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Doesn’t this bowl of vegan sesame ramen look like a bowl of just wholesome goodness 😍.
With all its fresh toppings, creamy sesame broth and oodles of noodles, this is the ultimate comfort food.
Slurp Slurp Slurp
A Japanese tradition is to slurp your ramen noodles.
They say the louder the slurp, reflects how much one is enjoying the ramen.
Mmmmm, if you can’t tell, I’m so digging into this big bowl of vegan sesame ramen right now, and the bigger the slurping the better! Am I right?
During our Japan holiday, we were lucky enough to taste some amazing, authentic ramen everyday, and coming home, of course I gotta make my own!
And I’ve Made It Vegan!
In Japan, the ramen broth is usually made from chicken or pork with a variety of ingredients such as pork bones, tuna flakes, kelp to name a few, and cooked for hours to create that depth of flavour.
But not in this case, I’ve kept it simple, by using a vegetable base, with lots of seasoning, and use of fresh vegetables, herbs and spices to add that flavoursome layer of flavour and texture.
So Quick And Easy
Did I mention it’s so easy to make as well?
Now, by no means is this authentic japanese ramen, but goodness me, is this vegan sesame ramen noodle good, 🤤🤤🤤 and so satisfying too.
Simply combine all the ingredients for the broth in a pot, bring it to boil, and then just let it simmer while you cook the noodles.
Add your favourite toppings, condiments, and BOOM💥, you got yourself a delicious and heart warming, belly satisfying eat!
Extra gold star if you add lots of healthy green vegetables with it!
Why not ditch the meat counterpart and give this vegan sesame ramen recipe a go.
Also be sure to check out my Vegan Quick Pho Noodle Soup recipe too!
Link can be found here 👇🏻
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Vegan Sesame Ramen
With all its fresh toppings, creamy sesame broth and oodles of noodles, this is the ultimate ramen comfort food for you vegan sand non vegans!
Vegan Sesame Broth
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 4 garlic diced
- 1 ginger peeled and sliced
- 3 ltr chicken style stock
- 2 tbsp tahini
- 2 tbsp white miso
- 3 tbsp cooking sake
- 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp raw sugar
- 2 tbsp onion powder
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tsp sea salt
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds toasted
Ramen Noodles & Toppings
- 8 packets ramen noodles
- 200 grams shiitake mushroom
- 250 grams firm tofu sliced into cubes
- 150 grams fresh snow peas
- 6 asparagus cut into quarters
- 1 tsp chilli oil
- 10 grams coriander lightly chopped
- 10 grams spring onions sliced
- 1 tbsp fried shallots
- 2 fresh small green or red chilli
- 1 tbsp black sesame seeds toasted
Vegan Sesame Broth
In a large pot, heat oil on medium heat.
Then pan fry garlic and ginger, stiring occassionaly till fragrant.
Then add the remainder of the vegan sesame broth ingredients into the pot, and bring broth to boil.
Once broth comes to boil, reduce heat and let broth simmer till ready to assemble.
Ramen Noodles & Toppings
In a medium size pot, half fill pot with water and bring water to boil.
Once water is boiled, gently place all the toppings into the water and let it blanch for 1 – 2 min, and remove from heat.
Empty topping into a sieve and run the toppings under cold water, to stop it from further cooking.
Fill another large pot with water and bring to boil.
Once boiled, place ramen noodles in hot water and cook noodles till just soft.
Note: Don't over cook your noodles as the hot both will further cook the noodles too. You want to retain a firm yet soft noodle texture.
Once noodles are cooked, remove and divide noodles into large noodle bowls
Just before you are ready to serve, bring broth to the boil
Place your choice of toppings into the bowl of noodles.
Then using a ladle, carefully scoop some of the hot broth into your noodle bowls.
Garnish with a sprinkle of chilli oil, coriander, sliced spring onion, fried shallots, toasted black sesame seeds and fresh chilli if you like it hot!
*Chicken Style Stock – To give it that extra flavour, I use chicken style stock to the dish, but don’t worry, were not using real chicken.
Just look for the stock that says “chicken style”, they’re usually just vegetable stock with added seasoning for flavour and no chicken is really used.
Be sure to check the ingredients label, just to be sure, or alternatively you can use vegetable stock if you prefer.
Vegetables and tofu toppings used in this recipe is what I like to eat. Sometimes I mix it up depending on what I feel like, you’re more than welcome to change the topping more suited to your taste.
The choice and number of topping used will change the prep time.
Same goes for the garnish!
Note: Garnish qty is not for per serving. Eg. 10 grams of coriander is to spread between the 6 servings 😉.
Reminder this recipe serves 6, so do halve it if your making for less.
*Nutrition information is approximate and is meant as a guide only*

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The struggles of those living in the communities within our footprint are interconnected, and we’re focused on addressing them holistically. Financial instability has a substantiated impact on the health and longevity of low-income individuals and can negatively effect the long-term education success of children and adults. Improved financial well-being leads to stronger, healthier households. A healthier household—economically and physically—directly correlates to reduced absenteeism and higher graduation rates. When the root causes of these problems are addressed as opposed to simply the end result of poverty, we can work to prevent recidivism and start to see long term success among these populations.
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The four Cs of video conferencing in healthcare
Unified communications (UC), which has become a hot issue among IT leaders and administrators, has recently been bolstered by video – and the "prognosis for its use in healthcare appears to hold promise," says one expert.
With developments making it easier to integrate and manage video, new implementations have produced strong results including more impactful, cost-effective communications highlighted by an ability to unify thousands of staff and visitors simultaneously with critical messaging, on and off premises, says Tom Racca, president and CEO of BurstPoint Networks, developers of an enterprise-class, end-to-end platform used for creating, managing and distributing video content. Furthermore, he adds, some organizations are finding video a way to enhance their reputations as leaders within their communities and even worldwide.
"Healthcare has always been a progressive field and those involved – from researchers to physicians to IT leaders – are driven to find better, more efficient methods," he says. "There have been great advancements in technology and some in IT have realized the new potential of video. Concerns over bandwidth consumption have been answered, and today, a single person with a laptop can create, manage and deliver video content with a 'reach' and capabilities that are actually shaping the delivery and progress of healthcare itself."
According to Racca, there are a few particular areas where healthcare providers are using video to support and further functions in new ways, which he refers to as the 4 Cs. These include:
- Care of patients. Medical information and videos of procedures are now being viewed remotely and in advance by patients. Additionally, patients are being surveyed prior to hospital stays, allowing in-room video to deliver personalized information during visits. Both are proving to be successful in reducing patient anxiety levels.
- Compliance and training. By live streaming training, and making videos available on-demand, healthcare organizations are not only enhancing education, they are tracking which personnel watched what video and for how long. This is making it easier than ever to demonstrate and meet HIPAA compliance.
- Collaboration. At teaching hospitals, researchers are using video to detail results and complete peer reviews, while inviting others worldwide to collaborate and advance efforts. The same is being done with difficult medical procedures and diagnosis, with healthcare practitioners soliciting/sharing advice from even the most remote locations.
- Communications command and control. A proper UC strategy allows for the easy capture and distribution of video messages that can be pushed-out to staff and patients, unifying a healthcare campus and remote locations. Key to this is the use of digital signage, proving particularly effective in delivering on-site information to patients and visitors, emergency broadcasts, promotion of services and programs, and more.
While some healthcare organizations are paving the way for new video uses, it is widely believed the technology will see strong growth and adoption in the years ahead, says Racca. Industry analysts at Ovum recently projected global business spending on video conferencing and telepresence technology will increase sharply from 2011 to 2016 at growth rates of 5.7 percent and 19.5 percent, respectively. This can be attributed partially to resulting increases in productivity and lower overhead offered by solutions, as well as reductions in technology pricing.
"The bottom line is, we are in a new era of communications, brought about by video," said Racca. "Early adopters in the healthcare space are trailblazers, creatively implementing video in ways that not only impact doctors and administrators, but are providing better patient care and service."

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- Greater use of fertilisers results in increased nutrient concentration in waterways.
- High nutrient concentrations in northwest Tasmanian estuaries are rapidly flushed from the estuaries due to the large tidal range and high river flows in winter.
- Nutrient management interventions should focus on the way farmers manage and apply fertilisers over whole farms with special attention to risk factors on individual farms.
for Farming in Tasmania - Bill Cotching
13. NUTRIENTS IN TASMANIAN WATERWAYS
Impacts and drivers
Water quality is an inherent part of a healthy environment and is also important when surface waters are used as sources of community drinking water, swimming and water sports. Nitrogen and phosphorus are two of the main factors, along with light (turbidity), that control the growth of aquatic plants and animals. When these nutrients enter a waterway at greater than background rates, they can become an environmental problem resulting in excessive aquatic plant growth and reduced levels of dissolved oxygen or ‘eutrophication’, starving aquatic animals of oxygen.
Most farming operations in Tasmania add nutrients to the land as fertiliser and this increases the amount of nutrients that can get into aquatic ecosystems following heavy rainfall and heavy irrigation. Improved drainage and hill slope erosion can exacerbate this nutrient supply problem. Outflows from wastewater treatment plants and industrial sites are point sources of pollution that can also contain high levels of nutrients.
The intensive land uses of dairying and cropping are the major drivers of nutrient and sediments ending up in the rivers and estuaries in Tasmania. More fertilisers are applied to the land under dairying and cropping than other less intense land uses and this results in nutrient enrichment in waterways (Broad and Corkrey 2010). These intensive land uses occur in flatter landscapes with high rainfall and runoff and tend to be concentrated in north and northwest Tasmania where the highest catchment nutrient loads occur. East coast catchments with low rainfall and runoff, and less intense land use have the lowest nutrient loads. Nutrient generation rates of 27 kg/ha/yr of total nitrogen and 11 kg/ha/yr of total phosphorus from dairy pastures into surface waters are at the higher end of those reported in Australian studies (Table 13). The results for total nitrogen were found to be more consistent across all Tasmanian catchments than those of total phosphorus indicating that different processes of generation and attenuation were involved for each nutrient. Research found that dairy pastures in different parts of a catchment exhibited large variation in total phosphorus losses that depended on the rates of fertiliser applied and the connectedness of the landscape to the river systems via artificial drainage (Figure 10), (Broad and Cotching 2009, James and Cotching 2010). The high nutrient generation rates for urban and industrial land use should be noted as these can originate from point-based sources such as sewage treatment plants and industrial sites.
|TN generation rate (kg/ha/yr)
|TP generation rate (kg/ha/yr)
|Grazing modified pastures
|Urban and industrial
Table 13. Nutrient generation rates for total Nitrogen (TN) and total Phosphorus (TP) in Tasmania.
In Tasmania, areas used for pasture farming often have no native vegetation along the stream banks or the riparian vegetation is in poor condition which can result in bank erosion and decreased shading leading to high in-stream temperatures and high algal production. Poor quality riparian zones can also result in faster and more direct runoff to rivers with little chance for nutrient interception in the riparian zone. Research has found that when more than 40–50% of a catchment in Tasmania is used for grazing, significant negative impacts on the ecological condition of the waterways occur (Magierowski et al. 2010). These impacts may be caused directly by livestock entering the waterway for drinking water or by changes in the type and condition of riparian vegetation on farms used for animal grazing.
Tasmania contains some of the most pristine estuaries in Australia which come in a variety of types including coastal inlets, drowned river valleys, barrier estuaries, river estuaries and coastal lagoons (DPIW 2009). Estuaries on the north and west coasts have large tidal ranges (up to 3m) plus high rainfall and runoff, while estuaries on the east coast are relatively much drier and are subject to lower tidal ranges (<1m) (Edgar et al. 1999).
There has been much development around Tasmania’s estuaries with associated increased siltation, deterioration of water quality and loss of habitat (DPIW 2009). Research in Tasmania found that high nutrient concentrations in an estuary do not necessarily imply that an estuary is in poor condition, as these nutrients may be rapidly flushed from the estuary or may occur when other components essential for excess productivity, such as long hours of daylight and warm temperatures, do not occur (Ross et al. 2012).The Duck and Montagu estuaries in north-western Tasmania are good examples, as they have elevated nutrient concentrations, especially in winter, but indicators of algal growth (chlorophyll a) are still low. The reasons why algal blooms do not occur in these northwest estuaries are the high river flows in winter together with frequent and large tidal flushing resulting in short residence time of nutrients in the estuaries.
Figure 10. Artificial drainage provides strong connectedness of the landscape to the river systems resulting in a build-up in nutrients in waterways.
Using farm nutrient budgets and soil testing are key components in the management of nutrients on farms (see chapters 2 and 3) and if these nutrient management interventions are adopted across large proportions of individual catchments in Tasmania, then the load of nutrients reaching surface waters is likely to be reduced (Cotching et al. 2012).
Apart from good nutrient management, riparian zone management can be one of the most effective means of reducing non-point source pollution in farmed landscapes (Phillips 1989). This is because managed riparian zones function as barriers or filters to nutrient and sediment inputs from disturbance associated with agriculture and forestry. Using fencing to exclude livestock from streams can substantially improve water quality but the fencing needs to be installed over a large proportion of the minor streams in a catchment to be effective and even narrow buffers (10–30 m) can deliver substantial benefits (Smethurst and Petrone 2010). If livestock continue to have access to a stream and drainage from roads and tracks is not diverted across pasture or other vegetation before it reaches the stream, poor water quality will inevitably continue to be a problem. If grass and weed growth are problems in the fenced off riparian zones, then short term crash-grazing in dry weather can be adopted. Farmers wanting to explore tree farming options in riparian areas should seek advice from agro-forestry regulators and advisors.
The inherently poor drainage in some flatter and low-lying Tasmanian catchments is a significant factor limiting sustainable farming in this landscape. Production improvements have been derived from draining the swamp land, but the installation of man-made drains has provided a large degree of connection in the landscape that provides pathways for the easy and quick delivery of applied fertiliser nutrients to local rivers and streams (Cotching et al. 2010). Managing the rate and timing of fertiliser (Chapter 2) and effluent applications under dairying (Chapter 11) would provide more effective opportunities to improve water quality than the very difficult task of altering the drainage systems.
Management strategies under cropping that have shown to produce the lowest rates of nutrient leaching without compromising crop yield, are deficit irrigation (applying just enough water to make up for crop use plus evaporation), scheduling small irrigation applications at short intervals, and using lower rates and split applications of nitrogen fertiliser (Cotching and Lisson 2010).
Land management practices of nutrient budgeting, soil testing and riparian zone management are important to reduce the total nutrient delivery to rivers and estuaries, but even where best management practices are adopted, nutrients resulting from intensification of land use will still be delivered at higher than natural rates (Cotching et al. 2012). One of the consequences of more intense land uses producing greater nutrient enrichment in waterways, is that further intensification of land use in Tasmania associated with irrigation developments, is likely to result in greater surface water nutrient loads. This is more likely to be a problem in lower rainfall catchments with longer rivers, such as the Macquarie and South Esk, or in estuaries with restricted tidal flushing such as Boobyalla in the northeast.

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We often hear about the fight or flight system but the thing we less frequently hear about is the relaxation system. Yes! The body has a system for relaxing! The relaxation system is also called the parasympathetic nervous system. And the same way that fight or flight plays a crucial role in the body, the relaxation also plays an important role.
The relaxation system is when our body gets to relax and recover. When we utilize this system our body is able to complete crucial body functions and even heal itself! The body is such a cool thing! We just often get in the way of what it does best.
Here we start to see this amazing intersect between mind and body. When we are continually functioning from our fight or flight system and not access our relaxation system enough to recover from the stress it can impact our bodies in some very real ways. A body under constant stress can experience adrenaline fatigue, high blood pressure, heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, acid reflux, IBS, headaches, obesity and lowered immune system.
There was a study done from 1995-1997 that showed this link between mental health and physical health really well. The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs) is a landmark study that showed the long-term impact of negative experiences in childhood. The study found that the more adverse experiences a person had in childhood led to an increased likelihood of a number of negative health outcomes including heart disease, diabetes, and early death. The study also found an increased risk in substance abuse, suicide attempts, and risky sexual behavior. Research also shows that counseling decreases the likelihood of these long-term negative impacts.
So why do I tell you all of this? Often in our society we see self-care or time for relaxation as an indulgence that many of us don’t have time for. But here we see that this is NOT a matter of self -indulgence; this is a matter of living a long and healthy life. Spending time tapping into the relaxation system is exactly what our body needs to recover from stress and function on an optimal level.
There are a few other benefits to spending time tapping into the relaxation system. When we are in our parasympathetic nervous system we are using our frontal lobe, which is the part of our brain that makes us human. This is the part of the brain where we think ahead, plan for the future, and make wise choices. (Fun fact: It’s also the part of the brain we use when we think about thinking, also known as metacognition.) So if you want to live a long, healthy, happy life and make wise choices then finding time for relaxation is NOT A LUXURY but rather a MUST.
Theresa Leskowat MS LPC is owner and founder of Clear Vista Counseling. Theresa is a mental health therapist in Charlotte, NC. Theresa is passionate about helping her clients learn how to turn the relaxation response into a habit and find balance in their lives.

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Even your most deeply buried secrets can find their way back to you.
Agatha and Joseph are raising a family in the quiet suburbs south of Birmingham. But the secrets of Agatha’s past threaten to expose themselves after Joseph investigates a noise he hears in the middle of the night and stumbles upon a world that he did not even know existed.
When their son Thomas is kidnapped, Joseph and Agatha have to rely on each other to figure out why he was taken and how to get him back, whatever the cost.
Along the way, Agatha discovers to her horror that even her most deeply buried secrets are finding their way back to her. And the consequences are inescapable.
Vulcan Rising is the first book in The Zauberi Chronicles trilogy. It is a work of contemporary/dark fantasy where Stephen King’s The Institute meets Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart.
Reviews of Vulcan Rising
“A stunning debut full of relatable characters and your favorite mythical creatures. An all-around fun ride.” — Michael La Ronn, Amazon bestselling author of the Sword Bear Chronicles
“J. W. Judge’s first book in his Zauberi Chronicles offers a magical, fun, and sometimes frightening mythical world that exists alongside our own, plus likeable characters and surprising twists right to the end. Can’t wait for the next installment!” — Lisa M. Lilly, author of the Awakening Supernatural Thriller series.

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HARTFORD — Rep. Sean Williams offered a common sense message to small business owners and manufacturers during a forum recently, asking them to hold lawmakers accountable for the actions they take and proposals they at the Capitol. It was the Connecticut Business & Industry Association’s “business day” in Hartford, and Williams, who represents Watertown and Woodbury, participated in a panel discussion that had members of the state’s business community lobbing questions about the future of Connecticut’s economy and the steps the legislature will take to stimulate growth for small businesses.
A strong contingent of small businesses and their employees from communities in the greater Waterbury-area made the trip to Hartford, traveling to the Capitol on the newly-minted “Common Sense Caravan.” The Waterbury Regional Chamber of Commerce launched the effort so members could deliver a simple message to the legislature: Small businesses and working families can’t afford the anti business attitude rampant in the General Assembly.
Several of the panelists, including Williams, are members of the legislature’s Commerce Committee. As they fielded questions about current proposals at the Capitol, most lawmakers talked about how the committee’s pro-business initiatives had been outpaced by anti-business proposals pushed in other legislative committees.
As Williams participated in the “business day” discussion, rumblings about a controversial employee sick time proposal from majority party leadership reverberated through the Capitol complex.
After all, it was years of costly mandates handed down from government that prompted many business leaders to travel to Hartford on “business day” with hopes of making an impression on lawmakers.
Many employers, big and small, say they are opposed to the paid sick time proposal because it would not only increase their costs, but also hurt their ability to hire more workers.
Williams urged the panel’s audience to become even more active in the legislative process—urging those in the room, as well as their employees, to hold elected officials accountable for the votes they make.
“Politicians and elected officials are famous for saying one thing in their districts, then coming here and doing something completely different,” he said. “The legislature, as a whole, needs to have a message sent to it.”
“It’s your job to hold us accountable—unless we hear from you, nothing is going to change,” Williams said.


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Hello lovelies! How are you today? I am still playing with my Zoya matte nail polishes and today I'd like to show you a mani using golden foil from Born pretty store. This manicure is not about "perfect" but about "effect"!! I guess it would be much better appreciated seen from afar than in the close-up pictures.
Last year, during my blogging brake, I ordered this gold and silver foils duo from Born Pretty Store for testing them. These come in two small round plastic containers which I appreciate because the foil is not completely flat as if it was packed in plastic envelopes. Each containers holds a very thin sheet of golden or silver foil (10 x 10 cm approx) and this would be enough for doing several manicures with each sheet. These are very delicate, so you need to handle them with care or they will break. Ideally do not wear lotion on your hands when handling the foils, otherwise they will sitck to your skin a tear!
I like very much the final effect and the contrast between the matte polish and the shiny foil! The 2pcs of golden and silver nail art foil are in offer now and retail for only 1.95 USD at Born pretty store.
Remember you can have 10% off of your purchase by entering my code at checkout: DBL91
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Additional data from 13 patients participating in the ReActiv8-A clinical trial, who had not yet reached the 180-day follow-up at the time of the Mainstay’s last announcement, has been released.
The additional results from the international, multi-centre, prospective, single arm trial to gather data for a submission for CE marking for ReActiv8 are consistent with previous results, and constitute clinically important, statistically significant and lasting improvement in pain, disability and quality of life in the clinical population.
The ReActiv8-A trial population was relatively young (mean age 43.9 years) and had a long history of low back pain (mean 13.8 years). All of the subjects had attempted physical therapy, and 70% were taking opioids for back pain. The results presented are based on data from the first 47 subjects implanted in the ReActiv8-A trial of whom 46 have reached the 90 day follow up and 45 have reached the 180 day follow up.
- Clinical performance of ReActiv8 at 90 days compared to baseline for all subjects is:
- 63% with clinically important improvement in back pain defined as ≥2 point reduction on the 0-10 Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) for low back pain measured on the day.
- 57% responder rate for pain: A responder is defined as a subject with a clinically important improvement in mean of prior 7 days NRS with no clinically significant increase in medications taken for low back pain.
- 57% with a clinically important improvement in disability on the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI).
- 67% with a clinically important improvement in quality of life on the EQ-5D scale.
- Clinical performance at 90 days is even better for the group of subjects who do not receive financial compensation for being out of work due to their back pain. For those 32 subjects the results are:
- 72% with clinically important improvement in low back pain NRS on the day.
- 69% responder rate for pain.
- 63% with clinically important improvement in ODI.
- 69% with a clinically important improvement in EQ-5D.
- Improvements in low back pain, disability and quality of life were generally consistent or improved at 180 days (n=45). Paired data for all subjects at 90 and 180 days respectively are:
- 63% and 58% with clinically important improvement in low back pain NRS on the day.
- 57% and 60% with clinically important improvement in ODI.
- 67% and 73% with clinically important improvement in EQ-5D.
- 61% and 67% reported >50% Percent Pain Relief.
- Adverse Events (AEs) incidence and type were comparable to AEs in clinical trials reported for other neurostimulation devices, with no unanticipated AEs and no serious AEs related to the device, therapy or procedure.
- The observed lead migration incidence (<1%) demonstrates that the ReActiv8 lead mitigates the risk of lead migration identified with commercially available neurostimulation leads in the earlier feasibility trial.
- In the August press release, the Company announced a modification of the implant technique with different lead routing developed to mitigate the risk of breaks of the wires inside the lead, which had been observed in the ReActiv8-A Experience to date with the first 14 subjects implanted with the modified approach (new implants and revisions) are encouraging.
Mainstay announced on 2 November, 2015 that a submission for CE marking was made.
Subjects continue to be enrolled in the ReActiv8-A trial to gather additional data on performance and safety which the Company plans to incorporate into the Post Market Clinical Follow Up. To date there have been 6 additional subjects implanted in the ReActiv8-A trial.


Editorial: Positives of chilly winter weather
Recently, the weather has been quite cold and windy, but what’s new — it’s wintertime in North Dakota. The wind chill warning feels like it’s lasted for at least two weeks, and we haven’t seen a positive temperature for a while either.
The last few winters have been good to the people of North Dakota, aside from a few days of freakishly cold winds and snow — but remember it could always be worse. The coldest temperature ever recorded in North Dakota was 60 degrees below zero on Feb. 15, 1936. Seriously, it was 60 degrees below zero without windchill. A similar temperature of 59. 6 degrees below zero was recorded at Lake Metigoshe State Park on Feb. 13.
The best way to deal with the cold is to be prepared and suffer through, as we know warmer weather will come. A positive of the cold weather is the great feeling of sitting under a warm blanket drinking a warm beverage.
As a bonus, if you’re okay with being outside for a little bit, look out for a sundog. Sundogs are most common when the temperature is below zero and appear on each side of the sun — creating a trio of suns in the sky. They happen when sunlight is refracted through ice crystals in the air and are most visible when the sun is near the horizon.
Though at times it may be hard to believe, the snow will melt and temperatures in the 70s will return in a few months. In the meantime, don’t forget the positives of every season.


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In 1968: an eleven year old girl named Mary Bell killed two boys (ages 3 and 4). The courts tried her, found her guilty, put her in jail until she was in her 20's. This book revisits her case years after she was released from jail and tries to figure out why she did it, what her life was like before she committed this crime, and whether she really understood the gravity of what she did at the time. I don't want to give any of it away, but I was so engrossed that I wanted to read the whole thing in one sitting... I couldn't only because it was so overwhelming: at times so depressing, at other times funny and even joyful. I had to take breathers because it was so intense.
I really felt for Mary Bell and totally rooted for her the whole time. The author does a good job of bringing out the various threads of the story. She's compassionate and understanding, but also she makes it clear that none of this is an excuse for the crime itself. She makes the case that when a child commits a horrible crime like this, the court's job is not only to say whether she was guilty of the crime or not, but also to ask why a child would do this? And to help the child psychologically with their problems. A child does not commit a crime like this because they are evil. It is usually a sign of some disturbing realities at home. To ignore this is to make the problem worse.
I found that Mary Bell was (predictably) messed up, but what surprised me was how strong she was as well, and how positively she looked at life despite everything that happened to her. This was a wonderful read.

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Located just steps from AT&T Park, the Embarcadero, and the restaurants and nightlife of South Beach, 750 2nd St. is a boutique building with 14 homes and one commercial condo on the ground floor. There are only two homes per floor, each accessed by an elevator opening directly into the condo. Access to public transportation is excellent, with the Muni streetcar on the Embarcadero, Caltrain two blocks away, and BART about a mile away. Freeway commuters have nearby access to 280 and the Bay Bridge.
The two-bedroom homes range in size from just under 1,600 square feet to almost 2,000 square feet, while the three-bedroom homes are almost 2,100 square feet.
All homes have washer/dryer hookups, central heat and air conditioning, exposed concrete walls, private outdoor spaces, floor to ceiling windows, and a deluxe chef’s kitchen. Homes on the upper floor are on two levels, with a large master suite upstairs.
Each home has parking for one car in a shared garage. There is a mechanical stacker/lift system in use.
The building has many green features, including solar thermal hot water panels, high-efficiency heat pumps on the rooftop, a cistern and infiltration planter that holds and filters building run-off before releasing it into the sewer system, and metal and terra cotta rain-screen systems that give an effective and sustainable thermal and moisture barrier.


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Despite the swirling turmoil surrounding the U.K.’s scheduled exit from the European Union in October, British retailer Primark has vowed not to raise prices for consumers.
John Bason, the finance director for Associated British Foods (ABF), which owns Primark, told the Press Association News Agency on Monday that regardless of the challenges, the company is still going strong. Though Primark’s costs will rise this year, the brand’s sales and profits are growing, he said.
Many U.K. high street brands are facing the consequences of the falling value of the British pound due to Brexit uncertainty. Still, Primark and ABF are on track to see gains. Primark does about two-thirds of its business outside of the U.K., Bason said, and the company expects to gain about 10 million pounds this year.
Because of its relatively strong positioning, ABF sought to head off consumer concerns with a vow to preserve prices. “Consumers can comfortably expect no price increases,” Bason told PA News Agency.
The ABF Group said year-to-date profits by Sept. 14 are expected to line up with expectations, and that Primark and ABF’s grocery sector’s “strong performances” have offset a decline in the company’s sugar business.
Over the past year, Primark has opened 14 new stores in the U.K., which ABF credits with the brand’s 4 percent growth in sales. Analysis of the brand’s overall performance when stripped of the new store boost revealed that sales are projected to decrease by 2 percent by Sept. 14 due to the “weak U.K. market,” ABF told PA News Agency.
“Primark has performed well in the UK where sales in the total clothing, footwear and accessories market have been weak,” the company said, revealing that so far, like-for-like sales in the U.K. have decreased by 1 percent.
The company plans to keep prices low by reducing material prices and improving its buying strategy, as well as having “stern negotiations” with landlords when Primark property leases come up for renewal, Bason said. Still, he expects that reduced margins are a reality the brand will have to face.
“We are managing the decline in the pound and we accept it will affect margin and take that on board ourselves,” he said.

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Where does all the salt on the earth come from ? Why are there so many colours of salt ? We need a certain amount of salt every day or we die. We need salt – unlike what they say in the media.
Roger uses a salt inhaler breathing in Himalayan Pink salt and he says it’s cured his respiratory problems. He sound pretty nasal! So no doubt has sinus issues.
He explains how his research of salt has informed his understanding of space and the universe. The universe is saturated with particles. He shows how an enzyme can eat away molecules and parts of molecules converting silicone into aluminum for example. Salt is the end product of enzymes eating away at more complex molecules, changing them into simpler elements such as Na Sodium and Chlorine Cl, the components of salt. The Great Flood was a deluge by a silica rich water. This converted many of the giant/massive life forms alive at the time into salt. The Sodium converted from K = Potassium.
People who spend time in salt mines have much better respiratory health than people above ground. Try using a salt inhaler, says Roger. They about £20 including delivery charge.
Venus cooked the earth for 7 days and destroyed everything including a boiling salt water flood. He theorises on the effects of the flood. Salt mines are biology turned to salt. Was the whole earth a creature? Were the giant life forms on top of the earth? The earth is nothing but bodies and corpses on top of the earth. Was the earth itself biology?

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Greenwich enters into smart city innovation partnership
University of Surrey’s 5G Innovation Centre will share technical and regulatory expertise with the authority to set out new standards and technologies to transform services
The Royal Borough of Greenwich and the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey have entered into a partnership to develop ‘smart city’ technologies with an eye to potentially moving towards establishing a national facility to expand work across the UK.
Working alongside Digital Greenwich, the boroughs’ in-house smart city team, the innovation centre will look at the infrastructure, regulatory and technical needs of stakeholders to underpin initiatives to transform public and private sector service delivery through focuses such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and data sharing.
“The partnership leverages world-class 5GIC research and innovation, and will provide the foundation for next generation digital technology, standards and services in a smart city context,” said a statement announcing the partnership.
Smart city is a term used to describe the broad concept of combining technology and data to try and implement more cost efficient, sustainable services and information in areas like transport, healthcare and environmental protection.
While 5GIC will help provide the technological foundations to support test bed sites for Digital Greenwich and wider commercial trials, the council will in turn offer a smart city incubator space to bring together stakeholders to work on projects with implications for a number of public functions.
Professor Rahim Tafazolli, who serves as the director of 5GIC, said the agreement would build on the organisation's work since 2012 around IoT technologies and network architecture to support private and public service providers to innovate in a broad number of areas like transport and health.
Tafazolli argued that the focus was not without challenges, particularly around bringing together various stakeholders from different sectors like local government and utility companies to talk and collaborate to overcome traditional siloed approaches to working.
“From a technology view, some applications will be more challenging than others, therefore security and policy initiatives need to be in place,” he said.
Tafazolli added that issues such as network security would be particularly important to changing long standing regulatory processes that might support more collaborative approaches to service innovation and development.
He argued that clear security and privacy measures were central to the design of 5GIC’s testbed areas that are being used to trial initiatives.
Tafazolli said that as part of the agreement with Digital Greenwich, real-time projects were already underway in a four square kilometre testbed area as a means of creating a working trial.
Funding was also identified as a pressing concern for smart city initiatives to ensure that projects could be scaled up and expanded. According to 5GIC, it has secured £70m already from private investors and government funding for its wider work.
In looking at creating next generation smart city applications, Tafazolli said that robust communication systems would be vital to ongoing work.
“Working with Digital Greenwich will enable the 5GIC to develop solutions targeted at multiple use cases in a city context,” he said. “The partnership will also provide the foundation to drive standardised solutions for all of the UK to benefit from the technology.”
Alongside the current partnership with authorities in Greenwich, Tafazolli said consideration was underway over the possibility of a national facility where standards and smart city technology could be developed to curb duplication of work and costs for stakeholders while enhancing opportunities for connectivity and interoperability.
As opposed to focusing solely on the broadband implications of 5G, the professor said the decision to connect a test bed with Greenwich would support a more ambitious approach to how infrastructure can support innovative services.
MP Matt Hancock, recently appointed as minister of state for digital and culture, claimed that Britain was a world leader in the development of 5G technology. Hancock said this focus would be further strengthened by partnership projects such as the collaboration between Greenwich and the University of Surrey.
“Collaborations like this will help make our cities better places in which to live, to work, and to play," he said.
Councillor Denise Hyland, leader at the Royal Borough of Greenwich said 5GIC would serve as a “valuable catalyst to our comprehensive smart city strategy”.
“I am confident that this engagement will help strengthen our economy and deliver the best possible services to Greenwich businesses and residents," she said.

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Firstly, it came to be known that Nixon had sought a way to illegally discredit and outright stop Ellsberg during his first and only term as president. This understanding and realization was worth more than most people initially realized; due to the fact that the desire to stifle dissent and promote continued engagement in Vietnam was an issue that both political parties tacitly supported. Secondly, the impact upon society with respect to an understanding of democracy was one that encouraged people to question what the government actually was taking part in; no longer was allowing for the luxury of believing spokesmen with respect to the activities that were going on within the military or within governance. As such, the principal values that were eroded with respect to this situation can be determined to be predicated upon public trust in the government.
Further, the impact upon the constitutional strength of the first amendment was also profound. The underlying reason for this has do to with the fact that even though individuals within the government originally sought to prosecute those responsible for the publication of these documents, any effort to do so was eventually understood as causing further damage to the administration. Similar to the situation of Edward Snowden, the ethical concern that is illustrated within this case, and within the film, had to do with the fact that publication of these documents was clearly an abrogation of the law (Freivogel, 2013). However, due to the number of individuals that continued to die in the Vietnam conflict each and every day, Ellsberg was faced with the ethical dilemma of whether or not the lies and fabrications that the government had thus far been responsible for warranted the unprecedented release of information. Ultimately, the answer that was determined was that the loss of trust and outright lies that the US government had been peddling for nearly 8 years was
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U.S. Involvement in Vietnam War
Herring focuses on the American side of the war, but still gives a comprehensive outlook of Vietnam. He portrays the main reason of America’s involvement in Vietnam to be anticommunist tendencies. America’s cold war policy was the main cause of progressive and escalated involvement in Vietnam.
In 1970, it was the Kent State incident that marked the general mood in US towards Vietnam War (Levy 2004, 59). Students protesting against war at Kent State University were fired upon and four students got killed (Levy 2004, 59). Even the US President was compelled to denounce this act, under public pressure.
When our forefathers settled upon the primary document for the government of the newly formed United States, they included the Bill of Rights to ensure particular civil liberties. Among them is the First Amendment, which protects the freedoms of religion, speech, the press, the right to assembly and to address complaints to the government in a minimal forty-five words.
Harry Caul is depicted as the microcosm of America at the 70’s. He is shown as an anti hero in the sense that he can effortlessly bug anybody at anytime, anywhere. He is dedicated to his work which becomes an obsession, and he doesn’t seem to care about fellow humans and their sufferings.
If the coach thinks that the reporter has betrayed them, they will not be as cooperative, not goods news for the person dependent on the coach’s quotes to keep their job. Most of those persons in the news on a regular basis including mayors, fire chiefs, etc.
en he states, “In the course of that war, there developed in the United States the greatest antiwar movement the nation had ever experienced, a movement that played a critical part in bringing the war to an end. It was another startling fact of the sixties” (Zinn).
In spite of this assumption, the Pentagon papers revealed that four successive governments had cheated the public over the cause of the Vietnam War. Daniel Ellsberg showed determination and steadfast conscience in releasing the set


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Council to consider banning dogs from Children’s Pool, adjacent areas
City News Service
The San Diego City Council will decide next week whether to ban dogs from the Children’s Pool and the adjacent stairs and breakwater wall in La Jolla, according to an agenda made public today.
The ban, initially proposed at a council meeting a year ago, is slated to be taken up on Monday.
If approved, the municipal code for the use of park areas would be amended to keep dogs out of the area, with exception for service dogs and all city employees in the course of their work.
The Children’s Pool, which was dedicated as a swimming spot in 1931 thanks to a gift from Ellen Browning Scripps, has been taken over by harbor seals since the early 1990s.
The clash landed environmentalists and beach access advocates in the courts for years.
The city has a rope across most of the beach during pupping season to discourage people from disturbing the seals. The rope is scheduled to come down May 15.
However this season, some people have been setting up beach chairs and sitting on the beach area past the rope, which is designed to be a guideline.
- Tsunami causes slight tidal surge, no major problems locally
- La Jollans documenting beach access
- Planning Commission denies year-round rope barrier for La Jolla Children’s Pool
- Appeal of year-round rope barrier at Children’s Pool is Dec. 9
- Divers pulled from water off La Jolla
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Killer Hooks: A Crochet Mystery
by Betty Hechtman
It is my pleasure to welcome Betty Hechtman
to Escape With Dollycas today.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself.
I grew up on the south side of Chicago and while I live in the Los Angeles area, I still spend a lot of time there. Having the contrast of places makes me notice and appreciate the details of both cities. I have a degree in Fine Arts, but the most important experience I had in college was working on the student newspaper and writing a weekly column. It made me realize that I wanted to be a writer.
I got the idea for my personal mission in third grade when the girl who sat in front of me made a beautiful picture using a box of hopelessly broken crayons. I knew right then that was what I wanted to do. Take something that seemed to have no value and turn it into something wonderful. I learned how to take a piece of fabric and turn it into clothes for me and my mother. I taught myself how to take a ball of yarn and turn it into a hat or a blanket. And I managed to take random words and put them together into stories.
What are three things most people don’t know about you?
I really did teach myself how to crochet using a kids’ kit.
I have taken classes in improv comedy, magic, and tap dancing.
I was a featured extra in a film.
What books/authors have most inspired you?
I like to think my whole life is research—I just don’t know when I’m going to use it. I am always looking at places and people and thinking how I’d describe them. I do research just for my own curiosity. I am always amazed to realize how much I don’t know.
Do you ever suffer from Writer’s Block?
When I get stuck, I turn to a legal pad and a pen. Handwriting seems to free things up. The only problem is that sometimes I can’t read my handwriting after the fact.
What advice do you have for someone who would like to become a published writer?
Be patient. Be persistent. And find a writers’ group where you can get some honest feedback. It also helps that you get taken seriously as a writer.
When you are not writing what do you like to do?
Everything. Go places. Read. Cook. Crochet. Knit. Do yoga. Even just go for a ride or sit in my backyard and look at the orange trees.
If you could travel anywhere in the world where would you go and why?
I’d like to go to Italy and taste all that pizza and gelato.
What is next on the horizon for you?
I am in the midst of writing the next Yarn Retreat Mystery after recently taking a trip to the area where the books take place. It is always so cool to see the real hotel and conference center after spending so much time there in my imagination.
I just signed a contract for a new series that features an L.A. crochet artist who inherits a yarn store housed in an old red schoolhouse. With the help of the quirky characters in the small Indiana town, she adds a tea room while solving the murder of the previous owner.
Thank you so much Betty for visiting today.
Keep reading for details about Betty’s new book!
About Killer Hooks
Killer Hooks: A Crochet Mystery
15th in Series
Setting – California
Beyond the Page (September 18, 2023)
Paperback : 230 pages
ISBN-10 : 1960511300
ISBN-13 : 978-1960511300
Digital ASIN : B0CGVQV2WL
When a baby girl is dropped off on Molly Pink’s doorstep, her life is thrown into disarray as she is putting together a troublesome author event at the bookstore where she works.
The author is a demanding former Hollywood columnist whose book is filled with upbeat stories, but who wants to promote a true crime podcast she is about to launch based on the dark side of what she left out of her columns.
At the same time, Molly’s son has asked her to investigate a potential investor in his production company. The baby, who happens to be Molly’s estranged granddaughter offers her an opening into an elite mommy group, a member of which is the wife of the person Molly is to investigate.
When the columnist dies suddenly, Molly finds herself in the crosshairs of an unfamiliar detective who considers her the prime suspect. Molly recruits the help of the Tarzana Hookers to help with all.
More About Betty Hechtman
Betty Hechtman is the national bestselling author of the Crochet Mysteries, the Yarn Retreat Mysteries, and the Writer for Hire Mysteries. Handicraft and writing are her passions and she is thrilled to be able to combine them in all of her series. Betty grew up on the South Side of Chicago and has a degree in Fine Art. Since College, she has studied everything from improv comedy to magic. She has had an assortment of professions, including volunteer farm worker picking fruit on a kibbutz tucked between Lebanon and Syria, nanny at a summer resort, waitress at a coffee house, telephone operator, office worker at the Writer’s Guild, public relations assistant at a firm with celebrity clients, and newsletter editor at a Waldorf school. She has written newspaper and magazine pieces, short stories, screenplays, and a middle-grade mystery, Stolen Treasure. She lives with her family and stash of yarn in Southern California. See BettyHechtman.com for more information, excerpts from all her books, and photos of all the projects of the patterns included in her books. She blogs on Fridays at Killerhobbies.blogspot.com, and you can join her on Facebook at BettyHechtmanAuthor.
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Raids on Iraq: Few Choices for Clinton
By MICHAEL R. GORDON,
Published: January 21, 1993
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20— The American-led air strikes launched against Iraq in the final days of the Bush Administration were too small to deliver a punishing military blow to President Saddam Hussein's Government. But they were large enough to cause problems between the United States and its allies, limiting the options for the Clinton Administration.
With open disagreement among the anti-Iraq coalition of the Persian Gulf war, it may be more difficult for Washington to muster support for broad allied military action against Iraq should President Clinton deem it necessary.
Since its defeat in the war, Baghdad's defense against further American military action has been more political than military, as Iraq sought to discourage allied strikes by exploiting differences within the anti-Iraq coalition. And in that sense, it appeared today that Iraq had succeeded in acquiring a degree of political protection.
That was not the lesson the Bush Administration wanted to teach Iraq when Baghdad began to challenge the no-flight zones in northern and southern Iraq and to move its surface-to-air missile batteries into the zones. Broader Raids Avoided
Washington was determined to enforce the air-exclusion zones, which were established to protect rebellious Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south, and to insure that United Nations weapons inspectors continued to have unimpeded access to Iraq. But American officials thought that forceful allied action could also have political repercussions inside Iraq.
Robert M. Gates, the Bush Administration's Director of Central Intelligence, said in an interview that he thought that the Iraqi leader had challenged the no-flight zones and resisted other allied and United Nations demands primarily for internal political reasons, to demonstrate to his people that he could stand up to the anti-Iraq coalition, thereby shoring up his power base inside the country.
The Bush Administration, having urged the overthrow of the Iraqi leader, wanted to send the opposite message. But restrained by its allies, as well by the political imperative to avoid any American losses, Washington's strikes were relatively modest and the Iraqi military emerged from the week of confrontation largely unscathed.
To deal a major military blow, American and allied forces would have had to conduct broader raids against Iraqi command centers, military communictions, airfields, logistics centers, Republican Guard forces and suspected sites for working on weapons of mass destruction. No doubt a major air strike would have set off criticism by some of Washington's gulf war partners. But the United States is being criticized anyway for air attacks that have accomplished much less in a military sense. Unease Over Allied Raids
The latest demonstration of the building tensions between Washington and its allies came from France. The French Foreign Minister, Roland Dumas, told the French Cabinet today that Paris refused "to participate in the military action against the Baghdad suburbs" on Sunday because it considered that the attack went beyond the mandate from the United Nations Security Council, a French spokesman told reporters.
But even before the French complaint, allied unease with the American military attacks was palpable. Saudi Arabia allowed American, British and French planes to launch military operations from its bases, but Saudi planes did not join in the raids as they did in the gulf war.
London argued successfully for delaying the cruise-missile strike on the Zaafaraniya industrial complex near Baghdad, according to American officials. And after that attack, Russia urged that the issue of Iraq be brought before the United Nations Security Council before further strikes were launched.
The style of the allied military attacks communicated caution as much as strength. The first attack, which was launched on Jan. 13 against air-defense targets in southern Iraq, was compressed into 15 minutes. By limiting that attack to a single, brief raid, the allies missed three of the four surface-to-air-missile batteries they tried to destroy, forcing them to go back almost a week later to hit the targets again. Removing a Rationale
Even the cruise-missile attack against the Zaafaraniya complex, which was launched four days later, sent a mixed message. By launching the attack, the United States showed that it was willing to bring the fighting to the outskirts of the Iraqi capital. But Mr. Bush's spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, undercut the message of resolve by stating openly that cruise missiles were used because Washington feared that using planes might result in the loss of a pilot, thus highlighting American worry about challenging Iraq's rebuilt air defenses in the interior of its country.
Iraq's decision on Tuesday to allow weapons inspectors to fly to Baghdad on United Nations aircraft from points of their choosing and to stop shooting at allied planes appears to remove the the rationale for immediate military action. But in making those moves, Iraq restated its opposition to the no-flight zones. Nor does Iraq's decision eliminate many longstanding disputes between Washington and Baghdad. As before it is Baghdad, and not Washington, that appears to have the tactical initiative.


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It’s been a long while since T-Mobile had their own Lumia flagship. Currently, AT&T has the Lumia 1520, while Verizon Wireless has the Lumia Icon. As for the top 2 WP mobile carrier, they are still offering the Lumia 521 and 925. Both are popular handsets, but consumers are still bound to look for a new Lumia to spice up their mobile experience.
The good news is, there is a possibility for a new Lumia coming to T-Mobile. @evleaks has just posted a new codename of a Nokia smartphone, and the tweet specifies that the upcoming device called Nokia Monarch will be making its way soon into the hands of T-Mobile subscribers. Could this be a new device or any of the earlier rumored handsets such as the Lumia 530, 630, and 930?
If they are going to have their own version of any of the three Lumias mentioned above, there is a change that the Lumia 635, a variant of the 630, could be the next T-Mobile Lumia. Unless they are developing a totally different Lumia, similar to Icon, then we might be in for a very pleasant surprise.
Nokia Monarch headed to T-Mobile.
— @evleaks (@evleaks) March 27, 2014
These appearances of new Lumia codenames really thrilled us more than ever. Since all new Nokia smartphones will be running on WP 8.1, that doubles the fun and excitement! What do you think about Nokia Monarch? Post your comments and let your voice be heard!


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The data collected includes IP addresses and domain names of computers used by users who connect to the site, URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) of requested resources, time of request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the file size obtained in response, the numerical code indicating the status of response from the server(successful, error, etc.) and other parameters regarding the operating system and the computer environment used by User. These data are processed for the time strictly necessary for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on the site and to ensure smooth operation.
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So said, Effepierre SPA commits to process the customer’s personal data according to the principles of fairness, legality and transparency and protection of privacy and the rights of the client. Pursuant to art. 13 of RGPD 2016/679, we inform the customer that:
1. The data will be processed using paper or digital instruments, in compliance with the minimum measures laid down in the General Data Protection Regulation
2. The data may be disclosed to other third parties such as employees, business partners or other parties for the purposes indicated.
3. The data controller is: Effepierre SPA – Via V. Veneto, 33 – 22073 Fino Mornasco (CO) – P.I. IT0887200155
4. The data processor is Ferrario Corrado
5. When the data controller or processor, the customer can ask to assert his rights under art. 15 to 22 and 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation N. 2016/679.
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Can i run it? Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 System Requirements Recommended and Minimum. ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II’ is a video game which involves first person shooter action. The abbreviation of the title is done as ‘COD: BO2’It was released on the November 12 of 2012. The game serves to be a direct sequel to the game ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ and follows the same continuing plot and setting as that. It is the ninth installment in the critically acclaimed video game franchise called ‘Call of Duty’. Developed by Treyarch, the game was published under the banner of Activision. The game plot happened to be set in the future at the time of its release. The platforms supported by Black Ops II include that of Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U. The game managed to garner generally positive reviews from its critics. IGN.com rated the game with a score of 9.3 out of a possible 10 while GameSpot gave the game a rating of 8.0/10. The aggregate score achieved by the PS3 and X360 versions of Black OPS II on Metacritic summed up to be 83/100. The game was nominated for a number of accolades including titles by VGX and BAFTA nominations.
Also check : Crysis System Requirements
The plot of the game takes place in two arcs, one in the 1980s and the other in the year 2025. A number of recurring characters from the original Black Ops game are seen to be present in this story too. The multiplayer component and the campaign modes are similar to the previous ones. The engine used in the video game is called the Black Ops II Engine which happens to be the modified version of IW 3.0. The game proved to be the first one in the series to host multiple endings to the plot as well as a non-linear game play. A sequel to the game was released in the year 2015 and was named ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops III’. The game was subject to illegal leaks for a time period around the game’s release. The game offers 3D support compatibility.
Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 System Requirements
Check official system requirements for COD Black Ops 2. These are the confirmed and optimum specs for best game experience.
|Hardware||Minumum System Requirements||Recommended System Requirements|
|Video Card/VGA/GPU||Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB||GeForce GTS 450 / Radeon HD 4850x2|
|Direct X Version||DX 11||Direct X 11|
|RAM||2 GB RAM for 32 bit windows and 4 GB for 64 bit windows||4 GB RAM|
|Operating System||Windows Xp/ 7 /8/8.1 / Windows 10||Windows 7/8/8.1 and Windows 10 ( 64 )|
|Hard Disk Space||10 GB of free hard drive space||10 GB of free hard drive space|
|CPU/Processor||Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6GHz / Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+||Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz / Athlon II X3 415e|
Call of duty black ops system requirements are less than these. which means you can easily run that game on these specs.
The main theme of the game was scored by Trent Reznor while the soundtrack was put together by Jack Wall. A number of famous pieces of music are featured in the game. Some which are Skrillex, Mozart, Avenged Sevenfold, and Sean Murray among other notables. Two shorts named ‘The Replacers’ were released with the Downloadable Content Packages. For virtual combat lovers, Black Ops II is a must try.

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text: A Spectacular Multi-Media Homage to the Greatest Entertainer of All Time. "You'd swear it was Michael live on stage!" Exclusive NYC Engagement From early moments with his brothers to his stratospheric rise to become the GREATEST ENTERTAINER OF ALL TIME, three talented singers portray Michael at different stages of his dynamic career in this multi-media spectacular featuring his greatest hits including "Billie Jean," "Beat It," "Thriller," "Smooth Criminal," "Earth Song" and more! It will feature artists who can sing live while mastering the intense dancing that Michael was so famous for. PLUS, NEWLY EXPANDED, NEVER SEEN BEFORE TRIBUTES...including an all-star dance company, DJs, Video Jockeys and master percussionists.

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How do the solar powered cars work?
Posted by Solar energy guru | Filed under Solar powered products
Majority of the people are tired of paying huge amounts for refueling their vehicles. With the usual gas rates skyrocketing as much as four dollars per gallon, individuals have started looking for various other alternatives to save money. One of the most anticipated alternatives is the solar powered car. The solar powered cars not only help an individual to save their money on car gas but also help in keeping the environment clean.
The solar powered cars highly assist in keeping the environments clean since these cars take energy from the sun that acts as a fuel. The solar cars works by using hundreds of thousands of photovoltaic cells in order to transform the sun light into electricity. The photovoltaic cells are situated at the surface of the car for capturing the UV rays of the sun. The solar cells or photovoltaic cells captures the sunlight and transforms it to electricity. The usual or the average speed of this sort of car is reported as much as 37 mph.
The main concept on which the solar powered car works is its batteries. The batteries of the solar powered cars manage all the power, which enters as well as exist the system in return makes the car moves.
The battery pack of the solar powered car is same like the petrol tank of the conventional car. The solar powered car utilizes the battery pack in order to amass solar energy that would be as a load-leveling device. The most common batteries used in solar powered cars include lead acid battery, nickel metal hydrid (NiMH) battery, nickel cadmium ( NiCad) battery, lithium ion battery, and lithium polymer battery
Nickel cadmium, lithium and nickel metal hydrid solar powered car batteries provide enhanced power in comparison to the much popular lead acid batteries; nevertheless, they are have verified technologies, which requires high maintenance cost. The battery pack of the solar powered car is made up of various singular cells and modules that is wired together to produce the needed system voltage.
Several more sophisticated components that are needed in the working of the solar powered cars are the power electronics. The power electronic components include the motor controller/ balancer, peak power trackers, and a data acquisition system. The main functions of the power electronics of the solar powered cars are to control and monitor the electricity inside the system. Several solar powered car producers used the custom-built components or make their own custom solar car powered components.
The peak solar powered car tracker conditions the electricity supplying from solar array with the purpose to maximize the power and transfer it either to motor controller/balancer for the propulsion or to the batteries for the storage.
At the time when the solar array charges the batteries of the solar powered cars, the peak power trackers then assist to protect the car batteries from being damaged from over charging. The total number of the peak power trackers utilized in the solar powered cars differs from design to design of the solar powered cars. The peak powers trackers are generally very light in weight and usually reach efficiencies more than ninety-five percent.
The motor controller controls the electricity, which is being delivered to motor based on the input signals receiving from driver’s accelerator. DC controllers and AC controllers are the most common kinds of motor controllers used in the working of solar powered cars. Therefore, for al those who wish reduce environmental pollution, solar powered cars are the future to combat global warming.


Rosie Best takes us through the upcoming cinematic releases for 2018
UK release date: 19/01/2018
Known for highly-detailed animation, Pixar’s latest offering promises audiences a refreshing new take on the studio’s classic emotional tear-jerkers.
Coco focuses on a young Mexican boy named Miguel, whose family forbids and fears music as a source of bad luck. But after entering a talent competition on the dia de los muertos, music-loving Miguel is transported away from his family to the land of the dead, where he undertakes (no pun intended) a search for his great great grandfather and musical icon, Ernesto de la Cruz.
Directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, Coco is the first animated film to feature an all-Latino cast and makes an important contribution to the ongoing diversification of Disney’s animated characters.
UK release date: Summer 2018
A timely, star-studded, all-female cast brings Ocean’s 8 – a long-awaited feminist reboot of the Ocean’s 11 series – to life for 2018 audiences. Somewhat disappointingly however, the film lacks a female director to mirror its cast and Gary Ross – director of the Hunger Games and Free State of Jones – takes on the role instead.
The movie centres on Debbie Ocean (yes, the sister of Danny Ocean) who is played by Sandra Bullock. Following in her big brother’s footsteps, Debbie teams up with best friend Lou (Cate Blanchett) and goes about recruiting six other women to help her carry out a high-risk, high-return jewellery theft at New York’s prestigious Met Gala. The target: famous actress, Daphne Klugar (Anne Hathaway).
With an array of cameos – Kim Kardashian, Serena Williams and Anna Wintour, to name a few –appearing alongside the cast, Ocean’s 8 is set to be a box office hit with comedic value and political importance in equal measure.
UK release date: 16th February 2018
Saoirse Ronan plays the protagonist of this contemporary story of a teenage angst, ambition and regret.
Christine McPherson (Ronan) will be a relatable character for many viewers. Living in the suburbs of Sacramento, she has a difficult relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf) – in the trailer we see her jump out of a moving car rather than endure a lecture and she even renames herself ‘Lady Bird’ in the ultimate rejection of her parents’ influence. Ronan’s character also struggles to navigate the world of romance and friendships within her Catholic high school and is eager to escape to university in the East Coast “where culture is” – a goal unsupported by her mother.
For writer and director Greta Gerwig – who boasts numerous writing and acting credits including Greenburg, Frances Ha, and Jackie – her movie must have had an eerie familiarity as, like Lady Bird, Gerwig also grew up in California, attended Catholic school, and went to college in New York. Perhaps there’s hope for Lady Bird after all.
A Wrinkle in Time
UK release date: 23rd March 2018
Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 science fiction novel of the same name, A Wrinkle in Time is Disney’s newest live action movie.
The staggered release of several teasers, trailers and moving posters have offered us glimpses into the film’s Alice-in-Wonderland, Chronicles-of-Narnia-esque aesthetics but the film’s massive budget – over $100 million – promises to deliver stunning CGI effects to rival those of its predecessors.
The protagonist of A Wrinkle in Time is Meg Murry (Storm Reid) – a fourteen-year-old girl who lives with her scientist mother (Gugu Mbath-Raw) and her child-genius brother, Charles Wallace Murry (Deric McCabe). Following the disappearance of her father, a troubled Meg is visited by three fantastical women – Mrs Which (the inimitable Oprah Winfrey), Mrs Who (Mindy Khaling) and Mrs Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) – who send her on an inter-dimensional journey to find him.
Directed by Ava DuVernay with a screenplay by Frozen’s Jennifer Lee, A Wrinkle in Time joins Ladybird, Ocean’s 8 and Coco in helping diversify and re-shape the film industry.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
UK release date: 12th January 2018
Winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2017 Toronto International Film festival and four Golden Globes, Three Billboards tells the story of grieving and determined mother Mildred Hayes, (Frances McDormand) and her relentless request for justice after her daughter’s rape and murder.
Frustrated over the local Sheriff’s inaction and his failure to find the perpetrator, Hayes turns to public humiliation and hires three billboards which successively read “Raped while dying”, “And still no arrests”, “How come, Chief Willoughby?”
As the community and sheriff department become increasingly aggravated by the billboards, Hayes becomes increasingly angry and the film turns into a study of the various ways in which the repercussions of such a violent act can manifest themselves in individuals and in a community.
UK release date: 12th February 2018
Marvel’s newest superhero film takes place immediately after Captain America: Civil War. T’Challa’s (Chadwick Boseman) father has died and he returns home to take up the throne and rule the country of Wakanda.
Naturally though, T’Challa’s reign isn’t easy and soon he is confronted by enemies plotting to overthrow his kingdom. As a result, T’Challa must readopt the identity of Black Panther and use all his superpowers to protect his people and his kingdom.
Also starring Lupita Nyong’o, Forest Whittaker, Michael B. Jordan and Martin Freeman, Black Panther is directed and written by Ryan Coogler and looks set to be an exciting addition to the Marvel series.
The 15:17 to Paris
UK release date: 9th February 2018
Directed by Clint Eastwood, The 15:17 to Paris is a retelling of the 2015 Thalys train attack in which an armed man – later arrested for attempted murder in connection with terrorism – opened fire on passengers, wounding but not killing three other people.
Eastwood’s movie focusses on three of the men who disarmed and retained the attacker – two of whom were members of the US Armed Forces. In mid-2017, it was announced that each of these men would be portraying themselves in a movie that gave an account of their childhood friendship as well as of their involvement in diffusing the would-be attack.
An unusual creative decision by Eastwood whose films like are well-known for their portrayals of American heroes by actors like Tom Hanks and Bradley Cooper, only the end product will demonstrate the efficacy of this choice.


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Betty (03/2021), Female
Say hello to Betty! She is a happy and cheeky little kitten that loves to play. Betty is an adorable little lady that is a bit shy at the beginning but after you won her heart she is super loving and trusting. Having her siblings around her gives her even more confidence and one of her favorite things is to play with them.
She is a sociable kitten that would like to be adopted with one of her siblings so they can keep each other company and grow up together.
Betty was adopted abroad and in November 2021 she travelled to her forever home.

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