Timothy Carney is Associate Professor of Music at Chaminade University of Honolulu and Music Director of Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble. He began his conducting career in France, where he founded La Chorale américaine de Paris. Since then, he has conducted choruses across the United States, in New York, Tennessee, Minnesota, and Illinois, as well as in Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand.
Miguel Ángel Felipe was born and began his musical studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Today, Dr. Felipe is Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. He also serves as director of music and liturgy at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu, home to one of the state's largest church music programs.
Richard Nace is one of the Pacific Northwest's foremost choral educators and conductors. Mr. Nace is in constant demand as conductor, lecturer, workshop leader, and retreat specialist throughout the US and across Canada.
Granville Oldham is a choral conductor, clinician, and adjudicator, having made nearly two hundred appearances in more than half of the United States, as well as in Kenya, Jamaica, and Mexico.
George Torbay, Choral Conductor, obtained a Bachelor of Music with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Sydney.
During the past decade Geoffrey Paul Boers has emerged as one of this region’s leading choral conductors and teachers. His choirs have performed at national and regional conventions of choral conductors and music educators, earning high praise for their expressiveness and technical mastery.
ANDRÉ J. THOMAS, the Owen F. Sellers Professor of Music, is Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Choral Music Education at Florida State University. A previous faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Thomas received his degrees from FriendsUniversity (B.A.), Northwestern University (M. M.), and the University of Illinois (D.M.A).
Heather J. Buchanan conducts the 160-voice Chorale, 60-voice University Singers, and 24-voice Vocal Accord. Choirs under her direction have been critically acclaimed for their performances in collaboration with a variety of renowned artists including Meredith Monk, Mícheál ÓSúílleabháin, Tarik O’Regan, and Joseph Flummerfelt; and performed major choral works with conductors Neeme Järvi, Jacques LaCombe, and John Maucceri and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
Professor of Choral Music, Florida State University (USA)
Director of Choral Activities, California State University Fresno (USA)
In demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator, Anna Hamre’s work has taken her beyond the continental United States to Hawaii, Mexico, China, and Europe. She has guest-conducted twice at Carnegie Hall, and she is scheduled to conduct in Italy (June 2011) and England (June 2012).
Director of Choral Activities, California State University Sacramento (USA)
Donald M. Kendrick is the Calgary, Alberta-born director of choral activities at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) and the director of music at Sacred Heart Church where he conducts Schola Cantorum and Vox Nova (Men's Chorus, and the founder and artistic director of the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra (a 200 voice volunteer/auditioned symphony chorus and professional orchestra). He is also the founder and past artistic director of the Sacramento Children's Chorus.
One of North America's most sought after choral conductors, Professor Jing Ling-Tam, Director of Choral Studies and Coordinator of Vocal Arts at UTArlington has garnered international recognition in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia.
Dr. Amanda Quist conducts the Westminster Chapel Choir and teaches Techniques of Conducting and Group Vocal Techniques. She also shares conducting responsibilities for the Westminster Symphonic Choir with Joe Miller. Additionally, she is a member of the faculty of the Westminster Chamber Choir/Festival Chorus program, held in Princeton each summer.
Jo-Michael Scheibe chairs the Thornton School of Music’s Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern California, where he conducts the USC Chamber Singers, teaches choral conducting and choral methods, and supervises the graduate and undergraduate choral program.
Dr. Sharkova, Artistic Director of the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale, joined the Music Department at San José State University in the fall of 1998, where she served as assistant professor of music and Director of Choral Activities until June 2006.
Paul A. Smith began his music career early as a young piano student of the late African-American pianist/composer, Margaret Bonds. His formal education has included an undergraduate degree from Chapman University; a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California; and he is ABD toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Music at the University of Southern California.


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WASHINGTON — The deadliest tornadoes in decades. Severe flooding on the Mississippi River. Drought in Texas, and heavy rains in Tennessee.
What’s up with the weather? Scientists say there are connections between many of the severe weather events of the past month and global warming.
“Basically, as we warm the world up, the atmosphere can hold more moisture in it,” said Anne Jefferson, an assistant professor in the geography and earth-science department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
“Weather patterns that used to be limited to the South move farther north now,” she said. “Both of those things together will increase the frequency with which we see these big rainstorms, and those are likely to increase flooding in the future.”
Flooding on the Mississippi has become more frequent and more extensive since about 1950, Jefferson said. This year’s huge flood was created by snowmelt and rain on snow in the upper Mississippi River basin and very intense rain in its middle regions.
“Climatically, we have a higher frequency of rain-on-snow events, a real recipe for flooding,” she said. “Also you’re getting more warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico farther north up the Mississippi.”
All of these changes are part of the general shift in the world’s climate known as global warming — primarily the result of billions of tons of heat-trapping gases released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, as well as deforestation.
“Anything that’s happening now is occurring superimposed on very different background conditions than we used to have. We have significantly altered our background conditions,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University.
The study of long-term statistical trends shows an increase in heat waves and heavy rainfalls, Hayhoe said. But for tornadoes, the jury is still out because the historical record is too patchy.
Climate change may enhance one precursor of tornadoes while diminishing another one, she said.
“We will need a lot more data and modeling before we can say for sure which effect will dominate,” she said.

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Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) (No.4) Regulations 2020
Division 160: held on 4 November 2020 at 15:59
Use the link below to find out how your MP Voted.
The full list of how the MPs voted can be found here https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Commons/Division/902#ayes
If you want to send the following email to your MP an email asking why they voted for a new lockdown, please use the form below. You can also include any personal harms that you have to personalise the letter.
Not sure of their details? You can find them here: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mps/ (Opens in a new tab, so please close and return once you have the details)
Following the letter from Rational Global with the extensive list of harms caused by lockdown, I read with dismay that you either voted to put me and my family under house arrest once again, or abstained from lending your voice to those who voted against.
Given the previous letter (crafted carefully with the help of the well researched and evidence based facts collated by Rational Global), made clear the devastating harms caused by lockdown 1, I am confused as to why you would ever agree to a repeat?
I am deeply concerned that you are still not aware of the facts as they stand and may even be making your decisions based upon the since proven completely false evidence, presented by the scientists at last weekend’s briefing.
I would like to refer you to the essential listening of the following Eminent Scientists, Leading Politicians, Concerned Citizens et al …
First are you aware of the Legal Case against the Govt unlawful actions? Please refer here to this interview that outlines the case. https://youtu.be/Emj5TBRcz0Q
To read more about the case: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/lockdownlegalchallenge/
Continuing the Legal concerns over these draconian, somewhat fascist style measures, please listen to the eminent previous Lord Chief Justice Lord Sumption in his address: https://youtu.be/AkOAZ9VHj3s
As you are no doubt by now aware our website is now gaining traction among the population, and as such, we have made the following public as well https://rational.global/covid-19-and-false-imprisonment/
And whilst this article is a suggestion of how the public can use Law to support taking every member of the Govt to court for the crimes against them, their lives, their Human Rights etc, please know … these cases are already in actions across the globe and a Global Movement has already joined top Lawyers, Barristers, Scientists, Physicians, Psychologists et al together, in their efforts to bring correction to our Democracy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8914971/Britons-launch-class-action-lawsuit-Government-falsely-imprisoning-nation-says-lawyer.html
Carl Heneghan, our most respected epidemiologist, who is the first to have raised alarms about the false recording of deaths, the duplication of data, the false use of data in the Govt scientist briefings: https://youtu.be/eE7dwkKxfyY
As Teresa May rightly commented …” for many people it appears the figures are chosen to support the policy, rather than policy being based on the figures” She also rightly goes onto say “lack of data about the costs of making this decision… non-covid treatment in NHS, non-covid deaths, domestic abuse, rise in suicide, costs to the economy, businesses failing, whole sectors damaged… the government must have made this analysis, …let us see this analysis… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-_A9LVYi8
The Pandemic is over. An interview with the eminent scientist Mike Yeadon: https://youtu.be/4FQUmw5QljM
Sunetra Gupta, also eminent in her field and continually outspoken about the unnecessary lockdowns, which limits the human race in it’s usual response to infectious diseases: https://youtu.be/fQrqb86nF3Y
Graham Hutchinson, ex-Senior Chief Biomedical Scientist, Public Health UK speaks out: https://youtu.be/nEFXRnDCYkc
The Danish Study proves that the people forced to wear masks/ face coverings, are more likely to get sick than those who were not wearing them. There is a direct correlation between to rising risk of sickness, with those wearing masks for a longer period. This study is being suppressed to avoid the potential for legal actions exploding across the globe. It will not be suppressed for long.
Perhaps the most essential piece of reading that I ask you to give your attention, comes from the publication of the explanation of the much debated PCR test. Given the entire debate, fear mongering media and unlawful curtailment of our freedoms is based upon these tests, it is the most damning of all affirmations, that this pandemic is fraudulent: https://rational.global/understanding-cycle-threshold-ct-in-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr/
I assume that as a constituent of yours, I am therefore a valued voice.
I assume that as a constituent and therefore voter, I am to be heard and my concerns will be registered and a response will be forthcoming.
the Rational Global teams have many concerned citizens working all hours to learn what the motivations of all MPs voting for these measures might be. So far their findings are disturbing and yet illuminating. Those will be published should the MP continue on their path to destroy the lives of the population.
I will conclude with this comment …
[PERSONAL HARMS GO HERE]
Failure to respond, will signify to me that you are NOT acting on behalf of your constituents and that you are happy for that fact to be made public.
I eagerly await your response, with explanations that counter the above concerns, with valid, proven facts, from those who do not have conflicted interests that stand to make them very wealthy, as in the case of the three scientists driving the Govt measures

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King County Jail inmate threatens to rob bank | Federal Way crime blotter
Following is a sample from the Federal Way police log:
• Threatening letter: At 12:46 p.m. Aug. 23 at 2100 S.W. 336th St., a bank employee received a letter from an inmate. The letter said if the bank did not send $2,000 to the inmate, located in King County Jail, he would come to the bank with a gun and get the money himself. The letter included the man’s name, Social Security number, inmate number and signature.
• Egged: At 9:20 a.m. Aug. 21 in the 30400 block of 3rd Ave. S., it was reported that a car was egged and a mailbox recently smashed.
• Home burglary: At 5:16 p.m. Aug. 23 in the 3600 block of South 334th Street, a suspect burglarized a home and stole $3,500 worth of property. The suspect was arrested.
• Theft: At 6:24 a.m. Aug. 23 in the 35200 block of Pacific Highway South, a victim reported that a suspect broke into an equipment trailer and stole several generators and tools.
• Egged: At 4:05 a.m. Aug. 23 in the 32000 block of 47th Avenue S.W., a victim reported an unknown suspect threw an egg at his car while he was traveling on 47th Avenue S.W. The paint and door on the loaner car were damaged.
• Missing prescription pills: At 8:23 p.m. Aug. 24 in the 30800 block of 9th Place South, a victim reported finding 17 oxycodone pills missing from a bottle. The victim suspects his or her daughter or the daughter’s friends.
• Senior runs away: At 12:22 p.m. Aug. 24 at 32318 29th Ave. S.W., it was reported that a patient in an assisted living home ran away because he was not allowed to have soda. The man has medical issues but is able to care for himself. He has a history of running away and then returning to the home.
• Fight: At 11:19 p.m. Aug. 25 at 2002 S.W. Campus Dr., a victim reported an unknown suspect struck him in the head while in the smoking area outside a bar. The suspect fled the scene.


Through Freedom of Information legislation, The Vancouver Sun obtained inspection data for more than 3,000 daycares, long-term care facilities and group homes for the disabled. They made the data — which had never been public before — available on the web through a series of searchable online databases. Analysis of the data revealed almost one in nine long-term facilities have been rated "high risk." Additionally, over the last five years, there have been at least 230 incidents when daycares have lost track of children in their care.
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Steps to grow paperwhite narcissus over the winter
If you purchase paperwhite narcissus as bulbs, they can be grown in a pot with a growing medium.
Your container needs to have a drainage hole in the bottom to avoid having soggy soil that will cause the bulbs to rot. Fill the container with a growing medium appropriate for pots. Leave enough space at the top to allow you to set the bulbs, pointed end up, on top of the mix.
Finish filling the pot with medium while leaving the tips of the bulbs exposed. Install the bulbs so that the top of the bulb is level with (or about an inch or so above) the top of the growing medium.
It will be easier to water the pot if there is a half-inch to an inch gap between the top of the pot and the medium. Space the bulbs close enough that they are almost touching. Check the bulbs frequently and water thoroughly when the potting mix is dry 1 inch below the surface (but not more than once a week) until the bulbs begin active growth.
Paperwhite narcissus will often require a cage or a ring of raffia tied around them to keep them from flopping as they grow. Try to grow them at cooler temperatures to reduce the foliage stretch and prolong life of the flowers.
You can also grow paperwhites in a shallow dish filled with pebbles rather than growing medium. Arrange the bulbs close together and cover them with pebbles, with the tops of the bulbs exposed. The weight of the pebbles helps keep them from falling to the side as they grow.
Water just enough to encourage root growth, without soaking the bulbs. Paperwhite bulbs can rot once planted if given too much water. When gardeners grow paperwhites in gravel with standing water, the roots need to maintain contact with water, but the bulb should not. Letting the bulb sit in standing water can lead to rot.
It is important to maintain the water level so only the roots are wet, topping off the water level daily if necessary. Discard the bulbs after flowering, but rinse and keep the pebbles for future forced bulbs.
I am trying to grow a waxed amaryllis bulb for the first time. The waxed bulb contains all the stored energy and water it needs to grow and bloom, so all you need to do is place it in a brightly lit, level spot out of direct sunlight and wait for it to grow and flower.
Most waxed bulbs have a coiled wire base so that they stand without any additional support. Rotate it a couple of times a week to help it grow straighter. It took some time for my bulb to show any life, so be patient.
• Tim Johnson is director of horticulture at Chicago Botanic Garden, chicagobotanic.org.

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First Edition of Gilles Peress's The Rockaways
Item Number: 75423
Concord Free Press, 2013.
First edition of the photographic work, which looked at the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on the Rockaways in Queens, New York. Edited with an introduction by Hamilton Fish. Essays and reporting by Daniel Borrero, Christopher Carr, Luke Hammill, Mary Norris and Joshua Ogogo. Oblong quarto, original illustrated wrappers, photographs throughout. In fine condition.
Other Books by this Author
New York: Scalo, 2002.
First edition. Thick oblong quarto, original illustrated boards in slipcase. Inscribed by Gilless Peress. Illustrated with nearly 1000 full-color and black-and-white photographic plates with images by noted photographers such as Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas and Jeff Mermelstein. Fine in a fine slipcase. Parr & Badger II, 232.
First Edition of The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar; Signed by Gilles Peress, Eric Stover and Richard Goldstone
New York: Scalo , 1998.
First edition of this moving record of the atrocites that befell the Balkans in the 1990’s. Thick octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed by all three contributors: photographer Gilles Peress; Eric Stover, who contributed the text and Justice Richard Goldstone, who contributed the foreword. In fine condition.
Paris: Contrejour, 1984.
First French edition, published simultaneously with the American edition of the photojournalist’s first book. Folio, original stiff photographic wrappers, photographic endpapers. Inscribed by the photographer, Gilles Peress. In fine condition.
New York: Aperture, 1983.
First American edition, published simultaneously with the first French edition of the photojournalist’s first book. Folio, original stiff photographic wrappers, photographic endpapers. Inscribed by Gilles Peress. In fine condition.
"A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people": First Edition of Photographs; Signed by Annie Leibovitz; Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer
New York: Pantheon/ Rolling Stone Press Book, 1983.
First edition of this collection of photographs of celebrities taken by Leibovitz. Quarto, original cloth. Signed by Annie Leibovitz on the title page. Additionally signed by Tom Wolfe, who contributed the introduction and also signed by Norman Mailer, whose photograph is in this volume. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Photograph of Calvin Coolidge by Harris & Ewing. Inscribed in the lower border, “To Frederick I. Cox, With regards, Calvin Coolidge.” Blindstamped in the lower left by Harris & Ewing. The photograph measures 8 inches by 12 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.25 inches by 20.25 inches.
Signed personal check from Amelia Earhart dated December 20, 1932 payable to her husband George Palmer Putnam for $250, which measures 2.5 inches by 7.5 inches. Double-matted and framed with a sheet music cover honoring Earhart. The entire piece measures 12 inches by 18 inches, with a window in the backing for viewing Putnam’s signature.
Inscribed Photograph of Chief Justice Warren Burger to Chief Judge of the Second Court of Appeals Irving Kaufman
Signed black and white photograph of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. It is inscribed, “For the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman colleague and stalwart ally in the judicial vineyard With best wishes Warren E Burger.” The recipient, Irving Kaufman was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, and was awarded the Presidential medal of Freedom in 1987 by President Reagan “for his exemplary service to our country, his work as chairman of the President’s commission on organized crime and his multifaceted efforts to promote an understanding of the law and our legal traditions.” Burger and Kaufman were both awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987 by Reagan. In fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 11.5 inches by 14.5 inches.

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A new report states that children are consuming too much salt.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 90 percent of children in the U.S. aged 6 -18 have too much salt in their diet.READ MORE: 'No Brainer': Football League Opts To Move Games Out Of Minneapolis After Shooting Left Spectator In Critical Condition
Most of the salt is coming from processed and restaurant foods.
Nearly half of sodium consumed is from 10 common food sources.READ MORE: Good Samaritan Hit By His Own Car Gets His Vehicle Back
According to the CDC, these foods are pizza, bread and rolls, cold cuts, savory snacks, sandwiches, cheese, chicken patties/nuggets/tenders, pasta mixed dishes, Mexican mixed dishes and soups.
The CDC says this is dangerous for children as it puts them at risk for developing high blood pressure or heart disease later in life.
They say parents and schools can help curb sodium intake by offering lower-sodium alternatives and establishing health eating habits.MORE NEWS: Minnesotans Return To Work As State Unemployment Rates Drop


My version seven board has no blown fuses but I looked at chip BA6664FM (located where the reset/eject ribbon plugs in) and counted the legs from the small dipple. Leg 8 (right after the large piece of metal on the side of the chip) when checked with a meter emits a sound. I put the lead on the leg and one near where the screws attach to the board. Now chip BA5815FM located at the bottom of the board leg 19 does the same thing.
Have I done this right? Are the chips fired? Fuses are all okay. System is new and I was putting in a modchip.


text: Carbenes, nitrenes, and arynes are of great interest to chemists because of the central role they play, as the key intermediates, in a wide range of chemical reactions. Their study has illuminated many aspects of synthetic and mechanistic chemistry. Their organic chemistry has developed enormously over the last ten to fifteen years so that now a fairly clear pattern of reactions and reactivity, strikingly similar for all three, has emerged. Partly because of this, but also because of the many unsolved problems and gaps in our present knowledge, it now seems appropriate to present a comparative account of their chemistry. Our approach is a simple, descriptive one that nevertheless attempts to bring the reader as nearly up-to-date as possible; there is considerable emphasis on recent work in the text and the problems. We have been selective rather than comprehensive, have concentrated on underlying principles, and have tried to emphasize what can, and what cannot, reasonably be claimed on the basis of the available experimental evidence. (The development of this area of organic chemistry could weil serve as a cauti'onary tale in this respect. ) We have written the book primarily at the advanced student level but it should also be useful to postgraduates students and to more experienced chemists. Some of the problems are at a rather more advanced level, the aim being to extend the reader's knowledge and understanding and to direct him to some recent originalliterature.


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Enabled by civil forfeiture laws, police can seize and keep property without the government ever filing criminal charges. Innocent Americans actually must prove their own innocence in court if they ever hope to regain their property. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies routinely seize property and pad their budgets with forfeiture revenue. Outlets as diverse as The New Yorker and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver have detailed this travesty of justice.
However, most Volusia County seizures involve southbound rather than northbound travelers, suggesting that the drug cops are targeting fat bags of cash rather than dangerous criminals. Far from being the prime motivator of the stops, no criminal charges were even filed in over 75% of the County’s seizure cases.
On November 18, 2009, Shukree Simmons, who is African-American, was driving with his business partner on the highway from Macon, Georgia, back to Atlanta after selling his cherished Chevy Silverado truck to a restaurant owner in Macon for $3,700 of sorely needed funds. As Mr. Simmons passed through Lamar County, he was pulled over by two patrol officers who stated no reason for the stop, but instead asked Mr. Simmons numerous questions about where he was going and where he had been, and even separated him from his business partner for extended questioning. The officers searched both people and the car, finding no evidence of any illegal activity. A drug dog sniffed the car and did not indicate the presence of any trace of drugs. Notwithstanding the total lack of evidence of criminal activity and Mr. Simmons’s explanation that he was carrying money from selling his truck, the officers confiscated the $3,700 on the suspicion that the funds were derived from illegal activity, pursuant to their authority under Georgia’s civil asset forfeiture law. Despite the fact that Mr. Simmons mailed his bill of sale and title for the truck to the officer, he was told over the phone that he would need to file a legal claim to get his money back…
A deputy for the Humboldt County’s Sheriff Office in rural Nevada has been accused of confiscating over $60,000 from drivers who were never charged with a crime. These cash seizures are now the subject of two federal lawsuits and are the latest to spotlight a little-known police practice called civil forfeiture. Civil forfeiture allows law enforcement to seize property (including cash and cars) without having to prove the owners are guilty. Last September, Tan Nguyen was pulled over for driving three miles over the speed limit, according to a suit he filed. Deputy Lee Dove asked to search the car but Nguyen said he declined. Dove claimed he smelled marijuana but couldn’t find any drugs. The deputy then searched the car and found a briefcase containing $50,000 in cash and cashier’s checks, which he promptly seized. According to the Associated Press, Nguyen said he won that cash at a casino.


Food grade stainless steel refers to the stainless steel material that meets the requirements of the National Standard of the People's Republic of China / Sanitary Standard for Stainless Steel Food Containers, GB 9684-88, and its lead chromium content is much lower than that of ordinary stainless steel.
Food grade stainless steel refers to the part of food machinery that comes into contact with food and must meet certain food safety requirements. Because the food production process uses a lot of acid and alkali, and stainless steel contains chromium, unqualified stainless steel, will dissolve all kinds of chromium, toxic; and it is required to limit the content of various alloy impurity elements such as lead and cadmium.
The difference between food grade stainless steel and 304 stainless steel
When stainless steel products migrate in excess of heavy metals during use, they may endanger human health.
Therefore, the production of stainless steel cookware requires a balance between corrosion protection and safety. If the content of nickel and chromium is high, the anti-corrosion function is enhanced, but the amount of nickel and chromium precipitated will also increase, which means the safety risk is increased.
Because of this, "Stainless Steel Products" (GB9684-2011) national food safety standards, strict regulations on the precipitation of chromium, cadmium, nickel, lead and other heavy metals in the cookware.
Why does the national standard not stipulate the migration limit of manganese?
One reason is that with the increase of manganese content in stainless steel, it is accompanied by the loss of functions such as corrosion resistance and rust resistance of the cookware. Once the manganese content is high to a certain value, the product cannot be used as a cookware or stainless steel cookware. It is. But even such a high manganese content generally does not affect health.
Therefore, although the national food safety standard does not regulate the manganese content, it is clearly stated that the main part of the food container must be made of stainless steel material in accordance with national standards.
Food grade stainless steel is stainless steel according to GB9684 standard
Food grade stainless steel, also known as "GB9864 stainless steel", is the stainless steel material specified in GB 9684-2011 under the National Standard of the People's Republic of China / Sanitary Standard for Stainless Steel Food Containers. The lead content of this stainless steel is lower than that of ordinary stainless steel. Much more, the product's anti-corrosion performance has also increased, the requirements are: lead (in Pb), mg / L 4% acetic acid soaking solution ≤ 1.0 1.0. Chromium (in terms of Cr), mg / L 4% acetic acid soaking solution Medium ≤ 0.5. Nickel (in terms of Ni), mg/L 4% acetic acid soaking solution ≤ 3.01.0. Tin (in terms of Sn), mg/L 4% acetic acid solution ≤ 0.02 0.02. Arsenic (as As), mg/L 4% acetic acid solution ≤ 0.04 0.04. Note: The soaking conditions are all boiled for 30 min, then room temperature for 24 h.
304 stainless steel is a very common stainless steel, also known as 18-8 stainless steel. Its corrosion resistance is better than 430 stainless steel, corrosion resistance, high temperature resistance, good processing performance, so it is widely used in industrial and furniture decoration industry and food medical industry, such as: some high-grade stainless steel tableware, bathroom kitchen utensils.
304 is a versatile stainless steel that is widely used to make equipment and parts that require good overall performance (corrosion resistance and formability).
In order to maintain the corrosion resistance inherent in stainless steel, the steel must contain more than 17% chromium and more than 8% nickel.
Generally 304 stainless steel is not food grade, and the special processed food grade.
It is well known that stainless steel products related to “edible” must use 304, 316 stainless steel. 316 stainless steel is expensive and is used in high-end equipment such as aerospace and food machinery. The food grade stainless steel used in daily necessities is mostly 304 stainless steel, which has good acid and alkali resistance and strong corrosion resistance.
In comparison, 201, 202 stainless steel (commonly known as high manganese steel) is generally used in industrial products, not for tableware, because it:
● The nickel content is not up to standard, the acid and alkali resistance is poor, and it is easy to rust;
● Excessive manganese content, excessive intake of manganese in the human body can cause damage to the nervous system.
201 stainless steel contains less nickel, less chromium, weaker anti-corrosion performance, more manganese, better acid and alkali resistance, and cheaper price! In order to maintain the inherent corrosion resistance of stainless steel, 201 stainless steel must contain more than 16% chromium, more than 8% Nickel content. The surface is very bright with dark light, and the manganese is high and it is easy to rust. 304 contains more chromium, the surface is matte and does not rust. The two are put together and there is comparison. The most important thing is the different corrosion resistance. The corrosion resistance of 201 is very poor, so the price is much cheaper. And because 201 contains low nickel, the price is lower than 304, so the corrosion resistance is not as good as 304.
In daily life, our chances of getting in contact with stainless steel products are extremely high, and stainless steel electric kettles are one of them. Which are "201" and which are "304"? It is difficult to distinguish ~
Differentiating these different stainless steel materials, the laboratory method is mainly to detect the composition of the substance. For example, the hand-held fluorescence spectrometer, which is more commonly used by us, can quickly analyze stainless steel of different materials and quickly obtain the content of all elements in the metal composition. There will be obvious differences.
In general: food grade stainless steel refers to the stainless steel material that meets the national GB9684 standard and can be in contact with food without causing physical harm. GB9864 stainless steel is in accordance with the national GB9684 standard certified stainless steel material, so GB9864 stainless steel is food grade stainless steel. . At the same time, the so-called 304 stainless steel is not required to pass the national GB9684 standard certification, 304 stainless steel is not equal to food grade stainless steel, 304 stainless steel is not only used in kitchen utensils, but also widely used in industry, the hazard to the human body is unknown. At the time of purchase, regular products will be marked with “food grade 304 stainless steel” on the surface and inner wall of the product, and the product labeled “food grade – GB9684” will be safer.


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Compare cheap flights to Tripoli
Tripoli is the capital city of Libya. It is located on the northern part of the country. It is also the home of over 1 million Libyans. Due to the political uprising and civil war that took place in the city a few years ago, several infrastructures in the city have been damaged. Yet, after new political leaders took over, it became a more stable city, attracting more tourists.
When is the cheapest time to fly to Tripoli?
The Tripoli International Airport is the main hub of the city. It is also the home of its flag carrier, Libyan Airlines. Several flights carry passengers to and from Libya to other neighboring African countries and Middle East Asia. The Afriqiyah Airways and Buraq Air are two other major airways in the city.
Though the city has started to rise from the ashes after the war, it is still advisable to travel with a tour guide. It is also better if you arrange your itinerary ahead of time and book a car or a van instead of taking public transportation. You also have to be alert in case there are alerts raised every now and then.
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- Surveys suggest Bhutan’s tiger population is increasing, but so too are incidents of tigers preying on livestock.
- While Bhutan’s people have historically been tolerant of tigers and other large predators, and retaliatory killings remain infrequent, research shows financial losses and other risks posed by tigers are a major source of stress for subsistence farmers.
- A government fund to compensate farmers for lost livestock dried up in 2008; new efforts focus on community insurance schemes, protecting livestock and building conservation efforts at the community level.
The village of Rukubji, in Bhutan’s central Wangdue Phodrang district, lies in a valley at the intersection of three rivers, its surrounding hillsides scattered with yak herder tents or swathed in forest.
In October 2022, a camera trap set just outside the village recorded a female tiger and her two cubs prowling among the pine trees. Like many areas of Bhutan, the region seems to have experienced an increase in the big cats. But while the presence of breeding apex predators might sound like good biodiversity news, it’s not so simple for the people living alongside them.
Tigers are endangered, their numbers having fallen from a possible 100,000 a century ago to 3,200 in 2010, when they became the subjects of one of the world’s most ambitious conservation targets. TX2, as it became known, was the shared goal of 13 governments of tiger-range countries to double the global tiger population to 6,000 by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger. Though the target wasn’t met, the global population is now estimated at an average of 4,500 individuals.
Bhutan’s first tiger survey in 2014-15 estimated 103 individuals. The second survey, due to be published in early 2023, will show an increase, says Tshering Tempa of the Bhutan Tiger Center (BTC), part of the Department of Forests and Park Services.
The overall population increase has been hailed as a success, but many experts warn the new figures may be results of improved monitoring technology, such as camera traps, rather than a real increase in individual tigers. Abishek Harihar, tiger program deputy director at wild cat NGO Panthera, suggests “cautious optimism,” and points to wider survey areas and a better understanding of tiger habitat as possible explanations — conservation progress, albeit of a different kind.
Whether there are truly more tigers or the reality is as Harihar cautions, one thing seems clear in Bhutan: there are more cases of big cats preying on livestock.
Almost 60% of Bhutanese people live in rural areas, some of them in protected areas. Livestock roam freely, making them easy prey for tigers.
Tempa says that farmers in their late 60s and 70s have never seen killings at this level. Where previously a tiger might take a cow or two before disappearing, he says, there are now “a lot of tigers in the villages and they are killing on a regular basis — one or two cows every week.” Trongsa, where more than 600 head of cattle have been killed by tigers since 2016, is among the districts worst affected by human-tiger conflict — a tricky, unintended consequence of what may be a rare conservation success.
Bhutan’s unique case
For Bhutan, a tiny, mountainous Buddhist kingdom sandwiched between China and India, the latter half of the 20th century was transformative. Before the third king, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, began a program of development in the 1950s and ’60s, there were virtually zero trappings of modernity: no telephones, televisions or cars. Today, though tradition and culture remain important, smartphones and internet access are widespread, paved roads snake around steep mountainsides, and young people are increasingly choosing to work in the fast-growing capital, Thimphu, or abroad over rural farm life.
Despite such major changes, Bhutan’s attitude to development has been cautious and considered. About 71% of the country is still forested and the government has committed to maintaining at least 60% forest cover. As such, it’s a rare example of connected tiger habitat, from the southern subtropical lowlands to the Himalayan highlands in the north, and an important corridor potentially linking tiger populations in India and Nepal.
“For most of South Asia, fragmentation is a big problem and tiger populations are not connected,” Harihar says. “In that way, I think Bhutan is very special because there is a great forest network.”
Growing tiger numbers are just one potential explanation for the increase in livestock predation. Bhutan’s grasslands have been reduced due a shift from pastoralist lifestyles along with climate change, which has led to more plant growth in high-altitude areas.
As grasslands turn into shrub landscapes, the ungulates that tigers prey on have less food, says Matthias Jurek, manager of the U.N. Environment Programme’s Vanishing Treasures program, which is working with the BTC on understanding the role of climate change in tiger conservation.
Tigers either have less available wild prey or they follow ungulates to the remaining grasslands surrounding communities, in both cases increasing the likelihood of livestock predation. Additionally, droughts drive tigers toward livestock waterholes.
Despite the number of reports of livestock losses, retribution killings aren’t yet as prolific — and not just because of harsh penalties, which include a prison sentence and a fine of 1 million ngultrum ($12,200).
“Many Bhutanese are very tolerant to large predators like tigers,” Tempa says. “They are respected or feared. Some associate them with the local deities — some associate this kind of human-tiger conflict with defilements of the mountains or deities.
“But we are fully aware that there is a threshold that can be broken. And once that is broken, it is a choice between livelihood and your belief system and respect,” he says.
“I’m increasingly telling communities and the government and my colleagues that we need to face this reality. If there is one threat to the tiger population in Bhutan, it will be human-tiger conflict.”
In the early 2000s, the government ran a compensation scheme for people who had lost livestock to predators, but those funds ran dry by 2008.
“We had given people a false hope that they would get compensation if they reported the cases … It was not sustainable,” Tempa says, adding, “We are a developing nation. Providing compensation for livestock killing is not a priority when there are schools and roads to build.”
Farmers, of course, might disagree that compensation is not a priority: financial losses, alongside other risks tiger pose, are a major source of frustration and stress. A 2022 paper found that Bhutanese subsistence farmers were affected by “constant worries about food insecurity, fears for physical safety, frustration of movement restriction due to fear of being attack[ed] by wildlife, feelings of economic insecurity and anger over loss of crop and livestock due to wild predators.”
The BTC’s Conservation Through Compassion program aimed to improve the livelihoods of communities experiencing human-wildlife conflict, for example by providing poachers with other means to make a living. But Tempa says their efforts didn’t reach all affected communities and didn’t involve enough people on the frontline.
“We still encourage people to join the Conservation Through Compassion program, but we have now also initiated a community-based tiger conservation program,” he says.
The Gewog Tiger Conservation Tshogpa (GTCT), still in its first year, is an organization run locally by communities, decentralizing the system of compensation and management, with seed money from the BTC. Livestock owners pay an annual premium (around $2 to $5 depending on the breed) to insure their cattle in the program. The pilot project has been rolled out in six gewogs, or counties, with a fund of 1 million ngultrum each, which also accrues interest for the communities.
Community members use a mobile app to immediately report livestock killings to the Tiger Quick Response Team, which follows up to verify and, if appropriate, compensate.
“It has been very successful, so we are implementing it in six more gewogs,” Tempa says. “My colleagues are in the field now, meeting the communities, educating them on the programs we want to introduce.”
A livestock manager, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says only a few farmers in his gewog have received insurance money. Generally, he says, any compensation is considered a positive, but many of them are disappointed by the amount of money available; farmers who pay 200 ngultrum ($2.50) in annual premiums receive 3,000 ngultrum ($37) when a cow is killed by a tiger.
Communities set the rates, Tempa says, and it depends on breed: a Jersey or Brown Swiss cow might command a premium of 500 ngultrum ($6) a head, and fetch a payout of 10,000 ngultrum ($122). He adds that while the payout isn’t enough to buy a new cow, through the sale of meat from the carcass “they can recover almost 70% of their cattle cost.”
Talking to communities is a major part of the GTCT’s work. “It has been quite encouraging for us to see the how committed they are,” Tempa says. “They decide how the funds are used. Even the mode of verification — they might say the livestock has to have an ear tag.”
Community-based programs also allow people to find solutions that work for their specific needs. “The problems that Trongsa people have are totally different from those of people in Geylegphug, where we are based,” Tempa says.
“The Bhutanese model of decentralizing conflict management might be a great way to move forward, in terms of the way people perceive what conflict is and therefore, [how they] manage conflict,” says Panthera’s Harihar. “One of the problems in many countries is the separation between the tiger being an animal of the state and people being something other than that … it becomes ‘your tiger killed my cattle,’ and that’s where the conflict actually begins.”
The BTC also aims to reduce conflict by protecting livestock from predation in the first instance, providing communities with electrical fencing, cattle corrals and improved breeds of livestock, so farmers are less likely to let them wander into the forests. Some biogas projects require cow dung, which also encourages farmers to keep cattle close.
According to UNEP’s Jurek, five power tillers were distributed in the gewog of Nubi in 2021, replacing oxen and bulls to reduce reliance on livestock that spend months at risk of predation in the forests outside harvesting season.
“[The tillers] are more efficient. They also use fossil fuels — but I had to make some compromise on that,” Tempa says.
“It’s a continuous challenge,” he adds. “[These ideas] cannot solve all the issues.”
Beyond the numbers
It’s unlikely there will be another target as ambitious or simplistic as doubling the tiger population, Harihar says.
“Numbers take up a lot of the conversation in tiger stories,” he says. “We should stop focusing on global numbers and start looking at sites to see if they have functional populations — is there a decent number of individuals? Are they actually dispersing? Do we have problems and barriers around dispersal?”
A modeling study published in 2021 suggested Bhutan could support 138-151 tigers, precluding a doubling of the population from the 2014-15 baseline of 103. It advised expanding protected area networks as well as conserving prey populations.
Although there’s no detailed study on tiger carrying capacity in Bhutan yet, places such as Trongsa may have reached their limit. “We know that when tigers start coming into the village and killing, there are probably enough tigers inside the main forest and they’re spilling over,” Tempa says. “But the issue could also be that maybe these tigers are used to killing livestock.”
But he adds he isn’t worried about an increase in tigers in the immediate future. “It is a very long-term plan,” he says. “Tigers are special in our religious districts, and I think with good management and good programs, we will be able to handle [more tigers].”
“When two top predators share a landscape, some level of conflict is bound to happen and you cannot blame each other,” he adds. “As biologists, our job is to make it less severe. How can we make it tolerable for both sides, the tigers as well as the farmers, where our communities can accept a certain level of conflict, but the tigers do not undermine their livelihood? A community-based conservation program can address this.”
Banner image of a Bengal tiger by Robert Stokoe via Pexels (Public domain).
Yeshey, Ford, R. M., Keenan, R. J., & Nitschke, C. R. (2022). Subsistence farmers’ understanding of the effects of indirect impacts of human wildlife conflict on their psychosocial well-being in Bhutan. Sustainability, 14(21), 14050. doi:10.3390/su142114050
Thinley, P., Rajaratnam, R., Morreale, S. J., & Lassoie, J. P. (2020). Assessing the adequacy of a protected area network in conserving a wide‐ranging apex predator: The case for tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation in Bhutan. Conservation Science and Practice, 3(2). doi:10.1111/csp2.318
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The Ides is operated by Andrew Tarlow, the restaurateur who also runs the downstairs restaurant, Reynards (as well as the trailblazing Williamsburg joints Diner and Marlow & Sons)."I don’t want to come off as too earnest,” Tarlow recently told the Times. "But for me, a restaurant and hotel are all about expanding circles of community." No food is served up in the bar, where specialty cocktails are in the $10-$12 range you've come to expect—but there's no extra charge for the sweeping views and the refreshing breeze. It's currently open Wednesday through Sunday, from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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The 1 st Digital China Summit had its grand opening on April 22 in Fuzhou city of Fujian province. The theme of the summit is Let Informatization Drive Modernization, Speed up the Construction of Digi
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The Delhi Tourism Department’s three-day long ‘Itra and Sugandhi Festival’ started out at the Sunder Nursery in Nizamuddin on Friday.
Tourism Minister Atishi, at the inauguration ceremony, stated the festival is a part of numerous vital tasks of the Delhi government to provide a platform for traditional industries to develop and thrive.
Apart from sessions on aromatherapy and fragrance-making workshops, soulful performances by Nizami Brothers and Nooran Sisters might be highlights of the pageant in an effort to conclude on March 19, in step with an official announcement.
Atishi said ‘itra-making’ is an historical conventional enterprise in the country that has supplied livelihood opportunities to people for centuries.
The 3-day festival might be held at Sunder Nursery from 12 midday to 10 pm.
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Zakros Palace was built in the years of the Minoan settlement of Crete around 1900 BC. This site is located 50 km from Sitia in eastern Crete. Sitia is 140 km from Heraklion in the region of Lasithi. The ancient site is located in the seaside village of Kato Zakros.
The extensive ruins are located just behind Káto Zákros, Κάτω Ζάκρος, just 7 km from the modern village of the same name. This was the site of one of the four known Minoan palaces on Crete, with complex rooms, ceremonial chambers and sophisticated constructions.
The palace was reconstructed after an earthquake and dates from 1600 BC, although the original settlement would have been from around 1900 BC. Findings include items that seem to have been traded from the east, and Egypt as well as Cyprus.
One of the most beautiful artefacts to be found on Crete, the rock crystal vase (pictured) was discovered on this site and is displayed at the museum in Heraklion.
It is considered that this was a rich trading village and palace, as it is located facing east and in a protected cove, finds include many exotic riches such as elephants tusks.
Clay tablets were found here with Linear A script, much like the ones found at other Minoan sites such as Phaistos. Artefacts from this site are displayed at the museums in Sitia, Agios Nikolaos and Heraklion.
This is the fourth largest of the Minoan palaces on the island, however it tends to be much less touristed and allow the visitor plenty of space, peace and time to explore the site and imagine life in this special place. Check with your hotel as to opening hours as these vary with the season, there is a small entrance fee. The town was a flourishing urban centre, and the ruins stretch over a large area, well worth the exploration.
The nearby Zákros Gorge is also named The Gorge of the Dead, due to findings of burial chambers in its caves. This is a most unusual gorge to walk and can be approached by starting at the inland point and walking down back towards the sea, or simply walking up and back through the gorge.
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University awarded Sanctuary Status to support refugees
The University of St Andrews was officially awarded University of Sanctuary Status at an event in the town to mark its efforts to help refugees, asylum seekers and those fleeing war, violence and persecution (Tuesday 10 March).
As part of the new University of Sanctuary Status awarded to St Andrews, the University has also launched two new Sanctuary Scholarships specifically designed to support undergraduate and postgraduate applicants who are seeking sanctuary in the UK.
In partnership with the City of Sanctuary, Universities of Sanctuary is an initiative to recognise the good practice of universities in welcoming people seeking sanctuary into their communities, fostering a culture of awareness and inclusivity.
The initiative to gain Sanctuary Status was spearheaded by the St Andrews Refugee and Forced Migration Network. Representation in the group is from across the academic network as well as from key positions across the University. The group set out to support the development of a strategy and policy for academics at risk and provide a resource hub for current support, projects, research and teaching relating to refugees and forced mobility.
Working alongside staff and students from across the University, Professor Rebecca Sweetman, Head of the School of Classics, led the efforts which culminated in the University being awarded Sanctuary Status by Universities of Sanctuary in late 2019.
Professor Sweetman said of the Sanctuary Status application: “It was a huge team effort which involved colleagues across the University from the Global Office and Registry to the School of International Relations. Colleagues collated information on what research and teaching was taking place across the University in relation to forced migration and what systems of support were in place. I then started to look at what we could do more proactively. It was then that I contacted the City of Sanctuary Scotland Coordinator, Gün Orgun, to start the process of applying for Sanctuary Status.
“The launching of two new annual Sanctuary Scholarships will provide people with refugee status, asylum seekers and those with discretionary leave tuition waivers and living cost grants.”
Universities, as key institutions within our society, have a responsibility to support people from all walks of life to reach their potential. St Andrews is the second University of Sanctuary in Scotland, alongside the University of Edinburgh, which was one of the first awarded universities in 2017.
City of Sanctuary has partnered with Article 26, Student Action for Refugees and others to develop a network to inspire and support universities to develop a culture and practice of welcome within their own institutions, in their wider communities, and across the Higher Education sector in the UK.
The application process to gain Sanctuary Status contains a detailed criterion expected of each university which is assessed during a visit to the establishment by an appraisal group. Amongst these requirements was the necessity to have a three-year plan for the future of maintaining and developing existing plans.
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It is impossible to embed a standard high-frequency (HF) or ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID transponder in 80 gsm bond paper (the thickness of ordinary office printer paper), as the transponder and antenna are simply too thick.
However, it might be feasible to embed Hitachi's µ-chip (pronounced 'mu-chip') in 80 gsm bond paper (see Hitachi Unveils Smallest RFID Chip, Hitachi Unveils Integrated RFID Tag and Hitachi Shrinks Smallest RFID Chip).
The µ-chip measures 0.15 millimeter by 0.15 millimeter (0.006 inch by 0.006 inch), with a thickness of 7.5 micrometers, or 0.075 millimeter (0.003 inch). A sheet of 80 gsm bond paper has a thickness of 0.34 millimeter (0.013 inch), so it might be possible. Companies have tested these chips in product labels (see Cosmetics and Liquor Companies Assess Toppan Printing's Holographic RFID Labels).
Lexmark has created a laser printer that can print and encode RFID transponders (see New Office Laser Printer Encodes Tags), but the paper has a label with a peel-away adhesive backing. The transponder is embedded in the label, not in the paper. This might be an option for you, depending on the application.
There are also chipless RFID systems that could be utilized to identify and authenticate documents—but these would not be able to store those documents' contents. One such solution, developed by Inkode, utilizes aluminum fibers that can be embedded randomly in paper during the manufacturing process (see 1-Cent RFID Tags for Supermarkets). When the paper is hit with RF energy, the metal filings reflect back the radio waves in a unique pattern. Computers associate a specific pattern with a particular piece of paper—as such, the system can be used to authenticate goods.
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The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of democratic leaders, a landmark report has said.
The annual report by NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said while democratic leaders developed effective vaccines at speed, they failed to tackle issues of social inequality and poverty that were exacerbated during the pandemic.
Additionally, the report, led by HRW executive director, Kenneth Roy, said, leaders had to do more to protect their democratic values.
“In country after country, large numbers of people have taken to the streets, even at the risk of being arrested or shot, which shows the appeal of democracy remains strong,” Roth said. “But elected leaders need to do a better job of addressing major challenges to show that democratic government delivers on its promised dividends.”
This year’s Human Rights Watch World Report, its 32nd edition, describes the human rights situation in nearly all of the approximately 100 countries where the group works.
Mr Roy challenged the slowness of democratic leaders in addressing often debated issues such as the spread of disinformation online, hate speech on social media platforms and rising invasion of privacy. He also called on democratic leaders to do more than spotlight the inevitable shortcomings of autocratic rule.
The report claimed that the government of former German Chancellor Angel Merkel orchestrated global condemnation of the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, but while holding the EU presidency, Germany helped to promote an EU investment deal with China despite Beijing’s use of ethnic Uyghur forced labor.
Additionally, in the face of an autocratic trend in Central America, Biden mainly prioritized efforts to curtail migration rather than autocracy.
“Promoting democracy means standing up for democratic institutions such as independent courts, free media, robust parliaments, and vibrant civil societies even when that brings unwelcome scrutiny or challenges to executive policies,” Mr Roth said. “And it demands elevating public discourse rather than stoking our worst sentiments, acting on democratic principles rather than merely voicing them, and unifying us before looming threats rather than dividing us in the quest for another do-nothing term in office.”
Conversely, the report also took aim at the world’s autocrats, pointing to the growing resistance against them with political parties finding new ways to topple repressive politicians. A range of opposition political parties had begun to compromise on policy differences to build alliances with a common interest of removing corrupt leaders.
In the Czech Republic, an unlikely coalition defeated Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. In Israel, an even unlikelier coalition ended the long-time rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Similar broad alliances of opposition parties have formed for forthcoming elections against Viktor Orban in Hungary and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey.
Many autocrats claim to serve their people better than democratically elected leaders, while mainly delivering for themselves and manipulating electoral systems so citizens cannot deliver a negative verdict, the report said.
Autocrats typically try to divert attention with racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic appeals, Mr Roth said with the Covid highlighting the self-serving tendency with many autocratic leaders downplaying the pandemic, turning their backs on scientific evidence, spreading false information, and failing to take basic measures to protect the health and lives of the public.
However, to persuade people to abandon the self-serving rule of autocrats, democracies need to do better in addressing societal ills, Mr Roth said.
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Geraldine teenager Jackson Minnear has been selected as this year’s Waitaki Youth MP.
Jackson will represent Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean in Parliament as the Youth MP in July, debating topical issues with other Youth MPs from throughout New Zealand.
Mrs Dean said she was delighted to have selected Jackson for this exciting and important role.
“The calibre of entries was incredibly high and made the decision to select one candidate incredibly hard, so everyone who submitted an application can feel suitably proud.”
“I’m confident Jackson will bring a strong presence to Youth Parliament as our Youth MP. He has a passion for community affairs, is heavily involved in the Geraldine community and enjoys working for others.
“He is a Civil Defence volunteer in his town and is currently working with the Timaru District Council to establish a new set of walking and running tracks around the Geraldine Domain to encourage community health and fitness.
“Jackson says he has received much from the Geraldine community and would now like to give back through the New Zealand Youth Parliament.
In July, Jackson will visit Wellington to participate in Parliament, debate various issues in select committees and attend caucus.


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28 Apr LIVE Story Time With Tosca (and Timber)
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Catch up on my first readings with the videos earlier on my feed at the same link above, follow along with maps (also on my feed) and pictures of the real locations and sights in the book here: https://www.pinterest.
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The dog runs out the door followed by mom, dad and the kids, all in hot pursuit. Not realizing the dangers on the busy street, their dog delights in this new game of keep-away!
For the family, a scenario like this one can be frightening and the outcome might not be good, right?
Teaching your dog to stay when he wants to bolt through that open door should be a very high priority for you with your dog’s training.
Even if you haven’t trained your dog to stay – instead of go, he can still learn this skill if you start today. If your dog needs help learning to stay and not run out the door, then keep reading.
First Step In Fixing Your Dog’s Running Out The Door
A pre-requisite to begin working on stay at the door is to first obedience train your dog to do a simple sit-stay command.
Don’t worry about distraction work at this point. Your dog just needs to be able to understand the concept of holding – and not moving from a sit stay for 20-30 seconds.
Once your dog has learned to sit and stay, it’s time to go to work at the front door. Do not immediately start teaching this command at the front door, or you will set your dog up to fail.
What You’ll Need to Help Your Dog Learn
The very first thing you want to do is to put your dog on a long line (30 ft cotton long line) and attach it to your dog’s flat buckle collar. That’s right, a long line on your dog in the house. Do not use the leash you walk him on.
Very Important: He should be tethered using the long line, in close proximity to the front door so he relates this exercise to the front door.
Make sure you tie the long line off to something like a stair case railing or shut the entry hall closet door on the handle of the long line. By doing this your dog is safe before you begin training your dog.
The Running Out the Door Process
Next, with your dog still tethered close to the door, teach your dog to sit and stay when you put your hand on the closed door knob.
Now this is accomplished by “preceding” the sit-stay command with putting your hand on the closed door knob then say, “Sit – Stay!” Hold for 5-10 seconds and release your dog from the sit stay by saying good (do not take him off the tether).
NOTE: You are now beginning to desensitize your dog to holding a sit-stay at the front door in the entry hall. You have not opened the door at this point.
You would want to repeat this training until your dog automatically sits and stays when your hand grabs the door knob.
Build up your sit-stay time to 20-30 seconds.
Step Two – The “Door Peek”
Your dog is still tethered. Next, teach your dog to sit and stay when you put your hand on the door knob and open the door.
Continue just as you did in step one except you open the door only 2-5 inches. Hold the sit-stay for 5-10 seconds, close the door and release your dog by saying good dog (still tethered).
Increase both the opening of the door and the length of the sit-stay. If at any point your dog breaks his sit-stay, go back a step. Meaning: don’t open the door as wide and do shorter sit-stays until he gets it.
Build your sit-stays to 20-30 seconds with the door wide open.
Step Three One Step Outside
Teach your dog to sit and stay when you put your hand on the door knob, open the door and you step outside.
Make sure you stay close just across the threshold. You want to gradually build time and distance here until your dog can hold a 20-30 second sit-stay with you 5-10 paces down the sidewalk.
Also practice walking out the door and stepping to the side – out of sight – for very short periods building up to the 30 second out of sight sit stay.
If your dog breaks his sit-stay, simply take him back and start again. This would mean that you need to go back a few steps and decrease time out of sight to set him up to succeed before doing longer out of sight stays.
His Leash is the Key to Going Outside
The only other thing to teach your dog is that his walking leash is the key to going outside. He does not go outside if he is not on leash – period.
Simply put his walking leash on first, then disconnect the long line and walk him out the front door. With repetition, he’ll learn to automatically sit-stay when the door opens and not go out unless his walking leash is on.
Train with as many age appropriate family members as necessary.
Take the opportunity to work your dog on sit-stay while the kids go out to play. Remember, practice makes perfect.
Your training on this exercise will go much better if you have already developed a good working relationship with your dog by setting rules, boundaries and expectations in your home.
We’re always learning and there’s a bunch of you out there we are grateful to be able to serve and learn from. I want you to tell me your thoughts and opinions on this. Comment below, I’m here to help.
Remember: “Together, We Can Raise a Happy and Obedient Dog”
Jim Burwell, is Houston’s most respected dog trainer for 25+ years, serving over 10,000 clients. Jim takes the science of dog training and shows you how to make it work with your family and dog. He gives you the ability to get the same great behavior from your dog.

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Ten years from now, what will historians say about the impact of Windows 2000? Will this huge operating system initiative be seen as yet another great Microsoft and Intel triumph, completing the expansion of Wintel from the desktop into the highest echelons of corporate computing? Or will this renamed Windows NT be viewed as the last big gasp of an outdated form of computing - a massive, but ultimately hopeless struggle against an increasingly Web-driven world?
Although actual product destinies are rarely so black and white, market competition usually does produce a clear verdict, or at least a dominant trend. Probably the least likely scenario is that Microsoft will achieve all of its goals for Windows 2000 and that believers in an increasingly application services-driven paradigm will achieve all of theirs. Even in today's vast IT industry, it will be progressively harder to find room for both approaches. Eventually, something will give.
There is, of course, an important time dimension to all of this. Had Windows 2000 arrived 18 months ago, perhaps Linux and the whole open-source movement would never have become more than an offbeat idea. On the other hand, were Windows 2000 to be delayed another 18 months, surely many customers would choose to look elsewhere. But right now, it looks like we're in for a pretty fair fight.
My own view, however, is that Microsoft will increasingly find itself swimming against the tide. Ever since the arrival of the minicomputer in the 1960s, there has been a natural and healthy competition between the capabilities of centralised and distributed systems. The PC represented the high watermark of the latter; the Web symbolises the resurgence of the former. The combination of order-of-magnitude leaps in bandwidth, the open-source movement and the economics of a billion-user Web system will inevitably position Windows 2000 as part of an increasingly obsolete order.
More specifically, I believe that the proliferation of small businesses, the outsourcing of e-mail and the spread of Web hosting will turn customers away from running their own servers. The Internet will help launch millions of new businesses all around the world and these companies will find it relatively easy to skip most of the Wintel server experience and go straight to application service providers.
E-mail outsourcing will lead the way. Once application service providers round out their messaging service offerings, and once the Web gets consistently fast enough, running your own e-mail system will be largely a waste of time. And once e-mail goes, so will discussion groups, knowledge bases, document distribution and, eventually, most forms of text-based computing, including voice/text integration.
Similarly, the unstoppable shift toward outsourced Web site hosting will drive application service provider usage on the data side of the house. Customers won't care and may not even know which operating system their service provider is using. Additionally, these service providers will, at least in theory, be well-equipped to assess the various virtues of W2K, Linux, Solaris et al., resulting in real operating system competition based on features and pricing.
This pattern will inevitably spread to larger organisations. However, this doesn't mean that businesses of all sizes won't or shouldn't aggressively adopt Windows 2000 today. There are many environments where this will make perfect sense, or even be necessary. My only caution is that, despite all the hype, set as mostly a tactical implementation, not a long-term strategic direction. The future of computing lies elsewhere.
David Moschella is a regular contributor to IDG publications. e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Table of Contents: Contact Information | Map & Directions | Art Gallery & Dealer Nearby
View Address, Phone Number, and Services for Micheal Andrews Fine Art, an Art Gallery & Dealer at Cottonwood Road, Harrison, AR.
View map of Micheal Andrews Fine Art, and get driving directions from your location .
Alpena Chainsaw Art 122 Highway 62 East Alpena, AR
Louise Derryberry Reynolds Artist Studio 206 North Spring Street Jasper, AR
Simpkins Studio & Gallery 101 West Church Street Jasper, AR
Grandma Fran's Primitive Art Gallery 3331 Highway 62 West Berryville, AR
Rivertown Gallery 102 Harding Boulevard Cotter, AR
Fantasy & Stone 229 North Main Street Eureka Springs, AR
Jewel Box 77 Spring Street Eureka Springs, AR Art, Jewelry
Main Street Gallery 34 North Main Street Eureka Springs, AR
Paul Daniel Art Company 125 Spring Street Eureka Springs, AR
The Art Colony 185 Mill Hollow Road Eureka Springs, AR
The Prospect Gallery 42 Prospect Avenue Eureka Springs, AR
The Statton Gallery Madison's Garden 137 Spring Street Eureka Springs, AR


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Amazing Internal Medicine for Your Furry Friends
Internal medicine is something a lot of people think about when it comes to their own health. They seek out internal medicine doctors for a majority of illnesses and organ diseases. What surprises them the most is that animals also need internal medicine doctors.
Good health begins on the inside
The best thing for your pet is having regular checkups. This helps us catch any internal health problems early and treat them more easily. We screen for cancer (oncology) and follow your pet’s internal and digestive health closely, including fatty liver disease and worms.
Cats and dogs suffer many of the same internal health problems as humans. Poor diet and lack of exercise can lead to pet diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal (digestive system) disorders, cardiovascular problems, and heart conditions. Certain breeds are also more or less prone to having certain health problems.
Thanks to his years of experience, Dr. Williams knows exactly what to look for and when. He’ll also explain preventative steps you can take at home to protect your pet from accidental health problems. Just as he has done for so many pet owners and their pets from all over Smyrna, Georgia, and the nearby communities.
Choose animal doctor Otto Williams, DVM, for the latest internal veterinary medicine and treatment. Call us at 770.438.2694 or use our convenient online Request an Appointment form to schedule your visit. Our internal medicine patients come to us from Smyrna, Austell, Cumberland, Mableton, and Marietta.


Milton Town School District administrators will have a new set of offices in January if all goes to plan.
Voters approved a $1.3 million, 30-year bond for the new offices on Town Meeting Day, 831-727.
Moving the offices out of the school building housing the elementary and middle schools allowed for the creation of more classroom space in a school district that is steadily adding students.
The new offices are being built on Bradley Street just south of the Milton elementary and middle schools on a site the district purchased with voter approval in 2018.
A contractor was selected for the project in August, and work on the 20-week construction project got underway in September.


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WEST STOCKBRIDGE -- Town officials have offered a compromise plan that could settle a rent dispute between the residents and landlord of the town's lone mobile home park.
The Board of Selectmen, acting as the newly formed Rent Control Board, this week proposed bylaws allowing the town to regulate rent at the Mill Pond Mobile Home Park on Route 41. The state Legislature and Gov. Deval L. Patrick approved the town's request to establish the rent control authority last summer.
Next month, a special town meeting will vote on the regulations that would establish a monthly $325 fee -- or base rent -- for homeowners to lease the 35 lots at the park. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Jan. 13 at Town Hall.
"We rolled back to what the level was when the town petitioned the Legislature for the Rent Control Board," said Town Administrator Mark Webber. "You could say it was a compromise."
Park residents had wanted the rent based on figures as of March 2011, the month Bay Plum bought the park from the Gennari family. Under the new management, led by Eric Levesque, Mill Pond residents have seen a 40 percent spike in monthly rents from $260 to $365.
The landlord wanted to maintain the current rent saying the additional income will continue to pay for major upgrades to the park, such as water, septic systems, gravel roads and rehabilitation.
Both sides are somewhat receptive to the board's proposal.
"It's a starting point," Levesque said.
"For us, it was about establishing rent control," noted Nancy Hale, president of the Mill Pond Tenants Association. "We would have preferred a lower rent, but [we're] satisfied to move the process forward."
If approved by town voters and upheld by the state Attorney General, the bylaws would allow the tenants and landlord to petition the Rent Control Board to raise or lower the base rent figure. Webber noted the proposed regulations automatically call for an annual review of the monthly rent every January.
According to the pending regulations, the Rent Control Board also can get involved in eviction cases, something that concerns the landlord.
Levesque said the state procedure for trying to remove a tenant in arrears already is several months without adding a layer of local review to the process.
"It's already an onerous process to recover lost revenue that's a burden to the operator and gets passed along to tenants in higher rent," he said.
To reach Dick Lindsay:
or (413) 496-6233

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Rockwell Automation, the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, has announced the appointment of Sebastien Grau as regional sales director for the Middle East, Turkey and Sub Saharan Africa.
Welcoming Grau to his new role, Rockwell Automation EMEA president Susana Gonzalez said: “We are excited that Sebastien has joined our team and will help us further align and connect even more across our key markets of the Middle East, Turkey and Sub Saharan Africa.”
“Sebastien has a proven track record of business achievements in some very challenging operational and sales environments,” she said. “As we accelerate our strategy, Sebastien’s expertise in areas including energy and international sales operations, in addition to years of experience in Middle East and Africa, will greatly benefit our region.”
Grau brings more than 15 years of experience in global sales operations and energy business units to the role, including leadership and director-level experience throughout the Middle East and Africa. He holds an MBA in Marketing of New Technologies from IAE of Montpellier, France.
Headquartered in Milwaukee, US, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 23,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries. - TradeArabia News Service


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The former Seattle Mariner will become the Phillies' new left fielder, replacing free agent Pat Burrell.
Ibanez, pictured with former teammate J.J. Putz -- now a New York Met and an NL East rival -- batted .293 with 23 home runs and 110 RBIs in 2008.
The Angels had looked at Ibanez as an offensive alternative in the event they are unable to re-sign first baseman Mark Teixeira, although there was some thought that they could sign both.
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