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Our border crossing into Iran took just under three hours, 1 hour in Turkey two hours in Iran. Border officials were helpful and most of the delay was caused by so many officials asking about our journey. Carol changed into her garb and immediately complained about the heat. What a fashion statement she made. Not the normal black covering but a plum (pale) gown with gold buttons and a black and white head piece bought in Tunis earlier in the year. The men all turned their heads and the women looked on in envy I'm sure.
Ken and Carol sporting her fetching chador in Bam, Iran.
We ride to Tabriz stopping for fuel at a state owned petrol station. Five US cents a litre is all we paid. Great stuff. The paved road was in good condition although the drivers had little respect for road rules. Arriving at Tabriz we pulled over to the kerb to peruse the Lonely Planet. A crowd gathers and before we know it an escort is guiding us to our selected Hotel. A change of plan recommended by our guides had us heading to a campground which would have been way to difficult for us to find. On arrival our guides Ali and Vahid made gestures and with some broken English that we should stay at Vahids house for the night, We had heard about this hospitality and gladly accepted. We enjoyed two nights with Vahid his wife Mahnaz and Mohomad their 4 month old son. Their hospitality extended beyond belief when they refused to allow us to pay for anything including a service on the bike and some welding repairs. (Centre stand hook and spring). With a Doctor friend and his wife we visited Kadovan, a village carved into rock face similar to Cappadocia in Turkey.
Leaving Tabriz we head to Ardabil enroute to the Caspian Sea. At Ardabil the weather clouded in and we rode through mist and rain for several kilometres before being stopped at a road block. We were ushered around the rock and mud barriers only to find three more further down the road until the last one we could not go around . The rain was quite heavy and the cloud cover very dark when five or six Iranians offerd to lift the bike over the obstacle.
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Locals lifting the bike over a road block, east of Ardabil, heading towards the Caspian Sea, Iran
On the coast (Caspian) the sky improved. Arriving at Rasht we had great difficulty in obtaining accomodation. Efforts of a money changer were to no avail although we all knew there was room at the hotels we were declined. Once again a local came to the rescue and we spent the night with an English school teacher and his wife.
We left late the next day for Tehran and crossed the mountains separating the Caspian from the remainder of a desert like Iran. The area around the Caspian is lush and green. Searching for a non existant campground out near the new International airport saw us return to Tehran around 10.30pm taking the first hotel we could find.
Leaving the next day we got lost and ran smack into army post. A plain clothes chap requested our passports and delayed our departure by almost 30 minutes. We had heard of the virtues of Esfahan and we were not dissappointed. Tree lined streets with greetings of Hello from almost everyone who walked past. The Amir Kabir Hotel although not plush provided a relaxed place to stay. Our Sth African friends Trevor and Noah on the KTM's were also there so our socialising over the next few days was even more fun. They were a big hit with the Iranian women. Plenty of smiles and hello's . We extended our visas here for another five days (giving us 15days) and enjoyed the sights as well as the Gaz (Nougat) and fruit jellies.
It was here that we met Claire and Mark from England riding two XT600's. They were also heading East.
Leaving the next day for Shiraz saw the road take us into some arid dry deserts with bare stoned mountains the only variance in the scenery. Crosswinds turned into headwinds as the local trucks and buses gave us friendly blasts on their many and varied horns.
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On the road in windy Iran.
Approximately 60 kms before Shiraz the ruins of Persopolis had us wandering around clicking our shutters and wondering how and why.
Trevor and Noah were equally impressed. As we parted (Trevor & Noah were heading to Turkmanestan) Claire and Mark arrived. We ventured to Shiraz to stay at the Anvari Hotel (secure parking) A day in Shiraz walking the Bazaar and struggling to find food other than Kebabs was enough.
Yazd was bustling as we rode into town. We copped the mandatory stares and I wondered how Iranians would react if the Western world stared at them when they ventured outside their borders. My attempts to negotiate down the hotel costs ( Aria Hotel) were futile but there was no other so back we went. This time Carol did the negotiating. A reduction was granted. Pure charm and skill. Two Danes riding XT600's and an Irishman (Connor) also on an XT600 found their way to the same Hotel. We explored the old mud city and the Zoroastrian Temple before heading off to Bam the next day.
We were joined by Connor on this leg and succeeded in loosing him twice enroute but eventually arrived together just on dark. Finding a bed at Ali Amiri's Legal Guest House in Bam saw us hook up with Claire and Mark again. We enjoyed wandering around Arg - E - Bam the old mud fortress and city which has been partly restored. During a tyre changing exercise behind the Guest House Connor had his M/cycle keys stolen. Beware!!! There is theft in Iran.
Leaving Bam we head to Mirjave, our party is now five people and four bikes. Just outside Bam we were stopped at a check point and our Passports taken. Questioning the delay I was told that the road ahead was dangerous and we would have to wait for an escort. Almost an hour passed when a uniformed man handed back our passports and said 'go'. As he walked away I called out "Escort" and opened the palms of my hands. He did not even reply. During this time several vehicles had passed through without so much as a momentary glance.
Carol became the group photographer on this leg to Mirjave. Some great photos of the bikes on the move. The only hotel in Mirjave plays a hard game. Charging more than the tourist spots and offering no hot water and quite dirty rooms in what could be an excellent establishment. To top it off they gave an exchange rate of 7,000 to US$1 instead of the usual 8,000 to US$1. Can't recommend this one.
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BAE SYSTEMS AWARDED LASER WARNING CONTRACT.BAE SYSTEMS BAE Systems
British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. Integrated Defense Solutions has received a $3.5 million contract from ATK ATK - Andrew Toolkit Integrated Defense Company, Clearwater, Florida Clearwater is a city located in central Pinellas County, Florida, USA, nearly due west of Tampa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 108,787; however, according to the 2005 U.S. Census Bureau's estimates, the city's population fell slightly to 108,687. , for production of an integrated laser warning receiver.
This contract is for deliveries of laser warning electronics to be integrated into the AN/AAR-47(V)2 Missile Warning Receiver produced by ATK Integrated Defense Company.
The AN/AAR-47(V)2 is the standard missile The Standard Missile is a type of surface-to-air missile (SAM) originally developed for the United States Navy (USN). The SM-1 was developed as a replacement for the RIM-2 Terrier and RIM-24 Tartar systems deployed in the 1950s on a variety of USN ships. and laser warning sensor A device that measures or detects a real-world condition, such as motion, heat or light and converts the condition into an analog or digital representation. An optical sensor detects the intensity or brightness of light, or the intensity of red, green and blue for color systems. system for more than 3,000 U.S. Navy and Air Force helicopters and transport aircraft. It is the only common housing, fully integrated missile and laser warning system on the market today. BAE SYSTEMS laser warning receiver integrates world-class sensor performance into the existing hardware of ATK's much-improved missile warning sensor.
Laser warning technology alerts aircrews that laser aided or guided threats are present, allowing time for appropriate counter action.
"As a world leader in fielded laser warning systems, we are extremely pleased to be on the ATK team," says Evan Corwin, BAE SYSTEMS laser warning program manager. "We look forward to providing this important upgrade in defensive capability to Navy and Air Force electronic sensor systems."
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The laser warning receivers are produced in Austin, Texas and assembled into the sensors by ATK Integrated Defense Company. This continues BAE SYSTEMS 15 year heritage of tactical laser warning receivers including commercial, advanced development, and military systems.
BAE SYSTEMS is a systems company, innovating for a safer world. BAE SYSTEMS employs 120,000 people and has annual sales of around $18 billion. The company offers a global capability in air, sea, land and space with a world-class prime contracting ability supported by a range of key skills.


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Decisions, decisions. Sneaker Weekend Chronicles. Starring my Jordan 6 Black Cats and Jordan 11’s. My Jordan 11’s, I have had for a while and they are beyond comfy. I am showing a picture of the 72-10s and the Black and red Jordan 11’s. The Black Cat 6’s recently dropped. The Black Cats have been criticized, because of the holes in the toe box. I think they look good and are a nice Add to my collections. I would have gone down 1 Size. I am a size 8, but s 7.5 would have been a little more snug.
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Clarence Gulbranson, USN
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"Born in Chicago, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1908. His assignments included extensive destroyer service, as well as three years as the Fort Mifflin Naval Ammunition Depot, Philadelphia, starting in 1937. Captain Gulbranson participated in the North African invasion during the recent war" (arlingtoncemetery.net).
He also commanded the destroyer USS Touchey (DD-282) from 28 Dec 1923 - 1924 (navsource.org).
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The SRX was Cadillac’s best selling crossover but it was unfortunately getting old and its buyers wanted something a bit more up to date. In order to meet their expectations, and likely exceed them, Cadillac released an all new car to release the aging SRX back at the end of 2015 with the all new 2017 Cadillac XT5. Its name suggests that it is a mid-sized crossover that will slot just under the upcoming XT7.
2017 Cadillac XT5 Release date and Price
While the car has already been released and Cadillac showcased most of the details already, the price as well as a few features are still unknown. These will be unveiled at the Chicago Auto Show in February 2016 while shortly after that, the car is expected to go on the market.
The price hasn’t been offered just yet but it will be next month. Until then, it is safe to assume that the XT5 will start at roughly $40,000 and it will go up from there. This will allow it to compete with the BMW X3 and the Audi Q5 as well as with its other American, European or Asian competitors.
Unlike the previous model, the new 2017 Cadillac XT5 is using an all new platform which has been derived from the highly modular E2XX mid-size sedan platform. This means that it is based on a front wheel drive chassis which allows Cadillac to improve the interior space and perfect the way the car drives on paved roads.
Engine of Cadillac XT5
Engine wise, the car will only be offered with a single engine choice in the US but this might change in the near future. The engine will be GM’s already well known 3.6 liter naturally aspirated V6 which is quite potent for its size at 310 horsepower and 270 lb-ft of torque.
This will drive either the front or all wheels via electronically controlled differentials and it will send all of that power via an 8 speed automatic gearbox. In the near future, the car is also expected to receive GM’s upcoming 9 speed automatic which has been in development for some time now.
Also, in order to keep its price down, a lesser engine will likely be offered on other markets. This will be GM’s 2 liter turbocharged inline 4 petrol engine which can be configured to deliver up to 275 horsepower and more than 290 lb-ft of torque.
A high performance version of the car is also expected to be released in order to compete with the Audi RS Q5 or the BMW X3 M. This will likely use the same twin-turbocharged 3.6 liter V6 found on the ATS, engine which is capable of delivering as much as 400 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque.
Cadillac XT5 2017 Design
The design of the new XT5 is certainly something unique and while it does share some of its traits with the other Cadillac cars, such as its front grille or muscular design, the front end features unique headlights which extend downwards with narrow LED strips that are then continued with the LED fog-lamps for a very interesting look.
Also, the front and rear bumpers of the car use silver plastic shields that together with the black or dark color choices make for a really nice contrast. The back takes a bit from the ATS but it also makes its own look which makes the XT5 look a lot more like a hot-hatchback rather than a tall crossover.
Interior of 2017 Cadillac XT5
Inside the cabin the 2017 Cadillac XT5 is offering the best materials GM has to give. The dashboard is minimalistic in design and it is covered in leather while the seats are very supportive and comfortable as well.
Standard features include GM’s infotainment system, 4G connectivity and a Wi-Fi hotspot while Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto are supported from the base model.


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Green thumb please.
Wow Jules! I wouldn't have looked at the snapshots if you hadn't mentioned them. You can see the green fields and then the flood water rising rapidly. You just don't expect this in June.
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text: Here at Hair Odyssey we specialize in hair color. We also do color corrections. Hair color is David ‘s most inspiring work in the salon. It is a fun and exciting way for people to experience a change in their hair style. Where you place the color (weather it be with foils, ombre or other color techniques) can completely change the look. Just painting color on can really turn out to be not what you were looking for. Natural color with denominational color is what we do a lot of, but also bold colors- bright right reds or blues. My favorite is dark dark brown with a some peek-a-boo purple. Schedule your appointment with Hair Odyssey today.

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After ten years, Statues is finally coming to an end. Our last show will be both sad, mourning the end of a huge part of our lives, but also a celebration of all the amazing times we had playing music together, and all the memories we will cherish forever. If you've ever been to a Statues show, you know that this is where we thrive. We live for the live show, and we live for your energy. Give it to us one last time before we shuffle off. Help us celebrate a decade of chaos.


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This graphic novel from 1995 tackles head on the subjects of civil rights and gay rights in the 1960s. Created by Howard Cruse, it draws on his experience of growing up in Birmingham, Alabama. It is a work of fiction, though, in which the main protagonist is a young white man called Toland Polk. His awareness of race issues and civil rights grows at the same time as he comes to terms with his own homosexuality.
The world was changing in the 60s and this novel reflects the complexity of that time with people’s willingness to abandon long held views of white superiority tested by the attacks on black people around them. One of the reasons I love this book is because it celebrates the diversity of the human experience. Plus, it sticks up for important principles such as equality and justice.
Toland’s sister and her husband are important in his life, not just because they take him in when his parents are killed, because they stand for the traditional values and firm beliefs that he comes to reject. While his sister shows more human compassion, her husband’s views on black people and homosexuals are firm and unbending. Sammy Noone, a sailor home from the sea and openly gay, opens Toland’s eyes to another way of life but it isn’t one he is prepared to be open about just yet.
This is a complex graphic novel with dense pages full of activity. As Howard Cruse explained in an interview he gave, he wanted the complexity of a life over a year to be shown. It isn’t something you can summarise in a sentence.
‘Stuck Rubber Baby’ is an important book. It reminds us that many of our rights and freedoms in the western world were not easily won and should not be given up without a struggle. It is in my hinterland. What’s in yours?

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Peter Schwartz is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings. Mr. Schwartz advises on high-yield debt offerings, primary and secondary equity offerings, restructurings, acquisition financings and general compliance issues for European and North American clients seeking securities law advice.
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LEBANON, Tenn. – Cumberland junior Taylor Blankenship received official word late Monday, receiving official word of her place as an individual in the 38th Annual NAIA Cross Country Championships set for Saturday, November 18 in Vancouver, Wash.
Blankenship earned one of the Mid-South Conference four individual berths into the national championships with a 10th-place finish in this past week’s conference championships. Shawnee State won the team title at the event, taking spots 1-5 and No. 9, leaving the next four best individuals to earn the league’s automatic berths.
Blankenship becomes the first Cumberland runner, male or female, to reach the national championships since the program was reinstated in 2012. She missed almost all of the 2016 cross country season with an injury and was the team’s top finisher in each of the last two races.

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During the past 24 hours, 2 High School Students have overdosed and been hospitalized as a result of overdosing on heroin laced “Vape Pens”. Preliminary testing on one of the “Vape” solutions has indicated that the solution contained heroin, and other opioids as well as a significant number of other chemicals.
These types of solutions are extremely dangerous and potentially fatal from as little as one use. Anyone using, in possession of, or if you know of anyone in possession of vape solutions that were NOT purchased directly from a retail store are asked to either turn them in to school administration, law enforcement or throw them away. At least one of the devices was sold as liquid marijuana, which is also dangerous in these types of devices and possibly fatal when mixed with other chemicals and controlled substances.
Should any parent suspect that their child is in possession of the vape pen or vaping solution, please throw it away or turn it in to law enforcement for possible testing. The Morgantown Police Department is not interested in charging anyone that turns these items in, but is focused on the source of this potentially deadly product.

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Do you feel the need for speed but don’t want to incur all the dangers and dangers that come with driving a real car at high speed? Not to mention the cost of repairs when a real race car crashes. If this is you, try your hand at slot car racing. As you know, model slot car racing has become immensely popular both nationally and internationally.
Today, model slot car racing belongs to a group of model car racing that includes radio controlled, better known as RC racing and others.
The very very basics of slot car racing
Model slot cars are powered electronically from a battery or some electrical source provided to the car by a metal strip on either side of the slot.
The track on which the slot car runs consists of the word forest or slot (hence ‘slot’ car), on which the car is guided with the help of pins or blades like devices on the lower carriage of the car. Only one slot car will occupy one slot88. For example, if you have an 8-lane track, up to 8 vehicles can circulate the track.
Each slot connects to a power source, such as a power pack or battery, which ensures that the power supply remains stable while the slot car is on the track. To prevent the slot car from jumping out of the slot, some slot cars under the carriage have some sort of magnet that keeps the electric model car in constant contact with the metal strip even at high speeds. Some model car blades are magnetized to achieve the same effect as undercarriage magnets. The car’s speed is controlled by pulling the trigger on a pistol-grip joystick in the hand of the slot car operator. When you pull the trigger, the slot car speeds up, and when you release the trigger, the electric model car slows down or comes to a complete stop.
Slot car racing is truly international. International competitions are held abroad every year. There are two HO scale automotive organizations called the United Federation of HO Racers Association (UFHORA) and the HO Professional Racing Association (HOPRA). Each year, both organizations host national and international events across the country. These events are not only for slot car racing, but also to raise awareness of slot car racing in general.
I want to race slot cars. How do I get started?
So you want to race, huh? If you’re a true newbie to slot car racing, I recommend first joining a local or nationally recognized slot car organization in your neighborhood.
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China introduced several tax incentives in 2022 to boost regional economic development in the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone in Hengqin (“Hengqin”) and Nansha district of Guangzhou (“Nansha”), including:
- Enterprises registered in Hengqin with operational substance in Hengqin are entitled to a reduced corporate income tax (CIT) rate of 15%, provided that enterprises are engaged in projects that fall within the Hengqin Catalogue for CIT Preferential Treatments.
- Enterprises registered in Hengqin engaged in tourism, modern service, and high-tech industries are exempted from CIT on the income generated by new overseas direct investment.
- Capital expenditures that meet certain requirements are eligible for deduction in one lump sum or accelerated depreciation or amortisation methods.
- For domestic or overseas high-end talents and talents in short supply working in Hengqin, their portion of individual income tax (IIT) that exceeds an effective tax rate of 15% is exempted.
- For Macao residents working in Hengqin, their portion of IIT exceeding the tax burden calculated under Macao’s individual tax regime is exempted.
- From 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2026, enterprises registered in the trial-run areas of Nansha (covering 23 square kilometers) with operational substance are entitled to a reduced CIT rate of 15%, provided that the enterprise is engaged in projects that fall within the Catalogue for CIT Preferential Treatments of Nansha.
- From 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2026, unutilized tax losses up to 8 years before a Nansha enterprise becomes an HNTE or technological SME may be carried forward to a maximum of 13 years, provided that the HNTE or technological SME is engaged in the high-tech key industries in the Catalogue for CIT Preferential Treatments of Nansha. This preferential treatment is applicable to the entire Nansha area covering 803 square kilometers.
- From 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2026, for Hong Kong residents working in Nansha, their portion of IIT which exceeds the Hong Kong tax burden shall be exempted; for Macao residents working in Nansha, their portion of IIT which exceeds the Macao tax burden shall be exempted.
The Stamp Duty Law of the People's Republic of China (the “SD Law") came into effect on 1 July 2022. As compared with the abolished provisional regulations on SD, the SD Law in general maintains the framework of the previous stamp tax system.


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The skeleton rider tears through town on his Norton Commando, a cafe racer style motorcycle that’s old school cool.
A large wood panel was cut, sanded, and painted to create a rusty background for the cafe racer, the underpainting was created with white gouache, and all of the line work was painted with dark brown 1 Shot enamel, which is the same paint pinstripers use to detail motorcycles and hot rods. The entire piece was then clear coated to lock in the gouache and unify the colors.


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Every year, the gaming universe expands even further. A steady increase of gamers has occurred throughout time, and this trend is not expected to slow down any time soon. There might be as many as 3.5 billion gamers around the globe by 2023.
You might always attempt a different type of game genre this year. Particularly if you play the same games over and over again, it would be great to change things up a little.
Here are some new game genres to consider to spice up your gaming experience.
Playing in an open-world game
Players in open-world games have complete control over their movements in a virtual environment devoid of fixed objects, sometimes known as a sandbox or position game. This “non-linear” form of gameplay produces a really realistic, life-like experience that is significantly different from other sorts of games. This is a huge gaming subgenre that includes classics from decades ago as well as newer releases that are rapidly gaining in popularity.
Online casino games are a great way to spice things up in your gaming life. Since there is an element of risk when playing gambling games it ensures an exciting experience that is guaranteed to get you hooked. Today’s online casino games have evolved a lot in terms of graphics and how you engage with the game. It’s very common to see a live dealer option when playing games like roulette. When playing the live version, it makes roulette much more immersive since you can interact with the dealer in real-time. For more information regarding the best roulette games, you can check out this source of information on the best roulette online games on the market. Apart from offering a fun experience, casino games also offer the possibility of winning money!
Simulations of everyday life
Life-simulation games are yet another type of game to explore this year. Titles like these are well-known in the gaming community, so you may already be familiar with them. Avatars, as the name indicates, allow players to interact with virtual environments by manipulating the actions, voice, and movement of other avatars. A real escape from ordinary life may be found in life simulation games, yet the worlds we inhabit in these games may not be all that different from our own.
Games of Sport
This is a great opportunity for sports fans and gamers alike who haven’t yet discovered the joys of sports gaming. F1 and Fifa are just two of this year’s most anticipated sports-themed video games. This means that no matter what your favorite sport is, there is a game out there for anyone. And don’t forget that Twitch has a wide variety of genres to choose from.
Survival action games, a genre of action games, have taken off in recent years. Resident Evil was one of the first (although a linear) survival horror games, whereas more recent survival games like Fortnite allow players to obtain materials to create tools, weapons, and shelter to survive as long as possible in open-world gaming environments.
Puzzles and party games
As with party games, puzzlers have a lot in common, with both focusing on gameplay mechanics. A themed game or a standard tabletop game with specific rules might be expected.
Multiplayer is a common feature in party games, which extends the concept even further. Playability is another area where they’ve stepped it up a notch. The Mario Party series has produced more than ten games and spin-offs, making it one of the most popular.
It is possible for puzzlers to be as basic as Minesweeper or as complex as a full-fledged game with hybrid gameplay. A notable example of this is the Tomb Raider series, which incorporates puzzles into the story and setting in a way that elevates them to the status of essential gameplay elements. In addition, mini-maps are often offered as riddles that must be solved (or revealed) as the game progresses.

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It’s no surprise that a man who started as the son of immigrants from Jamaica, then rose through the U.S. military to serve with presidents and take calls from kings, would believe in the American dream yet be adamant that we must all have a global perspective.
What may be surprising is that General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), who has been privy to classified information about some of the most seemingly unsolvable international problems of our times, is highly optimistic about the U.S., the world and the future — and he wants you to be, too.
In the Public Affairs Convocation speech he gave March 20 at JQH Arena, Powell discussed his time as a worldwide dignitary and his suggestions for future leaders. He advocated for economic growth, especially in energy and tech industries, as well as universal health care and environmental concerns.
Other key points:
“I will use the example of the Founding Fathers.” They had to make “a terrible choice” on slavery, but the “three-fifths of a person” compromise allowed them to create a nation in a few weeks. “And then I look at the Congress we have sitting in Washington today, and there are 535 of them, and they can’t pass a budget. This is disgraceful.”
“Increasingly, (for-profit cable news channels) only focus on one part of the perspective. … The problem with it is that, if you just watch those who feel the way you do, you don’t learn about the other side.”
“The reality is that America is safer now than perhaps it’s ever been. There is no existential threat to our existence as a nation.” Yes, global crises will pop up — but “we’re safe … don’t be too fearful.” He said rising powers such as China and India want to be our financial friends, and potential enemies can’t match our industrial or military strength.
After leaving public office, “I bought me a Corvette. Anybody here who’s older than 70 having any kind of troubles, man, get you a Corvette. The police in northern Virginia were not happy with this solution.”
Nothing is beyond your reach. “It’s what you do with life (that) will determine where you end up in life. Never give up. Never give up.”
Powell’s visit was sponsored by Trailiner Corporation, the Missouri State University Foundation and the David D. Glass Lecture Series.


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Rong-I Wu is the Chairman of Taiwania Capital Management Corporation and Senior Advisor to the President of Taiwan, and the Chairman of Taiwan Water Resources and Agricultural Research Institute, the Board Member of Taiwan Thinktank, and Senior Adviser of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.
Dr. Wu served as Chairman of Taiwan Brain Trust, Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan, Chairman of Taiwan Stock Exchange, and Chairman of Taiwan Futures Exchange. He was Advisor to the Taiwan delegation to the APEC Ministerial and Leaders’ Meetings. He was also the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Economics, National Chung-Hsing University and the President of Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.
Dr. Wu received BA and MA in Economics, National Taiwan University in 1962 and 1965, and Ph.D. in Economics in 1971 from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

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About Employee Retention Qualifications
ERC is incentive program designed to help those companies that had the ability to retain their employees during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Developed by the CARES Act, it is a refundable tax credit award, not a loan that you can apply for your service. The ERC is available to both mid-sized and small businesses. It is based upon certified incomes and also healthcare paid to staff members.
As much as $26,000 per employee
Offered for 2020 as well as the first 3 quarters of 2021
Qualify with decreased income or COVID event
No limit on funding
ERC is a refundable tax credit
Just how much cash can you expect back?
You can assert approximately $5,000 per employee for 2020. For 2021, the credit can be approximately $7,000 per worker per quarter.
Exactly how do you understand if your service is eligible?
To qualify, your business needs to have been negatively impacted in either of the specified ways:
A government authority required complete or partial closure of your organization during 2020 or 2021. This includes your operations being restricted by business, inability to travel or limitations of team conferences.
Gross invoice reduction standards is different for 2020 and 2021, yet is measured versus the current quarter as compared to 2019 pre-COVID amounts.
A service can be qualified for one quarter as well as not additional quarters.
Under the CARES Act of 2020, companies were not able to apply for the ERC if they had currently received relief Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) financing. With brand-new regulation in 2021, employers are currently qualified for both programs. The ERC, however, can not implement the exact same wages as the ones for PPP.
Developed by the CARES Act, it is a refundable tax credit grant, not financing that you can declare for your company. The ERC is offered to both mid-sized and small services. It is based on qualified wages as well as medical care paid to workers.
Under the CARES Act of 2020, businesses were not able to certify for the ERC if they had actually currently received a funds the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan.


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Do you remember when you first picked up a Harry Potter book? Attended your first midnight book launch party (staying up until midnight for a book party was considered badass to me at 10, just go with it)? Or spending countless hours reading this book series? I sure remember these memories vividly. It has been 9 years since J.K. Rowling published the 7th (and final at the time) book of the series. Needless to say, many people were beyond excited for the release of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child on July 31! This newest addition to the series is based on the play script for the highly anticipated new performance in London. Taking place 19 years from where it left off.
Of course I had to attend the midnight release for this book as I did in the past, definitely brought back nostalgic memories. I snapped a bunch of photos from one of the Indigo releases I was at. You bet I was excited!
Each purchase came with a themed tote bag and some colouring sheets. *I purchased the chess bookstand a few years ago and was not included in this tote.
There were a few props around to take some Instagram moments 😉
Giddy like an 8 year old again when I got my hands on a copy!
I don’t want to give too many spoilers as the book was just released. It is definitely different than the previous books in the series given that this is a play script, but I enjoyed it and looking forward to watching the play when I visit London soon! I think the acting would add some richness to the thoughts and feelings Rowling envisioned. In the meantime, think of this book as an appetizer sampler at a nice restaurant, and the play is the entree to really experience the Chef’s tricks and skills.
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As a Canadian company, Encana
Encana recently established a goal of doubling its production over the next five years. This is what the company achieved over the 2003-2008 time frame, so there's great precedent here. The company's asset base -- now highly concentrated on natural gas resource plays following the spinoff of Cenovus Energy
A key question for investors is whether Encana can balance its growth goals with its return requirements. Encana averaged production of 3.3 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe) per day in the first quarter, so we are talking about a very material addition to North American gas supply. It's conceivable that Encana's production growth -- coupled with that of XTO Energy
In Encana's view, the current industry cost structure suggests a long-term price range of $6 to $7 per million BTU (British thermal units). The company views current prices of around $4 as unsustainably low, and says it's investing with a view to these long-term prices. If the company's analysis of market dynamics is correct -- and it does match up with Chesapeake Energy's
In the meantime, Encana's not exactly suffering. The company's hedges enabled natural gas price realizations of more than $6 per Mcf this quarter, and at that level operations are kicking off plenty of cash flow to support this year's $4.5 billion capital budget.
Among all the heavily natural gas-weighted exploration and production companies, Encana is one of the safest bets for patient investors. This may not be a household name today, but once everyone stops hating natural gas, it could be.
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Congleton Town Hall is 150 years old this year and it has probably never heard anything quite like the concert given by the Harvestehude Symphony Orchestra and Congleton Choral Society last Friday night (20th May).
The Harvestehude Symphony, directed by Harish Shankar, hails from Hamburg, Germany, and is on a UK tour. The packed town hall was treated to a wonderful evening of music. The concert began with Handel's Coronation Anthem My Heart is Inditing, in which the orchestra were joined by our very own Congleton Choral Society. The choir were fresh from their triumph performing Elgar's Dream of Gerontius at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the confidence that this must have brought to the members shone through. Their account of Handel's music for the Coronation of George II and Queen Caroline in 1727 was radiant. All parts were heard clearly and diction was admirable.
Of particular note was the young and soaring sound produced by the sopranos. A wonderful chocolate-smooth and broad tone was delivered by the altos, a section of the choir that is really on form. Congleton can be very proud of such a great choir and we look forward to their next offering in the Town Hall on 23rd July, when their Grand Anniversary Concert will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the hall, which boasts an enviable acoustic.
The most deeply felt music of the evening followed, with a rendition by the Harvestehude Symphony and cellist Jakob Stepp of Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B Minor. Dvorak was greatly admired by Brahms, who said after hearing this work, "It is beautiful, and if I had realised one could write a concerto like this for the cello, I would have done so myself!"
Stepp is a tender 25-year-old from Stuttgart and equals Harish Shankar in musical talent and communication. From the start he was focused, lost in the moment and delivering every phrase, idea and musical argument with conviction and truth. The opening movement was impressive and well balanced by Shankar and his players, who are as good at listening and accommodating a soloist as they are at giving of their own sound.
The second movement, however, was something very special indeed. This adagio was given with such intensity and beauty that the whole hall was held enwrapped in enchantment; a spell woven by a special player exploring some amazing music. The intense lyrical theme of this slow movement is said by some to be a requiem for the composer's sister who died during its composition. By others it is said to be a love letter to one of Dvorak's violin pupils, and when the theme is sung out by cello and solo violin in the finale of the piece, it is perhaps clear that it is as much about the loss of love as the loss of life. This is only a short reverie in an otherwise exuberant finale, full of ideas. Stepp's technique was a match for the whole piece and he pulled off the finale with great verve. It is often stated that this cello concerto has problems of balance between soloist and orchestra, but these players seemed to have sorted it out, to the great pleasure of all in the hall.
The second half of the concert featured a performance by the talented Hamburgers of Brahms' Symphony No.1 in C Minor. This is a young orchestra and the almost 70 strong ensemble got off to an unsure and hesitant start. Harish Shankar, who directed without a score, soon pulled things together and the first movement gave a solid and forceful statement of intent, as Brahms surely intended. Shankar is a young musician with bags of talent and a wonderful gift for communication. A smile and a gentle gesture brings a glorious silvery tone from his strings. He is able to bring out the inner voices of the lower strings and give his woodwind, horns and brass sections the space to breath and shape their contributions.
The second movement 'Andante sostenuto' was a revelation. Shankar extended the long string phrases and varied their delivery, whilst allowing the oboe 'shepherd's pipe' solo to soar. The effect was to change the musically rigorous and formal Brahms into something more akin to a Pastoral Fantasy. Truly wonderful!
The tricky third movement Allegretto was handled by these players with aplomb and we were left wondering what they could do with the glorious finale. They did not disappoint. An air of expectancy and tension was created from the start and whilst the tendency for Brahms' music to sometimes feel like being repeatedly hit over the head by a highly intellectual brick was not quite assuaged, the orchestra delivered the horn calls like a siren of love, the emphatic Allegro theme like a plea for certain hope and the brass heavy coda like a cry of triumph.
The orchestra and chorus combined for a final encore of Parry's I was Glad. Parry was a gifted composer and a huge influence on English music at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He idolised Brahms, but unfortunately, as evidenced by the piece, was no match for his idol in orchestration. However, the players let rip, as did the choir, and it was a fitting way to end a marvelous evening. Well done to all involved, and well done particularly to Congleton's great Choral Society who can hold their own in lofty company.


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Monday, February 17, 2014
52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS #6:GEORGE BARROWS PT2
I'd seen reference once before to iron ore and George Barrows in Florence O'
Connor's book on my Dunham and Ellingwood ancestors but hadn't really given
it much thought. But as I was researching George for this past week's 52 Ancestors
in 52 Weeks post I ran into more information in Henry Griffith's History of the Town
of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review, 1637-1910.
First, some knowledge about the location of the Barrows homestead which is
of use. The pond mentioned is Sampsons Pond, which was named after a local
Reckoned from the standpoint of continued influence, George Barrows and John
Murdock were the pioneers of South Carver. Through marital connections Caleb
Cushman, (whose wife was a daughter of George Barrows), established the Cushman
farm about 1740; and later the Saverys were settled in the village through the Barrows
girls. The Barrows property skirted the west shore of the pond and John Murdock held
the claim to the land on the east side. The pond itself was lightly regarded, except for
the fish it yielded and the grassy coves for their hay giving and pasturage qualities. Grassy Island was also used as a pasture, being approached through a slough from the west shore. The old Barrows' homestead stood at the junction of Mayflower road with Rochester road; the Murdock homestead was the farm on the east side of the pond, later known as the Israel Thomas farm; the Tillson farm was located about midway between Rochester road and Meadows road, in what is now known as New Meadows; and it is probable that the main highway at that time passed the Tillson
house, the Silas Shaw house, the Barrows house and the Murdock house and so on to the fishery at the outlet of the pond. Rochester road as we travel it, was laid out in 1698, but it is probable that the main travel south was on the east side of the pond,
and the old roads leading to Halfway ponds and Agawam, show signs of having once
been main travelled roads.p61-62
The location of the Barrows and Murdock homesteads came into play because of the
rich iron ore deposits beneath Sampsons Pond.
The operation of Popes Point furnace created a demand for bog ore that gave life to industrial Plympton and the swamps and ponds were regarded as valuable properties.
A rich bed of this ore was found in Sampsons Pond and tributary coves which was being turned to a source of profit to the abutters when the officials of the town raised the point that the bog was public property. The matter found its way into Town meeting in 1749, where the private claimants were defeated and agents appointed to guard the interests of the public. After a few years of clashing between these factions the courts decided in favor of the private claimants and the pond passed to the control of George Barrows and Bartlett Murdock who in 1758 signed an indenture whereby a line was established extending from a point on the northerly shore to a point near the connection of Sampsons brook, Barrows to have the ore on the westerly side of the line, and Murdock the ore on the easterly side, while each was bound to guard the property of the other against poachers. p198
Eventually Murdock would build a second furnace, the Charlotte Furnace, and for about
a hundred years Carver was one of the leading producers of iron cooking and kitchen utensils in the colonies. When the iron ore deposits began to run out in town, more ore was imported from other town in the area and from as far away as New Jersey. Eventually the industry died out, and today the town of Carver is better known for its cranberry bogs and the Edaville Railroad Park and Museum.
But my ancestor George Barrows and members of his family had played a part when Carver was know for its iron furnaces.
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Risk of venous thromboembolism among hospitalizations of adults with selected autoimmune diseases.
Previous research has suggested autoimmune diseases are risk factors for developing venous thromboembolism (VTE). We assessed whether having diagnoses of selected autoimmune diseases associated with antiphospholipid antibodies--autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)--were associated with having a VTE diagnosis among US adult hospitalizations. A cross-sectional study was conducted using the 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. VTE and autoimmune diseases were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification coded diagnoses information. The percentages of hospitalizations with a VTE diagnosis among all non-maternal adult hospitalizations without any of the four autoimmune diseases of interest and among those with AIHA, ITP, RA, and SLE diagnoses were 2.28, 4.46, 3.35, 2.65 and 2.77%, respectively. The adjusted odds ratios (OR) for having a diagnosis of VTE among non-maternal adult hospitalizations with diagnoses of AIHA, ITP, RA, and SLE were 1.25 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.05-1.49], 1.20 (95% CI 1.07-1.34), 1.17 (95% CI 1.13-1.21), and 1.23 (95% CI 1.15-1.32), respectively, when compared to those without the corresponding conditions. The adjusted OR for a diagnosis of VTE associated with a diagnosis of any of the four autoimmune diseases was 1.20 (95% CI 1.16-1.24). The presence of a diagnosis of AIHA, ITP, RA, and SLE was associated with an increased likelihood of having a VTE diagnosis among the group of all non-maternal adult hospitalizations.
Yusuf, HR; Hooper, WC; Beckman, MG; Zhang, QC; Tsai, J; Ortel, TL
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Mitsui & Co.’s wholly-owned subsidiary Anagra S.A., a Chilean fertilizer distribution company, has invested in Equilibra Peru S.A., a fertilizer distribution company which is part of the Romero Group, the largest conglomerate in Peru. On June 26, 2017, a ceremony was held in Lima to mark the investment in the company.
The Peruvian agricultural sector is experiencing fast growth, centered on fruits and vegetables, supported by government policies which endorse the export of high-value added crops and support irrigation farming. By 2030, the country’s fertilizer market is expected to double its current size.
In neighboring Chile, Anagra S.A., which boasts the highest fertilizer sales figures in the country, deploys agricultural specialist (agronomists) to carry out guidance on the latest farming methods and optimum fertilization, such as analyzing customer data and agricultural soil. Through this investment, Mitsui aims to contribute to the growth of the Peruvian agricultural industry by effectively introducing such methods to Equilibra Peru S.A.
Just prior to this investment in June 2017, Anagra S.A. celebrated 25 years since its establishment, and going forward the company aims to achieve further success together with the Mitsui & Co. Group, with the goal of enhancing its value-added offerings in its base in Chile and expanding its business in Peru. This investment is also a starting point for further strengthening the comprehensive partnership with the Romero Group.
Equilibra Peru S.A.’s Corporate Profile
|Company Name||Equilibra Peru S.A.|
|Location||Peru / Lima|
|Date of Establishment||June 2017 (Predecessor Romero Group entered the fertilization market in October 2014)|
|Major business areas||Production and sales of fertilizer products|

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You wake on the first of the year in a lighthouse on the Hudson River, after a good nine hours of sleep. Frost blurs the windows. Wind skips along the water. Your wife is sleeping, your friends and their just-turned-one-year-old, your godson, are sleeping. You stand, shivering slightly, and stare at the ice coating the glass. You try to think of something profound to think about, but instead you’re thinking: my feet are freezing; where are my pants; will there be bacon.
There is bacon, and coffee, and a coal-fired stove, and all the other things you expect from a lighthouse in the middle of the Hudson River, where last night you watched Jupiter reflected on the rippling waters. More and more these days, you seem to be glancing back and forth between this world and others.
Back in Cambridge, snow falls. Your mother has given you a rock hammer for a Christmas gift. It was made by her late father, Fayette Rumsey Plumb II, the last in a long line of hammer and hatchet makers. Your grandparents’ cats, when you were growing up, were named Hammer and Hatchet. Whenever you see the crimson handle gleaming in a hardware store, you feel a sense of pride, even though Plumb hammers are now made across the Pacific.
You are reminded at Harvard that all of these things, cats and rock hammers and grandparents, are made out of atoms, which in turn are made out of even smaller particles. Dimitar Sasselov says, in a room half-filled with freshman athletes looking at Facebook,“If you gain weight, you’re gaining quarks.” For lunch, many winter days, you order tofu bahn mi from a truck. Someone has shaped quarks into hot sauce, thank god. It’s shaping up to be a long winter.
You fly to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to see some old friends. You attend their daughter’s first luau, record the clattering, moaning sounds of whales underwater, drink non-decaf coffee against your better judgment. Sun warms the red soils of Waimea. A drone buzzes by on its way out to a flock of surfers. Here’s the largest wave you have ever seen; there’s the sun crawling down again into the Pacific; that must be Comet Lovejoy above the trembling palms.
You premiere a new film in New York City, and the theater forgets to put the film on the marquee. Well, it’s been a busy week. We’re so sorry. Happy new year. You get good reviews, friendly audiences, and the amusing sight of chicken nuggets on a large screen. Your brother, briefly home from Thailand, joins for the premiere, and on the drive back north you listen to all the old songs, passing all the New England towns.
During the lull between semesters at MIT, you spend January editing a new film. It’s coalescing, each scene a rocky planetesimal jostling into position with others, falling steadily into orbit. Eventually, after a few more asteroid collisions and tectonic shifts, you will have planet Bluespace. But not just yet.
There’s snow to shovel, so you shovel snow, which falls and falls, breaking records, wounding souls. You scrape the hell out of the Subaru with your snow shovel. Amanda photographs lost mittens, feeds the wild rabbits of MIT’s pedestrian paths, reminds you she’s from Birmingham.
A geophysicist from UC-Berkeley explains his theory that the famous Chicxulub asteroid triggered an increase in the eruption of the Deccan Traps in India. Double dogging the dinosaurs. Perhaps the two sparring camps - asteroid impact vs massive vulcanism - can be friends, or rather blood-relatives, but more study is needed before all are satisfied with the verdict. Jury’s been out for 65 million years. Dimitar Sasselov, strapping on a motorcycle helmet to demonstrate Newtonian motion, gives it a sniff and says, “someone must have perished in this. Lots of bone fragments.”
You spend a weekend in Maine with two friends who have bought a house in the woods. Much of the night is spent shoveling snow off the roof, and falling off the roof into the snowbanks piled four feet high. On the other side of the country, Phil Levine passes away. You read his poems aloud, try to call your brother. You cross country ski across a lake, and watch the dry snow whirling above the frozen ice, ice which hovers so solidly above the depths of the lake, broken only now and again by the augurs of ice fishermen who camp out in tiny huts, each hut a spaceship of warmth plunked down on this frozen world. Later that afternoon you collect rock maple and oak to stoke a fire in a neighbor’s sauna, plunging you and your friends briefly onto the surface of Venus.
Back in Cambridge, a professor from Cornell describes his idea for ELF, the Enceladus Life Finder, an instrument he wants to use to sample the volatiles spewing out of one of Saturn’s smaller moons.
You wish him the best of luck, and fly with Amanda to Las Vegas. You rent a car and drive two fast hours to Death Valley, where you rent a motel room a few hundred feet below sea level. The stars blaze in the warm night. A local retiree demonstrates the flutes he has made from PVC piping. Europeans stand around looking for wifi. In the morning, you make peanut butter sandwiches before dawn, and drive to the top of the area’s highest peak, where the temperature drops to freezing, and the wind pulls at your tripod, making it whistle like a flute. You haven’t dressed well. You have put far too much peanut butter on Amanda’s sandwich, and it has exploded in the rental car like a full diaper.
You take pictures of rocks, salt, and tiny plastic astronauts. You remember filming here at night with your father for The City Dark, under the brightest stars with the hottest midnight wind. The deepest place in America is a valley for collecting memories.
Back in Cambridge, the snow tapers off. An Italian named Jacopo speaks to you and the Knight fellows about a floating nuclear power plant. It stirs a commotion in the seminar room. You drink green tea and remember a book from your high school days called The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps.
The days are getting longer, because your part of the Earth is tilting more towards the sun, and the days and nights together are getting longer, because the Earth’s rotation is slowing down, tugged on by the Moon. The Moon recedes. Water lubricates the tectonic plates of the globe, and North America moves away from Africa. Rifts in the ocean refresh the surface of the Earth, cooled by the circulating sea. Plumes of lava make islands.
You fly to an island in the Atlantic with Amanda. Your taxi winds through calcium carbonate canyons, depositing you finally on a small hill overlooking a beach with pink sands. For six days, you squint at the blue sea, trying to see whales. Near the shore, large parrot fish snack on the coral reef, jostling in the waves like kaleidoscopic windsocks, close enough that you watch them from the beach, not two leagues from your sun-screened feet. You and Amanda play mini-golf by the sea, until the evening grows dark (and, well, stormy), and you catch a minivan taxi back home with an older couple from Ontario who raise hundreds of thousands of confinement layer hens. Their children are tending them while they’re gone.
Tap water here is rainwater, collected from the gleaming whitewashed roofs. The houses are made of limestone, carved from the island itself, thousands of feet of calcium carbonate sitting atop the unseen volcanic rock. Where the sea chews at the island, the limestone is jagged, sharp, pockmarked, somewhat extraterrestrial. There are chitons, which the locals call suckrocks, and crabs, and a professorial couple from Pennsylvania who drink loudly in the early afternoon. You sit on the pink sands and read The Nitrogen Fix, a science fiction novel written by one of your high school astronomy mentors, the late Hal Clement. In it, Earth has been transformed into another world, all oxygen gone from the atmosphere.
Back in Cambridge, you buy frozen fruit at the grocery store, and avoid moving your car for fear of losing your parking space. Finally, you move your car, and end up at a wind turbine testing facility along the Mystic River. The wood in the turbines is balsa. Engineers bend the turbine blades until they snap or shatter. These are the wind bones of the Mystic. Later, on a tour of the watershed, you ride a water taxi along the river with Olga, George and Wade, and Olga remarks on the remarkable number of American flags in America. You eat two enormous cookies given to you by a waterfront developer.
You learn the methods for finding planets beyond our solar system. You learn of an old time wine glass chiller called a monteith. How many monteiths are there in the universe? A planetary scientist tells you there may be more planets than stars in the universe. Amanda spends hours in the pottery studio, and comes home covered in clay.
You attend a panel on climate change, and behind the speakers are projected real-time tweets and the results of surveys being sent out to the audience. It’s so distracting and obscene that you want to throw a rock hammer at someone. Instead you make a list of the films you intend to make after leaving MIT, and meet your mother for lunch at Legal Seafood, where she orders an Arnold Palmer. You talk of many things. Easter comes, and your parents have filled the yard with chocolates. Billie the cat, among the tulips, lets nothing go unnoticed.
At night, you eat Cuban food with Amanda, your sister, and your future brother-in-law, before seeing the New England Revolution do battle in Foxboro. Your sister remarks that this is where the Neponset River begins. Everyone decides against chicken fingers. Musketeers fire their muskets. It’s not a long drive home.
In Maine, you and the fellows visit a laboratory filled with millions of mutant mice. Your friend Bob, tasting the local cheddar soup, declares that he wants a hot tub filled with cheddar soup. Wade says to some post-docs, “you don’t necessarily want to get into a war with trolls.” You see brown mice, black mice, white mice, hairless mice. At night, the wind howls harshly. You play Scattergories for the first time in 15 years, and in the morning you go running down a long trail to the sea. Frogs peep. Maine calls.
Back in Massachusetts, your father has curated a gallery show and invited you to show a few films. You see your 2nd-grade teacher, now retired, and you talk about oceans and China, as you did when you were eight. A high school classmate, briefly home from Kurdistan, tells you that no one wants to hear what it’s like being bombed.
In Cambridge, you meet the charming director of a major observatory. He says the Orion Nebula is in Orion’s belt, and you think better of correcting him, because he’s smarter than you are, and perhaps one man’s sword is another’s belt. So you drive to Ithaca with Olga, Roberto & Giovana to eat tapas, admire waterfalls, and witness the launch of the Carl Sagan Institute. The man is quoted, time and again. Planet hunters swarm the stage, and you love science once again for its mysteries — the way it raises more questions than it answers. The talks range from 51 Peg to Kepler, and you realize you are at least conversant in a new language, one you’d always loved but had only admired from afar — the language of planets. Under the bright sun, above a dammed river, you squint at your planet with a kind of affection.
On the last Wednesday evening of your fellowship, Wade and Patrick help you and Amanda cart your camera equipment down to the curb and into the Subaru. Driving home from campus, the trees seem unusually bright green, the sky crisp, the clouds white with wisps of pink. In your rearview mirror, the Charles is the deep Atlantic blue you love. You pass the coffee shops and bars and biotech labs. You pass the paths where the rabbits lived out the winter, and the pile of blackened snow that is still melting now just a few days after your 35th birthday. Layer upon layer of filth, the stratigraphy of winter compressed down to a single layer, a little taste of the Anthropocene at the corner of Binney and Fulkerson streets.
When you get home, you check in on your march through time (see below!), and realize that on Thursday, May 14th, when you’re reading this aloud to your fellow fellows, you will be 65 million years before the present. An asteroid will crush a gaping hole in the Yucatan, triggering earthquakes and vulcanism, killing dinosaurs and stuffing the sky with soot. Mammals will inherit what’s left of the Earth, build coliseums, pull oil from whales, trap and breed mutant mice, accept Knight fellowships.
You look backward, forward, upward, downward. You’re grateful for the time you’ve been given to think about space, and the space you’ve been given to think about time. Spring thaws the last snow and pulls the lilacs into blossom. Amanda spots a planet high in the evening sky, and neither of you mistake it for a plane.


JOHOR BARU, Jan 15 — A police sergeant pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here today on a charge of receiving a RM20,000 bribe in a breach of trust case two years ago.
S.Usha Nanthiny, 35, who serves at the Commercial Crime Investigation Department, Segamat district police headquarters is alleged to have obtained a bribe for herself from a man in her office at about 4.50 pm on August 28, 2022.
The bribe is alleged to be an inducement not to arrest the man’s wife for an offence she committed under Section 408 of the Penal Code which is being investigated by the Commercial Crime Investigation Department.
The charge according to Section 17(a) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act 2009 can be punished under Section 24(1) of the same act which provides for a maximum prison sentence of 20 years and a fine of not less than five times the value of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher, if convicted.
Judge Siti Noraida Sulaiman allowed the accused to be bailed at RM12,000 in one surety with the additional condition that the accused’s passport be handed over to the court and to report to the Segamat MACC office once a month.
The court fixed March 24 for the re-mention of the case.
The prosecution was handled by MACC deputy public prosecutor Zander Lim Wai Keong while the accused, who is also the mother of two children, was represented by lawyer S.Selvantheran. — Bernama


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I am thoroughly enjoying every bit of post-surgery life. I eat gum almost everyday with no problems, same with steak, pizza, all the other difficult foods pre-surgery. As of now the only foods I can not eat are things I can't eat because of my braces, like whole apples, or corn on the cob.
In other news, I got a full ride to the University of Portland. No biggie :) Still waiting for the all important University of Washington letter though!


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Going back once again to the Denver Garden Bloggers Fling last June, let’s talk about the private garden of Dan Johnson and Tony Miles. I loved it. It was relaxed, joyful, and crammed with goodies.
Dan Johnson is a serious garden person: Associate Director of Horticulture at the Denver Botanic Gardens. And yet in the GBF program he says that his main garden goal is to figure out where to put all the plants he has acquired. In other words, he is just folks. Possibly he is having a little too much fun here, but I won’t tell on him if you won’t.
Just a fantastic combination in the front garden: some kind of Sedum, Ice Plant, and ‘Star of Persia’ Allium. The first two are guesses, actually.
I love this pink poppy leaning against a spiky Yucca. Sort of an odd couple: one languorous, one electric with energy.
Pretty sure this is the front of the house.
The porch has a lot of pots, and a lot of cacti. I have never seen so many hanging cacti in my life.
Doesn’t seem to bother her that she has all these green tentacles growing out of her head.
This detached doorway serves as entrance to the back garden.
I’ve remarked elsewhere that Poppies seem very happy in Colorado. And what’s that hanging there?
Some kind of mutant squid turned into a planter. Very intriguing.
A big patch of thyme serves as background for deep blue glass.
One of several seating areas in the garden. I love that dramatic purple wall.
Some very colorful koi in the garden pond. I think that’s fishing wire stretched across the water to frustrate hungry predators.
Another doorway heightens the sense of adventure.
You can kind of see here that the garden in back slopes downward away from the house.
Glowing California Poppies (Eschscholzia californica) combined with spikes of blue flowers (Penstemon?).
Another view of the floral blue and gold with a shady sitting area. Some repurposed something to the left serves as an elevated planter.
There are also luscious Irises at this time of the year. The garden is full of objects of all kinds, many of them found and repurposed.
Further back there is a smaller building – maybe an office – also in adobe.
Thanks to Loree Bohl at Danger Garden, I know that this hanging succulent is Sedum morganianum. Not my sort of thing, but impressive.
You can always tell when gardeners really take pleasure in their garden. You get the sense that Dan Johnson and Tony Miles don’t spend too much time worrying about design or what “fits”. And yet an instinctive sense of style ensures that this wildly carousing garden comes together beautifully.


In this photo essay, we examine the laborious circulation of bodies necessary for the development of infrastructure in Northeast India. The province of Arunachal Pradesh has been a site of territorial contestation between India and China. Recent years have seen a conscious effort by New Delhi to establish its presence in this frontier province, building roads and hydropower dams, and supplementing military infrastructure to protect its borders. Road development in Arunachal Pradesh materialises the Indian state’s claim to this territory, with connectivity improvements cementing its ties to the national body of India. This is predicated on the movement of labouring bodies to the periphery, who are put to work building the nation at its edges.
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Effects of Child Health on Housing in the Urban U.S.
Marah A. Curtis, Boston University
Hope Corman, Rider University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Kelly Noonan, Rider University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
This study exploits an exogenous health shock, the birth of a child with a severe health condition that the medical community considers to be random, to investigate the effect of that shock on the family’s housing situation. We use U.S population-based data from an urban birth cohort study that oversampled nonmarital births, resulting in a relatively disadvantaged sample that may be particularly susceptible to the effects of adverse life events. We focus on outcomes related to housing instability. We found that severe child health conditions increase the likelihood the family later experiences homelessness, particularly in cities with high fair market rents, supporting the argument that reducing income volatility to allow families to buffer the potential effects of adverse life events may be an important way to prevent homelessness. The findings also inform the vast literature on the effects of housing on health by highlighting the potential importance of reverse pathways.
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Dukoral works by introducing very small amounts of dead cholera bacteria and nontoxic components of cholera toxin into the body.
That does sound quite nasty, doesn’t it? I am deliberately ingesting something that is dead, and sick, and.. bacterial?
This allows the body to make antibodies against the bacteria and toxin so that if the bacteria does get into the body and produce the toxin, they are immediately attacked by the body’s own defense system.
Defense system for the win, at least I’m not getting the real thing.. and by the way, Dukoral has the most random of tastes: Raspberry. Awesome.

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Health officials in Ethiopia are working to contain a meningitis outbreak that began almost two months ago.
The malaria and emergency health officer for the U.N. children's agency, Rory Nefdt, tells VOA 40 people have died and at least 431 have been infected by meningitis in Ethiopia.
Mr. Nefdt says two areas have been hit particularly hard by the outbreak. One of those areas borders Sudan. He says it is uncertain whether or not the disease will spread into Sudan.
"I do not think anybody knows for sure what the spread is going to be," he said. "Meningitis tends to not spread out like measles. You often get it appearing in isolated patches often quite far apart. It's not really that predictable."
Mr. Nefdt says Ethiopian health authorities, with technical support from the United Nations, have started a vaccination campaign and are bringing the outbreak under control. He says time will tell whether the situation will stabilize or worsen.
Ethiopia's meningitis outbreak is one of several diseases plaguing the continent. Kenya is recovering from a typhoid epidemic. The Marburg virus rages in Angola, while officials are battling polio in Nigeria and Sudan.

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Maple-Squash Puree is tasty and rich in vitamins mash – your perfect choice for breakfast. Use a food processor to make the texture of the Puree smooth and silky. By adding maple syrup, cinnamon and cheese, you make it desirable even for fussy eaters.
Total Time to Cook 4 Servings of Maple-Squash Puree – 25 min.
Ingredients for Maple-Squash Puree
- butternut squash (peeled and cubed): 4 cups
- Viking Farms Maple Syrup: 2 tablespoons
- unsalted butter: 1 tablespoon
- cinnamon (grounded): 1 teaspoon
- fresh ginger (peeled and grated): 1 teaspoon
- dash salt
- black pepper: 1/2 teaspoon
- Parmesan cheese (grated): 2 tablespoons
- extra cinnamon (grounded) for garnishing
Fill a large saucepan with water. Bring to a boil. Add butternut squash and cook it until tender (10-12 minutes).
Drain carefully and place butternut squash, maple syrup, butter, cinnamon, ginger, salt, black pepper in a food processor. Process until the texture of Maple-Squash Puree is smooth.
When Maple-Squash Puree is ready, you can top it with pumpkin seed kernels. Better to serve warm.
Cooking Maple-Squash Puree is quick and easy! Nevertheless, you end up with a great nutritious meal, bright in colors and full of health benefits. If you are a little tired of butternut squash, replace it with sweet potato and enjoy a new type of mash!
More advanced ways of using Viking Farms Maple Syrup with Vegetables!
- Use Viking Farms Maple Amber Color and Rich Taste Syrup for most vegetables: maple glazed carrots or beets, maple roasted acorn squash, maple bread and butter pickles;
- ½ cup of Viking Farms Maple for every 2 cups of vegetables for glazing;
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- Use Viking Farms Maple Dark Color and Robust Taste Syrup for butternut squash or French onion soup!

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Local beer lovers have a new warehouse to call home.
Lawrenceville-based Cinderlands Beer Co. will open its second location on Smallman Street in the Strip District on Tuesday.
Cinderlands Warehouse, a two-story, 300-seat facility, features a first-floor bar and dining room with views of the large, open kitchen. Upstairs there is another bar and eatery, as well as a lounge and patio. The building, open Tuesdays through Saturdays, is easily recognizable thanks to artist Jeremy Raymer’s wildlife mural.
“This is a project that’s over three years in the making, so naturally we can barely contain our excitement as we rapidly approach our opening date,” owner Jamie Warden says. “There are thousands of hours of work, blood, sweat and tears put into this. We can’t wait to share the fruits of all that hard work and effort with you, our friends, the Pittsburgh community and the world.”
Operating on a 15-barrel system (an upgrade from the 3.5-barrel Lawrenceville setup), Head Brewer Paul Schneider will whip up between eight and 16 draft beers, with can releases slated for every two weeks or so.
Cinderlands specializes in seven styles ranging from pilsners and lagers to fruited sours and IPAs. New barrel-aged offerings are on the horizon.
In addition to beer, the beverage program in the Strip will include a Pennsylvania wine list curated by Kelly Peterson Bates, a certified sommelier and general manager of Cinderlands’ Butler Street location.
Cocktails concocted by Sara Daversa, bar manager and assistant general manager, will showcase local liquors from Maggie’s Farm Rum Distillery, Wigle Whiskey and Lawrenceville Distilling Co.
On the food front, Cinderlands Warehouse — located in the former Spaghetti Warehouse location, with an entirely rebuilt interior and portions of the exterior heavily remodeled — will offer lunch and dinner, with weekend brunch plans in the near future.
Executive Chef Joe Kiefer, an alum of Church Brew Works and Meat & Potatoes, uses beer and brewery byproducts in dishes like spent-grain chicharrones. Other menu highlights include smoked meat platters and seasonal vegetable plates.
Cinderlands debuted in 2017 and has found an enthusiastic audience in Pittsburgh. USA Today recently named it one of the top 10 new breweries in the country. So expansion was a no-brainer.
“This opening means a lot to us on the beer production team, and we hope that it ends up meaning a lot to the city of Pittsburgh, too,” Schneider says. “We make beer for everyone who walks through our doors, from the serious beer fan to first dates to visiting friends and families. I hope everyone who comes in finds a world-class example of a beer they already love, as well as something new that will challenge and surprise them.”


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Originally designated a new town in 1967, Newton in the county of Powys lies around 8 miles from the Welsh-English border, in the valley of the River Severn.
Among other landmarks here you’ll find Bear Lanes, the town’s main shopping centre, which has a Tudor-style entrance.
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PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian who used a fake passport to withdraw A$680,605.82 (RM2.16mil) for an international robbery syndicate will spend the next three years in an Australian prison.
Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) reported that Chan Seng Yee, 22, was handed the sentence by the County Court in Melbourne last month for his role in the syndicate, for which he was paid A$10,000 (RM31,820).
He had earlier pleaded guilty to three charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception and one charge of obtaining property by deception.
In meting out the sentence, judge Mark Taft said Chan’s role was integral to what had been a “sophisticated and carefully orchestrated” scam.
The paper revealed that the “well-orchestrated” fraud began in July last year when Chan met a man believed to be a member of an international syndicate, who offered him “fast cash” of about A$30,000 (RM95,433).
Chan, who entered Australia on a student visa in 2013, had been struggling to make ends meet, so agreed to assume another person’s identity to withdraw A$1mil (RM3.18mil) from a Bank of Melbourne account.
He was asked to give a passport photo and to memorise a name, phone number, e-mail address and date of birth as part of the scheme.
Chan would later claim that he was threatened with a gun to participate in the scam, and was allegedly told that he would be in Hong Kong when the scheme was over.
He said he was also led to believe that the rightful owner of the bank account knew about the scheme.
On Aug 5, Chan made the first withdrawal. He walked into a Bank of Melbourne branch and asked for A$30,000 cash.
Under the assumed identity, he also requested for a replacement bank card on the pretext of having lost his phone and wallet.
Over the next month, Chan was able to make 34 separate withdrawals from various branches of the bank in amounts up to A$85,000 (RM270,393), and even spread out the cash by transferring it to bank accounts at Westpac and NAB.
He was eventually able to withdraw A$680,605.82 (RM2.16mil), none of which has been recovered by investigators.
Chan’s act was up when the actual owner of the account told the bank’s Melbourne Box Hill branch that his Internet password had changed and that his bank card would not work at the ATM.
The bank reimbursed the missing money, while CCTV footage revealed that Chan had visited Westpac and the Bank of Melbourne branches a total of 23 times. He was later arrested.