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The Los Angeles City Council is trying a new tactic in the escalating battle over building or banning the new jumbo-sized Wal-Mart stores. Rather than blocking superstores outright, as some council members originally proposed -- a move that Wal-Mart could challenge in court or angry bargain hunters could overturn at the ballot box -- the council passed a hairsplitting law last week. It bars construction of retail-and-grocery superstores if a newly required analysis finds that they will harm a neighborhood economically more than help it.
Both Wal-Mart and its organized-labor opposition professed confidence that any study would sanction their positions. But let's be optimistic and hope the new law works for both sides, albeit perhaps not in the way either envisions.
Technically, the law applies to any retailer wanting to build a store larger than 100,000 square feet that devotes more than 10% of its sales floor to food. But because it exempts membership stores like Costco, this in effect means the big W.
"Wal-Mart" has become shorthand for every ill that plagues U.S. workers, from stingy wages and medical benefits to jobs driven overseas by pressure to cut costs. Opposition here and nationwide coalesced when the nonunionized chain expanded into grocery sales via its 200,000-square-foot "supercenters." Even before the first of 40 planned California supercenters opened in La Quinta in March, the company's low pay was central to last year's long, bitter supermarket strike and lockout.
These and other negative effects have been documented, including in a Times series last year. But the flip side is savings to consumers, whose desire for Wal-Mart's famously low prices have made it a retail behemoth. Economists praise the company's innovations and efficiencies in moving and tracking goods, and they credit its low prices for holding down inflation.
The new law would apply in designated "economic assistance areas," where the city has used tax incentives or other public subsidies to create jobs and revitalize poor neighborhoods, about 40% to 60% of Los Angeles. If those neighborhoods sound like the very ones that would welcome Wal-Mart's low prices, the city argues that it has a right to protect its public investment against the threat of a superstore driving out better-paying grocery stores and leaving behind blight.
That's assuming, of course, these neighborhoods have jobs to drive out, wages to depress and no abandoned buildings now. One of the law's positive, if unintended, consequences could be to force the city to disclose just what its investment has accomplished.
Another welcome consequence would be if the new law pushed Wal-Mart to tailor its stores to an area's needs. Los Angeles badly needs more mixed-use and infill development, not big boxes surrounded by acres of parking lots.
For instance, a regular-sized Wal-Mart moved in to anchor a half-abandoned shopping center in Baldwin Hills last year and now attracts enough customers to help the center's other retail tenants, not drive them out of business. Rather than fighting the new law, the company should seize the chance to play the good guy.
The city's challenge is to not just keep out low-paying jobs but to bring in better ones. More than 2 million adults in Los Angeles County lack any kind of health insurance, and they don't all work at Wal-Mart. The City Council needs to keep its focus on attracting high-skilled jobs and training the workforce to fill them.


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Riverbed Technology, the performance company, announced the appointment of Nino D’Auria as VP of Channel Sales for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Rob Rosiello as VP of Channel Sales for the Americas.
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The ComingSoon.net Box Office Report has been updated with studio estimates for the weekend. Click here for the full box office estimates of the top 12 films and then check back on Monday for the final figures based on actual box office.
There was no stopping Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, as the space thriller defied second weekend box office drops and took in another $44.3 million in first place! That means the film, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, dipped just 20.7% in ticket sales. The Warner Bros. release has reached $123.4 million at the domestic box office and has surpassed the $190 million mark worldwide. Gravity earned a strong $9 million from 278 IMAX theaters (20+% of the $44.3 million) in which it has reached a total of $26.5 million domestically and $33.3 million worldwide. The movie was made for about $100 million.
The new Paul Greengrass thriller Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks, got off to a great start with an estimated $26 million from 3,020 theaters in second place. Columbia Pictures expected the movie, produced for $55 million, to make about $19 million this weekend. Captain Phillips is playing in 45 IMAX theaters, where it earned $450,000 this weekend. The film received an A CinemaScore from audiences.
Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 dropped a spot to third with $14.2 million for a three-week total of $78 million. The animated sequel cost $78 million to make.
Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills debuted in fourth place but managed to bring in just $3.8 million from 2,538 theaters. Featuring a big cast that includes Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Carlos Estevez, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Alba, Demián Bichir, Alexa Vega, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding, Jr., William Sadler, Marko Zaror and Mel Gibson, the film received a B- CinemaScore.
Rounding out the top five was 20th Century Fox’s Runner Runner, which added $3.7 million its second weekend for a total of $14.1 million. Starring Justin Timberlake, Ben Affleck and Gemma Arterton, the film was made for $30 million.
Moviegoers were not interested in Relativity’s new Romeo & Juliet movie, starring Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth. The film earned just $509,000 from 461 theaters.
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Attention all gentlemen – your presence is requested for an incredible event happening right here in Trenton!
To celebrate the 100th day of school, Foundation Academies will be hosting their annual 100 Man Welcome. But they can’t pull off this epic event without your help! Foundation Academies is currently seeking 100 positive men from our community to greet students as they make their way into school. Whether you are a father, a leader, a serviceman, or anything in between, by just being there, you will undoubtedly be a source of encouragement and inspiration to the students. If you want to show up for our city’s youth and let them know you’re invested in their future, this is wonderful opportunity to show your support.
If you’re interested in participating, you can get started by enrolling here: 100 Man Welcome – Registration. The rally for the intermediate school will begin at 7:00am at 363 West State Street, Trenton NJ. Likewise, the 100 Man Welcome at the collegiate academy will begin at 7:00am at 22 Grand Street in Trenton, NJ. Please note that this is a socially-distanced, no-contact event. In order to participate, masks must be worn at all times in accordance with COVID-19 guidelines. Details regarding parking and arrival instructions are available on the registration linked above.
The 100 Man Welcome is a beloved tradition of the Foundation Academies community. Each year, dozens of positive role models gather to celebrate the 100th day of school. More than just a milestone, the presence of these men lets our youth know they matter and their community is cheering them on every step of the way. Last year, students were met with exuberant celebrations, balloons, banners, and more as a bit of encouragement for the final stretch of the school year. This year is shaping up to be just as memorable, so don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of something extraordinary!
This event is hosted by Foundation Academies, one of Trenton’s foremost charter schools. Foundation Academies prepares students kindergarten through 12th grade with the education they need to prosper in today’s society. What started 15 years ago as a small middle school in a borrowed building has quickly transformed to an educational movement. Per their mission statement, “we were founded with the vision of a world where every child, irrespective of race, gender, or socioeconomic background, has access to a high-quality public education—and we work relentlessly to live up to this promise.” If you wish to be a part of this vision, the 100 Man Welcome is a fantastic place to begin!
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Woman impaled by beach umbrella in Seaside Heights
SEASIDE HEIGHTS — A woman was taken to the hospital after being impaled by a beach umbrella on the sand near Hiering Avenue Monday evening, police said.
A 67-year-old woman from London, United Kingdom, was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune after a portion of an aluminum umbrella pierced her right ankle and was driven entirely through "due to the force of the wind," borough police Det. Steve Korman said.
Emergency crews responded to the scene at about 4:30 p.m. and Seaside Heights Assistant Fire Chief William Rumbolo cut the stretcher, the portion of the umbrella that connects to the frame, to free the woman, Korman said.
Borough Police Chief Tommy Boyd identified the woman as Margaret Reynolds. He said fire crews had to use a bolt cutter to dislodge the umbrella and put Reynolds in an ambulance.
Reynolds was in good condition as of Tuesday morning, said Donna Sellmann, a spokeswoman for Jersey Shore University Medical center.
“It was a beautiful day and a gust of wind blew the umbrella," Reynolds said in a statement released through Sellmann. "It was just an accident.”
Police said they did not know how specifically the incident occurred.
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Positivity has to be genuine and not of the other kind. False positivity is when ground reality fails to be factored in, and each event gets seen through rose-tinted glasses. Often such lenses magnify achievements and diminish the image of failures, thereby failing to provide the corrective needed for an improvement in the situation. Television channels are filled with the able and articulate representatives of the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, party president Amit Shah and Union Minister for Finance Arun Jaitley. Under the tested leadership of PM N.D. Modi, the team led by him has ensured that the cobwebs in the economy are getting cleared, such that within 2023 the administration of the country will be vastly more efficient than it has long been. The digitalisation of services is proceeding at a rate unprecedented in the history of the Republic, while ministries and ministers are working with a sense of purpose that was absent in the past. Not only in the administrative sphere, but in the societal as well, beneficial changes have been introduced. An example is the banning of the cruel practice of triple talaq, the evil consequences of which were ably warned against by Minister of State M.J. Akbar in the Rajya Sabha. The Prime Minister’s Office, under the leadership of the distinguished civil servants Nripendra Mishra and P.K. Mishra has been dealing with a volume of work unprecedented since the days of Indira Gandhi’s second term in office, working throughout the week and for much of each day to ensure that the delivery of services to the people of India be streamlined. In the Ministry of Defence, a history-setting precedent has been established by the appointment of the personable yet steely Nirmala Sitharaman as the Defence Minister, an appointment as important for gender equality and justice as was the earlier appointment of the dedicated Smriti Irani as the Minister for Human Resource Development (now Information & Broadcasting). Much has been done. But what is undeniable is that much more needs to get done, if the Modi government is to fulfil the hopes of the tens of millions of citizens who voted in 2014, not for the BJP but for Narendra Modi. They did in the hope of change on a scale and at a speed never before seen in Independent India, and this is the standard by which the government needs to judge itself, not by the sorry record of the second term of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a period that BJP spokespersons dwell upon in a context where the public has moved on from the past to the future.
Both demonetisation and the introduction of the Goods & Services Tax are game changing measures. However, the quality of the repast is defined by the cooking, and it is here that lapses have been made. The formal economy depends on the informal for much of its vitality, and the latter relies heavily on cash. That being the case, the replacement of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes with Rs 2,000 and new Rs 500 notes should have been carried out in such a way that no liquidity problem arose in the economy. Instead, the Reserve Bank of India became an object of global attention and some disquiet as a consequence of the blizzard of changes, amendments, changes and re-introductions of several provisions. Bank deposits were fenced from depositors, thereby leading to a loss in confidence in the banking system. The promise of the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India to “pay the bearer on demand” the value of each currency note held by him or her was dishonoured, with consequences for the trust and respect that people across the world have in the currency of the Republic of India, no matter what its shape or colour. While the Prime Minister announces the Big Picture, it is those working for him who need to work out the details, and this they did in a fashion that caused great hardship and slowdown. Similarly, there were too many items attracting high GST rates, and these had to be reduced subsequently, when they should not have been imposed in the first place. Modi should get from his team a commitment to the highest standards, and this can only be if they acknowledge errors, rather than pretend such do not exist.
The 2018-19 Union Budget would be a good way of demonstrating that the lessons of 2017 have been learnt. The budget should focus on raising growth and not taxes. It was not for nothing that the 1997 Union Budget was called the Dream Budget, even though in his incarnation as the UPA’s Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram converted Dream into Nightmare. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has the opportunity to ensure the low rates that will assure high compliance and collections. He must turn away from bureaucratic to pragmatic solutions the way Chidambaram did in the 20th but failed to do in the 21st century. The next budget may well seal the political fate of the Modi government, and it is hoped that it will be such as would unleash the animal spirits and exuberance needed for double digit growth. Over to Finance Minister Jaitley.

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LAREDO, Texas (CN) - A coalition of Hispanic residents of two barrios in Laredo are challenging the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's plan to remove Carrizo cane from the banks of the Rio Grande River by spraying herbicide from helicopters. Barrio De Colores claims the environmentally hazardous "pilot project" is part of an effort to clear the view of the U.S.-Mexican border so that agents can stop more people from entering the country illegally.
Barrio De Colores, an association of Hispanic residents from Barrio De Colores and Barrio El Cuatro, claim the government failed to adequately assess and disclose the environmental impacts of its "experimental" project to remove Carrizo cane along a 16-mile stretch of the Rio Grande. The plan allegedly involves four basic methods of removal: spraying herbicide from helicopters, physically removing the cane with hand tools or machines, cutting the stalks and burning them. All but the mechanical method require the use of herbicide to deter regrowth, the plaintiff claims.
The coalition says the government needs to take a "hard look" at how aerial herbicide could impact the quality of human life in nearby towns and barrios, where the chemicals are likely to drift. Customs and Border Protection allegedly posted a single-day public notice of the pilot project in English, a language many of the plaintiff's members cannot read.
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The Minister appreciated the progress of Surat’s gem and jewellery industry. He also acknowledged the vital role played by GJEPC in conveying the issues of the trade to the Commerce Ministry and help industry resolve the issues. Shri Goyal said, “I am in continuous touch with GJEPC and hold a meeting every fortnight to understand the situation of the industry.”
He informed that with the help of GJEPC and leaders of the Lab-Grown Diamond (LGD) industry of Surat, the Commerce Ministry is aggressively working towards the progress of the LGD growing and manufacturing industry in the diamond processing hub. Shri Goyal encouraged the Surat industry leaders to prepare a vision document, which he would then share with Hon’ble PM.


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For McKenna’s fifth birthday, a bunch of people chipped in to get her the Megladon dollhouse from Costco. A few weeks ago, I went up to the Costco across town to make the purchase, after the store on this side of town sold out Of the dollhouse. At first I thought that I’d be able to grab the box and check out without a cart; after lifting one corner of the box, I realized that I would have to go with plan B – sliding the box onto a cart and transferring the box to the car with as little lifting as possible. Laura and I just replaced our water heater this week, and the dollhouse box was literally heavier than the new 50 gallon water heater.
Laura and I made several strategic mistakes leading up to the assembly of the dollhouse, including choosing the week of McKenna’s party to replace the water heater, the kitchen, table, and the kitchen floor. Consequently, we left almost no time to both reassemble our house and assemble the dollhouse.
Oh, and basketball practice started this week. Fortunately for me, though, Laura’s sister and mother were coming into town and they could assemble the dollhouse.
Laura and her mother thrive on organization, so step one would be to organize all of the parts. Because surely the people who developed a 600 piece dollhouse would love organization as much as Laura and Rita did.
An attempt to impose organization on the dollhouse by lining up the pieces around the room was aborted after it became obvious that our small house was not large enough to contain all of the walls of the giant dollhouse laid end-to-end.
Next, Team Sweatsuit and Team Bathrobe began to debate whether the walls they were building would end up being the right or the left side of the house. I asked if the instructions provided any information that would help resolve the debate. Rita’s response:”THERE. ARE. NO. WORDS.”
Using the picture of the completed dollhouse on the box, the construction team resolved the debate and pushed on.
3.5 hours later, the dollhouse was complete. Except for the pool, that is, which would have to be added after we found a place to put the monstrosity.
McKenna unveiled the house at her party the next day, and it was a hit. Thanks to Laura, Rita, and Gayle for doing the hard work for the rest of us who chipped in!

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Someplace alongside the highway to “restorative justice,” “hurt discount,” “judicial reform,” and numerous different buzzwords of up to date felony justice debate, Colorado has left crime victims within the mud. That was most likely inevitable given our legislature’s prime precedence: extending victimhood to perpetrators.
That is why a coalition of our state’s legislation enforcement companies determined to talk out this week and urge lawmakers to regulate their priorities because the 2023 legislative session begins.
And whereas the attraction was partly worded in a well-measured plea for lawmakers to deal with serving to legislation enforcement cope with acute recruitment and retention challenges, as reported by our information companion Colorado Politics, the underlying message was unmistakably clear.
“It will be significant that lawmakers method crime laws with a victims-first focus that gives the instruments wanted to guard our communities whereas offering each remedy and accountability for harmful offenders,” the coalition mentioned Public Security Colorado in a press release launched Monday.
“The wants of offenders are vital, and rehabilitation and prevention are vital coverage points,” the group mentioned. “Nonetheless, these wants shouldn’t be positioned above the security of their victims and the law-abiding neighborhood at massive.”
Public Security Colorado is the political voice of the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police, the County Sheriffs of Colorado, and the Colorado Affiliation of Chiefs of Police. Her legislation enforcement officers have been on the entrance traces of the combat as crime elevated throughout the state.
Additionally they had front-row seats from which to observe because the legislature systematically erased Colorado’s felony code and watered down penalties for a wide range of crimes in recent times.
- There was the absurd – and lethal – laws of 2019 that decriminalized possession of the total vary of infamous exhausting medicine, together with heroin, cocaine, meth – and naturally fentanyl.
- A 2021 legislation allowed criminals convicted of drug dealing, auto theft and lots of different crimes to legally personal firearms. It eradicated a strong software for law enforcement officials and prosecutors to get ordinary criminals off the streets.
- In 2014, lawmakers decreased penalties for auto theft — which was starting to escalate on the time — and in 2021 made it a misdemeanor to steal a automotive valued at $2,000 or much less. It was a felony to steal a automotive price $1,000 or extra.
As all Colorado residents now know, fentanyl overdoses are plaguing our state. Violent gun crimes the place an arrested suspect turned out to be – shock! – an ex-con with a protracted historical past have turn out to be a staple of Colorado information protection. And our state leads the nation in auto theft.
In its assertion this week, Public Security Colorado, amongst different issues, is asking the Legislature to reintroduce grand theft auto and drug felony fees for “possession of a weapon by a earlier offender.” The coalition can also be urging lawmakers to hunt extra critical auto-theft fees.
If something, the Democrats, who management the Legislature, will doubtless convey one other wrecking ball to Colorado’s judicial system within the 2023 session. Columnist and former District Lawyer for the 18th Circuit George Brauchler alerts readers to approaching laws that can additional water down sentences – this time for critical “juvenile” offenders.
No marvel Colorado legislation enforcement officers’ morale has plummeted — and gaps of their ranks are so exhausting to fill with new recruits.
And it is no marvel crime has skyrocketed.
Editors of the Denver Gazette


At some point a long time ago I my iPhone started playing a sound multiple times for the same SMS text message. This got really annoying because my phone would make the SMS sound, I’d look at it and think I’ll deal with it later and put it down, then a minute or two later I’d get another SMS sound, think I had a second message and so look at it again only to find nothing new was there. I understand some people like this behaviour, but for me it was annoying. I was thankful when Apple added the option to change it in Sounds-Messages settings.
However, in iOS5 I found the multiple SMS notifications occurring again and I couldn’t find the setting in sounds anymore. Thankfully, after much searching I found it… so if you have iOS5 and want to have only one notification per SMS you will find the setting as follows…
How to turn off multiple SMS/text notifications in iOS 5
1. Go to the Settings app
2. Select Notifications
3. Select Messages
4. Scroll down and you’ll see the Repeat Alert setting… change it to whatever you prefer.


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Senators Had No Clue U.S. Troops Were In Niger
In interviews given on CNN and NBC, a number of key Senators are saying they had no idea that the United States had deployed troops to Niger despite a claim from the Pentagon that Congress had been kept...
- Posted October 23, 2017


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By John Ensor • 09 September 2023 • 16:32
Houses of Parliament,
Is Britain ready for a political revolution? According to Dominic Cummings, the controversial former government advisor, he is the man to shake things up.
Recently, Dominic Cummings, previously Boris Johnson’s top aide, unveiled plans to launch a fresh political party to challenge the Conservatives in the subsequent general election, writes the Independent, Saturday, September 9.
Dominic Cummings has indicated that it’s time to initiate a new political venture with the aim to ‘replace the rotten Tories and win in 2028.’ However, a Conservative detractor voiced their scepticism to the British press, labelling the idea as ‘yet more mad ramblings from a narcissistic egomaniac who is thankfully becoming increasingly irrelevant’.
Cummings, once the prime advisor to Johnson, lauded Rishi Sunak as the most diligent MP possessing the sharpest intellect. Yet, he criticised him for having no command of authority, no governance blueprint, no coherent message, and no political tactic of any value.
According to Cummings the current system, even with Sunak at its helm, is flawed. He further opined that the Conservatives would not comprehend their shortcomings post-election, nor fathom why the 80-seat majority achieved by Vote Leave was squandered.
The ex-advisor, who left Downing Street under a cloud in late 2020, became a household name after his controversial drive to Barnard Castle during a lockdown in April. He defended this move, stating it was an eyesight check before his lengthy journey back to London.
Addressing his blog subscribers, Cummings revealed he’s been approached by MPs and benefactors about party rejuvenation. However, he advises them to demolish the existing Tory Party, and prefers messages calling for ‘the start-up party.’
‘This is the time to start building the replacement so that from [10:00 pm] on election night in October-December 2024 the old Party is buried and a new set of people with new ideas start talking to the country and can take over in 2028 and give voters the sort of government they want and deserve,’ Mr Cummings said
His vision aligns with his prior ambitions with Boris Johnson, focusing on stricter measures concerning crime, national security, and immigration. He also advocates for an exit from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Other proposals include tax reductions or freezes for the working class, minimising state influence, and sealing tax benefits favouring the affluent.
Cummings also proposed linking MP salaries to median earnings, implying a pay cut if average wages decline. ‘The goal is to win in 2028, govern for two terms and then self-destruct as a legal entity, so the project is credibly hardwired to be fundamentally different to a normal party,’ he concluded.
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Fabrication and Characterization of "Nano-Beakers" for the Synthesis of Ceramic Colloids
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Microreactors are devices containing microscale channel networks, called microfluidics, in which a variety of reactions and analysis schemes can be performed. They allow for precisely controlled reaction times and mixing rates, higher yields, smaller waste production, reproducible multi-phase flow patterns, and an ability to scale-up the method to produce larger volumes of product. Ceramic microspheres, such as those made of silica or titania, show promise for improving current methods and materials of many applications, ranging from medical imaging and drug delivery, renewable energy, and chromatography, to name a few. The microspheres can be easily synthesized by sol-gel chemistry using batch methods, however, the products are often polydisperse and their sizes irreproducible. Segmented flow microreactors offer a solution to these problems with their highly controllable reaction times, enhanced mixing capabilities, and reproducible reaction conditions that are made possible by isolating the reaction in a series of periodically spaced “nanobeakers”. In this project, silica and titania microspheres were synthesized in three different reactors: a batch reactor (essentially a beaker), a single phase microreactor, and a segmented flow microreactor. It was hypothesized that the microspheres with the narrowest size distribution would be produced by the segmented flow microreactor involving nano-beakers, followed by the batch reactor, and finally the single phase microreactor. The microreactors were not microfabricated, as is the usual method of device production, but were constructed from commercially available T-junctions, capillaries, and pumps. This project represents the first time that a microreactor built with commercially available capillary fluidics has been used to synthesize microparticles using segmented flows. First, the segmented flow microreactor was characterized to understand the effect that reagent flow rates have on the volume and periodicity of the nanobeakers. Then, the average diameter and size distribution of microspheres produced by each reactor were measured after several different reaction times by dynamic light scattering as well as from images taken on a scanning electron microscope. Microspheres were successfully produced in the single phase microreactor, demonstrating that capillary-based microreactors are a viable alternative to microfabricated devices. Contrary to expectations, the segmented flow microreactor produced microspheres with the widest size distribution. SEM images suggest that the problem lies in the distribution of reagents into the nanobeakers upon segmentation, disrupting the development of microspheres with a defined morphology. Further investigation into how the reagents are distributed and how flow rates and capillary dimensions affect this would help to improve the segmented flow microreactor and achieve better results.


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A Bastion of Purity?The City of Mithril is a pocket of civilization between the Blood Sea and the perilous Kelder Mountains. Following the actual footprints of their god, the priests and paladins of Corean built a city around the colossal Mithril Golem, which the devout claim helped defeat the titan Kadum. Now the city serves as a bastion against the titan races that would retake their ancestral lands, and as a vanguard against the unholy Shadow Fortress of Dar'Tan. But even if the city can survive the threats at its walls, can it withstand the corruption within?
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Jon Lester (pictured) gave the Red Sox 7 1/3 solid innings last night in Seattle and picked up his 8th win of the season as the Red Sox ended a three-game losing skid with a 4-0 win over the Mariners.
Lester was superb, and until the eighth inning, was never in trouble. He scattered eight hits, struck out six, and walked no one. His sinker was terrific all night. He loaded the bases in the eighth with one out, but Jonathan Papelbon came on to get Raul Ibanez to hit into a DP to end the threat. He finished off Seattle in the ninth with no problem for his 29th save.
The bottom of the lineup, not noted for their prowess at the plate in recent weeks, did all the damage. The bottom four spots went 13-for-19, and Jason Varitek slammed a two-run shot in the fifth, and Jed Lowrie singled in two runs in the eighth to make it a 4-0 game.
But the star of the night was Lester, who got the Red Sox a much needed road win, just their third in the last eight games away from Fenway. They kept pace with Tampa Bay and New York, who both posted home victories.
And David Ortiz continued his rehab at Portland last night, going 2-for-3 with a walk in the Sea Dogs 8-2 win over Connecticut. Papi was kept in the yard, but he once again reported no problems with the wrist after the game concluded.


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Lola Burr is known as a child of celebrities with parents who regularly refer to her on social media. Born in Los Angeles, California, on January 20, 2017, she is of mixed race due to her mother’s African heritage. Lola’s parents are American actress Nia Renee Hill and stand-up comedian Bill Burr.
Bill Burr: Lola’s father
Bill Burr is a successful American stand-up comedian and actor. He started his popular podcast in 2007 to further develop his speaking skills after a successful career in comedy.
Bill has also appeared on several other podcasts and is known for his filmography, including playing a detective in “Date Night” and voicing the main character in Netflix’s “F for Family.”
Nia Renee Hill: Lola’s mother
Nia Renee Hill was born in Los Angeles and raised by her father who was an actor and comedian. She attended Emerson College and has a successful career as an actress, producer, director, writer, and YouTuber. Nia is also known for her activism and writing on women’s issues and feminism.
Bill and Nia’s love story
Bill and Nia met at a comedy concert in 2009, after graduating from the same college, and began dating soon after. The couple has been together for 12 years and married for 8 years. Despite criticism, the couple are close and support each other at various events and gatherings.
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Despite her fame, Lola’s parents kept her private and never showed her face on social media. Lola can be seen in some photos with her parents, but they always hide her face or turn her away from the camera.
Lola Burr is a famous child of celebrities, known for her parents’ social media references. Her parents, Bill Burr and Nia Renee Hill, have successful careers as stand-up comedians and actresses respectively. Despite her fame, Lola’s privacy is protected by her parents and her face is never shown on social media.
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How Smart Became Asia’s Top Digital Services Provider
Every Filipino is familiar with the now-household name Smart. Now the company stands to garner international recognition after being named Digital Service Provider of the Year, one of the most prestigious awards at the Asia Communication Awards or ACA.
Considering how Smart was head-to-head with other service companies around all of Asia, this feat is one Filipinos can be proud of.
Hosted by London-based Total Telecom, this annual award ceremony is held in Singapore with the goal of acknowledging mobile carriers, multimedia providers, and communication providers.
Not only did the company receive recognition for being the best service provider, but it also bagged the Best Brand Campaign award for its Welcome Change campaign. In case you forgot, this campaign introduced Smart and PLDT’s switch to being digital-first companies, where every Filipino can use mobile technology to create a better world.
If you’re not yet impressed, know that even making it to the shortlist of awardees is a feat in itself. Smart definitely shows how a genuine desire to serve and spark positive change can shine amid all the barriers for telecommunications companies to succeed.
Head of the ACA’s panel of judges, Janet Watkin claimed that, not only making it to the shortlist was an achievement on its own, but winning “requires that something extra special [and] is a cut above the rest.”
For Smart to have made it and won means it possessed exactly that, and it’s a proud showcase of Filipino talent and skill.
When asked what he thought about receiving the award, CEO of Smart and PLDT Manny V. Pangilinan says they are “honored to receive these awards from a prestigious institution that understands the rapid changes sweeping through the [telecommunications] industry.” He also adds that the award will serve as their inspiration to deliver even better results to improve the country’s ongoing digital transformation.
Today, Smart is working on providing the country with more and better LTE services, offering products for its customers to discover how digital can enhance their lives.
With previous wins at the ACA, such as Operator of the Year in both 2011 and 2012, and now its Digital Service Provider of the Year this year, we can only see if Smart will continue its streak while providing better services to the Filipino people.
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text: Foshan Nanhai Dechangyu Paper Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was founded in 1988, Its predecessor was Dechang Hardware Machinery Factory. We were one of the pioneer professional tissue converting machinery manufacturer in China. Undergoing 20 years of development, our company has grown from an initially small mill to a domestic leader in tissue converting machinery manufacturing industry! We are also honoured to be the unique manufacturer in tissue converting machinery industry being recommended by the Guangdong International Trade Promotion Committee to the European Union Countries! Our company is located in Nanhai, Foshan, Guangdong, near to Guangzhou, with efficient traffic network throughout the country. Moreover, we can enjoy international transportation service attributed to the vicinity to Hong Kong. Our total factory area is more than 40,000 square meters. Thanks to the scientific and modernized management, we have formed a team of elite as our staff so as to create our unique and effective system on public relationship and the research and development.


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As strawberry season comes to an end and cherry season begins, I bought one last batch of strawberries to use for dessert. Initially, I found a recipe by Barefoot Contessa on Foodnetwork.com for strawberry rhubarb crisp but couldn’t find any rhubarb at the store so I modified it to strawbery and blackberry crisp. The great thing about crisps is that you can pretty much use any kind of fruit that you want.
A crisp is a mixture of fruit that is topped with a crumb topping usually containting butter, brown sugar and oats. This recipe called for orange juice and orange rind which I thought would be a nice compliment to the strawberry and a flavor I had never thought to use in a crisp before.
Start by hulling and slicing the strawberries and wash the blackberries. Mix the fruit with the sugar and orange zest.
Whisk the cornstarch and orange juice together until the cornstarch is completely dissolved.
Pour it over the fruit and set aside while mixing up the topping.
Use chilled butter straight from the fridge buuret cut it up into cubes. Mix the topping in an elecrtic mixer with the paddle attachment. Combine the flour, sugar, brown sugar, oats and salt in the mixer bowl and then with the paddle on the slowest speed, slowly add the butter until the mixture is granular and looks crumbly. Keep an eye on it, it will mix quickly; I left mine on too long, mixed it too much and it turned into more of a dough. It still tastes great, but is harder to sprinkle evenly on the top of the fruit.
Once the topping is ready, place the fruit in a large baking dish or small individual size ramkins and top evenly with the topping mixture.
Place the baking dish(s) on a baking sheet to catch any juices that bubble over and protect the bottom of your oven.
Bake for one hour at 350 degrees until the fruit is bubbling and the top is golden brown. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream. Crisp is best served the day it is made, if it sits over night the crisp will get soggy. I forgot to take an after picture so here is the one from the recipe on Foodnetwork.com.
I loved the orange addition but might use less of the orange juice next time, it was very runny.
Here is the recipe from Foodnetwork.com:
Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
For the fruit, toss the rhubarb, strawberries, 3/4 cup of the granulated sugar and the orange zest together in a large bowl. In a measuring cup, dissolve the cornstarch in the orange juice and then mix it into the fruit. Pour the mixture into an 8-by-11-inch baking dish and place it on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.
For the topping, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the flour, the remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar, the brown sugar, salt and oatmeal. With the mixer on low speed, add the butter and mix until the dry ingredients are moist and the mixture is in crumbles. Sprinkle the topping over the fruit, covering it completely, and bake for 1 hour, until the fruit is bubbling and the topping is golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream.

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Office Space for Lease in Knoxville, TN
- 6501 DEANE HILL DRIVE
- 6501 Deane Hill Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919
- Total SF: 36,921
- Floors: 2
Outstanding office space on Bearden Hill between Deane Hill Drive and Kingston Pike. The total square footage available is 36,921 on two levels, with 18,460 on each. The building has historically been occupied by a single user, but the owner will consider leasing one of the floors separately. The upper level is largely open area, with a few private offices. The main level also has significant open areas, but more fixed wall offices. Floor plans are included in the attached brief. The building has many attributes, including it's prime Bearden location, ample parking, extensive cabling, server and phone rooms with independent HVAC, fiber optic, ample electrical circuitry well distributed though out the building, key card entry system and much more. Included in the lease at no additional cost is an adjoining 7 bay storage building of 2,750 SF. The base listing includes 152 parking spaces, but the landlord owns additional adjoining land and could accommodate virtually any parking requirement. The availability of additional adjoining land also presents the opportunity to expand the existing building or construct additional separate buildings to create a campus environment. Direct access to Deane Hill Drive, and two points of access to Kingston Pike. Signage is available at both Kingston Pike and Deane Hill Drive.
- Commons at Trane Drive
- 347 Trane Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919
- Office/ Flex Space Heart of Sevierville
- 632 Wall St, Sevierville, TN 37862
- Total SF: 13,444
- Built: 1997
- Floors: 2
Space located in 13,444 Square foot building. Total Space is 7,125 Square feet. Space has 3350 square feet main floor office space, with additional 1300 Square foot second Floor. There is 2475 square feet of Storage warehouse with 20 foot roll up door. Metal Building that could be opened up into continuous space. Front of building has glass windows for great store front and natural light. Property has all city utilities. Owners will divide.
Property is located in Downtown Sevierville, just off Dolly Parton Parkway. This is a mixed use business park that is accessed by signalized intersection from Dolly Parton Parkway. Uses in this park include laundry, contractors, medical insurance, real estate.
- Two Lakeside Centre
- 2095 Lakeside Centre Way, Knoxville, TN 37922
- Total SF: 96,336
- Floors: 0
- Clinton Highway Office/Warehouse
- 5638 Clinton Hwy, Knoxville, TN 37912
- 117 Center Park FOR LEASE
- 117 Center Park Drive, Knoxville, TN 37922
Terrific West Knox location near Pellissippi Parkway!
Former ReMax Building located between Kingston Pike and Parkside Drive.
Great visibility and easy interstate access.
Large level parking lot with building signage opportunities.
Tenant pays base rent + separately metered electric + proportionate share of any
INCREASE in property taxes and building insurance + janitorial. Landlord pays for water, common area maintenance, garbage, and repairs to building, HVAC, plumbing.
- Bank Owned Warehouse/Office Investment Property
- 547 Eastgate Rd, Sevierville, TN 37862
- Total SF: 10,200
- Built: 1999
- Floors: 1
This is a 10,200 Square foot office/warehouse. There are two different buildings one being 2700 Square feet and the other 7500 Square feet. Each building is designed for multi tenant use. There 9 individual Bays each having an office area,shop area, two fixture restroom, and a metal roll up door. There are seperate entrance door withmost units having glass windows in front of building. Office and warehouse is heated and cooled with natural gas and electric air. The utlities to site are water, sewer, gas, electricity, and telephone. This property is a great investment for investor looking for well traveled location right in the middle of downtoan sevierville.
The property is located along East Gate Road in Sevierville. It is near the entrance to Sevierville Middle School.
- 113 LaFayette Drive,Suite 101, Oak Ridge,Tennessee
- 113 Lafayette Dr. Suite 101, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Floors: 2
1,735 square feet, consisting of reception area with build-in desk, open space with kitchen and open space on the second floor.
$12.00 modified gross
Tenant pays own utilities and janitorial
• Great Office location in Oak Ridge
• Easy access to the Oak Ridge Turnpike and Illinois Avenue
• Plenty of parking
• Drive up to the door space
• Matured landscaping
- Broadway Professional Building
- 331 W Broadway, Maryville, TN 37801
- Floors: 2
A convenient, recognized, and right across the street from Maryville City Hall. Many uses for this space, but has served as a dental office for the building owner.
Will work with the right tenant to improve or will lease as is.
Modified Gross Lease with tenant paying utilities, interior maintenance, and janitorial.
- Office Spaces 300SF - 25,000SF Downtown Maryville
- 200 E Broadway Ave, Maryville, TN 37804
- Built: 1922
- Floors: 6
If you're looking for office space in Maryville, Preservation Plaza will meet all your needs! Need space starting next month (or next week)? Here it is.
Downtown Maryville is the place to be. A new Barley's Taproom&Grill is now open, Dead End BBQ is open, new shops (welcome to The Roost!), and an active Downtown Association will surely make you feel at home in Preservation Plaza. Maryville College and a new Clayton Civic Arts Center are within walking distance, and the fall festival is Nationally recognized!
There are office and retail configurations available from 300 SF up to 25,000 SF (on several floors). The gross lease rates are the best in Maryville and include utilities, janitorial services, and free dedicated parking! Other building amenities include an events center on the 6th floor, T-1 Internet available, and a for hire conference room on the 3rd floor.
Preservation Plaza is 6 floors and has the best views of the Blount County Courthouse, Smoky Mountains, and Blount County! See below for the various available suites and the attached floor plans to meet your needs. Also, follow the links for floor plans and even a video tour.
And if you need a vault, we have 2!
Come take a tour and see how affordable, convenient, and enjoyable your workplace experience can be!


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A bit of a random post
I have read Tom Kurz's book hundreds of times and loved it so I thought why not purchase the video and see what that had to offer.
It arrived a week ago and have finally watched the whole thing.
And my review of it is that its great it shows quite a lot more than what is shown in the book. Like advanced dynamic stretches, etc.
I must recommend it to all you stretchers out there. It is very easy to understand. I advise people to read the book aswell the video is an added extra.
Just thought someone may find this interesting

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Intermittent Fasting is one of the most popular fitness methods worldwide. This method is adopted with the aim of improving one's health and to simplify the lifestyle. It has powerful effects on our body and brain. It helps us to live a long life.
Intermittent Fasting is one of the most popular fitness methods worldwide. This method is adopted with the aim of improving one's health and to simplify the lifestyle. It has powerful effects on our body and brain. It helps us to live a long life. It is an eating pattern where there is a period of fasting after the period of eating. It consists of two periods - one of reduced or no caloric intake and a period of unrestricted eating. During the fasting period of intermittent fasting, a person eats less than he normally would. This can be done by consuming fewer calories or abstaining from eating during this time altogether. When we do fasting for some time, the cells recycle everything old and useless and become young.
Fasting has been in practice since olden days when people did not have ample food and other working facilities. They were used to going on fast and were living very healthy life. It may be done now a days by following different patterns and intermittent fasting is one of them.
Intermittent Fasting and Autophagy
Noble Prize Winner's Discovery Nobel prize winner Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist researched in 2016 on how cells recycle and renew their content- a process called Autophagy which is known to be triggered by Intermittent Fasting. In Autophagy, cells destroy viruses, bacteria & slow down aging thus enabling fasting a sign of longevity. The Nobel Prize winner's discovery indicates that abstaining from food and keeping fast for few hours is wholesome. The body truly cleans itself. Disrupted autophagy results in many chronic diseases like parkinson's, type-2 diabetes, obesity and cancer.
Different Ways of Intermittent Fasting
People who follow an intermittent fasting regimen define the different types of intermittent fasting based on the ratio of fasting to non-fasting time. These ratios can divide the eating cycle in different ways. Each ratio has benefits and drawbacks so it may be necessary to try a few different approaches before you find one that suits your lifestyle.
Eating Ratios of Intermittent Fasting
1. Alternate Day Fasting (ADF)
ADF is defined as a 24-hour period of fasting followed by a 24-hour period of unrestricted eating. This two day cycle is repeated throughout the week.
2. 5:2 Diet
Followers of the 5:2 approach go five days a week on a normal diet and two days per week fasting. During the fasting portion of the 5:2 approach, dieters may choose to abstain from eating completely or consume 500-600 calories per day.
You can choose the days of the week you wish to fast, allowing for more flexibility than the alternate day fasting technique. Most of the people choose not to fast for consecutive days. For example, you may fast on Monday (starting after dinner on Sunday) breaking fast Monday night and then again on Thursday (starting after dinner on Wednesday) breaking fast on Thursday night.
3. Eat, Stop, Eat Approach
The eat, stop, eat diet is what intermittent fasters call the method of fasting one day per week. An example schedule would be fasting from dinner one day to dinner the next day. A complete fast of 24 hours is what most eat, stop, eat dieters go for.
4. 16:8 Ratio
The 16:8 ratio consists of a 16 hour fast followed by 8 hours of regular diet. This can be as simple as skipping breakfast every day, eating a normal lunch and dinner, then fasting while you sleep. This ratio is a popular one because it is easy to maintain this schedule.
A very common window for this style of intermittent fasting is to eat between noon and 8pm and fasting until noon the next day.
OMAD stands for one meal a day. It is a highly-restrictive version of intermittent fasting where the fasting period lasts 23 hours per day, leaving only a one hour window to consume one meal. People following OMAD are allowed to consume water and calorie-free drinks during fasting periods.
The time period during which we take the food is the diet window and rest of the period is fasting period. For example if we take breakfast at 8 am and dinner at 8 pm, our diet window is 12 hours. If we go on narrowing this diet window like from 12 hours to 8-10 hours, the risk of having diabetes, obesity or heart diseases also reduces. It is quite hard to narrow the diet window in the beginning, but a week later the body will get used to it, the appetite will be lower, sleep will be better and mind will be cool.
Impact of Intermittent Fasting on our body
Intermittent fasting stabilizes blood sugar level, helps in improving the memory and is a very good way to reduce unwanted body fat. It slows down the aging, enhances the memory and keeps the heart, kidneys and eyes healthy. It is beneficial in stressful conditions and increases the immunity.
HOW INTERMITTENT FASTING IS GOOD IN METABOLIC DISORDERS
Intermittent Fasting and Obesity
Obesity is a growing health challenge that mainly results from an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. People with obesity have a higher chance of developing health problems like high blood sugar, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, heart attacks, joint problems, sleep problems, liver diseases and so on. To get rid of all these obesity related complications, one must be determined for intermittent fasting which is a great tool to combat all of these problems.
When we take the food particularly carbohydrates, they quickly breakdown into simple sugar molecules, which our body cells use for energy. If we don't use these molecules, they are stored in our fat cells and liver as fat. Insulin, a hormone made by pancreas, is responsible for sending these molecules into our cells.
Between our meals when we don't snack, the insulin level goes down and our fat cells release their stored sugar to be used as energy and in this way intermittent fasting controls the release of insulin and allows our body to consume stored fat. Fasting gives a chance to stored fat to be utilized and helps lose overweight.
Intermittent Fasting and Cardiovascular Diseases
Cardiovascular diseases are a serious problem in the modern world. Lack of physical activity, stress and altered eating habits are risk factors for this dreadful disease. The control in risk factors allows a reduction in mortality. The intermittent fasting plays a great role in controlling heart diseases by reducing cholesterol concentration in blood.
Intermittent Fasting and Atherosclerosis (Hard Blood Vessels)
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of vascular diseases. It is manifested by ischemic heart disease, ischemic stroke and peripheral vascular diseases. It is a factor responsible for most of the deaths from cardiac causes. In atherosclerosis, there is deposition of unhealthy fat i.e. LDL in the walls of vessels making them dysfunctional by causing inflammation. Intermittent fasting helps in the modification of this deposited hazardous fat. The use of intermittent fasting increases the secretion of adiponectin from adipose tissue. The adiponectin exhibits the anti-atherosclerotic and anti-inflammatory effects.
Intermittent Fasting and Diabetes
Type-2 diabetes represents one of the most significant global health threats of 21st century. Gut represents a vital organ with respect to regulation of glucose metabolism and modulation of risk of type 2 diabetes by restricting the food amount inside the body.
Thus intermittent fasting is an alternative and more physiological way for prediabetics. This approach enables the combination of energy restricted and unrestricted days which is widely accepted. It improves insulin sensitivity and glucose control along with the decrease in body weight and improvement in microvascular complications in diabetes.
Intermittent Fasting and Brain
Intermittent fasting stimulates the production of a protein in nerve cells called Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF). This protein plays critical roles in learning, memory and generation of new nerve cells. It makes neurons more resistant to stress. It helps in controlling neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. It promotes burning of stored fat which is converted into ketone bodies which are used up by neurons as energy. Ketones promote positive changes in the structure of brain cells.
In all, Intermittent Fasting has an amazing impact in our whole body. While deciding for it, we should not drive too quickly and start slowly and comfortably. It is just an eating pattern that involves a short period of fasting and recommends only when to eat and not what to eat. People like diabetics, pregnant women, lactating women and those who are on prescription medication are not suitable candidates for Intermittent Fasting.
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Dayanand Ayurvedic College, Jalandhar.
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Well all things Lego indeed! Loved the deism and staff were very help full. We arrived at 12 knowing check in was not until 4. Wow rooms were ready so we checked in. As you would expect with a child orientated hotel at time areas were very loud but it was great to hear so many children having so much fun. If anything the only down side was breakfast. Uncleared tables everywhere and not much tidy up around the buffet. Food was just ok. A very memorable stay!
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The Coffee Box & Bistro has just completed its first week at the Poolfoot Farm and it has gone down a success with the local community.
Rosie, and the staff at the training complex in Thornton, officially opened their doors on Monday last week and customers have been coming in raving about the quality of the food and drinks served.
From the players at the club, to punters wanting some warm food and drinks in this cold weather we’ve been having, we’ve had some great feedback from the community.
One in particular is from supporter Catherine who stopped by for a pre-game brunch ahead of our clash with Port Vale on Saturday and she said it was ‘so good’ and shared that she ‘will be visiting more often’.
If you would like to come and try the menu out for yourselves, you can head down to Poolfoot Farm any day throughout the week and get a taste for the food and drinks from The Coffee Box & Bistro.


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Mega Melty Sandwich
Make grilled cheese with a meaty-sarap twist! Try the Lady’s Choice Mega Melty Sandwich! Its melty cheese and meaty flavors will surely delight kids. Make it for breakfast or as a baon snack using Lady’s Choice Ham Spread.
- 6 bread slices
- 2 tbsp softened butter
- 1/4 cup Lady's Choice ham Spread
- 3 - 6 slices ham
- 3 - 6 slices cheese
- Spread butter on the side of the bread.
- Toast sides of bread on a flat pan.
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The Failure of the Task Force on Student Engagement
Why President Hockfield Needs to Intervene
A little more than a year ago, I sat down with Martin F. Holmes ’08 — my successor as Undergraduate Association President — and then-Graduate Student Council President Leeland B. Ekstrom PhD ’09 to pen a letter expressing our serious concerns regarding the lack of meaningful student involvement in Institute decision making and outlining our proposals for change. The issue of student input, which had begun to resurface as a concern during my term in office, came to a head last year after the Institute’s handling of the arrest of Star A. Simpson ‘10, the surprising announcement of Green Hall’s conversion to undergraduate housing, poor communication regarding the future of W1 and student dining, as well as a number of hacking incidents. After a series of negotiated edits and changes, this letter — which was eventually co-signed by Mr. Holmes, Mr. Ekstrom, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay PhD ’75, and Executive Vice President Kirk D. Kolenbrander — was published in the Faculty Newsletter and called for the establishment of a Task Force on Student Engagement.
This original letter — as well as the task force’s official charge, drafted last May — clearly defined the scope and purpose of the committee as well as its primary goals. First and foremost, the task force was charged with “developing a philosophy guiding student involvement, recommending opportunities for greater student participation, and proposing methods to ensure [such methods’] success.” The charge even identified a series of discrete tasks to accomplish: (1) pinpoint Institute decisions that are most important to students, (2) identify current pathways used for decision-making, (3) explore opportunities to strengthen student input into the current process, and (4) promote best practices for both formal and informal communication on key issues.
Today, more than a year later, almost none of these goals have been accomplished. It is clear that the task force has failed to make meaningful progress in addressing its charge. Instead of attempting to solve this long-standing and critically important issue, the committee seems intent on dragging its heels. Instead of discussing reforms to the way that students engage with the entire gamut of decision-making processes at the Institute, the task force has devolved into a kind of leadership pow-wow where student leaders can rub shoulders with senior administrators.
The Undergraduate Association itself has recently begun to lose confidence in the task force, citing a lack of meaningful progress and poor attendance by the Panhellenic Association, Interfraternity Council, and Dormitory Council officers. (Who can blame them? Nobody wants to participate in a committee that has no intent to ever really address its charge.) In an ironic twist, the task force has even come to represent the very lack of transparency that it was charged to overcome by refusing to publicly issue agendas or minutes of its meetings.
It is in the best interest of MIT’s administration and its student leaders to recognize that the same problems that led to the creation of the task force still exist today. A tremendous degree of mistrust between students and administrators remains. This year, this tension was manifested by the establishment of the student-led Campaign for Students protest group and by the organization of a series of well-attended demonstrations in opposition to changes to campus dining and cuts to the varsity sports program.
If President Susan J. Hockfield and the rest of the Institute’s senior administrators are serious about their call for a stronger and more cohesive MIT community, they must start by enfranchising the student body. Students need to feel that they are full and active members of the campus community — partners in the process of continually improving the Institute. As partners, they deserve a strong level of influence over the very decisions that have the potential to significantly affect the student experience at this unique institution.
As such, I call on President Hockfield to take an active role in ensuring that the task force begins to accomplish the goals that it was established to address in the first place. The President should also begin to foster and promulgate a new status quo amongst staff and administrators that (as last year’s letter called for) “consultation with students should be the default position whenever possible.” Only when the administration begins to take the issue of student engagement seriously — from the top to the bottom — will the painful tears in the bonds of the MIT community begin to mend.
Andrew T. Lukmann ’07, a current Tech Opinion writer, was president of the Undergraduate Association in 2006–2007.


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This post is a response to this lovely post by L.L. Barkat.
Somewhere in the recesses of my memory boxes, I hope a rather tattered old cassette tape still waits to be exhumed once again. I am afraid it may have fallen prey to a move or a careless removal of "junk" boxes from the garage we used to have. The tape was recorded circa 1979 in my home studios in Whittier, California, and featured special guests (my infant sister) and my own special brand of musical entertainment. I sang a variety of original tunes, some of which I can still vaguely remember. Among the lyrics:
... I love God and He loves me,
Just singing about the love of God, to me.
That's my song of Jesus.
I found the tape sometime in my twenties, I don't remember how or when, and it became an object of immediate fascination. For one thing, it was tangible evidence of my faith as a little child... and it was fascinating to the artist in me, as it was unfettered by the restraint that most of us learn as adults wherein our free expression is confined by rules, social, musical and otherwise. Even my tunes were my own in their simple, improvised, sing-song way.
There was something almost magical in the tape for me... as if I had been allowed to see past my jaded, intellectually-informed and socially adapted adult self to the heart of faith and pure devotion. I looked back and didn't recognize myself, because I had forgotten what it was like to just sing my love for Jesus in such a spontaneous, joyful way.
There is a humility and a beauty in the worship of a child. A trust so complete. A lack of self-awareness. An earnestness. A spontaneity. A joy. Perhaps that is some of what Christ meant when he said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." The same beauty is in extemporaneous prayer... the sort that bubbles out of us like lava from a volcano, the sort that lays before our God the contents of our hearts and minds, unvarnished and free.
As an adult, I learned a new kind of music. Music that reduced me to tears. Music that I had to work and work and work to understand. Music that while not my words, my notes and my composition, somehow expressed my heart in a way my mouth had never learned to do alone. It was music that I shared with hundreds of other voices and an orchestra. Music that could only result when the words and the notes of a master are laid out before us, and we conform to the will of another master, and we each observe the silence and the sounds spelled out on the page with strict obedience, and we make our voices blend with others until, though myriad, the sound is as but one voice. One body that breathes together. One voice that with all of the power and soul of dozens of people who have bent their wills and their talents to serve something much greater than themselves. As a singer, there is nothing in the world like subsuming myself, disciplining myself, and allowing myself to disappear into the fabric of something that could go on without me, but that would not be the same if I did not lend my voice, my talents, and my commitment to be a part.
That, to me, is like liturgical prayer.
In liturgical prayer, I must become more than myself. I must conform. I must let go of my desire to be in the spotlight -- to have things my way. I must work, follow, listen, learn. I must submit. I become part of something much bigger than myself, which humbles me as it exalts me. It also teaches me a new song... one that has stood the test of time. One more beautiful and refined than my own songs, and one that makes my songs, when I allow them to stream forth, somehow richer and finer, because the beauty and perfection of the masterpiece has become part of me. It makes my own way more perfect. It turns my eyes from myself and my own heart to the face of Christ.
Musicians use the harmony of Bach as the guide because from it could be distilled rules and guidelines that allow even the least experienced musicians to create from a single melody a harmony that works. So, too, the Church uses liturgies to teach us how to pray, to help us crowd out the disorder and clutter of our minds with order and beauty. It puts scripture on our lips, into our hearts. It teaches us that we are not at the center of worship -- God is.
Liturgy and form-prayers do not take the place of our own hearts' groanings. They do not drown out our own songs. They don't take the place of our everyday conversation with God. They do not confine the Spirit. Instead, they make it possible for us, like Paul and Silas in jail, to sing hymns -- most likely the songs of David -- with the Psalmist himself. They allow us to be more than ourselves, and to be transformed when we pray, into our perfectly functioning part of the body, working in harmony with each other part in service to Christ, our Head.
Liturgy doesn't take away from the beauty of a quiet moment alone in God's presence. It doesn't silence our hearts. It does makes an ordinary moment extraordinary by transcending time, place, language and individuality by bringing the church of eternity into the moment we inhabit now. I can't help but find that beautiful.


Scheer rolls out an ambitious defence agenda, but critics ask: Where's the money?
The Conservative leader's foreign policy speech was a grab-bag of old party favourites - minus the specifics
A little joke used to make its way around the Harper Conservative government every time National Defence presented Andrew Scheer's former boss with the bills for new equipment — about how Stephen Harper would emit an audible 'gulp' of alarm when they crossed his desk.
Scheer, in the first of a series of election-framing speeches for the Conservatives, pledged yesterday to wrap his arms around Canada's allies, take the politics out of defence procurement, buy new submarines, join the U.S. ballistic missile defence program and expand the current military mission in Ukraine in an undefined way.
What was absent from the Conservative leader's speech — a greatest-hits medley of road-tested Conservative policy favourites, blended with jabs at the Trudeau government's record — was an answer to the first question his supporters usually ask on these occasions:
How are you going to pay for it?
Deficit hawk or defence hawk?
The Liberals have set the federal government on course to increase defence spending by 70 per cent by 2027. The cost of what Scheer is proposing — submarines and missile defence — would have to be shoehorned into that framework somehow. Either that, or he'd have to radically redesign the current defence spending program.
Scheer's speech was greeted with raised eyebrows by more than one defence sector observer. "When he starts talking about deficits, you can kiss all that goodbye," said Stephen Saideman, a professor of international affairs at Carleton University.
"In other speeches, he talked about being a deficit hawk. That would have real implications for the defence stuff."
The Harper government increased defence spending during the Afghan war and made a series of promises to revitalize the military, but ended up cutting its budget and postponing projects in order to eliminate the deficit.
'Harper all over again'
Saideman said Scheer's speech did not offer an ironclad guarantee that he'd avoid doing the same thing, and was even inaccurate in its characterization of the Liberals' record on defence spending.
A full half to two-thirds of the defence and foreign policy vision Scheer laid out, he said, was "Harper all over again" — but with some surprising differences.
His embrace of allies was much warmer than it was with the previous Conservative crowd, which tended to look upon NATO with a jaundiced eye.
"I will reinvigorate Canada's role in the alliances we share with our democratic allies. This includes existing alliances like NORAD, NATO, the Commonwealth, La Francophonie and the Five Eyes, but it will also include overtures to India and Japan," Scheer said.
He also pledged a Conservative government would do more in Eastern Europe.
"This will include expanding upon the current missions to support Ukraine and providing Ukraine's military with the equipment they need to defend their borders," said the Conservative leader.
Scheer didn't say in his speech what he wants Canada to do in Eastern Europe that it isn't doing now — short of putting combat troops on the front line of Ukraine's breakaway eastern districts, or selling offensive weapons to Kiev. Scheer did promise to take the lead on a potential United Nations peacekeeping mission, a proposal that has been out there in the international community for months and has largely gone nowhere.
Other ideas that often go nowhere filled out the rest of Scheer's speech — like the promise of a fix for the Canadian military's complex, cumbersome system for buying equipment.
Politicians are to blame, Scheer said.
"Military procurement in Canada is hyper-politicized, to our detriment," he said. "By playing politics with these matters, governments have diminished the important responsibility to adequately and expediently equip the Armed Forces."
To accept that argument, one must set aside his party's favourite rallying cry during the politically blistering F-35 debate of half a dozen years ago: If you don't support the plane, you don't support the troops.
Michael Byers, a University of British Columbia defence policy expert, said removing politics from procurement decisions would be a fantastic step forward, one that could save taxpayers boatloads of money by doing away with pet projects and regional interests.
"It's an admirable goal, but he would be the first prime minister ever to take the politics out of defence procurement," he said. "So, I'm skeptical about whether he would actually do so ... I take that statement with a very large grain of salt."
The absence of a clear fiscal pledge also troubles Byers, who noted that replacing Canada's Victoria-class submarines with either German or Swedish-built boats would be expensive. So would participation in ballistic missile defence, which has various levels of participation from research and development all the way up to anti-missile radar and batteries.
It is, he said, all about the dollars.
"I think that when we talk about defence spending and defence budgets, we have to talk about real money going out the door in terms of signed contracts," said Byers. And while both Liberal and Conservative governments have made billions of dollars in purchases of materiel over the last two decades, governments of both stripes have struggled to complete major procurement projects.


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New Orleans Saints pass rusher Cameron Jordan said in an interview that he needs a Super Bowl now.
Super Bowl 2015 is Goal of Saints’ Cameron Jordan
The Super Bowl 2015 is on February 1st 2015, but that does not mean that the big game is not already on NFL players minds. New Orleans Saints player Cameron Jordan seems pretty psyched about the next Super Bowl. In an interview with NFL he said: “I want a Super Bowl,” Jordan emphasized. “I’m heading into my fourth year, I need it. And it’s in Arizona this year. … I’m from there, and I need it.”
Well he sure is not the only NFL player who “needs a Super Bowl.” Watch the full interview with Cameron Jordan on NFL.com. Interesting fact related to yesterday’s massive win of Germany over Brazil in the World Cup. The game broke Twitter’s record for most Tweets per minute for a Sports event. 35.6 million Tweets/minute where posted compared to the 24.9 million of the previous record held by Super Bowl 2014.
The Super Bowl 2015 will take place on February 1, 2015, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, home of the Arizona Cardinals.
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