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Guests can enjoy 100 years of aerospace history, including a drone exhibit, and opt to visit a planetarium featuring pure laser projectors.
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⁂ Explore Long Island's part in the history of aviation ⁂
✯ What's included: general admission with an optional planetarium show
✯ See the planetarium schedule
✯ Cafeteria on site where customers can re-energize themselves to continue with their aviation adventure
✯ Free admission for children under 2 years old
✯ Plan Your Visit with the museum’s map
✯ 75 air and spacecraft, including a hot air balloon and an actual Apollo Lunar Module
✯ Eight exhibit galleries in chronological order
✯ Over 30 hands-on exhibits
✯ Half a dozen cockpits to climb into
✯ Many short films to watch throughout the exhibits
✯ Range of current civilian, military, and scientific drones, drone simulators and a hand-sensor drone in the museum’s Drone Zone
✯ The Pan Am Museum Foundation exhibit showcasing the legendary B-314 Flying Boats
✯ Special exhibit available for an extra fee: The Arcade Age Exhibit - it showcases over 60 playable classic arcade games and tells the story of video arcade games, from the pioneers in the early 40s and 50s to their ultimate decline in the 90s.
✯ Immersive full-dome planetarium with pure laser projectors
✯ State-of-the-art high-resolution projection and sound system
✯ One of the largest and most powerful virtual reality experiences in the world
✯ Customers can choose their show upon arrival. Some shows include:
Touch the Stars - explore the space with NASA’s robotic spacecraft on a memorable exploration of our solar system, from the Sun to the surface of its planets and moons
Unseen Universe - a breathtaking visual treat that allows you to explore the latest splendors of the heavens with an electrifying score performed by the Utah Film Orchestra
Mars 1001 - be guided by space reporter Miles O’Brien through the first human mission to Mars
Current Night Sky - travel through the seasonal night sky and admire constellations, listen to mythical stories, and observe the magnificent Long Island sky
One World One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure - see the night sky with characters from Sesame Street
✈ Cradle of Aviation MuseumFlanked by seven other aircraft, a Grumman F-11 hangs suspended in a shallow dive over the main entrance to Cradle of Aviation Museum’s four-story glass atrium. Three viewing levels on wraparound balconies afford views of the aircraft that only fellow pilots in close formation ever saw when it was in service. The 150,000-square foot facility’s eight exhibit galleries grant similarly intimate glimpses of more than 75 air and spacecraft that trace the historic path of Long Island’s aviation contributions since 1870. Those artifacts include Charles Lindbergh's first plane, a WWI Jenny, one of the oldest planes in the country, a 1909 Bleriot, a 1928 Ryan NYP, one of two surviving sister ships to Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, and our Lunar Module that was scheduled to go to the Moon on Apollo 19 before the program was canceled.
The museum also caters to special events and can host weddings, corporate fêtes and birthday celebrations. Guests can organise a cocktail party of up to 1,500 people or can entertain 1,000+ for dinner, dancing, presentations and more.
✈What People Say on Yelp
Disabled Veteran here - the cradle of aviation is the best museum I've ever been to. A lot of military history is shown here. They even offer veteran discounts and accommodate disabled people like myself (I am a disabled veteran). I would recommend. A lot of the stuff here reminds me of my time served in the United States Military.
Love love love coming here. This place is great for children and adults. Kids can sit in many planes (toddlers). So much information. I have yet to be in the movie thing because I know my toddler probably won't sit in it. There are huge planes in here. You can see first planes, WWI, WWII planes too. You can also learn so much about Long Island.
Such a cute museum! You could go through it within 1-2 hours and they often have arcade-related exhibits. The staff is really knowledgeable and if you're lucky and go during a slower period you could get a pretty insightful little tour from a friendly staff member. Just such a great plethora of aviation history on Long Island! Also fun merch at the store.
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Returning to campus after several years at downtown venues, the 31st Annual Boston College Law School Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF) Auction drew 240 people and raised some $20,000 in March to support student stipends for summer public service work.
The lucky bidders won trips, dinners, and sports outings. The lucky alumni honorees, chosen for their public service accomplishments, were BC Law Professor Mary Holper ’03, environmental statesman Thomas Jorling ’66, and former Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy ’80, who is also the 2019 Jerome Lyle Rappaport Visiting Professor in Law and Public Policy.
The auction is one of the Law School’s most popular events and the culmination of a year’s worth of planning by PILF students. “It brings together alumni, faculty, students, and members of the community,” said Michelle Grossfield, public interest and pro bono program director, “to celebrate our graduates’ impact in advancing social and economic justice while raising critical funding that ensures BC Law students can continue to pursue this important work.”
At this year’s PILF Auction, the top sellers among the 200 items for sale were a Themis Course ($1,404), four tickets to Patriots vs. Steelers in the lower bowl with a tailgate party ($850), a weekend stay on Spinnaker Island in Hull, MA ($536), and a four tickets to Boston Celtics vs. Miami Heat on April 1st ($400). In addition to the silent-bid items, several professors turned auctioneers to hawk items during a short live auction.
Donations to PILF may be made online at bc.edu/lawpilf and selecting “Law Public Interest Fund.”
PILF is part of BC Law’s LEAPS (Leaders Entering and Advancing Public Service) program, which oversees myriad pubic service initiatives.

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Incorporating the arts in science lessons improves learning
From Science Daily on 03/05/19
Incorporating the arts -- rapping, dancing, drawing -- into science lessons can help low-achieving students retain more knowledge and possibly help students of all ability levels be more creative in their learning, finds a new study by Johns Hopkins University.
The findings were published on Feb. 7 in Trends in Neuroscience and Education and support broader arts integration in the classroom.
"Our study provides more evidence that the arts are absolutely needed in schools. I hope the findings can assuage concerns that arts-based lessons won't be as effective in teaching essential skills," says Mariale Hardiman, vice dean of academic affairs for the School of Education at the Johns Hopkins University and the study's first author.
There is other interesting research that has shown that singing a lyric can make the content more memorable than just reading and/or stating it. Singing, dancing, and dramatic vocalizations can be a mneumonic device to aid in memory and comprehension.


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Welcome to our weekly newsletter where we share some of the major developments on the future of cybersecurity that you need to know about. Make sure to follow my LinkedIn page as well as Echelon’s LinkedIn page to receive updates on the future of cybersecurity!
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Before we get started on this week’s CIW, I’d like to highlight an exciting new Echelon webinar series - "Chew on This: Meaty Discussions on the Convergence of Security + Business." In these monthly lunchtime sessions, we'll serve up 30-minute, information-packed discussions covering essential topics at the intersection of cybersecurity and business. No tech deep-dives, no yawn-fests - just high-energy, high-value conversations aimed at helping organizations drive a more secure business.
🍽 First Course: Communication – How to Build a Bridge Between Security and the Business
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In our inaugural event, we will delve into the critical issue of communication between security and business. How can businesses effectively communicate their security and risk programs to the board and other key stakeholders? Should security and risk leaders have a seat at the business table? When and how should they communicate with the board?
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1. CMU Researchers Uncover Inherent Weakness in AI Chatbots
In a recent study from Carnegie Mellon University, researchers unveiled a simple way to bypass, aka ‘jailbreak,’ the safety measures of several major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude. This new method of bypass may be used in adversarial attacks on these models. This new method tweaks the prompts given to a chatbot, nudging it to produce forbidden or harmful responses. Despite the rules applied to these chatbots to prevent the output of harmful content, this method circumvents those barriers. Zico Kolter, an associate professor at CMU involved in the study, said the vulnerability underscores a fundamental weakness in advanced AI chatbots that current methods can't patch.
Adversarial attacks involve manipulating the bot's input so as to provoke it into producing prohibited output. This is achieved by attaching a special string of text to a harmful prompt, which the bot then interprets in a specific way due to its training on vast quantities of web data. The researchers demonstrated that this kind of attack could be applied successfully to several popular chatbots. Despite notifying companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic about the issue, there remains no overarching solution to prevent such attacks.
The vulnerability arises from the inherent nature of large language models like ChatGPT, which are essentially massive neural network algorithms trained on extensive human text data. These algorithms are excellent at predicting characters that should follow a given input string, thus creating outputs that mimic real human intelligence and knowledge. However, they are also prone to fabricating information, reflecting social biases, and producing strange responses when answers are more challenging to predict. These anomalies become more apparent when adversarial attacks tweak inputs to induce aberrant behaviors.
These alarming findings underscore the critical need to refine AI safety measures. Researchers point out that these issues may stem from the fact that all large language models are trained on similar data, downloaded from the same websites. The current methods of fine-tuning these models, which involve having human testers provide feedback, may not adjust their behavior sufficiently. Looking ahead, experts suggest that the focus should shift towards protecting systems that are likely to come under attack, rather than trying to 'align' the models themselves.
2. Midnight Blizzard: Unveiling the Latest Social Engineering Attack on Microsoft Teams
Microsoft's Threat Intelligence has identified a highly targeted social engineering attack involving Microsoft Teams chats by a threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard, more commonly known as APT29 or Cozy Bear. This group has been notably linked to the infamous SolarWinds attack in 2020 and is allegedly part of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, according to U.S. and U.K. law enforcement agencies.
The threat actors use previously compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and create new domains resembling technical support entities. These domains are then leveraged in Microsoft Teams to send phishing messages attempting to steal credentials from targeted organizations. Fewer than 40 unique global organizations, including government, NGOs, IT services, technology, discrete manufacturing, and media sectors, are reported to have been impacted by this campaign.
Midnight Blizzard is notorious for long-term and dedicated espionage of foreign interests, dating back to early 2018. Their operations often involve compromising valid accounts and, in some cases, compromising authentication mechanisms within an organization to broaden access and evade detection. They utilize a variety of initial access methods, including stolen credentials, supply chain attacks, and exploitation of service providers’ trust chains.
The latest attack by Midnight Blizzard involves a credential phishing technique. They compromise Microsoft 365 tenants owned by small businesses to host their social engineering attack. They then rename the compromised tenant, add a new onmicrosoft.com subdomain, and a new user associated with that domain, from which they send messages to the target tenant. Using security-themed or product name-themed keywords, they create a new subdomain and new tenant name to make their messages appear legitimate.
Once the attacker has valid account credentials or targets users with passwordless authentication configured, they send a Microsoft Teams message to the targeted user, asking them to enter a code into their Microsoft Authenticator app. If the targeted user complies and enters the code, the threat actor gains access to the user’s Microsoft 365 account. The actor may then proceed to steal information from the compromised Microsoft 365 tenant, or attempt to add a device to the organization as a managed device via Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). Microsoft has issued multiple recommendations to reduce the risk of this threat, including deploying phishing-resistant authentication methods, educating users about social engineering, and implementing Conditional Access App Control in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps for users connecting from unmanaged devices.
3. Microsoft Patches Critical Power Platform Vulnerability Amid Criticism
After facing criticism for its slow response to a critical security flaw, Microsoft disclosed on Friday that it has addressed the issue affecting its Power Platform. The flaw allowed unauthorized access to custom code functions used in Power Platform's custom connectors, potentially leading to unintended information disclosure.
The tech giant emphasized that there's no need for customer action and found no evidence of active exploitation of the vulnerability. However, cybersecurity firm Tenable, which discovered and reported the issue to Microsoft on March 30, 2023, argued that the flaw could have led to unauthorized access to cross-tenant applications and sensitive data due to insufficient access control to Azure Function hosts.
Microsoft allegedly issued an initial fix on June 7, 2023, but it wasn't until August 2, 2023, that the vulnerability was fully addressed. This delay attracted criticism from Tenable CEO Amit Yoran, who called Microsoft "grossly irresponsible, if not blatantly negligent." Yoran expressed frustration over the broken "shared responsibility model" in a LinkedIn post, accusing Microsoft of a lack of transparency and a culture of "toxic obfuscation."
Defending its approach, Microsoft explained that it follows an extensive process of investigating and deploying fixes. The company stated that "developing a security update is a delicate balance between the speed and safety of applying the fix and the quality of the fix." The tech giant further added that it monitors any reported security vulnerability of active exploitation and moves swiftly if it sees any active exploit.
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The Forestry Commission is searching for Business Development Advisors to work with farmers and landowners to identify opportunities for planting trees.
Steve Scott, Area Director, Forestry Commission East & East Midlands said:
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The Business Development Advisors will be responsible for identifying opportunities for woodland creation and management that meet land-owners’ and managers’ objectives, to create a pipeline of woodland creation proposals supporting tree planting ambitions.
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Reid has missed the last four games for the Baggies after suffering an ankle injury and it was feared that the midfielder could be out for two months, but Reid is making good progress in his recovery and could return to the fray against Wigan on Tuesday.
"Steven Reid is doubtful but we expect him to be back with us, we hope he will be okay," said di Matteo (pictured).
Meanwhile Coventry City could put former Ireland B cap Roy O'Donovan up for sale.
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That said, exchanges like Mt. Gox act as intermediaries for currency transactions, converting wealth from Bitcoin to US dollars to other national currencies, back to dollars or Bitcoin. And that's how you make money. By exploiting the constantly shifting relative values of various currencies, savvy investors can make a tidy sum simply from moving money around these markets, in a process known as arbitrage. But they can lose it just as easily.
Bitcoin faced extreme headwinds in March when Alphabet's Google (ticker: GOOG, GOOGL) joined Facebook (FB) in banning ads for cryptocurrencies, which lowered liquidity in the market. In an abrupt reversal, Facebook said on June 26 that it would allow some ads for cryptocurrencies, but continues its ban against initial coin offerings and binary options.
Bartering or exchanging bitcoins for anything is also a taxable event. For example, Bob trades 1 bitcoin for a year's worth of hugs. Bob traded or bartered 1 bitcoin for a year's worth of hugs or a service. This is a taxable event. The same is true, if you traded 1 bitcoin for a tangible or intangible object. This even applies if you're trading 1 bitcoin for another bitcoin.
The market of cryptocurrencies is fast and wild. Nearly every day new cryptocurrencies emerge, old die, early adopters get wealthy and investors lose money. Every cryptocurrency comes with a promise, mostly a big story to turn the world around. Few survive the first months, and most are pumped and dumped by speculators and live on as zombie coins until the last bagholder loses hope ever to see a return on his investment.
The best bitcoin exchange is needed for serious and professional bitcoin traders. Bitcoin security must be impeccable. Banking relationships must be sound and reliable. The trading engine must be fast. Order types must be advanced. And profits must be able to be multiplied with Bitcoin margin trading so you can leverage long bitcoin positions or short bitcoin positions.
In 2013 and 2014, the European Banking Authority and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a United States self-regulatory organization, warned that investing in bitcoins carries significant risks. Forbes named bitcoin the best investment of 2013. In 2014, Bloomberg named bitcoin one of its worst investments of the year. In 2015, bitcoin topped Bloomberg's currency tables.
“While it’s still fairly new and unstable relative to the gold standard, cryptocurrency is definitely gaining traction and will most certainly have more normalized uses in the next few years. Right now, in particular, it’s increasing in popularity with the post-election market uncertainty. The key will be in making it easy for large-scale adoption (as with anything involving crypto) including developing safeguards and protections for buyers/investors. I expect that within two years, we’ll be in a place where people can shove their money under the virtual mattress through cryptocurrency, and they’ll know that wherever they go, that money will be there.” – Sarah Granger, Author, and Speaker.
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Cryptocurrencies are a potential tool to evade economic sanctions for example against Russia, Iran, or Venezuela. In April 2018, Russian and Iranian economic representatives met to discuss how to bypass the global SWIFT system through decentralized blockchain technology. Russia also secretly supported Venezuela with the creation of the petro (El Petro), a national cryptocurrency initiated by the Maduro government to obtain valuable oil revenues by circumventing US sanctions.
Trading requires daily technical analysis and a sound understanding of trading platforms. I wouldn't recommend this unless you're experienced with eToro or an MT4 platform. That said, there are benefits to bitcoin trading. It gives you the option to quickly scale in and out of positions, and take profits at a desired price. When you trade bitcoin, you can take advantage of daily fluctuations in price. The CFD brokers used for trading are regulated, and your funds are arguably more secure than at an exchange like Coinbase. You will be charged spread (fee) on each trade, but you can execute a buy or sell order quicker. The biggest benefit to trading bitcoin is the limit - it's far easier to open a $100,000 position at a CFD broker than go through stringent checks and buy an equivalent amount on Coinbase.
Though each bitcoin transaction is recorded in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never revealed – only their wallet IDs. While that keeps bitcoin users’ transactions private, it also lets them buy or sell anything without easily tracing it back to them. That’s why it has become the currency of choice for people online buying drugs or other illicit activities.
These terms are used to indicate the general trend of the graph, whether it’s going up or down. They are named after these animals because of the ways they attack their opponents. A bull thrusts its horns up into the air, while a bear swipes its paws downward. So these animals are metaphors for the movement of a market: If the trend is up, it’s a bull market. But if the trend is down, it’s a bear market.
So is everyone chasing a golden egg laying goose and getting scammed along the way? Not really. There is great potential for making some serious profit when investing with ICOs, but the lack of regulation and security is what we are worried about. Just because the system works doesn’t mean it is working the right way. Yes, in a certain alternative way ICOs are exactly what the whole cryptocurrency world is all about, but security is something that all cryptocurrencies focus on as well. We don’t see this same concept being implemented with ICOs.
The Bitcoin's meteoric rise in value and the relatively low risk of being caught stealing it have also combined to make the currency a huge target for cyber criminals. Smaller online exchanges that have skimped on security systems can be hacked. The Sheep Marketplace, for example, had 96,000 Bitcoins (worth $220 million) stolen earlier this year, as did GBL and Tradefortress. Criminals also routinely target internet-connected computers that store individual Bitcoin wallets, attacking them with everything from malware and phishing tactics to old-fashioned social engineering. And as recently as last November, thieves stole nearly a million dollars worth of Bitcoin from Bitcoin Internet Payment System (BIPS), a Denmark-based Bitcoin payment processor.
Mining is a record-keeping service done through the use of computer processing power.[e] Miners keep the blockchain consistent, complete, and unalterable by repeatedly grouping newly broadcast transactions into a block, which is then broadcast to the network and verified by recipient nodes. Each block contains a SHA-256 cryptographic hash of the previous block, thus linking it to the previous block and giving the blockchain its name.:ch. 7

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Washington, D.C.: President Barack Obama made three nominations to the federal judiciary on May 11, 2011. He nominated Richard G. Andrews to the District of Delaware, Cathy Bencivengo to the Southern District of California, and Jeffrey J. Helmick to the Northern District of Ohio.
He said of the nominees: "Throughout their long and impressive legal careers, Richard G. Andrews, Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo and Jeffrey J. Helmick have distinguished themselves as some of our nation’s best and brightest. I am honored to nominate them for the District Court Bench, and am confident they will approach the job with the utmost integrity and impartiality."
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The process of aging reflects the body’s slow and gradual loss of the ability to generate energy. Cellular changes begin years before outward manifestations appear. Through preventive measures such as physical activity older adults can be empowered to proactively manage their aging trajectory leading to an improved quality of life, decreased health care utilization, and a readiness for end of life. Health care and fitness professionals have an opportunity to work together and intervene now to help impact the second half of life for all individuals.
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The best money I've ever spent was on my journalism degree.
I'm not one to assume that an advanced degree is always worth it, but for me, attending the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University 12 years ago was the best money I ever spent.
I'd have a hard time justifying the degree today, as the school's tuition, fees and living expenses have jumped to $93,000.
But back in 2003, the cost was far more manageable.
I borrowed around $25,000 (carrying an insanely low 3% interest rate) to attend the 10-month program, which very soon helped me establish the necessary skills and network to build my career as a financial reporter in New York.
I was fresh out of Penn State University with an undergraduate degree in finance, hoping to cross over into the world of news as a business and personal finance journalist.
But how? I had no proper media or reporting skills. I knew few people in New York to help get my resume to the top of the pile. Columbia was my ticket.
The rich assignments, brilliant teachers, and supportive classmates at Columbia gave me a strong foundation to enter the media world and allowed me to achieve that very important piece to my career puzzle.
During my time there, I had a couple of internships and managed to publish a few pieces of work. With the degree and some hands-on experience, I was able to hit the ground running after getting my diploma.
I advanced rather quickly after earning that degree, receiving a great job at Money magazine first, and later at NY1 News as the business producer.
Fortunately, the loan didn't last long, either. A few years upon graduating, I managed to pay off the student loan with the advance I received for my first book. I paid it all down immediately.
To this day, I'm still in close contact with the friends I made in J-school. For me, that was the most invaluable part about attending the school — my ambitious and successful classmates who'll always have my back and I theirs.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the latest game in the series heading to mobile platforms. While a release date hasn’t been shared yet, Rockstar announced this morning that San Andreas will be available for mobiles sometime in December.
For its mobile release, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has been updated with remastered graphics, including dynamic and detailed shadows, better draw distances and a richer colour palette. Car and character models in the game have been enhanced visually as well.
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, currently the only producer of inorganic nanofibers on industrial scale, which are globally distributed by Pardam’s exclusive business and marketing partner Kertak Nanotechnology, has made a great impact at Nanotech 2012 in Tokyo. This year it was a second appearance of this company at this biggest nanotechnology event in the world. As well as last year, this year the company has again received many positive reactions from business partners from all around the world.
This year was historical, not only for Pardam but for all Czech companies operating at nanotechnology field. Czech Embassy in Tokyo together with CzechTrade, CzechInvest and Czech Chamber of Commerce helped to build the Czech National Stand at Nanotech 2012, first in the history of this event.
Pardam has announced the acquisition of industrial production line Cyclone F.E.1.1. from Fiberio Corporation, Texas USA, in December 2011. This year Pardam follows with finishing the unique R&D and production facility in Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic. Cyclone F.E. is very cost and operational effective technology which is using centrifugal forces to stretch the fibers from polymer and melt solutions. This technology also enables very fast and progressive development and optimization of production process. Visitors at Nanotech 2012 again proved the great potential of inorganic nanofiberous materials in many final applications such as fuel cells, batteries, catalyst, composite materials and solar cells. Very big impression was also made by new composite building material “geopolymer” which has greater properties comparing the standard concrete materials.
„The fact that we have been approached by three biggest companies from Japan (Toshiba, Panasonic and Mitsubishi) with very specific requirements on application of our nanofibers in their products, confirms that our decision to concentrate on production and development of inorganic nanofiberous materials is correct”, says Daniel Možíš, CEO of Pardam.
„I feel like I have to say big Thank You to Ms. Kateřina Fialková, Czech Ambassador in Tokyo, to Mr. Ondřej Votruba and his colleagues from CzechInvest and finally to Ms. Lucie Kirschová, Czech Chamber of Commerce, who gave us a great support in Tokyo and also to CzechTrade who was coo financing our participation at the Nanotech 2012. Thank to all those people we had a great time in Tokyo and the atmosphere at the Czech National Stand was amazing and unforgettable”, contributed Jan Buk, Production Director of Pardam.
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Pardam, the Czech Republic, together with its exclusive marketing and business partner Kertak Nanotechnology introduces inorganic nanofibers to the global market and prepare Industrial production of inorganic nanofibers. Thanks to the unique technology and Know How, Pardam together with Kertak Nanotechnology take the position of the world leader in the production of inorganic nanofibers. Thanks to their strong R&D they are reliable partners for development of new products and applications which would not be possible without nanotechnology. For more information, please visit www.kertaknanotechnology.com
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With his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Katsushika Hokusai, whose prints are currently on exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, seems to reinvent the very idea of point of view over and over again. He must have traveled widely
Ammi Phillips (1788–1865) was an itinerant portrait painter working his way across Connecticut, Massachusetts, and the state of New York in those earliest days of colonial New England. Though his work spans five decades, not much is known about him.
"Your paintings remind me of the work of Franz Marc." I received this comment (and, I think, compliment) some months ago from a young visitor to my website. It immediately reminded me of a 1912 painting of Marc's entitled Deer
Gauguin’s “Spirit of the Dead Watching” (1892) The spirit in this painting reminds me of some of Rufino Tamayo’s human creatures. Here’s a large white eye and white lips etched into a dark face. The body is a hooded, cowl shape.
“A Dry Cry from the Desert” (sculpture 1970) A wooden box—smooth and unfinished—perhaps of pine and still retaining the resinous smell of pitch. At the rear of the box—a drawing of a skeletal hand. In front of this—a three-dimensional skeletal hand—lightly
Línia discontínua (Discontinued Line), 1967 Mixed media on canvas Link to image in the Fundación Juan March (scroll to middle of page) All parts of this picture are white—not white exactly though, not the same white as new-fallen snow, not a winter white,
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Merely reducing the chronic poverty that African countries face today is a challenge that places high demands on government and necessitates very effective political institutions.
In addition, over the next 35 years, African countries will also be faced with an extraordinary demographic challenge. Most countries will double their population by 2050 and there is almost nothing that can be done to change this demographic reality. The continent’s population is expected to more than double to 2.6-billion by 2050 and accounts for 57% of the world’s growth in people.
Africa’s population growth will cause most countries to become younger, a trend that will occur at the same time as the rest of the world ages. As The Economist noted: “Africans will make up a bigger and bigger share of the world’s young people: by 2100, they will account for 48% of those aged 14 and under.” Or, put differently, the world’s 10 youngest countries will be in Africa.
If properly planned for, Africa’s population increase and the resulting large number of young people present an enormous opportunity and asset. Young people are tremendous sources of entrepreneurship, energy and willingness to innovate as new technologies emerge. If young people are able to participate in their economies, being the world’s youngest continent would be a great advantage. The World Bank has estimated that the demographic dividend alone could generate 11% to 15% gross domestic product growth between 2011 and 2030.
But reaping this dividend will be extremely challenging. China only managed to provide for its large and once-impoverished population by growing its economy at 12% annually for 30 years. And the sheer scale is daunting. The International Monetary Fund has estimated that, to maximise their booming population dividend, African countries will need to produce, on aggregate, an average of 18-million high-productivity jobs a year until 2035.
To date, Africa’s job creation has not kept up with birth rates. The African Economic Outlook 2018, for example, reported that only 7% of the continental population aged 15 to 24 in low-income countries had a “decent” job. In Africa’s middle-income countries, this figure increased marginally to 10%.
Increasing economic growth will demand creating the space for the private sector to operate, and the opportunities through which it can thrive. The African Development Bank observed that “the private sector is Africa’s primary engine of growth. It generates 70% of Africa’s output, two-thirds of its investment and 90% of employment. Creating private-sector jobs is the most effective and sustainable strategy for lifting more Africans out of poverty.”
The bank also says that “Africa continues to perform poorly on standard governance indicators, scoring 30% lower than the Asian average and 60% lower than industrialised countries”. This helps to explain why Africa performs so badly in attracting foreign direct investment and thus driving diversified economic growth.
If leaders are not successful in reforming their economies, their countries will face great peril. The risks stemming from large numbers of digitally connected young people concentrated in urban areas without jobs are high, as was clearly demonstrated in the early 2010s by the Arab Spring. Young people who are pessimistic about their economic futures are unlikely to sit idly by waiting for change. They will demand it.
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Pakistan’s investment and growth would continue to be hampered by delays in implementing key policy reforms, terrorist threats, street violence and urban criminal activity as the upcoming withdrawal of coalition forces from
“Delays in the implementation of the reform agenda would impede investment and weaken growth prospects. Investment and growth continue to be hampered by terrorist threats, street violence, and urban criminal activity. The upcoming withdrawal of coalition forces from neighboring
The IMF’s Staff Report was presented in the Executive Board’s consideration on
The Fund once again reiterated that Pakistan’s economy grew by 3.3 percent against the government’s claim of 4.1 percent for the previous financial year 2013-14. Similarly, the country’s economy would grow by 4 percent against the government rate of 5 percent during ongoing fiscal year 2014-15. “SBP reserves have improved, boosted by bilateral inflows, including grants, Eurobond issue by the government, and official disbursements from development partners.
These inflows contributed to an appreciation of the rupee by almost 7 percent against the dollar during the third fiscal quarter despite accelerated spot market purchases by the SBP. Despite these developments, the reserve position remains insufficient, covering less than two months of imports”, maintained the Report.
The Report also stated average inflation is expected to reach about 8.8 percent in FY2013/14 before easing to around 8.1 percent next year, as inflation expectations will be anchored by prudent monetary policy and sustainable fiscal policy. The government has set budget deficit at 4.8 percent of the GDP.
The consolidation is underpinned by tax policies that aim mainly to increase the tax base, including the initial steps to eliminate concessions granted through SROs and a further hike in the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) of around 0.2 percent of GDP. While tax revenue measures, at about 0.8 percent of GDP, remain in line with the effort envisaged under the programme, the lower revenue base (due to the underperformance in FY2013/14) will produce a lower tax-to-GDP ratio than envisaged in the programme.
Nonetheless, the remainder of 3G licence receipts and a new 4G auction will compensate for this shortfall. The authorities are committed to additional permanent tax measures in FY2015/16 to further raise the tax-to-GDP ratio. On the expenditure side, the budget envisages that current spending will remain contained-including by further reducing electricity subsidies-in order to provide space for a stronger increase in capital spending and for a further significant increase in targeted support for the poorest under the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP).
According to the Report, the government has planned to submit amendments to Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) to Parliament by
The lower tax revenues entail lower transfers to the provinces, which will have to reduce provincial current and capital spending to comply with agreed targets and generate additional savings. Provincial under spending which has been the norm in recent years-could fully cover the remaining fiscal shortfall to meet the year-end deficit target while providing room to avoid further reductions in the federal capital spending.
According to the Report, the authorities continue with their plans to bring electricity tariffs to cost recovery levels.
Nepra’s notification implied an increase in electricity tariffs by on average 4 percent, while eliminating subsidies on industrial, commercial, bulk, and residential consumers above 200kWh of monthly consumption. This tariff adjustment is expected to reduce the electricity subsidies to 0.5 percent of GDP in FY2014/15 from around 1 percent in the previous year.
The IMF also proposed four new structural benchmark including steps to improve the SBP’s internal operations, Filling the vacancies in the Nepra Board (
Meanwhile, two structural benchmarks are to be modified: The benchmark on SRO reduction will be clarified to include in the FY2014/15 budget the elimination of tax exemptions and concessions granted through SROs for an amount consistent with the fiscal deficit reduction objective. The date for the submission of deposit insurance legislation will be modified to allow more time for technical assistance on the draft.
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White water rafting in Prague package
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Great service and great experience. Evzen and his colleague were very helpful and accommodating. All family, boys and girls, enjoyed.
Great day all around! The bus diver and tour organizer was very friendly and the trip was very well organized. Would definitely recommend.
Great day out, the staff were excellent as well.
Martina and Evzen could not be nicer and accommodating with our experience.
I've put down the deposit and the mini van was outside after an hour
We’ve had such a good day! I’d recommend to anyone thinking of booking!
Best day! All the guys were great and very friendly. Thanks to Tony
Fantastic staff, really helpful. Brilliant day, would highly recommend for a memorable experience.
It was awesome!!!
Excellent! Good email communication beforehand.
What to expect
The fresh outdoor air blowing in your face as you and your team guide your raft along the winding river of cool, raging water - exhilarating!
Enjoy the thrill of rafting on a wildwater canal with the grade of the water WW III-IV according to international classification, where the World Rafting Competition in 2006 was held. This self-bailing rafts can hold up to 6 persons, plus the guide. Professionally, fully guided raft tours, in the accompany of experienced instructors, are ideal for first-timers, whitewater veterans, individuals, families and groups of all sizes.
Pick-up in Prague
Your driver picks you up at any address in Prague you choose.
Transfer 20 minutes
Enjoy a short, comfortable ride in an air-conditioned minibus to the rafting canal.
Instructions 20 minutes
Your English speaking instructor gives you the safety briefing and learns you the basics of rafting.
Gear 15 minutes
Put on the wetsuit, lifejacket, neoprene shoes and helmet and get your paddle.
Rafting 1.5–2 hours
Time to get wet!
Transfer back 20 minutes
Your driver takes you back to your chosen address or to another Magical Prague experience.
Drop-off in Prague
Enjoy the rest of your day in our magical city.
NotesTake a swimsuit and a towel.
15 customer reviews
Very easy to setup events and a lot of fun.
5* Rating. The instructor very helpful. Great experience overall.
From the start to the end of our day, myself and my husband felt like we were special we were looked after amazingly.
For our weekend in Prague we trusted Magical Prague. We returned to France with beautiful memories. Thank you to your team !!
We were collected at our hotel by Joseph absolute gent couldn't do enough for us, totally professional service, would highly recommend.
Great afternoon out, very friendly people
I would recommend everyone to have a lifetime experience with Magical Prague..Totally mean it!!!
Such a cool experience!
Fantastic experience. Tony, our guide, was great!
More about White water rafting in Prague
Discover the white water rafting vacation of a lifetime on river in Prague, close to the city centre. Kick your imagination, challenge your spirit of adventure and enrich your soul with our rafting tours in Czech Republic! We look forward to serving you and providing you with a quality outdoor experience!

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Soil crusting can be prevented by several direct and indirect operations, which account for the mechanics of soil crusting and sealing due to rainfall impact, splash-erosion watering of clods, and, eventually, trampling by animals, and machinery compaction of tilled soil. For example, soil crusting and sealing do not occur or are greatly reduced in a soil with a dense plant cover. In arable, freshly tilled soils, especially when in seedbed condition, all factors favoring soil erodibility exist and make the soil susceptible to crusting and sealing. It follows that any natural and/or unnatural factor that reduces soil erodibility is also suitable for crust control.
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