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Drug pushers in Guyana continue to find new and innovative ways in their efforts to get cocaine out of the country.
A 37-year-old man from Canje, Berbice identified as Nicholas Harrinandan, is in the custody of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit after he was busted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with over 15 pounds of cocaine in cheese rolls, pine tarts, mettai and the false bottom of shoes. Instead of cheese and pine in the pastries, the man allegedly baked cocaine into the food items and packed them away in his suitcase.
He was busted by CANU agents while getting ready to board a New York bound flight on Sunday night.
The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit has been leading the way with drug busts at the Airport. Just two weeks ago, CANU agents busted several pounds of cocaine in a shipment of awarra that was destined for Canada. In that case, the cocaine was found hidden in several small false awarras which were mixed with the real fruit.
Over the past year, cocaine has been found in several food items at the airport.

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text: hi im having a problem with current rig. i have been getting random black screens for a few seconds playing guild wars 2. they usually are only a second. but sometimes it comes back and i can always hear the music and see the mouse but the game isnt there. i have to ctl, alt, del and the program says not responding. just today i was playing assassins creed revalations and it happeded there too. within ten mins of each other the screen went black, came back on, all is fine. then the game froze, crashed to desktop and said the game has stopped working. i have done all basic diagnostics, temps for cpu never goes about 40 degrees, gpu never goes above 60 degrees. i have latest beta drivers ( i updated from the most recent full release to try to fix it). i have plenty of power (650 watt), its a fairly new install of windows.

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It's flashy skyline punctuated again and again by mirrored skyscrapers and glittery lights gives you a sense of what is to come once you land in the great city of Hong Kong.
The city is the epicenter of glitz and glam in Asia and is on the cutting edge of everything from technology to fashion. It is also a major financial hub in its part of the world.
Although Hong Kong is fiercely independent and has created its own unique brand in the world, it is still a Chinese city although it has a special status that sets it apart from the rest of China and in turn allows the city to dance to its own tune.
Hong Kong sits on nearly two hundred islands on the South China Sea and is home to close to 7 million people - which means the city is on a high energy all the time, with every square inch of space used to its utmost best. One of the reasons you see so many sky-high buildings is that ground space is at a premium and frankly has run out so now that the city can no longer build out, it must build up and up.
The islands are low-mountainous and weather in the city shifts dramatically from the 30s in the summer to the low tens in the winter.
Hong Kong is divided up into numerous districts. Wan Chai is one such district located on the northern end of Hong Kong Island. It is home to many historical sites like the Pak Tai Temple and
Old Wan Chai Post Office as well as some modern attractions like the Central Plaza tower.
Sai Kung is a district on the eastern half of the country that is famous for its wide open beaches and forests. Sharp Island, Kau Sai Chau and Yim Tin Tsai are famous sites that are known for being sparsely populated and are worth exploring.
Kowloon City is a very unique section of Hong Kong as it is the home of the Kowloon Walled City, an old enclave used around the turn of the twentieth century. The public market in this area is one of the largest of its kind throughout the world.
However if it is modern shopping that you want, Hong Kong has a ton to offer - the city is consumption- crazy, mall-crazy and brand-crazy. You can find all of your favourite designers as well as the latest in emerging technologies - you will note Hong Kong residents have the latest when it comes to all sorts of electronic devices.
The art of living is deeply respected in the city and you will notice this in numerous ways - one of the most interesting for Western visitors is the strong use of Feng Shui practices. Feng Shui is heavily used as a key aspect of design and living in Hong Kong. In fact, people who live near construction areas tend to be reimbursed by the government because of the disruption to their Feng Shui.
Hong Kong Airlines
Airlines serving the route include Malaysia Airlines, Qantas Airways, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Jetstar Asia, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Australia, Emirates, Philippine Airlines, Korean Air and Cathay Pacific.
Australia to Hong Kong
Popular stopovers include Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Manila, Singapore and Hong Kong.
More information at the Hong Kong Holidays guide.

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Dayspring Christian Academy senior outside hitter Lily Beauvais recorded six kills, three aces, 11 digs and 13 serve receptions for the Eagles’ girls volleyball team Tuesday in a 3-0 win over Union Colony Prep.
Dayspring won 25-14, 25-13 and 25-16 in the only match this season between the Greeley schools and 2A/1A Mile High League opponents.
Eagles senior Aliya McClanahan added 20 kills, and sophomore Emmery Bonnell tallied 23 assists.
Lana Coron had 12 kills, six digs and 11 serve receptions for Union Colony (2-3 in the league and 4-8 overall). Mariah Glasper added seven kills and 11 digs, and Nadene Chacon had 17 digs.
Greeley West 4, Windsor 3
Singles: Ashtyn Denovellis (GW) d. Zeke Rose, 6-1, 6-1; Alex Dhupar (GW) d. Dillon Henson, 6-0, 6-1; Layne Tometich (W) d. Theo Hirsch, 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles: River Ortiz-Canada Po (GW) d. Jamison Prosser-Grady Thorne, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7-5); Jack Raugewitz-Leo Millington (W) d. Weston Goodman-Deondre Caldera, 6-1, 6-2; Cole Myers-Booker Whittington (W) d. Chris Jamison-Gavin Petersen, 6-3, 6-0; Kay Reh-Kash Ells (GW) d. James Dane-Joshua Jackson Nolting, 6-3, 6-1.
Severance at Eaton Dual, Eaton Country Club
Severance 3.5, Eaton 0.5.
Individual results: Cache Sanger/Peyton Walker (Eaton) vs. Brycen Farris/Ryan Ewoniuk (Severance), All Square.
Kolton Beidleman/Nicholas Young (Severance) def. Dayne Schmidke/Steven Reynolds (Eaton), 2&1.
Brayden Mendoza/Jantzen Brown (Severance) d. Grady O’Connell/Ryan Sharp (Eaton), 6&4.
Alex Allen/Tyler Young (Severance) d. Alex Williams/David Reynolds (Eaton), 5&4.
Windsor 3, Greeley Central 0 in Windsor: The Class 4A state-ranked No. 4 Wizards swept the Wildcats 25-8, 25-9 and 25-9 in the Class 4A NCAA match. Avery Lacy had 11 kills, Julia Bohlinger had six aces and 11 assists, and Elle Faulkner and Kadence Marsh both had seven digs, while Marsh added 18 assists for Windsor (2-0 league, 12-2 overall). Greeley Central dropped to 0-2 in the league and 8-4 overall.
Eaton 3, Estes Park 0 in Estes Park: Class 3A state-ranked No. 1 Eaton moved to 6-0 in the 3A/4A Patriot League and 11-1 overall with the win over the Bobcats. Eaton senior Rylee Martin had three kills, six aces, six digs and 23 assists.
Eaton hosts No. 4 University on Thursday evening.
Roosevelt 3, Mountain View 0 in Johnstown: Natalya Sauer had 15 kills and 23 digs, and Braelyn Bailey had 33 assists in the Roughriders’ 4A/3A Longs Peak League win.
Severance 3, Fort Morgan 2 in Severance: The Silver Knights won the 4A/3A Longs Peak League match in five sets, 24-26, 25-23, 25-21, 18-25 and 15-13.
University 3, Liberty Common 1 in Greeley: Maylea Parrish had 12 kills, four aces, 17 digs and 24 service receptions in the Bulldogs’ four-set 3A/4A Patriot League win, 25-19, 23-25, 26-24 and 25-10. Katie Bauer added 17 kills, seven digs, Kaitlin Smith had 44 assists and Jayden Nation had 27 service receptions for University.
Platte Valley 3, Resurrection Christian 0 in Loveland: The Class 3A state-ranked No. 3 Broncos slipped past the host Cougars in three close sets, 26-24, 25-20 and 25-21 in a 3A/4A Patriot League match.
Valley 3, Sterling 0 in Gilcrest: The Vikings swept the 3A/4A Patriot League match, 25-11, 25-18 and 26-24. Hannah Archambo and Nevaeh Jimenez both had six kills for Valley. Archambo also had seven digs and 12 serve receptions, Jimenez added nine digs and nine serve receptions and Taeya Jimenez tallied 12 assists and five serve receptions.
Niwot 3, Northridge 0 in Niwot: The Class 4A state-ranked No. 9 Cougars won the 4A/3A Longs Peak League match, 25-17, 25-16 and 25-10.
Bennett 3, Fort Lupton 0 in Bennett: The Tigers swept the Bluedevils, 25-21, 25-12 and 25-13 to hand Fort Lupton its first 3A/2A Frontier League loss of the season.
Wellington 3, Frontier Academy 2 in Wellington: The Eagles needed five sets to defeat Frontier — 19-25, 25-17, 25-23, 20-25 and 15-12 — for their first win in the 3A/4A Patriot League.
Otis 3, Prairie 0 in Otis: The Bulldogs swept the Class 1A nonconference match, 25-18, 25-11 and 25-19.
Frontier Academy 1, Estes Park 0 (forfeit), in Estes Park: The Class 3A state-ranked No. 7 Wolverines improved to 2-0 in the 3A/2A Patriot League standings and 6-2-1 overall after league opponent Estes Park forfeited the match. Estes Park is 0-2 in the league and 3-4 overall.
Skyline 10, Roosevelt 0, in Longmont: Class 4A state-ranked No. 6 Skyline scored seven goals in the first half to defeat the Roughriders in a 4A/3A Longs Peak League match. Skyline was one of four teams tied for first place in the league standings with a 2-0 record through Wednesday (7-1-0 overall). The Falcons have outscored opponents 36-5.
Niwot 7, Severance 0, in Severance: The visiting Cougars, ranked 10th in the state in Class 4A and one of the top teams in the 4A/3A Longs Peak League, scored three goals in the first half in a win over the Silver Knights. Severance is 1-2 in the league and 4-5 overall.
Denver Academy 5, Union Colony Prep 0, in Greeley: Josh Popper and Thomas Askman both scored two goals for the Mustangs in a 2A Mile High league crossover match. Union Colony is 1-6 in the 2A Mile High West (1-8 overall). Denver Academy is 1-0 in the 2A Mile High East (1-3 overall).
Riverdale Ridge 2, Northridge 1, in Greeley: Larsen Pocs and Omar Sanchez scored second-half goals for the Ravens in a 4A/3A Longs Peak League win over the Grizzlies. Riverdale Ridge is 2-0 in the league and 3-5 overall. Juan Beltran scored in the first half for Northridge, 0-2, 5-2-1. Beltran is Northridge’s second-leading point scorer with seven goals and two assists.
Northridge 18, Skyline 3, in Greeley (3 innings): Northridge scored 10 runs in the bottom of the first inning, and defeated the Falcons for the second time this season in the 4A Longs Peak League.
Northridge, now 8-5 in the league and 10-8 in the league, beat Skyline 11-3 on Aug. 30. Bailey McGeen had four hits with two doubles, a home run and four RBI for the Grizzlies.
Skyline 1-0-2 — 3-6-2
Northridge 10-8-X — 18-11-0
University 7, Eaton 1 in Eaton: Natalie Galindo hit a 3-run home run, and Ellie Baca, Sydney Goetzel and Iliana Martinez each had two hits for the Bulldogs in a 3A/4A Patriot League win over Class 3A state-ranked No. 1 Eaton.
Rayelle Navarro had two hits for Eaton.
University 2-0-2 0-3-0 0 — 7-8-0
Eaton 0-1-0 0-0-0 0 — 1-5-3
Mead 12, Greeley Central 0, in Mead (4 innings): Mavericks pitcher Emma Luna didn’t allow a hit against the Greeley Central lineup, and eight Mead players had at least one hit in a 4A NCAA game.
Greeley Central 0-0-0 0 — 0-0-3
Mead 2-0-7 3 — 12-11-0
Greeley West 10, Longmont 0, in Greeley (6 innings): Ellyse Hydock, Iyanna Martinez, Madison DeVault and Nathali Mendoza each had four hits for the Spartans in a 4A NCAA game.
Longmont 0-0-0 0-0-0 — 0-6-6
Greeley West 1-3-0 3-0-3 — 10-26-x
Resurrection Christian 11, Wellington 2, in Loveland: Ava Acosta had three doubles and three RBI to lead the Cougars to a 3A/4A Patriot League win.
Wellington 0-0-2 0-0-0 0 — 2
Resurrection Christian 4-1-0 2-4-0 x — 11-9-2
Riverdale Ridge 5, Roosevelt 4 in Thornton (8 innings): The host Ravens scored a run in both the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings to complete a comeback victory over the Roughriders in a 4A Longs Peak League game. Madyson Ortiz had three hits and three RBIs for Riverdale Ridge. Bridget McNeil had three hits and two RBI for Roosevelt, which led 4-3 after 6 1/2 innings.
Roosevelt 1-0-0 0-2-0 1-0 – 4-6-2
Riverdale Ridge 0-1-1 1-0-0 1-1 — 5-11-1
Severance 5, D’Evelyn 3 in Severance: Izzy Eisenmann had two hits with a double, Gywn Bohl had a double with two RBI, and Aubrey Dare had a double with two runs scored in the Silver Knights’ non-league win.
D’Evelyn 1-0-2 0-0-0 0 — 3-7-2
Severance 2-0-2 0-1-0 x — 5-5-2
Holy Family 7, Windsor 1 in Windsor: League-leader Holy Family (4-0 through Wednesday) scored five runs in the third inning to defeat the host Wizards in a 4A NCAA game.
Holy Family 0-0-5 1-0-0 1— 7-11-1
Windsor 0-0-0 1-0-0 0 — 1-5-1
Weld Central 10, Platte Valley 0 in Keenesburg: Tess Williamson and Leah Rupple each had three hits, and Annastasia Hernandez gave up one hit in five innings of the Rebels’ 3A/4A Patriot League win.
Longmont 5, Greeley Central 2
Singles: Reid Richardson (GC) d. Henry Harshbarger, 6-1, 6-2; Ayden Mascarenas (GC) d. Wyatt Saunders, 6-1, 2-6, 6-1; Luke Riddle (L) d. Daniel Hidalgo, 6-0, 4-6, 6-2.
Doubles: Andrew Brown-Andrew Kujawa (L) d. Ajay Romero-Jose Rosales, 6-1, 6-2; Owen Jones-Jack Kujawa (L) d. Ryan Caldwell-Kylen Yonaha, 6-0, 6-0; Miles Walcott-Lukas Selleck (L) d. Daniel Kiburz-Tommy Medina, 6-1, 6-2; Jesse Arnt-Benjamin Champe (L) d. Miguel Marrufo-Jose Rosales, 6-0, 6-1.
Severance 4, Northridge 3
Singles: Joel Carter (S) d. Louis Pisano, 6-1, 6-4; Lincoln Lyons (N) d. Aidan Smith, 6-3, 6-1; Ryan Hansen (N) d. Harper Lorge, 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles: Conrado Morales-Zayden Gonzales (N) d. Rylan Snyder-Warren Moore, 7-6, 7-6; Blake Varney-Josh Abram (S) won by default; Alexander Rivera-Josh Brannon (S) d. Christian Gerez Acevedo-Daniel Martinez, 6-4, 6-4; Adam Fockler-Rowan Glynn (S) d. Erick Gonzales-Joe Rino, 6-1, 6-1.
Dakota Ridge 4, Windsor 3
Singles: Max Hemsky (DR) d. Zeke Rose, 6-1, 6-1; Dillon Henson (W) d. Jack Lundgren, 6-2, 6-0; Michael Whipple (DR) d. Layne Tometich, 6-3, 6-0.
Doubles: Jamison Prosser-Grady Thorne (W) d. Cody Kane-Emmett Connolly, 6-1, 6-1; Nicholas Hurd-Sam Arnold (DR) d. Leo Millington-Jack Raugewitz, 6-3, 6-4; Cole Myers-Booker Whittington (W) d. Josh Harris-Riley McKenzie, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4); Aaron Solomon-George Fry (DR) d. James Dane-Jake Griffin, 6-2, 6-3.
Loveland Classical Academy 4, Windsor Charter Academy 1 in Windsor: The visiting Lions, leading the 2A Mile High West League standings (6-0), scored three goals in the first half to defeat the Firebirds in a conference match. Loveland Classical has a 9-2 overall record and is ranked fourth in the state in Class 2A.
Lucas George scored in the second half for Windsor Charter (3-2, 4-7).
Greeley West 3, Greeley Central 1 at District 6 Soccer Stadium: The Spartans led 2-1 at halftime in a match between cross-city rivals and 5A/4A Northern Colorado League opponents.
Greeley Central is 0-3 in the league and 5-6 overall. Greeley West is 1-2 in the league and 5-6 overall.

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As part of its special programming centred around the Unforgettable Tour which features the greatest superstars of Indian Cinema, NDTV Imagine gives audiences a glimpse of Amitabh Bachchan in an exciting new role as host of a 3 part series show titled Big B’s Den.
The first episode of this 3 part series which airs on Friday, September 19th at 10:00 p.m features Big B in conversation with Abhishek Bachchan. Known for his sharp wit and for pulling practical jokes on his friends and family, Abhishek turns the tables on his dad and takes over as the host of the show, putting his father on the hot seat! This fun and entertaining episode captures the bond shared by the country’s most loved father–son duo. And Big B does not disappoint!!! From his first live performances to his nicknames for each of the stars on the Unforgettable Tour and from fan reactions to spending quality time with his family, he gets candid with all his answers.
With Bollywood’s greatest superstar as host, the show promises to be entertaining and insightful, giving audiences a glimpse of the intimate details and experience from the Unforgettable Tour from each of these stars.
Enter the Big B’s Den every Friday at 10:00 pm only on NDTV Imagine for your weekly quota of some Unforgettable facts of this truly unforgettable tour straight from the brightest stars of Bollywood themselves.
ALSO READ: Aishwarya Rai’s special birthday wish for Amitabh Bachchan : A glimpse into his tender bond with Aaradhya

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MALAYSIAN SINGER/SONGWRITER WITH
Haverum Guitarum Willum Travelum
Yes, certainly Have Guitar Will Travel 🙂
I’ve been taking my music to Sarawak, Singapore,Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, South Korea and Japan over the 2017-2019 period, and 2020 promises more adventures.
When I’m not travelling I perform regularly in Penang. Fridays at D’Loovi’s (24 Lebuh Melayu in Georgetown) and Sundays at Healy Mac’s Irish Bar in Straits Quay. You can check my Facebook pages (link buttons on Top Menu) for current details.
I’m also busy in the studio, hoping to release a new album sometime this year. Busy busy busy… 🙂
I’ve been on the road a lot since my “Countryman” album was released. Met many people, made many new friends, gained a lot of useful insights.. it’s amazing how people from totally different cultures are still fundamentally the same. I’ll try to put up some pictures of the places I’ve been…
September 2019 : Countryman 2019 is finally released!!! This is a re-engineered and re-mastered version of my “Countryman” album, with improved audio and dynamics. You can get it on CD Baby, Band Camp, Spotify, Amazon Music and most online music sites, just search for “Countryman 2019” .
2020 will see an expanded repertoire in my live shows as I explore more genres of music. As always, things will be kept lively and spontaneous and the Insanity will prevail… 🙂
And Yes, more albums are on the drawing board. This will be an exciting year!
LISTEN TO MY LATEST ALBUM “COUNTRYMAN 2019”
You can also (hint!) purchase (shameless hint!) downloads of individual songs or the entire album.

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Yes, We Have A Farm-To-School Network
For the last several months I’ve been meeting with the adviory board of a new D.C. Farm to School Network. Like the programs in more than 2,000 other schools around the country, the idea is to find ways to introduce healthful produce from area farms into the District of Columbia Schools. The concept dates to the 1990s, so you’d think we here in the nation’s capitol would have gotten on the band wagon sooner. Andrea Northup of the Capital Area Food Bank finally got the ball rolling and she’s done an impressive job of gathering every sort of local food, farm and parent group to figure this thing out.
Some see tapping local farms as a way of improving the nutrition in local schools. Fresh, local foods are bound to be better than the mass-produced, institutional fare currently on the plates in our public schools, right? Personally, I’m not sure that’s the best argument for redesigning how schools source their food. The bigger issue for me is that Americans–children and adults alike–have simply grown distant from where their food originates and consequently indifferent about what they eat. We’ve been conditioned by corporate food interests to expect food that’s overly refined, overly doused with chemicals, overly engineered to stimulate our appetites. We’ve forgotten what real food is supposed to taste like, where it’s grown or or how to prepare it.
Turning schools on to local food could change that. Farm to school programs should involve not just fresh, local produce, but educational components that teach kids how food is grown, where it comes from, how it is prepared.In other words, how to eat more healthfully. One of the most successful farm to school options is the salad bar. Now, kids are not going to get all the calories they need from a salad bar. But it does give them a chance to get involved directly in their food choices, to lay hands, as it were, on the raw ingredients and learn for themselves. Kids love to work with food, and that’s a sure glide path to learning which foods are more healthful, one way to begin addressing problems like obesity and diabetes.
But you very quickly learn that there are major obstacles to getting local products into the school system. Most school food programs operate on the slimmest of budgets and no longer have cooking facilities. They’ve turned their food service operations over to huge corporations or fast food companies that source their products through other giant, industrialized operations. It’s all about economies of scale, which is why school food ranks somewhere below airline food. Then there is the federally-funded school lunch program, which forces schools to offer the horrible foods kids most like to eat–pizza, french fries, tater tots. Finally, there are all sorts of requirements that the ingredients for school lunches come from certified, inspected facilities. That rules out most local farms.
Trying to devise a farm to school program, you discover that we won’t be replacing the current offerings with fresh, local produce for the D.C. public school system’s nearly 50,000 students any time soon. There are just too many barriers to overcome–at least for now. Rather, our focus is directed toward charter schools–now with more than 20,000 students. Charter schools, while public, operate much more independently, without all the regulatory burdens of the larger system. Each charter school, in fact, chooses its own food provider, usually a small, local caterer who drops off meals. In theory, at least, charter schools are free to strike up their own relationship with a local farmer and begin purchasing their own fruits, vegetables, dairy.
Honestly, it sounds terribly inefficient, individual farmers running around the city dropping off apples and salad greens. And implicit in this sort of system is the idea that schools with strong parent groups and greater funding will have a better chance of seeing local produce actually find its way into the school lunch room. So we arrive back at the same dilemma that hangs over the local food movement: is it only for people of means, or do regular folk–even poor people–get to share in some of that fresh, local produce?
Those are some of the bigger questions hanging over our farm to school movement. Meanwhile, we keep our nose to the grindstone, scribbling policy proposals, looking for grant money and making plans for a “Local Flavor Week” in September that will introduce the farm to school idea to the broader public here in D.C. You can hear Andrea Northup talk about it today on the Kojo Nnamdi show, from 1:00 pm to 1:30. If you can’t listen to the show live, it will be archived so that you can tune in via your computer.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy reached an agreement Tuesday to share the initial costs of the $14.2 billion Gateway program, which includes years-delayed tunnels under the Hudson River. It is one of the most critical and complex infrastructure undertakings in the country.
The formal memorandum of understanding covers first-phase work—the tunnels under the Hudson and a reconstruction of the Portal North Bridge over the Hackensack River—with New York and New Jersey agreeing to share the local portion of the costs. Federal officials could not agree to pay for half or more of the effort without the two states coming to an understanding on cost breakdowns.
In a statement, Hochul described the deal as a “critical step forward.”
By signing the memorandum of understanding, she said, “We are establishing the framework to get this project over the finish line and are making good on our promise to modernize the state’s transportation infrastructure and create a mass transit system worthy of New Yorkers.”

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|1. Independent electronic measurement and control system can also use computer to control, collect, analyze and process test data, and test data and curves are dynamically displayed with the test process. The automatic processing and display of the test data are completed by the microcomputer, and the torque-torsion angle and torque-time curves are drawn, connected to the printer, and the test report that conforms to the national standard such as the test date, serial number, material, torsion, and strength is printed out. Torsional angle automatic tracking measurement and loading speed indication and peak hold functions;|
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In any bargain, those stumping up their own cash, tend to ask what they’re getting in return. When it comes to the billions in subsidies thrown at windmills and solar panels, the answer is: not much.
Including domestic, rooftop solar annual subsidies to wind and solar add up to a staggering $4 billion. The cost of which is added directly to retail power bills. The greatest government mandated rort in the history of the Commonwealth, started in 2001 and runs until 2031.
Now, the value minded might forgive the scale and duration of that forced ‘largesse’, if there were a commensurate increase in the output said to be drawn from nature’s wonder fuels, sunshine and breezes. Except, as David Bidstrip points out, the combined contribution of wind and solar generation to Australia’s energy demand remains risible, and little more than a rounding error.
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We are at that time of the football season where club competition comes to a standstill, for some time, with players battling it out for their respective home countries in the World Cup qualifiers. But not all matches played during the time are qualifying matches; some are just friendly matches as well.
Similarly, two giants of European football are are set for a massive friendly. Italy will host Germany at the San Sir on Tuesday. When teams of such nature play against one another, it is more than a friendly, as Italy and Germany will only have one thing on their mind – win.
May be, Italy will have something more than just a win, they will be plotting revenge after they were shown the exit doors by Germany in Euro 2016 after a painstaking penalty shootout. They are no strangers to one another, as they have met twice in the year already, losing both. They also lost to Germany in an international friendly in March.
So, does one need to tell the Italian players about the importance of this match? Italy coach Gian Piero Ventura believes clash against Germany always gives that extra motivation to succeed.
"They haven't spoken about revenge, but they have it inside them, it's clear enough. Even those who didn't play at the Euros. But this is certainly not a match where you need extra motivation. Even if it is a friendly, in reality, it is a match of top billing. Italy versus Germany is always Italy versus Germany. It gives its own motivation," AP quoted Ventura as saying.
Italy are set to miss their key defenders Andrea Barzagli and Gergino Chielleni for this encounter. Inter Milan striker Eder is also doubtful for the game. For Germany, star players such as Manuel Neuer, Toni Kross and also Julian Brandt will not be available. Despite some key players missing, the match is expected to be a classic European encounter.
Germany have always been a strong team, and their recent style of attractive play makes the game of football even more interesting. With silky players like Mesut Ozil, and solid defenders such as Matt Hummels, they have good leadership in all departments of the game. Though Germany have a good record of late against Italy, Hummels is aware that Italy can trouble them.
"They are always difficult matches. It's a very tough opponent, but we're not talking about a curse or a nemesis — just a squad that can trouble us, like other strong teams," Hummels said.
Where to watch live
Italy vs Germany will kick off 7:45 p.m. GMT (2:45 p.m. ET, 1:15 am IST). Live streaming and TV information can be found below.
India, UK: No telecast
USA: TV – ESPN3 USA. Live Streaming: Watch ESPN.
Italy: TV – Rai Uno
Germany: TV – ARD Das Erste


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New Advisory Circular Finds Lessons In Colgan 3407 Crash
The FAA has come up with draft recommendations to address the
issue of airliners entering aerodynamic stalls, partially in
response to the Colgan Air crash near Buffalo, NY that claimed 50
lives in 2009.The Wall Street Journal reports that the proposed
advisory circular spells out recovery standards for pilots,
training instructors, simulator providers and other segments of
Post-flight analysis of cockpit data and voice recordings
suggests the Colgan crew let the Q400 turboprop get too slow on
approach, and that Captain Marvin Renslow responded, not by getting
the nose down to recover, but by pulling back sharply on the yoke.
Crash scene evidence suggested the plane had very little forward
airspeed at impact, consistent with a stall.
Among the changes the FAA will recommend are simulator sessions
which present stalls as a surprise, to prepare crews for the real
thing, and a move away from existing simulator regimens which
stress minimizing altitude loss in a stall recovery. The draft of
the new AC makes clear, "At no time should minimum altitude loss be
The WSJ also reports the FAA also wants pilots to get more
ground school instruction about aerodynamic principles that can
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Thus, these beads may be the reproductions. Haha, it's ok. They just look so beautiful.The dimensions are about 8mm to 9mm. I remenber there is a story about these beads, something about the wild pig, and "Vavui" is the beads' name in my clan language, and wild pig is its meaning. My grandma passed away for two decades. It's a pity that I can't get the further details about these beads anymore. Anyway, thanks for your helpful answers.
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Samsung is ready to have a second go at updating the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Android 3.2 this time everything should go smoothly. The original update that went out last week left some people without Wi-Fi (pretty bad if you have the Wi-Fi only model) and had other issues too. Installing this through Samsung Kies should fix the problem.
People who still have Internet connectivity should be getting notifications that the Over-The-Air update is available.
Besides a newer version of Android and some bug fixes, the update brings zoom mode to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which upscales phone apps to be used on the tablet’s bigger higher-res screen.
Here’s what Samsung have to say about the new update:
Earlier this morning, Samsung began releasing an over the air software update allowing Galaxy 10.1 users to upgrade to Android 3.2 while also resolving a Wi-Fi connectivity issues some Galaxy 10.1 users experienced following a previous software update. For Galaxy 10.1 users who are experiencing Wi-Fi connectivity issues and are unable to reconnect, the new software update may be downloaded and installed via Samsung’s Kies desktop app.


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Budget 2019, last budget of current NDA Government is expected to see various announcements to woo voters. This budget is different from regular budget & is known as interim budget which is the last opportunity to introduce important measures ahead of elections & is traditionally considered as full of highlighting the achievements or in short a preview of election manifesto of current government following the indirect appeal to re-elect them. It is most likely to be presented on February 1.
In 2018 budget, FM reintroduced standard deduction of Rs. 40,000 replacing the transport & medical allowance. However, it failed to please the salaried class. Other announcement includes increase in tax exemption from Rs. 30,000 to Rs. 50,000 on account of health insurance for individuals more than the age of 60 years.
Also, no requirement of paying tax by individuals aged less than 60 years, upto income earned Rs. 2.5 Lac & Introduction of tax on LTCG above Rs. 1 Lac. Also, the important announcement of reducing corporate tax to Rs. 25% on businesses having turnover upto Rs. 250 Cr. So, it can be said that government somewhat tried to intensify its tax base (LTCG tax, promoted more registration under GST etc.) and tried to eliminate parallel economy. Also, the formation of committee for drafting new income tax act to simplify & make it non adversarial can be counted as an important step towards major tax reform.
From the perusal of last 4 years budget, it can be seen that FM tried to give more benefits to the salaried class as it is the most honest taxpayer class and to senior citizen class. So, it may be expected that again salaried class, pensioners and somewhere middle class (for healing the wounds of demonetization & woo rural and urban middle class for votes) may get big income tax reliefs. For this purpose, some proposals like increase in tax benefits for various classes of persons such as pensioners etc. , increasing saving limits, lowering interest rates on housing loans & many more are under consideration between FM & tax department. Hence, some positive surprises are expected in terms of exemption limits due to increase in the health & education Cess in the last year budget.
Confederation of Indian Industry (CCI), a prominent business association presented various proposals to the government in terms of reduction in corporate tax & increase in income tax slab rates to cheer up corporate sector as well as individuals. In its pre-budget memorandum presented to FM, it recommended the corporate tax to be reduced to 18% not subject to any condition in terms of turnover etc. from the existing rate of 25% which is currently subject to turnover limit of upto Rs. 250Cr.
Further, CII recommended change in income tax slabs i.e. 0% tax on income upto Rs. 5 Lac, 10% tax income upto Rs. 10 Lac, 20% tax on income upto Rs. 20 Lac and 25% tax on income above Rs. 20 Lac.
As per reports, FM may consider changes in basic custom duty as well. But CII recommended no change in 10% peak rate of custom duty for safeguarding the interest of indigenous industry which is already suffering various disadvantages in terms of high interest rates, power etc. However, it recommended suitable increase in custom duty on import of FMCG & other consumer product which have become cheaper due to GST implementation to protect indigenous manufacturers.
Last but not the least, as very well known, FM mentioned in last year December that GST council has decided to reducing tax rate on various items, phasing out 28% tax rate except on some luxury & sin goods and most importantly the converging of 18% & 12% tax rate to single rate. So, some announcements in this respect are also expected.
Conventionally, it is the practice of the leaving government not to take bold decisions in the interim budget. Considering the current political scenario, if the government takes harsh steps (though not expected) while considering the abovementioned proposals, then it may have bearing upon the election depending upon the positive & negative effects of the steps.
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Retailers are using artificial-intelligence software to set optimal prices, testing textbook theories of competition, says a WSJ report. An anonymous reader shares the article: One recent afternoon at a Shell-branded station on the outskirts of this Dutch city, the price of a gallon of unleaded gas started ticking higher, rising more than three-and-a-half cents by closing time. A little later, a competing station three miles down the road raised its price about the same amount. The two stations are among thousands of companies that use artificial-intelligence software to set prices (Editor’s note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source). In doing so, they are testing a fundamental precept of the market economy. […] Advances in AI are allowing retail and wholesale firms to move beyond ‘dynamic pricing’ software, which has for years helped set prices for fast-moving goods, like airline tickets or flat-screen televisions. Older pricing software often used simple rules, such as always keeping prices lower than a competitor. These new systems crunch mountains of historical and real-time data to predict how customers and competitors will react to any price change under different scenarios, giving them an almost superhuman insight into market dynamics. Programmed to meet a certain goal — such as boosting sales — the algorithms constantly update tactics after learning from experience. Even as the rise of algorithms determining prices poses a challenge to anti-trust law, authorities in the United States and Europe haven’t opened probes or accused anyone of impropriety for using AI to set prices.
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The arena was bouncing, kids were screaming, even the adults were joining in with the singing.
Last night WWE Raw took over the Hydro for the first ever televised show from Scotland in its 23 years history and Glasgow made sure it was a night to remember.
The Hydro proved to be the perfect venue for the show, amplifying the noise, atmosphere and every slam on the canvas - as it happened.
Among the highlights of the night for the fans was Stephanie McMahon's address Scotland and the announcement of the teams for the forthcoming Survivor Series.
There was also a 10-minute long rendition of DJ Otzi’s 'Hey Baby', changed to 'Hey Bayley', for women’s star Bayley - who was clearly blown away by the reception.
What really put a smile on hardcore Scottish wrestling fans' faces though was the debut of Noam Dar - the Ayrshire wrestler who grew up in Glasgow and fought for the Scottish wrestling company, ICW.
Also on the bill was Seth Rollins, who told Glasgow Live that he hoped this would be the first show of many: “I would assume that us here in Glasgow for the two nights is a test run just to see how this works from a television standpoint because live events are a lot different from Television.
“You guys seen last night the TV product and how different it is.
“As for pay-per-views You never know, I think if things go well and I'm sure they will consider them.
“Glasgow is a fantastic crowd for us so who knows what the future holds. I know for us as a global brand we are always looking to expand and do new things.
“I think it would be fantastic depending on how things roll out tonight aswell.”
This evening WWE Smackdown will also be live in the Hydro and two of the stars on the bill, tag team partners Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley and are ready for a big night after last night's event.
Zack said: “I’ve been here before and love performing in front of the Glasgow crowd. I can’t wait to get out there tonight and do it again."
Mojo added: “I’m a first-timer. I’ve not got any expectations, I’m just excited to see what’s going to happen. I’m sure it will be great because Zack has hyped it up a lot. But, I look forward to getting out their.”


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I liked "Twilight", really I did, but you have to admit there is a lot to make fun of in that book. So when I saw that National Lampoon had released a "Twilight" parody book called "Nightlight" I was eager to read it. Although, I have to admit I got this from the library...I knew that it had potential to be horrible as well as awesome. Well, unfortunately, this book fell into the horrible category.
This book is about Belle Goose and her relentless pursuit of computer geek Edwart Mullen. Belle has decided Edwart is a vampire, but he really isn't. Edwart doesn't even really like girls but Bella has decided she is in love with him.
Okay first I will go through the good points of this book. It picks the right things to make fun of and occasionally there are references to the book itself that make you chuckle. Also another good point is that the book is short; it took me maybe an hour and a half to read.
Unfortunately these chuckles are few and far between. I expected this book to be a clever and witty spoof highlighting all the shortcomings of the original. It was not this at all, it was more of a dumbed-down slapstick routine put on paper. If you like slapstick and find immature, stupid characters to be hilarious than you will laugh your butt off. Otherwise you will just be happy this book is short.
Then about two-thirds of the way through the book things get strange and not at all funny. As Belle suddenly goes to a vampire prom and the story totally deviates from anything we have ever read before. Suddenly what was a slightly amusing slapstick parody turns into just a plain old bad story.
I was really disappointed in this book; especially since I was excited to read it and was looking forward to a night of humor and good laughs. Add to the above the fact that I noticed a number of plain old typos in this book and I began to wonder if it had ever even been proofread.
In summary, look elsewhere for a funny parody of "Twilight"...given all the things you could make fun of "Twilight" for, there has got to be a better parody out there than this one.
Ok, my disclaimer is that I absolutely hated the Twilight series. Insecure, non-ambitous, dependent women aren't my favorite heroines. And abusive, controlling men aren't my favorite heroes.
Reading this parody was fantastic! I laughed at every other sentence. I couldn't read it in public due to laughing out loud. Seriously great stuff. I thought it was WAY better than the actual Twilight book! I hope they do a parody for all the books in the series.
The plot did sort of fall apart in the end, but I can overlook that due to some truly fantastic parts in the beginning and middle.
I definitely recommend this to anyone who had problems with the Twilight series. And, even if you didn't, this is still very funny. What I also liked about it is that it didn't just make fun of the plot. It also made fun of Meyer's writing style within Twilight. It had the same redundant sentences/adjectives that Twilight had, only ten times funnier. I gave it 5 stars.
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. If I were an author, I'd be flattered if someone wrote a parody of my work! I mean, seriously, it means you've obviously "made it".
I saw this on the shelf at Target the other day and just had to pick it up. Being a huge fan of the vampire/paranormal romance genre but not too big on the Twilight saga, I found it pretty funny at first. It has its hilarious moments but falls a little short overall. However, it is a fun quick read for anyone who is twilighted-to-death. I do definitely suggest the other parody book that was beside it on the self "The Vampire is just not that into you" by Vlad Mezrich. Non-stop laughs in that one from pie graphs of prefered vampire blood types to tips on how to make your room vampire friendly.
Not what I expected. While there were a few good laughs, it reminded the typical parody movies. There were too many over the top silly situations that detracted from the story line and caused me to struggle through the reading. A book that should have taken a few hours to read, took me a few days.
I bought this book figuring it would be drop dead funny, and in spots it was funny, others it was like where the heck did this come from!? They tried to tell their own tale while throwing in bits and pieces of Twilight and it turned out rather awkward. Still a bit funny, a bit interesting, and a bit odd. It's a good stupid silly book to read if you need a break from the more serious books. If you like Scary Movie, or any of those "Spoof" movies, then this book would be for you.

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168 pages, paperback, Guilford Press, 1995
Green Production , a translation of Leff's work Ecologia y Capital, addresses the relation of production to development and the environment.
Praise for Green Production
"This work is one of the most coherent and sensitive explorations of the contradictions inherent in economic and environmental thinking. Enrique Leff has provided an important and enlightening demonstration of the critical relationship of production to development, ecology and culture."--Elmar Altavater, Free University of Berlin
"A magisterial synthesis of Marxism, ecology, and cultural theory, Leff's book sweeps away much of the intellectual and theoretical detritus surrounding sustainability, and proposes a compelling vision for an alternative ecotechnology rationality."--Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley
"A very important book--It reviews the whole of the complex question of the relationship between Ecology and Economic Rationality and Calculation, starting from a critical reading of the philosophical debates over nature and society into a review of integrated resource management proposals, stressing the difficult valuation of environments."--Samir Amin, Director, Third World Forum, Dakar
"You can disagree with some (or many) of the theses of Enrique Leff's book. What cannot be denied is that Green Production is one of the most serious contributions to the contemporary debate on political ecology worldwide."--Victor M. Toledo, National University of Mexico
"Neither neo-Malthusian population pressure nor 'natural' tendencies in social evolution toward increasing energy consumption are sufficient explanations for the global environmental crisis. The crisis results from an economic system geared toward maximizing short-run private profits, that induces the over-exploitation and overconsumption of natural resources. In state socialist economies, the logic of maximizing economic surpluses had similar effects, undermining the ecological basis for sustainable development.
"Therefore, capitalist and socialist modes of production, under different political systems and ways of distributing the social surplus, have nonetheless shared a generalized process of capital accumulation. In capitalist states, free trade ideologies legitimate the need to constantly increase capital and labor productivity and to expand markets. In socialist regimes, an evolutionary concept of history privileged the development of productive forces over the transformation of social relations of production and ecological conditions of sustainability. In both cases, the protection of natural resources and ecological balance were overridden by the need to accelerate capital accumulation. From opposing ideological perspectives, the capitalist and socialist powers maintained in the past a battle toward economic growth as the primary means of attaining global political supremacy."
"A strong degree of contradiction, however, exists between the objective of reaching a determinate rate of growth measured in terms of market prices, and the possibility of including in this economic calculus certain considerations that promote an environmental potential of development. The system of economic calculation that is based on principles of optimizing an objective function reduces the factors to be considered in the development process to quantifiable, aggregated units of measurement. And for a lack of alternative indicators, this function is formed through a system of market pricing, whose tendencies can be regulated by certain 'planning prices' that introduce qualitative valorizations for an analysis of alternative social objectives, but that is incapable of making a specific evaluation of the multiple levels of articulation of economic, ecological, social, and cultural processes.
"In addition, establishing the relative value of long-term processes is constricted by economic calculation rationality. As Gutman suggests,
In any process of optimization where the temporal dimension is included, neoclassical economics interprets this as a rate of interest that penalizes the future, for present benefits. This conception of the future, as 'a cost', that makes any consideration of the long term superfluous, does not derive from any characteristic of physical time, not even from an ineluctable social psychology, but from the theoretical rationalization of capital's role in the process of production.
"The problem of fixing a social discount rate faces further difficulties when attempts are made to translate cultural values, social objectives, and ecological temporalities to a system of market prices. The perception of time is a cultural trait that impedes the establishment of a common norm or a system of equivalencies between a currently perceived value and the renunciation of this value for future benefits. To this is added the impossibility of discounting uncertainty in the future because of social conditionality, and the occurrence of unpredictable natural catastrophes or the emergence of new productive potentials that are not translatable to market prices in order to be extrapolated toward the future to evaluate possible costs and benefits. In this sense, the long-term necessities of production and consumption do not fit into the categories of current capital investment, and it is difficult to internalize them within a limited economic calculation in order to incorporate the goals of an environmental perspective of development."
"The objective of ecodevelopment, defined as a strategy for the production and application of knowledges and techniques necessary for the sustainable management of particular ecosystems, is a social process inserted within the struggles of each community for the appropriation of their natural resources and their social wealth.
"In this way ecodevelopment is linked to a political process of technical and social change, of reappropriation of nature and knowledge. The obstacles to the production and application of new technological strategies of ecodevelopment do not emerge solely from their technical viability and economic feasibility. These obstacles emerge above all from the conflicting interests between the beneficiaries of the established economic rationality and those social groups that have been marginalized and that would benefit from an alternative productive and social rationality. Such changes would affect the interests of those who own and control the means of production--including land and technological knowledge--and who are able to take advantage of the wealth produced within the dominant economic order."
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This article is more than five years old. Autism research — and science in general — is constantly evolving, so older articles may contain information or theories that have been reevaluated since their original publication date.
One of the frustrations that parents of children with autism most commonly voice is the long wait for a diagnosis.
Delays can occur at every step of the process. A child’s pediatrician may not be trained in identifying signs of autism, for example. A worrisome screening test may get lost in the shuffle without triggering a referral for follow-up. Even once a referral is made, a child suspected of having autism often spends months on a waiting list for evaluation at a specialized autism clinic.
“There is on average a two-year gap between when the problem was first noted and when the [children] are diagnosed,” says Matthew Maenner, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Center on Birth Defects and Child Disabilities in Atlanta. In fact, CDC data show that only 20 percent of children who have symptoms consistent with autism receive a formal diagnosis by 3 years of age1.
There are then likely to be more long waits for practitioners who have expertise in caring for people with the disorder, adding up to years of delays.
In the meantime, the children grow up and out of the critical period for early intervention.
The scenario for adults seeking an autism diagnosis is even grimmer, as there are fewer practitioners experienced in caring for adults with autism than in caring for children with the disorder.
There are few comprehensive statistics about waiting times, but the bottlenecks in access to autism diagnosis and care are widely acknowledged. These concerns are spurring the medical community to take a hard look at the failings of professional training in contributing to the problem.
“It’s a question of math and numbers at this point,” says Zachary Warren, associate professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. “We really don’t have enough of the specialty providers that we’d like to be able to have in order to provide quick, expedited, multidisciplinary evaluations for every child with a developmental concern.”
What’s more, the gulf between supply and demand may be growing. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that every child be screened for autism at 18 and 24 months of age. Yet only about half of pediatric practices routinely conduct such screenings2, 3.
This means that as more practices fall in line toward universal screening, waiting times for a diagnosis are likely to grow longer.
“If we don’t plan now, the shortage will get worse for a very high-needs, long-term-needs population,” says Natasha Marrus, instructor in psychiatry at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
One reason for the shortage is that even psychiatrists and other specialists aren’t being trained to diagnose and care for children with autism.
According to a survey of child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship programs around the country, trainees in these fields attend a scant three to four hours of lectures on autism or intellectual disability and see an average of just one to five children with these conditions in a year4.
“The amount of time and the amount of exposure to patient care is clearly less than what we would want,” says Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele, associate professor of psychiatry, pediatrics and pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Autism and Intellectual Disability Committee, which conducted the survey.
In effect, the situation represents a vicious circle: Many child psychiatry programs lack an associated autism clinic or faculty experts in the disorder, so the new generation of trainees has little chance to develop familiarity with this population.
That’s especially worrisome because training opportunities often decide the trajectory of an individual’s whole career.
“People go and do what they’re good at, what they’re most comfortable with,” says Marrus, who also worked on the survey. “We’ll miss out on a group of practitioners who might have been able to help these families.”
Although the survey focused on child psychiatrists, experts say that the shortage of qualified practitioners with training in autism also extends to other fields.
For example, autism diagnoses are commonly made by developmental or behavioral pediatricians, speech therapists and child psychologists, in addition to child psychiatrists. All of these types of providers are scarce and difficult to reach, Warren says.
One way to address the shortage would be to place more responsibility for autism diagnosis in the hands of experts whose numbers are bigger — especially general pediatricians,
In a pilot study published last year, Warren and his colleagues conducted a two-day training session in autism identification for 27 community practitioners in Tennessee, including 20 general pediatricians and 3 pediatric nurse practitioners5.
The researchers taught the practitioners how to administer and score the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT), a common brief screening instrument, as well as the Screening Test for Autism in Toddlers (STAT), a longer follow-up assessment tool. The participants also got a crash course in interviewing parents and in family counseling techniques.
After the training, the participants used their new skills to identify or rule out autism in children within their practice and to refer more complex cases for a more in-depth evaluation.
Warren and his colleagues found that the training increased the number of children diagnosed with autism within the participants’ practices by 85 percent. Moreover, the diagnoses agree with independent in-depth assessments up to 93 percent of the time.
“Having the primary care providers be more aware of [autism] is really helpful,” says Catherine Lord, director of the New York-Presbyterian Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, who was not involved in the work. “I don’t know that it really replaces the specialist, but I think we could be more judicious about what specialists do.”
However, while the process is more streamlined, it’s not quick, Lord points out. “The screening they’re talking about took an hour, which is an extraordinary amount of time for a pediatrician to meet with a family,” she says.
Time and training constraints also hamper more basic autism screening by pediatricians. “Pediatricians often are not prepared to recognize autism in children under the age of 2,” says Stephen Downs, professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. “It’s relatively new science that we can reliably identify autism in very young children.”
Even for pediatricians familiar with the early signs of autism, the sheer volume of information and patient numbers they must manage means that autism screening often falls by the wayside, Downs notes.
A 2006 analysis found that American Academy of Pediatrics policy statements contain 192 different specific directives for pediatricians to carry out over the course of childhood6. That number is surely even higher now, as the autism screening recommendation was made in 2007.
At the 18-month visit alone, Downs estimates, a pediatrician’s to-do list takes 30 minutes to complete, even before considering issues raised by parents or discovered during the physical examination. Yet the typical well-child pediatrician visit is scheduled for only 20 minutes.
To keep autism at the top of the priority list, Downs and his colleagues designed an autism screening module that accesses electronic medical records. The module is part of a software package that guides practice in several large pediatric clinics in Indiana.
At a child’s 18-month visit, the system prints out a copy of the M-CHAT, which parents complete in the waiting room. It then prompts the pediatrician to follow up on worrisome screening results, by either ruling out autism or referring the child for further evaluation.
The researchers piloted the module in two clinics, where 857 children were seen for 18-month well-child visits over the course of a year and a half7. Of 171 children who had M-CHAT results that raised a red flag, pediatricians ruled out autism in 50 and referred 25 for further evaluation. But in 98 of the cases, or 57 percent of the time, the pediatricians failed to respond to the computer system’s prompt to follow up.
Although the numbers are disappointing, they are typical for this kind of computerized system, Downs says. “It has drastically improved the rates of screening and early detection of problems,” he adds, “but we’re only about halfway to meeting our goal of universal screening and identification.”
To reach that goal, Downs and his colleagues are studying how to tweak clinical procedures to reduce some of the barriers to follow-up. Meanwhile, the Autism and Intellectual Disability Committee is producing video lectures and other resources to give psychiatry trainees more opportunities to learn about autism.
Warren has begun crisscrossing the country to share his group’s approach to autism identification with pediatricians and primary care providers in other states. In fact, he was headed to Iowa at the end of his conversation with me.
“It’s one thing to provide training to folks,” he says. “It’s another thing to provide training that actually creates practice change.”
1: Maenner M.J. et al. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 52, 401-413 (2013) PubMed
2: Carbone P.S. et al. J. Autism Dev. Disord. 43, 964-972 (2013) PubMed
3: Zuckerman K.E. et al. Pediatrics 132, 445-453 (2013) PubMed
4: Marrus N. et al. Autism Epub ahead of print (2013) PubMed
5: Swanson A.R. et al. Autism Epub ahead of print (2013) PubMed
6: Belamarich P.F. et al. Pediatrics 118, e964-e978 (2006) PubMed
7: Bauer N.S. et al. Infants & Young Children 26, 306-317 (2013) Abstract

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
As a multimedia intern for NASA, I helped out with the live shot team. Describing the job is a bit tricky - Some days I produced social products, some days I helped broadcast scientists nationwide, some days I conducted audience development research.
National Science Foundation
As a multimedia intern for the Roots in Droughts NSF Grant, I created media to promote and explain what scientists were working on. I also made a point to contextualize their work, and explain why it was so important.
University of Missouri Counseling Center
At the University of Missouri Counseling Center, I worked with therapists and Outreach Coordinator Christy Hutton to create videos that could both entertain and inform students about self-care practices. In addition, I also created videos promoting Counseling Center services, like their RESPOND training and the Take-Action Carnival.
This is far from the only video work I've done. Check out the collection of videos below for more of my work.


Physics; Equations of motion; Tachyons; Mathematics; Engineering; Computer software; Telecommunication systems; Fourier transformations; Satellites; Orbital mechanics; Lyapunov stability; Perturbation (Mathematics); Quantum theory
Table of Contents:
"Tachyons in a Gravitational Field" by R. O. Hettel, T. M. Helliwell
"Analysis of Fast Fourier Transforms with Applications to Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN)" by J.-P. Patkay, J. Riley, T. Weimer
"Stability of Dynamical Systems...
Physics; Lorentz transformations; Electromagnetic theory; Physics; Computer algorithms; Ephemerides – data processing; Blackbody radiation; Mathematics; Light, Wave theory of
Table of Contents: "Apparent Paradoxes When the Lorentz Transformation for Electromagnetic Fields is Applied to Maxwell's Equations" by Michael Roberts "A Tableless Algorithm for Computing the Position of the Sun" by Gregory L. Nelson ...


Thales and WB Electronics have signed an agreement to build a Polish tactical unmanned air vehicle named Gryf (Grifon), based on the former’s experience with the British Army’s Watchkeeper 450, and on the technology used on the UAV.
One of the key operating programmes in the modernization of the Polish armed forces is the delivery of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). After three years of technical dialogue the Polish Armed Forces Inspectorate took the decision to build a mid-range tactical UAS with the involvement of Polish industry. At the same time, the Polish Ministry of Defence announced that the tactical-class UAS will be obtained under a G-to-G contract with a foreign supplier. The reason for such a decision was the inability to build such a system in Poland.
This situation is changed by the terms of the agreement between WB Electronics and Thales signed on 8th July 2015. The agreement covers the construction of the Gryf Polish tactical class UAS based on the experience and the technology used in the Watchkeeper 450 system. The cooperation foresees the construction of the Gryf UAS in Polish factories and in line with MOD requirements. Furthermore, under the terms of the agreement, critical technology (such as data links, mission computer, software, some optoelectronic heads, cryptographic elements and integration with C4ISR) will be developed by Polish engineers. This will allow for full sovereign control over the systems on offer to the Polish army as well as encryption codes, ensuring the security of the fundamental state interests.
Warsaw wants to acquire 12 Gryf systems, each with four aircraft and a ground control station. The system will be used for division-level imagery intelligence, will be armed with rockets and enter service from 2017. It also wants to purchase four Zefir (Zephyr)-class systems comprising three aircraft and a GCS each for operational-level use, to be acquired via a government-to-government deal with a foreign contractor. Deliveries would commence in 2019, and the aircraft will be armed with missiles and rockets.
Today, Thales and WB Electronics have signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” to foster closer ties and working partnerships in support of Poland’s investment in Unmanned Aircraft Systems and related technologies. With the support of the United Kingdom government, we look forward to working together and building an enduring and viable partnership in the development of Watchkeeper for the Polish market. Watchkeeper is a next generation, mature system, currently used by the British Armed forces, which has proven itself under operating conditions in Afghanistan. It benefits from a set of unique features, like air safety certification and a de-icing mechanism, that makes it an ideal match for the Polish armed forces. We are ready to work with Polish industry to guarantee the full sovereignty of Watchkeeper to Poland.”- said Victor Chavez, CEO of Thales in the UK.
Polish UAS financed by NCBiR
Polish industry has extensive expertise in building unmanned aircraft. Many Polish solutions, such as the FlyEye offered by the WB Group, are currently being used by the Polish Armed Forces. The confirmation of Polish competence in the field of unmanned aircraft is the creation of the sector programme (IINNOSBZ) for unmanned platforms by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR). 17 entities associated with the Polish Aeronautical Technology Platform for Unmanned Aerial Systems requested this. The value of the IINNOSBZ programme is estimated at approx. 800 million PLN.
“The creation of a sector programme on the technological development of unmanned platforms by NCBiR and a signed agreement with Thales provides us with a unique opportunity to develop a Polish medium range UAS. Thanks to financing from NCBiR, on the basis of solutions that we find in the UAS Watchkeeper, we can, using Polish forces, in Polish enterprises and using critical technologies developed by Polish engineers, build the Gryf class unmanned aircraft, which we will be able to fully control and maybe export to other countries in the future”, said Adam Bartosiewicz, Vice President of WB Electronics.
Taking advantage of the NCBiR financing, Polish industry may – based on the Watchkeeper – develop tactical UAV technology both for civil and military applications. Thales has invited WB Electronics to take full advantage of Thales’ experience in establishing sovereign control of the development of its latest generation UAS, entering a programme worth close to GBP 1 billion at the point of maturity.
About WB Electronics S.A. – the leader of WB Group, which is the biggest Polish private producer and supplier of military electronics. WB Group employs over 800 people, of which approx. 50% work on research and development. WB Group includes the following entities: WB Electronics S.A., Radmor S.A., Flytronic Sp. z o.o., Arex Sp. z o.o. and MindMade Sp z o.o. WB Group is mainly known for the manufacture of innovative, reliable and battle-proven FONET communication systems and F@stNet family radio stations commonly used by artillery unit command and fire control systems ZZKO TOPAZ, modern FlyEye UAV systems, weaponry control systems and solutions for construction of SmartGrid systems. WB Group is a serious exporter of its own systems. The Group made consolidated revenues in 2014 of over PLN 200m.
About Thales – Thales is a global technology leader for the Aerospace, Transport, Defence and Security markets. With 61,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales reported sales of €13 billion in 2014. With over 20,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design and deploy equipment, systems and services to meet the most complex security requirements. Its unique international footprint allows it to work closely with its customers all over the world.
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The popular Cape Town Buskers Festival returns to the V&A Waterfront from 1-11 November 2018 when buskers from the international festival circuit join local performers in a celebration of the crowd-stopping, free-wheeling street art
Presented by the Cape Town Fringe in partnership with the V&A Waterfront, the programme of comedy, physical theatre, dance and music will see performers taking up their turf at outdoor venues and amphitheaters at the busy attraction.
A family-friendly event, the Buskers Festival is now in its third year. Previous editions have showcased acts such as a chainsaw-juggling monocyclist from Europe, a rather “politically incorrect” comedian from Canada, a plastic bucket one-man-band from Spain, and a silent mime from Argentina. The local talent matches up with soccer styling stars, unexpected musical virtuosos, riel dancers, acrobatic actors and more.
Live auditions for the 2018 Cape Town Busker’s Festival will be held at the V&A Waterfront amphitheatre on 11, 13 & 15 September. Those who are unable to attend in person can submit a Youtube link of their act. All performers interested in participating should complete the application form, which you can find here: capetownfringe.co.za/buskers. Applications close on 1 October.
Cape Town Fringe CEO Tony Lankester said the Cape Town Buskers Festival was an excellent opportunity to show how the performing arts can become a realistic and sustainable self-employment option. “By working hard on their acts and studying crowd and audience dynamics, buskers can earn a decent living and even travel the world. We salute the V&A Waterfront for their ongoing support of these performers by providing a space for them to work and for recognising their art as an entrepreneurial opportunity.”
The Cape Town Buskers Festival is part of the Cape Town Fringe, adding the magic of street theatre to the mix of theatre, dance, music, comedy. There is no Cape Town Fringe in 2018 but be sure to look out for our exciting 2019 plans. The Cape Town Fringe and the Cape Town Buskers Festival are projects of the National Arts Festival.


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Since this is my first post for Life As A Human, I was musing about that phrase… life as a human, hmmm….when I came across a passage in my recent reading that seemed particularly apt.
At the end of the Pulitzer-prize-winning book Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, which my book club just read, there is an epilogue written in the form of an imaginary conversation between the author and Olive Kitteridge, the feisty, opinionated protagonist of the book. When Elizabeth Strout is asked what readers may get out of the book, her answer is:
“I would hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, (italics mine) than they might have had before. We suffer from being quick to judge, quick to make excuses for ourselves and others, and I would like the reader to feel that we are all, more or less, in a similar state as we love and disappoint one another, and that we try, most of us, as best we can, and that to fail and succeed is what we do.”
The stories in Olive Kitteridge often focus on human frailty: middle-aged affairs, suicide attempts, the dreariness of aging, the ways love can go sideways, or how minor miscommunications can lead to dramatic results. Yet Strout’s astute observations of small moments in life, of human tragedies that affect most of us, and of feelings that we don’t often acknowledge (“They would never get over that night because they had said things that altered how they saw each other.”) made the book particularly touching to me.
This gets me thinking about the power of words, something I’ve recognized as a writer, but maybe not always fully appreciated as a human. I remember when the long marriage of good friends was breaking up and my wise mother said, “Sometimes when things are broken, they can’t be fixed and it’s better not to try.” I was surprised when she said that, a bit shocked in fact.
I guess the trick is to know when it is worth trying to mend our brokenness. When the beautiful stained glass window my husband Russ had made for the Quadra Island United Church was vandalized and badly damaged, Russ offered to repair it for free. Later, at the re-dedication service for the newly re-installed window, Russ was asked to say a few words. He talked about the break and the repair and said he believed the window was stronger now than ever, and that we humans can also become stronger after being broken. We’ll all inevitably face a time of brokenness in our lives, and that can sometimes lead us to discover a strength within ourselves that we may not have known existed.
I think that words — carefully chosen or carelessly tossed out — have a surprisingly powerful role to play in how we live and evaluate our lives. I disagree with the children’s nursery rhyme, Sticks and stones can break my bones/But words can never hurt me. Instead, I subscribe to school of thought that says, The pen (or keyboard?) is mightier than the sword. In fact, I’ve spent a good portion of my life choosing and being acutely aware of the search for just the right words. Isn’t that what sets us apart from other species and makes us fully human, after all?
So, as I reflect on what Life As A Human means to me, I’m realizing that if words — spoken or written — are the defining characteristic of our humanness, I’m sitting in the catbird seat. Instead of complaining about the frequently impoverished state of writers, I should be celebrating our vast riches … we are wordsmiths, using our tools to try to make sense of the human condition. And right here is a good place to do it.
“Olive Kitteridge” © 2010 Star Weiss. All rights reserved.
“Stained glass window in Quadra Island United Church” © 2010 Star Weiss. All rights reserved.


Honiton Tuesday Mixed joy for Cathy Uttely and John Frith
PUBLISHED: 10:18 17 January 2019
The first Tuesday Mixed competition of 2019 was an 18-hole ‘four clubs and a putter’ greensomes event, writes Ann Desmoulins.
As has been seen with this format on previous occasions, it is not necessarily a hindrance to good scoring.
Cathy Uttley and John Frith were certainly on form and came first with 39 points, closely followed by Linda Curtis and Phil Wall with 38 points.
Third place was taken by Maureen Lawrence and Ron Graham with 37 points.
● Last week’s ladies’ competition was also played under the ‘four clubs and a putter’ format, but played as an individual Stableford over 18 holes.
Many felt the effects of not having been able to play the full-length course for quite a number of weeks due to the persistently bad weather.
The secret of success with the limited number of clubs is the player’s choice of which clubs to use. The scores were surprisingly good, which left people wondering why they normally needed a full set of 14!
The Silver Division winner was Henrietta Bradshaw with 31 points, taking the honours after countback, with Ann Trayling taking second place and third was Catherine Doherty.
The winner of Bronze One was Gill Johnson with 33 points. Second, with 32 points, was Chris Luttman and Penny Blackburn, with 31 points, took third place.
● Dry weather again prevailed for the Honiton Seniors to compete in a ‘three-ball, better ball, two scores to count’ competition.
Despite the weather, the scores were surprisingly low with the winners coming in with 70 points.
Taking the honours were the team of Rob Stickland, John Chew and Rod Armitage, who were closely followed, also on 70 points, by Derek Keen, Dave Anderson and Tom Stanton, with the scores over the back nine determining the top spots.
Third were Chris Street, Roger Matthews and Bob Cockett with 69 points and fourth were David Scott and Rob Sexton with 68 points – the latter representing a terrific effort considering they were only a two ball!
There were five twos, each winning nine balls: Peter Clarke on the 12th and David Ive, Rob Stickland, Bill Eaton and Jim Wallis on the seconnd.
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On June 30, 2023, we have completed the installation of a comprehensive treatment type septic tank in Rayong Province.
In recent years, there have been an increasing number of cases where industrial estates have imposed penalties or orders for improvement even for household wastewater other than factory wastewater, which exceeds the industrial park standards.
A septic tank works only when the microorganisms (bacteria) present in the tank are of an appropriate size and work in an appropriate environment such as aeration. can be disassembled to reduce the COD, Oil & Grease values and keep the values within the industrial park standards.
This installation is for the new factory, and assuming the capacity of 700 people using the toilet and canteen, we have set the total amount of waste water to be 75 tons per day. Use area is 6M (width) x 20M (length) x 4M (depth)
Next, it is a type that digs the soil and buries the FRP tank underground.
The installation of septic tanks will not only be new, but in the future, the existing old-fashioned section type septic tank will increase the number of employees by two or three times from the beginning, and we will move to the comprehensive septic tank that we propose. We believe that there will be more needs to be considered.


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Here are the Arsenal morning headlines for Friday, August 7.
Granit Xhaka ‘leading player revolt’ over Arsenal staff redundancies
Granit Xhaka is reportedly leading the player revolt in the Arsenal dressing room over the club’s decision to make 55 members of staff redundant.
Mirror Sport revealed on Thursday that members of the Gunners’ squad want talks with the decision-makers at the Emirates Stadium after it was announced that employees including scouts and backroom staff would be losing their jobs.
The news emerged with Arsenal in talks of signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to a bumper new contract and the North London club also looking to bring Willian in on £150,000-a-week.
Arsenal’s players are also believed to be unhappy due to the fact they took a pay cut earlier in the year on the understanding that it would prevent the club from having to make redundancies.
Napoli decision could have bearing on Arsenal’s pursuit of centre-back
Arsenal have been linked with Lille centre-back Gabriel Magalhaes this summer, but their chances of doing so could depend on whether or not Napoli are in for the Brazilian.
Journalist Fabrizio Romano claims the Serie A side see Gabriel as the perfect replacement for Kalidou Koulibaly, should the Senegalese defender leave the club before the start of the 2020/21 season.
Koulibaly has drawn a significant level of interest, including from Premier League clubs, but Napoli have so far held firm in their valuation of the player.
On the basis of what Romano reports, Arsenal must hope Napoli rebuff any offers for Koulibaly in order to boost the Gunners’ chances of landing Gabriel from Lille.
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Former Arsenal player names three positions club must fill this summer
Former Arsenal player and Sky Sports pundit Charlie Nicholas has had his say on the players the Gunners must target this summer, naming three positions that should be a priority.
Nicholas believes Mikel Arteta needs defensive reinforcements if he is to continue to make progress next season, adding that the addition of William Saliba from Saint-Etienne won’t be enough.
“William Saliba has signed and will start the new campaign which is great,” he told the Metro. “He’s young, he’s fast but he’s still slightly naive when I watched him playing for Saint-Etienne.
“But we need two more centre-backs and I do believe we need a right-back. No disrespect but I think Sokratis’ [Papastathopoulos] time is up, I know [Shkodran] Mustafi’s injured so we can’t sell but I think his time is up.
“Arsenal’s masterplan has to be two centre-backs, cover in case Kieran Tierney were to get injured again - [Saed] Kolasinac fits that but he’s not a natural defender - and then I see seven or eight players getting sold.”

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