materials and components. For products with strict temperature control, you should pay attention to the temperature switch The precision of temperature control and the necessity of secondary protection.


Reliability refers to the ability of a system, mechanical equipment or component to perform its intended function under specified working conditions and over a set period of time. In military standards, reliability is defined as the probability of completing a specified function under specified conditions and within a certain timeframe. It is an important indicator for measuring the level of reliability.
Reliability is influenced by multiple factors, including product design, manufacturing processes, environment, and usage conditions.
The three main types of reliability are:
Inherent reliability refers to the reliability of a product at the design and manufacturing stage. For electronic components, factors such as raw material quality, manufacturing processes, and operating parameters can all affect inherent reliability. For electronic products, inherent reliability is influenced by factors such as product complexity, circuit and component selection, working parameters and reliability, mechanical structure, and manufacturing processes. Generally, the more complex the circuit and structure, the more components used, and the more manufacturing processes involved, the lower the inherent reliability of the product.
Usage reliability refers to the impact of users and maintenance personnel on product reliability. It includes whether the usage and maintenance procedures are correct, whether the equipment selected is reasonable, whether the operation methods are proper, and other human factors. Usage reliability depends largely on the user of the equipment. Skilled and correct operation, timely maintenance and upkeep can significantly improve the usage reliability of the product. Usage reliability is directly related to human-machine engineering design.
Environmental adaptability refers to the impact of environmental conditions on product reliability, including natural, mechanical, and electromagnetic environments. To improve the environmental adaptability of equipment, various effective protection measures need to be taken.
Reliability is an important aspect of product quality. Generally, a good product quality means that it not only meets the expected technical indicators but is also reliable in use. Reliability directly affects the product's performance, customer experience, and satisfaction. In military, navigation, communication, aerospace and other fields, reliability is one of the core indicators that users are most concerned about.
When evaluating an electronic product, we look at whether the function is advanced, and the appearance is beautiful - these are the core issues that designers focus on. We also look at whether the product can be efficiently and inexpensively manufactured - this is the focus of manufacturers. Finally, we look at whether the quality is stable and the product is reliable - this is the concern of users and represents the level of product design, as well as an important embodiment of enterprise core competitiveness.
With the continuous development of material technology, component technology and electronic design technology, electronic products are becoming increasingly complex, and integration is becoming higher. This places higher demands on electronics reliability. The improvement of product reliability to achieve optimal performance is a key factor in improving product quality and directly affects user evaluation. Improving the reliability of electronic products is an extremely important and challenging task. From a certain point of view, improving product reliability also improves the product's core competitiveness, and the embodiment of technological progress is the upgrading of product quality and the improvement of reliability.


Darcy is the CEO at Buttonsmith Inc., using software and networks to rebuild US manufacturing for the 21st century, currently crowdfunding.
For centuries, progress has been driven by innovation and the reworking of old processes to meet changing demands and circumstances. Despite technological advancements in the speed and reliability of mass production, manufacturing has largely depended on the same fundamental processes as it did 100 years ago. As the CEO of a manufacturing company that builds software and systems to make digital manufacturing possible, I think it’s time to enter a new era of production that completely reimagines how — and what — can be created for public consumption.
Henry Ford: A Case Study In Revolutionary Production Methods
When Henry Ford developed assembly-line mass production, it was a miracle of enhanced productivity. No longer did an individual craftsman have to master every part of the production process and painstakingly create each unique item. Instead, it became possible to create a blueprint for a product (in Ford’s case, the automobile) and follow a standardized process to see its manufacture through from start to finish. This way, companies were far less limited by time, labor and skill. As long as they had the materials, they could recreate the same product over and over again to meet the ever-increasing consumer demand.
However, what we gained in efficiency, we lost in product customizations and responsiveness to the needs of the customer. Mass manufacturing only works when you’re making large quantities of the same thing. Customers have to hope that the mass-produced product comes close enough to what they need.
Bringing automobiles to the masses didn’t just change manufacturing — it changed our entire society. The way we invested in infrastructure changed. All of these changes took place in a very short amount of time, showing just how much business innovation could affect our culture.
The Impact Of Digital Manufacturing
There is widespread agreement that technology will drive changes in how we manufacture goods. What’s less obvious — yet just as important — is that technology will drive changes in what gets manufactured. In turn, this will have a huge impact on society at large. The availability of previously sparse or costly products will increase, allowing more people to enjoy personalized products that were previously out of reach.
The transformation we’re facing in manufacturing is widely seen as a newfound focus on automation, in which we remove people from the factory floor and replace them with machines. This perception is partially true, but it doesn’t take into account the bigger picture. More specifically, it ignores what happens when we shift to software-driven manufacturing (as opposed to traditional bespoke hardware automation). The way you approach making a million identical objects and the way you approach making one copy of a million different objects isn’t the same. Digital, software-driven manufacturing creates an opportunity to build manufacturing operations that can do both tasks with equal agility.
That ability to pivot in this way means that, as market conditions change, the things we manufacture can change as well. For example, during the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic, my business found that people bought fewer lanyards to carry ID badges for work and school. However, because of “pandemic puppies,” they bought more dog collars and leashes. These are just two examples of large societal shifts affecting the way we produce and consume things. In the case of Covid-19, being able to change production on the fly could be critical to business survival in a fast-changing environment. However, many industries struggled to adjust quickly with antiquated production systems.
Since software-driven manufacturing can speed up responsiveness to customers, it’s possible to take greater advantage of the lean manufacturing notion of pull. In other words, manufacturers can choose to produce only when requests for a product are made, thereby reducing the excess cost and waste of mass-producing to meet fluctuating demands. This way, virtually any product can be made to order and delivered in the same amount of time it would take the consumer to get a premade item shipped from a warehouse. Consequently, manufacturers can expect to dramatically reduce inventory carrying costs in addition to decreased waste, decreased risk, as well as the increased ability to experiment, innovate and incorporate customer responses. In short, digital manufacturing and factory digitalization are positioned to introduce a whole new age of mass customization.
Digital manufacturing requires rethinking baseline assumptions about both how you manufacture and what you manufacture. Existing practices are tuned for inflexible hardware, large batch sizes and scale as the key to efficiency. But if the equipment and software are capable of making each item individually as efficiently as you can make a million of the same item, then making exactly what’s needed in a single piece when the customer needs it is a more efficient approach. This isn’t just swapping a slightly more automated machine in where a person was; this is rethinking entire supply chains. This shift is a bit like the difference between printing on letterpresses and printing on laser printers.
The Bottom Line
Ultimately, we stand on the precipice of a new era, with the advantages of mass production, as well as the precision and customization of the artisan era. In my view, there are currently two central barriers to innovation: a lack of capital and an overreliance on legacy systems. This means that many manufacturers feel stuck in a perpetual loop that keeps them from investing in the next generation of manufacturing software and processes.
In order to overcome the issues of lack of capital, business leaders may have to think outside the box. Consider starting a crowdfunding campaign so that your customers can provide the capital you need. You might also consider taking advantage of loans to invest or work to find nontraditional investors who can see the possibilities that are opening up. I think it’s time to invest in the future and make digital manufacturing the new foundation of our global economy.


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If you are a passionate about the environment, please do not read any further – this stock is not for you.
However, if you assume that there will be an ongoing demand for both oil and gas then carry on.
Better still if you like investing in developing companies with masses of upside potential then this is for you. Even more appealing for masses of readers is the fact that this company’s shares are a ‘penny stock’ which enables you to buy more with your money.
But, of course, it doesn’t matter how many shares you may have in any particular company if it is bad value.
Could well double again
I consider that the Aberdeenshire-based i3 Energy (LON:I3E and TSX:ITE) has a lot going for it over the next year or so and, despite its shares having more than doubled this year, they could easily double again.
Following a set of complex asset and funding transactions concluded in late 2020 the group transformed itself into an oil and gas production company.
It is now an independent oil and gas company with a low cost, diversified, growing production base in Canada’s most prolific hydrocarbon region, the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and a portfolio of promising appraisal assets in the North Sea.
The company describes itself as ‘an energy company focused on the development and production of high return hydrocarbon fields and discoveries.’
You can now see why this is not one for the environmentalists.
Part of its strategy is to focus on the development of discoveries located close to existing infrastructure and the exploitation of producing fields, whilst maintaining limited exploration exposure.
Four important expansion struts
That group is highly acquisitive, searching out accretive purchases. Its strategy centres around four main struts – seek, acquire, extract and produce.
The group’s Seek strut is to pursue high quality assets where cycle, situation, or geography offer disproportionate opportunity. Those targets must exhibit excellent technical and economic underpinning.
With Acquire it looks to purchase producing or late-stage development assets from companies where required ‘finish-line’ financing, market conditions, or cost of capital provide opportunities with a sizeable margin of safety.
To Extract the company looks to maximise shareholder value during times of cyclical strength and market sentiment. Furthermore, it must remain equally strategic when large valuation gaps exist.
Then as it goes on to Produce it actively participates in production and development partnerships to smooth operations, mitigate delivery risk, and preserve project value.
i3 Energy’s strategy is to focus on the development of discoveries located close to existing infrastructure and the exploitation of producing fields, whilst maintaining limited exploration exposure.
In the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, the group has a portfolio of 242 operated wells, at an average 78% working interest, and 1,044 non-operated wells with an average 14% working interest. It also has 172,000 net developed acres and 186,000 net undeveloped acres of land.
The group’s interests in the UK Continental Shelf of the North Sea includes a 100% working interest in a three-well drilling programme in the Liberator, two blocks, and the Serenity, one block, fields. These are at an early stage and could well require the group to take farm-in partners in their ongoing development.
By the end of Q3 in the current year to the end of this month, the company reported some 13,740 barrels of oil equivalent per day for the period. However, it appears that the average was well up in just the September month, to 18,985 boepd.
With prices of both oil and gas going higher that is a quite healthy rate. There are anticipations by analysts that the company will be growing its production bases in order to take advantage of the positive commodity market price strength.
Good investor support
There are 1,126,425,992 shares in issue and the larger holders include Cairn Capital (26.13%), Premier Miton Investors (13.93%), Slater Investments (9.33%), Amati Global Investors (7.16%), Hargreaves Lansdown (4.26%), Interactive Investor (3.59%).
Brendan Long, an analyst at brokers WH Ireland, having raised it recently, now has a ‘fair value’ estimate out on the group’s shares of 35p. He sees the operating cash flow trebling to £71.1m in 2022, helping to generate earnings of 3.6p per share.
A team from Mirabaud Securities switched over to Tennyson Securities, who earlier this year were made joint brokers to the company. Their analysts Tim Hurst-Brown and James Midgley have a ‘buy’ rating on the shares, with a price objective of 28.5p per share.
I am bullish about this £124m capitalised company.
Clearly as the company says it ‘is well positioned to deliver future growth through the optimisation of its existing 100% owned asset base and the acquisition of long life, low decline conventional production assets.
I know that these shares, which are now 11p, were up to nearly 17p in early July this year, while they were as low as 4.65p in January, so I may well be too cautious when I set my Target Price at just 14p, but it is a very easy objective.

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Understanding Technical Instructors Motivational Practices in Vocational Training Centre, Morang, Nepal
Keywords:Technical instructors, Vocational Training and Instructors Motivation
This study “understanding technical instructor’s motivational practices in vocational training centre, Morang Nepal” tries to explore the motivational and demotivational factors among the technical instructors in vocational training centre, Morang, Nepal. As motivational factors plays an important role in carrying out teaching and learning activities this study tries to understand the key factors that enhance or hinder the technical instructors for teaching in vocational training centre and for carrying out qualitative research, researchers employed case study research design.
Journal of Training and Development Vol.1 2015: 33-37
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Illustrations for children’s book on the history of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The story tells the town of Hamelin was overrun by rats that destroyed everything they had at their disposal. Residents offered a great reward to those who saved the great plague. Then came a piper playing his flute and made them disappear drowned in the river. The owners of the city did not give the reward and punishment as a flutist began playing the flute, taking all the children of the city just as it did with rats.
I have given the narrative that follows a demon in history. He sends the rats in town, but nobody can do until somebody habitats desperate call for help and the devil comes dressed piper. It is an approach different from the version of the Pied Piper, where everything ends happily because children eventually returned to their home after the father assumes the lesson of greed, doubled the reward for returning the piper.

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Friday April 26, 2013
Friday at Catch the bug is Free Friday digi. Today we have CUTE BEE FLOWER
I love the large flower it's holding. Kind of reminds me of "bugs life" love that movie.
I used Washi tape for the background giving it a bee look.. I am loving Washi tape. I used the su ornament punch and embossed the words on it, hid the top of the ornament under the other die. Kind of gives me a bee butt look. What ya think?
Cards in Envy - things with wings
Diva by Design - inspired by a movie (A bugs life)
Fab N Funky #168 - love is a many splendid things
Penny's Paper Craft #124 - anything goes
Simon Says - anything goes
recipe: cute bee flower/ctb, bazzill, washi tape, quick quote scraps, mft words, glitter, goosebumps, su die, su punch (ornament punch top hid under other dies), copics, ranger, embossing powder

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'Oklahoma!' to hit the stage in Colfax
Musical’s opening performance on Nov. 16
November 9, 2023
COLFAX — This year’s Colfax High School Fall Musical is ‘Oklahoma!’ and runs next week starting Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Showtimes after opening night are Friday, Nov. 17, through Monday, Nov. 20, with all show times at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 9 a.m. and Wednesday, Nov. 22 at 9:30 a.m. with limited seating.
Director Cary Cammack said that the choice of ‘Oklahoma!’ this year was to recruit boys to join the musical. He noted that the musical was Roger and Hammerstein’s first big show to put them on the Broadway stage.
“We have a young cast,” Cammack said, notin...


noun - The Oyster (or the Rolex Oyster was the first waterproof watch made by Rolex and wore around her neck by Mercedes Gleitze, an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer on her swim across of the English Channel in 1927. The Oyster is showcased in the documentary film called Mercedes The Spirit of a New Age by Clare Delargy.
Hans Wilsdorf, a founder of the Rolex watch company, launched the Rolex Oyster in 1926 and asked Gleitze to wear the waterproof Rolex on her well-publicized vindication swim as proof of the reliability of the watch. Gleitz later provided a testimonial of the Oyster.
Gleitze Testimonial to Wilsdorf
You will like to hear that the Rolex Oyster watch I carried on my Channel swim proved itself a reliable and accurate timekeeping companion even though it was subjected to complete immersion for hours in sea water at a temp of not more than 58 and often as low as 51. This is to say nothing about the sustained buffeting it must have received. . . . The newspaper man was astonished and I, of course, am delighted with it.
- Her Swim Made Rolex Famous
- The History And Future Of The North Channel
- Open Water Swimming
- What A Swimmer, What A Woman, Mercedes Gleitze
- Mercedes Gleitze bio
- International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2013
- Hall of Fame Honors Pioneering Mercedes Gleitz
- The Media Waves Of Open Water Swimming
- WOWSA, IMSHOF Heads To Cork, Ireland
- Mercedes: The Spirit Of The Age Age Premieres In Ireland
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Egypt’s health ministry on Sunday announced that one foreigner, whose nationality was not announced, had tested positive for coronavirus.
The ministry said that the patient was being treated in an isolation facility.
This is the second confirmed case in the country. The first coronavirus patient, who was announced last month, has reportedly recovered.
Egyptian health authorities are quoted by Reuters news agency as saying they were enforcing strict preventive measures for people who came into contact with this new patient.
Reports indicate that recently confirmed cases in France, the US and Canada involve people who travelled to Egypt.
French Health Minister Olivier Véran announced that two elderly people, who returned from a group trip in Egypt, tested positive for the virus.
Egypt said it had requested further information about those two patients and sent a medical team to look into the places they had visited.
Algeria also confirmed two new cases of coronavirus infections, in a 53-year-old woman and her 24-year-old daughter.
They have been placed in isolation in Blida province south of the capital, Algiers, the health ministry said on Sunday.
It said the pair had hosted a man and his daughter from France who tested positive for coronavirus after their return.
It means there are now three people in Algeria confirmed as having the virus.
The country’s first case was confirmed last week in an Italian national, who authorities deported to Italy.


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Have your say and help shape ward boundaries for proposed new East Suffolk Council
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Ward boundaries for the new East Suffolk Council, which will replace Waveney and Suffolk Coastal councils from May 2019, are currently under consideration by the local government Boundary Commission.
And people in east Suffolk are being asked to have their say on the future structure of ward boundaries, as part of the preparation for the creation of a new single district council for east Suffolk.
In order to form the new single council, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England is currently carrying out a review of wards in the area, which stretches from Felixstowe to just north of Lowestoft inland as far as villages just west of Framlingham.
The wards for the new council are likely to be larger than those for the two authorities it will replace – but the changes will not affect parish council boundaries.
The wards will be drawn up later this year after public consultation.
Voters have until February 19 to take part in a survey which can be accessed online at www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DJWC52SOnce the new wards are confirmed the first elections for the new council, which will continue to have offices at Lowestoft and Melton, will take place in May 2019.


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How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations
Published by: University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
432 Pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus., 1 map, 2 charts, 2 tables
Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural in its scope, Containing History employs the tools and insights of history, political science, and international relations to explain how twenty-first-century public attitudes in Russia are the product of a thousand years of history, including searing experiences in the twentieth century that have no counterparts in U.S. history. At the same time, Friot explores how—in ways incomprehensible to Russians—U.S. politics are driven by American society’s ethnic and religious diversity and by the robust political competition that often, for better or worse, puts international issues to work in the service of domestic political gain. Looking at history, culture, and politics in both the United States and Russia, Friot shows how the forty-five years of the Cold War and the seventy years of the Soviet era have shaped both the Russia we know in the twenty-first century and American attitudes toward Russia—in ways that drive social and political behavior, with profound consequences for the post–Cold War world.
Amid the wreckage of the high hopes that accompanied the end of the Cold War, and as faith in a rules-based international order wanes, Friot’s work provides a historical, cultural, and political framework for understanding the geopolitics of the moment and, arguably, for navigating a way forward.
“At a time when the US-Russia relationship has deteriorated considerably, Stephen Friot provides a fresh, updated analysis of Cold War history and its subsequent impact that enables a better understanding of the factors on both sides that have resulted in the current tensions.”—Nikolas K. Gvosdev, author of Decision Making in American Foreign Policy
“Stephen Friot connects the profiles of the key leaders to the decisions they and others made during the Cold War, and, rather than assume that the American interpretation is the default for understanding events, he also presents the Russian perspective.”—Michael J. Sulick, author of Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War
“Fascinating and original. Stephen Friot arrives at a set of provocative conclusions about U.S.-Russian relations, conclusions he prepares the reader well for in this vividly written and substantially researched history of the Cold War.”—Michael Kimmage, author of The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism


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Dermatologist Shira Maryles, 45, decided she and her husband David deserved a vacation to Europe together this summer – an added treat as their four children will be away at camp or college. The New Rochelle, NY pair are already avid travelers, but decided to make the 2022 trip a splurge, increasing their regular budget by 20%.
Getting away and being pampered was the top priority.
“We’ve all put a lot of things on hold over the past two years, and we need some pressure relief, some way out of your daily headspace,” Maryles told the Post. “Part of us was, like, let’s do this – we don’t know when the next opportunity will come.”
They are not alone. “Spending has really changed. Americans are much flashier with money now,” said travel agent Jaclyn Sienna India. This includes renting private planes, spending six figures on renting villas, and double the rates for renting yachts.
Maryles and her husband asked their travel agent, Janel Carnero of New York’s Embark Beyond, to organize a 10-day trip. She’s planned an adventure that includes an EDM festival in Barcelona, primo seats for the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, and a five-star beach hideaway in Biarritz, France. The couple opted for the most expensive hotel available.
“We chose the most expensive option, and I don’t blame myself. I never feel bad about taking a vacation,” Maryles said, “And anyone who travels this year pays a premium.
And then some. According to hospitality data tracker STR, a tony hotel room in Europe will cost $471.96 this summer compared to $364.91 in 2019, almost a third more. According to the consumer price index, air fares jumped 18.6% between March and April this year, marking the highest increase on record.
Taking a trip this summer is an expensive proposition — but the wealthiest Americans don’t care, even amid record inflation.
“A lot of my clients have more than doubled in terms of spending, even though how much they’re going to spend is no longer part of the conversation,” luxury agent Carnero said. “Now it’s, ‘This is what I want, tell me how much I have to spend to get it. “”
Another of his clients, a couple who typically book two or three trips a year, would have typically spent $30,000 in about a week in the Mediterranean. “Now they want private charters, not business class, and they’re spending the same for two nights of travel, instead of an entire week,” Camero said.
Many trouble spots around the world, of course, desperately need such gratuitous largesse. They are reeling not only from the pandemic shutdowns, but also from the absence of two groups of spendthrift travelers used to keep five-star batteries afloat: Chinese travelers remain largely barred from venturing abroad thanks to the measures of their government, while sanctions keep many Russians one way. Even Russians able to travel to, say, Saint-Tropez might feel unwelcome and prefer to stay in Putin-friendly regions.
But the Americans are catching up.
“Americans are the new Russians,” Embark Beyond founder Jack Ezon told The Post. “They’re filling Mediterranean hotspots at ridiculously inflated rates, and they can’t seem to get enough.”
They even plan for the future, the impending recession be damned.
“The travelers we’re dealing with now want to plan their next four or five amazing trips together – we’re taking up space in 2024 and 2025,” Departure Lounge’s Keith Waldon told The Post. “A lot of people now realize that nothing is guaranteed, and if they put off something, it might not happen.”
The insatiable appetite currently values Italy above all else, according to experts. Cari Gray of Gray & Co said she sees customers cramming their days into it like never before.
“They go all out and fit everything they can into a three-night stay in any city — some nights they even have two dinners,” Gray told the Post.
“People are spending about 40% more per capita this year,” said Jennifer Schwarz of Authentic Explorations, which specializes in ultra-luxury Italian. holiday. “And the big thing we see during the booking process is the boats. People are renting them who would never have done this before. They say ‘Omigod, let’s do it.’
But chartering a luxury yacht is more expensive than ever this summer, Ezon said, mainly due to the absence of those Russians. Many charter yachts were owned by Russians, and stocks have fallen by around 30% since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
“They’re hard to get,” Carnero said, “so most of the time you have to be prepared to pay double what you usually would before.”
Deep-pocketed Americans are also fueling an increase in villa rentals, a COVID trend that continues apace. On the once Russian-populated Cote d’Azur, for example, Americans are filling villas that sanctions-shackled Muscovites cannot.
“Hands down, my biggest clients are two American families. They are so great to work with and they just have fun,” Alexandra Lloyd is a long-time agent on the French Riviera who owns and runs an eponymous company.
And while Americans, like wealthy Russians before them, are willing to spend six figures on a Saint-Tropez getaway, the difference is that Russians could stay six weeks. The Yanks will retire after one or maybe two weeks, but they are splurging on every little detail.
Jeff Tolkin, who runs World Travel Holdings, parent company of five-star specialist Villas of Distinction, told the Post that his internal data shows prices are up 24% from a year ago. And, among Americans, requests for supplements like private chefs have increased by 30-35%.
Sean Siegal is one of Tolkin’s long-time customers and said he’s been taking twice as many trips this year.
“Sometimes you need a break,” says the 49-year-old father of four, who runs a beverage delivery business and lives in Weston, Mass. “With this COVID thing, we’re ready to go out and spend all the money we’ve spent the last two years when we haven’t been travelling. If you have to pay a little extra right now, that’s okay. You only live once.”
He’s just returned from a two-week jaunt through Europe – including Italy, of course – as well as a must-visit Iceland. He’s taking another vacation right now, to St Maarten, one of the family’s favorite Caribbean islands.
“The only thing that worries me is how crowded it is everywhere,” he told the Post. “Everyone goes there so it’s going to cause frustration when you travel.”

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Sydney Vezina released photographs and videos of onlyf on Reddit and Twitter. Sydney-based social media celebrity who rose to prominence via a TikTok channel. She is widely recognized for her lip-syncing, dancing, challenges, and musical montages. She is employed by the phone cover firm Casetify. In high school, she took dancing lessons and played volleyball for five years. In August 2019, she created her own TikTok channel. She has accumulated over 2,1 million TikTok followers. Sydney’s Instagram account may have acquired more than 300,000 followers. On Snapchat, she is known by the moniker s.vezina20. Follow For More Updates at Rapiddnews.com
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The Augustana men’s tennis team will take on CCIW conference teams during the CCIW Fall Tournament on Sept. 17 at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
The fall tournament is an introduction for many first year players, just as it was for now junior and captain Sam Totten three years ago.
Totten has played tennis since he was five years old, but when he arrived at Augustana as a freshman he experienced tennis from a whole new prospective. When he played in his first CCIW fall tournament, Totten was astonished by the collegiate atmosphere.
“The sport is the same as it was in high school, but the environment is way different; the competition is so much higher,” Totten said.
The tournament will feature all CCIW teams except for Wheaton College, which hasn’t played in the tournament since its inception five years ago.
The tournament is something that head coach Jon Miedema is excited for as it’s a great opportunity for him to see how his players compete before the regional tournament later this month.
Miedema described this tournament as a chance for his players to “whet their appetite” and adjust to collegiate tennis.
“I want our young players to just get that initial experience to play not only good competition, but to play against competition we are going to see in April for the conference championship,” said Miedema.
Although the CCIW conference championship tournament isn’t until the end of their season in the spring, Miedema is excited to get an idea of future doubles pairings and see what kind of competitors the team possesses.
One doubles pairing that he knows will be strong in competition is the team’s two captains Totten and Eric Pohl. The two players come off of sophomore seasons where they were both recognized as All-Conference players, but Totten wasn’t satisfied with just being All-Conference one year.
“It was a great honor, but it motivates me to have more success. I have bigger goals to achieve such as being the MVP of the conference. Along with that, an NCAA tournament berth for both the team and individual is in my sights,” Totten said.
Miedema said the team will be together for four weeks in the fall before picking up practice again in January, where the team will begin preparations for their main season. Once the season starts, the team will practice at the Quad City Tennis Club before their regular season matches start.

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