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The present investigation focuses on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs)-loaded hydrogel from synthetic and lab-made carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) using bamboo as a raw material. The Ag-NPs were made by in situ process by the reaction of CMC and epichlorohydrin in alkaline medium containing silver nitrate. CMC acts as a stabilizer and reducing agent in the formation of nanoparticles. The formation of Ag-NPs was confirmed by UV–Vis spectrophotometer, as an absorption peak around 425 nm was observed. The Ag-NPs antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli (ATCC 433), Bacillus subtilis (ATCC 1688) was calculated by agar disk diffusion technique method. The characterization of the Ag-NPs was done by FTIR, SEM, TEM, particle size analyzer and EDX. Ag-NPs obtained from lab-made CMC displayed a higher antibacterial action towards Gram-negative (Escherichia coli) bacteria as well as Gram-Positive bacteria (Bacillus subtilis) as compared to synthetic CMC obtained from market.
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Kumar, H., Gaur, A., Kumar, S. et al. Development of silver nanoparticles-loaded CMC hydrogel using bamboo as a raw material for special medical applications. Chem. Pap. 73, 953–964 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11696-018-0650-0
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In the second part of the “SinoNK Han-sol Interview Debate,” Roger Cavazos presents his interpretation of the Kim Han-sol interview, providing readers with an alternative perspective on the young man’s words.
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First get a paper towel and check for water on the engine, probably you have to dry the cables and take of the distribuitor cap and dry it carefully, also check for connectors exposed to the water sometimes a single drop of water in the maf sensor and the car wont start.
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Nova Scotia reports no new cases of COVID-19; active cases drop to 3
In this handout photo released by the University of Oxford blood samples from coronavirus vaccine trials are handled inside the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England Thursday June 25, 2020. (John Cairns, University of Oxford via AP)
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia is reporting no new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
One previously reported case is now considered recovered, bringing the number of active cases in the province to three. One person remains in hospital, in the intensive care unit.
Nova Scotia has now gone five days without reporting a new case of COVID-19.
The province last reported three new cases on Saturday, in the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s central zone.
Two of the latest cases are related to travel outside Canada while the third case is a close contact. The people are self-isolating, as required.
The cases are not related to the outbreak in New Brunswick.
The Nova Scotia Health Authority labs completed 907 Nova Scotia tests on Wednesday. No new cases were identified.
To date, Nova Scotia has 102,918 negative test results.
There are 1,092 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, but 1,024 cases are considered resolved, and 65 people have died, leaving three active cases in the province.
There is still one person in hospital, in the intensive care unit, as a result of COVID-19.
The province's confirmed cases range in age from under 10 to over 90.
Sixty-one per cent of cases are female and 39 per cent are male.
There are cases confirmed across the province, but most have been identified in the central zone, which contains the Halifax Regional Municipality.
The provincial government says cumulative cases by zone may change as data is updated in Panorama, the province’s electronic information system.
The numbers reflect where a person lives and not where their sample was collected.
- western zone: 56 cases
- central zone: 914 cases
- northern zone: 68 cases
- eastern zone: 54 cases
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However, the province has eased some self-isolation requirements for out-of-province rotational workers.
Residents of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador are not required to self-isolate when travelling to Nova Scotia, but they must be prepared to provide proof of their place of residency at provincial borders.
Visitors from outside the Atlantic region who have already self-isolated in another Atlantic province for 14 days may travel to Nova Scotia without having to self-isolate again.
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LANSING, Mich. (AP/WOOD) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as promised has vetoed legislation that would have ended the state’s ban on using bait to hunt deer or elk.
She said Thursday the restriction curbs the spread of animal diseases. The Democratic governor says more than 68% of voters approved a 1996 referendum on a law giving the state Natural Resources Commission authority to regulate hunting.
Baiting deer and elk is prohibited throughout the entire Lower Peninsula and parts of the Upper Peninsula.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Michele Hoitenga, says the ban is not preventing the spread of disease and is instead driving people away from hunting.
Though the baiting ban has been in effect for nearly a year, many hunters held on to hope that it’d get overturned.
Following the governor’s veto on Thursday, Nick Percy offered up a legal alternative to baiting.
Percy’s company Killer Food Plots offers a legal alternative to baiting by growing food sources to attract deer more naturally.
“You’re basically growing a garden for the deer to come in and ravage,” Percy said.
Since the ban started at the beginning of the year, Percy’s seen a boost in business.
A specialist with the DNR, Chad Stewart, told News 8 there’s no research that shows food plots are better than baiting when it comes to risk of disease transmission, but there’s not much they can do about it.
“It’s sort of a moot point because it’s not within our authority to recommend or to regulate it,” Stewart said. “So, it certainly is a legal strategy hunters have available for them to use.”
Percy will be talking more about food plots during a hunting expo Jan. 24-26 at the Delta Plex Arena in Walker.

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Every two weeks or so, my Opinion Editor gives me the chance to talk to my readers. Normally, I ask them to celebrate the good work the newsroom has done. Sometimes, I’ll beg them to apply to work for the greatest college newspaper in the country.
This week, I chastised some of them for failing to keep up with our coverage.
There have been a number of student protests this year that have relied on arguments of ignorance. In my column, I talked about the University’s recent decision to hold its transition to contextualized grading on transcripts — a decision that came after students claimed they knew nothing about the change.
And while that movement irked me, there’s one group that I’m even more disappointed in.
In February, the UNC-system Board of Governors will decide the fates of nine UNC research centers and institutes. You can read the list of institutes on the chopping block here. In response, a dozen or so students have stepped up to protest the closures, arguing that these centers and institutes (and the students who love them) didn’t have enough time to prove their worth.
Only they did.
I first covered this issue in May, after attending a Board of Trustees meeting in Chapel Hill. I told readers that the cuts to centers and institutes would total $13.1 million system-wide. And no one said anything.
In August, after the centers and institutes spent the summer scrambling to prove their worth, we revisited the issue. We told readers how the centers and institutes had already sustained a 35 percent cut to their budget since 2008, and we weren’t sure they could handle much more. Closures seemed imminent. And no one said anything.
The thing about students being late to the game on this protest is that these centers and institutes won’t be something we can revisit in a few months, like administrators will do with contextualized grading. They’ll be closed, and closed for good. We could lose these places on campus that make this great big place feel a little more welcoming to marginalized populations on campus.
So, again I say. Students need to read their newspaper. I’m still learning how to produce local news in a way that’s relevant and interesting to read for an age group that would rather do anything else. But I’m working really really hard to do my part. And students must do theirs.

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Writers: Ivo M. Pinatti and Tatiana M. Mazzo and Rosana F. Gonçalves and José A. Varela and Elson Longo and Ieda L.V. Rosa
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Abstract: Calcium titanate (CaTiO3 – CT) and samarium doped calcium titanate (CaTiO3:Sm3+ – CT:Sm) powders in different Sm3+ concentrations (0.5–5.0% molar ratio of Sm3+) were obtained by the Hydrothermal Microwave Methodology at 140 °C for 16 min. These crystals were structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and micro-Raman (MR) spectroscopy. Field emission scanning electron microscopy images were employed to observe the shape and size of the crystals. The optical properties were investigated by ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) absorption and photoluminescence (PL) measurements. The XRD indicated structural organization at long range while MR revealed short range order for all undoped and Sm-doped samples. Morphological analysis revealed a new cubic morphology for CT:Sm, presenting an average size of 3.0 μm. Further, the ultraviolet–visible absorption spectra indicated the existence of intermediary energy levels within the band gap. The maximum intensity PL emission occurred due to 4G5/2→6H7/2 and 4G5/2→6H9/2 transitions of Sm3+. CIE chromaticity coordinates of the samples were determined and support these materials are promising candidates for applications as phosphors in the visible orange range. This research concluded that the methodology employed here was responsible for the presence of unusual and interesting properties for these new luminescent materials.


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itself in its primary function of representation and delegation. Marxist intellectuals could claim to speak for mass socialist movements across continental Europe, yet it became clear in those years that Marxism had survived into a world which Marx had believed could not possibly exist. This is seen as overcoming the economic-centrism of more "workerist" forms of socialism which focus on the workplace alone as a site of struggle. The federal congress at Florence has eloquently demonstrated the opinion of the Italian International on this point. Plagiarism should be avoided at all costs. 82 The synthesist Italian Anarchist Federation and the platformist Federation of Anarchist Communists continue existing today in Italy but insurrectionary anarchism continues to be relevant as the recent establishment of the Informal Anarchist Federation shows. Joseph Stalin was also known for wearing a pendant resembling the red star, as he did at the Tehran Conference in 1943. The fascist moral ideal, upheld by writers from Sorel to Gentile, is something like an inversion of the caricature of a Benthamite liberal. Some people have reacted to Fascism by saying that it's just the same as socialism. They wrote the Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists which was written in 1926 by Dielo Truda Workers' Cause. Mussolini and a group of adherents launched the Fascist movement (6) in 1919. Several Communist states subsequently adopted the red star symbol, often placing it on their respective flags and coats of arms - for example on the flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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This is what we mean when we talk of Expropriation. Various states with Ottoman history have thus adopted this symbol into their present-day flags. 69 The Spanish Revolution edit Main article: Spanish Revolution of 1936 The most extensive application of anarcho-communist ideas (i.e., established around the ideas as they exist today and achieving worldwide attention and knowledge in the historical canon happened in the anarchist territories during the Spanish. Jiménez afirmaba que la realidad era mucho más compleja: esas diferentes tendencias dentro del movimiento anarquista no eran contradictorias ni excluyentes. The consequence of 70 years of indoctrination with a particular leftist view of fascism is that Fascism is now a puzzle. Among numerous sources on the life of Mussolini, see Richard Collier, Duce! 108 Others, such as Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt, argue that: "The anarchists did not.

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The Dal Lake is the most prominent visual identity of Kashmir. Srinagar
is built around this lake and almost every place in the city is described relative to the lake. This second largest lake in Kashmir
is spread over 18 square kilometers and has a shoreline of 15.5 kilometers. Natural wetlands and floating gardens make up the periphery of the lake. These floating gardens or ‘Rad’, as they are known locally are where tulips bloom in July and August. Natural wetlands are divided by four causeways: Gagribal, Lokut Dal, Bog Dal and Nageen. Because of its size, the Nageen is considered a separate lake in itself. The famous Char Chinar and Sona Lank are islands in the centre of the Lokut Dal and Bog Dal respectively. No visit to Srinagar is complete without a Shikara (wooden boat) ride on the Dal. Twilight and sunset hours are best for the ride. The lake looks resplendent with myriad hues of the glowing orange sky and lights from the city reflecting off the glistening calm of the lake. The ride tops the list of things to do for honeymooners visiting the capital city of Kashmir. While riding the shikara, a number of boats will float past you trying to sell Kashmiri handicrafts, saffron, to fruits, flowers and vegetables.Dal Lake has a long association with Bollywood. The iconic song Yeh chaand sa roshan chehra from the movie ‘Kashmir ki Kali’ was shot here and other movies like Junglee, Jab Jab Phool Khile, Lamhaa, Mission Kashmir, Kabhi Kabhi also feature Dal prominently.


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Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) has spent his life studying the myths and curses of the sea. He is looking for a way to break the curse on his father, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). Henry has set his sights on finding the Trident of Poseidon. The trident gives control over the seas to whoever holds it. It is his best hope of freeing his father. Henry heads out to find the one person he thinks can help him find the trident, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp).
On his journey, Henry meets Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario). Carina is accused of being a witch because of her vast scientific knowledge. Her father, who she never met, had given her a journal with her before he left her at an orphanage. The journal provided clues to find the trident. She has spent her whole life trying to unravel the mystery.
After Henry and Carina find Captain Jack Sparrow, they set out on their quest. As they make they journey, they find they are being followed by the British navy, Captain Barbosa (Geoffrey Rush), and Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) – a ghost pirate seeking revenge on Sparrow with his crew of dead pirates. All are looking to kill Sparrow and claim the Trident of Poseidon for themselves.
We are now five movies deep into Pirates of the Caribbean and they show no signs of stopping. In fact, it seems they’re just getting started. Unfortunately, it feels like the same thing we’ve seen too many times before.
Introducing Brenton Thwaites as Will Hunter’s son and Kaya Scodelario as what is essentially a younger Keira Knightley attempts to bring some fresh blood to the franchise. Thwaites’ performance is very similar to Orlando Bloom’s acting as his father. It works well enough for the film. Scodelario tries to bring a strong, educated female into the fold, giving the film something for women to grab onto. However, her character becomes little more than the butt of phonetic jokes about astronomy and horology. Johnny Depp takes yet another turn as the rum-soaked Captain Jack Sparrow. This time, he is more drunk and incoherent than ever. While he was funny the first time, his character is wearing thin, falling into the sequel trap of trying to make each subsequent films more over the top than the previous.
The story is too familiar. Jack Sparrow is on some sort of quest and is chased by a group of people he has pissed off at some point. As he bumbles along, he manages to avoid death and all sorts of mishaps, usually thanks to his cohorts. The effects are well done, but as with everything else in the film, it’s not anything we haven’t seen before. Bodies of undead pirates with body parts missing, ghost ships – things that are in every other Pirates film. In trying to top each film, the effects team tries to come up with new decimated, undead threats. This time, that new addition is sharks. If you’ve seen the trailers, you have seen the entire scene.
With storylines being undone and adding new, younger stars, it feels as if Disney is trying to reboot the Pirates franchise midstream. the end credits scene adds to this thought. This is similar to what X-Men did with Days of Future Past. X-Men hasn’t been really successful in its attempt, and I don’t feel Pirates will either. Rehashing the same story and dragging Jack Sparrow along will sink any attempt to keep the series going. This isn’t a film I would sit through a second time, but if you are going to see the movie, you might as well splurge and see it in IMAX 3D to really appreciate the effects.

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ANPANMAN SWEET PASTRY: CUTE FOOD DECORATED WITH JAPANESE CHARACTER FACES.March 2, 2009 at 19:55 | Posted in Cute Food Photos | Leave a comment
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† How were you introduced to the art of “cute cooking”?
I am a fan of cute stuff, and take photos of everything. It definitely makes sense for pastry to be cute!
† Where did you find this cute creation?
Shopping mall in Singapore.
† What is it made of? How does it taste?
I actually have no idea.. sadly, I did not taste it. Looks like bread.
† Any other comments or tips?
Eat cute stuff, (but take some pics of it first..) :)
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When the story first broke yesterday evening, the number was in the teens. By the time this CNN story was put online it was 21. As I sit down to write this, they’ve increased it to 22. It’s the number of US embassies being shut down all across parts of Asia, North Africa and the Middle East in the wake of what are being described as imminent and credible threats from al Qaeda.
A global travel alert issued Friday by the State Department warned al Qaeda may launch attacks in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond in coming weeks, a threat that prompted Sunday’s closure of 21 embassies and consulates…
Various Western targets — not just those tied to the United States — are under threat, according to two U.S. officials.
According to three sources, the United States has information that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula members are in the final stages of planning for an unspecified attack.


I am in love with good music, and i love concerts, but yea. Take the quiz: Which sexy eyeliner-wearing rock star is for you? (pictures)Sonny MooreAH LOVE!!! From First To Last is an amazing band, and Sonny is a SEXY and amazing lead singer.Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook! Take the quiz: Emo or Goth?EmoYou are definately an emotional one...Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook! Take the quiz: What Kind of Music Are You? :::pics:::MetalYou're about as hardcore as they come. Music is your passion and you listen to it for talent not because it's popular. You probably have a lot of respect for all artforms and you like classical piano. Slipknot definitely sucks in your eyes...and for good reason. Any band who takes the time to put on make-up and masks just isn't worth your respect.Quizzes by myYearbook.com -- the World's Biggest Yearbook!


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By Local Coordinating Committees of Syria
11 martyrs fell today thus far by the bullets of security forces and regime’s army, four martyrs in both Homs, and Hama, and 2 martyrs in Damascus Suburbs (Kafarbatna, Irbeen ) and a martyr in Damascus (Jobar).
Kafar Souseh: A massive demonstration started nearby the Nasser Kanaan school in Al-Lawan neighborhood. Participants are chanting for the regime’s ouster and bringing its corruption symbols to justice.
Jobar: Martyrdom of Mohammad Dahrbalak who was shot in Ain Tarma town near the Al-Kheir supermarket and his dead body was taken then delivered today to his family.
Martyr Immad Ahmad Sawaf from Homs
Damascus: Resources have reported to The Local Coordination Committees that detainees in Wing 1 in Adra Prison made a sit-in yesterday in the prison and performed a protest demanded toppling the regime. They also protested what the Observors who met them said to them. The Observors gave “Lectures” to the detained protestors about the “Advantages” of the regime and asked the detainees to “Repent” what they did. The sit-in lasted half an hour whar detainees chanted for freedom.
Deir Ezzor: The regime’s thugs are raiding Al-Qoriya town to fabricate a pro-regime demonstration there
Heavy deployment armoured vehicles in Karm Al Zaiton and Nazeheen neighbourhoods and in Al Seteen Street, with intensive and random gunfire.
Martyrdom of Mohammed Sweden due to security bullet he received and the people in his village couldn’t aid him.
The Arab observers arrived to the town with a heavy deployment of the snipers on the roof of most of the tall buildings.
Random raid and arrest campaigns, the security forces stormed the houses of Dr. Yaseer Al Shahadat, Abdulrahem Naserat, Jouma Al Mutawee and his brothers. Mohammed Abdulrahem Naserat and Mohammed Saleh Al Jabawi were arrested.
Martyrdom of the soldier Alaa Balour, the security forces killed him because he refused to shoot toward the peaceful demonstrators.
Raids and random arrests campaign in Qowatly street along with cut off electricity in most of the neighborhoods in the city.
The security forces and thugs stormed the village and are conducting random arrest campaign.
Heavy shooting and the regime’s army is trying to open Sarghaya road, which was closed by the activists in implementation of Dignity strike.
Huge explosion heard but the sources is unknown yet, along with intensive gunfire to prevent the observers from entering the town.
Idlib: Saraqeb: The city is under heavy shelling.
Homs: Detention of four college students by the National Security for organizing the traffic at the Dablan traffic light due the absence of police there.
Damascus Suburb: Zabadany strike continues.
The Arab Observers Arrival to Tafas
Funeral of Abduljaber Zaror in Khaldieh neighbrood in Homs
Yabroud: The security forces created two checkpoints near Dalet Al Khier area and Al Salhia neighborhood and now they are arresting anyone pass from there and his name is listed with them (they have list of wanted names). Some moving checkpoint are also being created now.
Aisha River: Helicopters are seen flying at low altitudes in the region. They are headed north-east of the city.
Harra: Two demonstrations started despite the heavy security presence, chanting for freedom and toppling the regime. One of the demonstrations is a children’s demonstration in the northern neighborhoods
Martyrdom of Abed Allah Al-Afyouney,19, and Bilal Shammia,28, in al-Qosoor area. Both bodies were kidnapped by the regime.
Heavy shooting in the neighborhoods of Gharb Mashtal, Andalus, Qusoor, and Al-Arbaeen
Idlib: Saraqeb: Funeral of martyr Saber Ahmed Nassar


The city of Clear Lake is moving forward with its City Beach enhancement project.
The Clear Lake City Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution setting a public hearing for the first phase of the project at 6 p.m. on Sept. 16 at City Hall, 15 N. Sixth St., and setting the project’s bid letting for 11 a.m. Sept. 12.
“The bulk of this (phase), as we’ve talked, would be water main, so not a lot to get real excited about at this point,” said Scott Flory, Clear Lake city administrator.
The first phase of the project, estimated to cost $230,000, contains water main improvements and demolition of the restroom facility and pump shed.
The pump shed, located on city property adjacent to the water treatment plant, houses the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ lake aeration pumps and associated equipment, but once the shed is demolished, the equipment will be stored through the winter in a temporary building constructed this fall.
The decades-long arrangement was formalized in an agreement with the DNR that the City Council unanimously approved Monday.
The DNR’s aeration pumps and associated equipment will be housed in the city’s new restroom facility next summer, according to the agreement.
The full scope of the beach project — identified as a capital improvement in the city’s 2020 budget — includes the removal and replacement of the existing city restroom at City Beach, the removal and expansion of the existing splash pad, the removal and replacement of the existing playground equipment with shade structure and miscellaneous underground utility improvements.
The council plans to award the contract for the first phase of the project on Sept. 16 after the public hearing.
The estimated project cost, plus the unit price contaminated soil removal and replacement at $45 per cubic yard, or $29,250, paid for by Clear Lake's general fund, will be reimbursed by the city's tax-increment fund for capital improvement as approved by the City Council.
Work is anticipated to begin on Sept. 24 and be completed Nov. 28, with aerator pumps operating by Nov. 15.
The remainder of the project, including construction of the restroom, splash pad and playground, will be done next year.


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Small-scale farmers in the state of Tlaxcala face food supply and income-generation challenges because of lack of official support for agroecological farming and weak market linkages. Centro Campesino para el Desarrollo Sustentable, A.C. (CAMPESINO) provides access to working capital, loans and technical assistance to community-based businesses and helps farmers develop skills in conservation and leadership. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Mexico. CAMPESINO’s activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
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The story of salvation is the story of ordinary people given extraordinary significance. And we catch some of the purely human in a narrative intended to explain the special place God’s people hold in the divine heart, and the mystery of those who seem to be excluded. The wonder of God’s word is that even in the midst of grand symbolism, we find an aching humanness: Sarah’s jealousy, Abraham’s anguish, Hagar’s pain.
Abraham felt overwhelming joy when his slave girl presents him with a son: Ishmael. But the joy was brief: Abraham must cast off Hagar and his son if God’s covenant is to be fulfilled.
Our Lord knew something of the rejection Hagar felt. The people of Gadara rejoiced at the healing of the demoniacs, men who doubtless were their own sons and brothers. But then, faced with this powerful and dangerous holy man, they invite him to leave. After all, he’s just sent their livelihood, the herd of pigs, slipping and sliding into the sea. So, like Hagar, Jesus is cast out into the desert.
In his gospel, St. Matthew wants us to understand that Jesus has a cosmic significance, that he is indeed God-with-us and not just a man who heals people. But, as with Abraham and his family, we see here, too, a human dimension as well, the gentle healer rejected because of his compassion and his great power.
God’s plan for all of us is worked out in the littleness of daily life: in the personal conflict and tragedy of Hagar and Ishmael, in the healing presence of Jesus and his rejection by the grateful but frightened Gadarenes. The Scriptures tell us again and again of big symbols reflected in ordinary life: election and rejection, healing and exile. Let us reflect a little today on how these themes play out on the stage of our own lives.


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Sadly, in South Korea, dogs are kept in small filthy cages and farmed for human consumption in their dog meat industry. They are given little to no food and water, no veterinary care, and have to endure freezing and scorching temperatures.
Some are stolen pets, while others are puppies who were born into these awful conditions. But regardless of where they came from, all have the same fate to be slaughtered and sold for their meat.
According to The Humane Society of the U.S., an estimated 2.5 million dogs a year are raised on nearly 17,000 dog farms each year there. HSUS, along with other organizations, is working hard to put an end to the dog meat industry one farm at a time.
Humane Society International has just shut down their 11th dog meat farm in South Korea! All of the dogs were brought to safety and given proper medical attention.
The last dog to be carried out from the farm was formerly named Sandy. With a new life, came a new name – Kimchi!
Not only is Kimchi out of that disgusting, cramped cage filled with feces and no food or water, he is living in a loving home in Canada! Kimchi was adopted by a family and he is feeling love for the first time.
Kimchi is mostly blind, but that doesn’t stop him from being a normal dog. He loves to run around and play, and has made so many new doggy friends. He also has toys to play with, something Kimchi has never even seen before! Thankfully, Kimchi is now living his best life!


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High-flow pinch valves are suitable for applications requiring high purity, zero dead volume, or particulate handling. The S-line of valves includes two-way normally closed, two-way normally open, and three-way universal constructions and can handle tubing sizes ranging from 1/16 to 3/8 in.in. The valves' long stroke allows the silicone tubing to open fully, providing maximum fluid flow while preventing particulate from becoming trapped, according to the manufacturer. A magnetic latching version is available for low power consumption and prolonged coil life. Automatic Switch Co., 50-60 Hanover Rd., Florham Park, NJ 07932.
A series of dispensing valves is suitable for dispensing very difficult, high-viscosity, and stringy materials that have short pot lives. The 340-series valves can dispense thin, low-viscosity materials where positive displacement is required. Features of the valves include an adjustable displacement volume control; a completely disposable wetting system; a programmable, microcontroller-operated electronic sequencing system; and automatic and adjustable suck-back. Different versions can dispense between 0.001 to 1.0 cm3 of fluid, depending of the model. Tridak, A Div. of Indicon Inc., 2686 Buckner Ave., #B, Ft. Meade, MD 20755.
Capable of continuous operation to 10,000 psi, a series of high-pressure pneumatically operated valves is supplied with small, electrically operated pilot valves. CV valves can be supplied with fittings for either 1/8- or 1/4-in. high-pressure tubing, and can be placed in ovens. Solenoid-actuated pilot valves can be either manually operated or computer controlled. On-off and three-way, four-position valve combinations are available. All models are made with corrosion-resistant stainless steel or Hastelloy C-276. Vindum Engineering Inc., 1 Woodview Ct., San Ramon, CA 94583.
Using a motor-driven cam coupled with a position-sensing rotary switch, a dual-channel pinch valve requires a fraction of the power used by traditional solenoid pinch valves. The PV256 valve consumes approximately 0.4 W during the 300-600-millisecond transition from state to state. It consumes no power and generates no heat in its three pinched states. The valve measures 2.3 x 0.7 x 0.6 in. and accepts 1/8-in.-OD and 1/16-in.-ID tubing in a variety of materials. External control circuitry is required. Instech Laboratories Inc., 5209 Militia Hill Rd., Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462.
Swabbable, needle-free valves feature a spring-loaded split septum and can be accessed with any male luer, such as a syringe or IV adapter. The male adapter opens the NFV-3 valves and allows bidirectional flow. The valves automatically close when the male luer is removed, preventing backflow of fluids. The valves are designed for applications that require needle-free intermittent injection, aspiration, or infusion of fluids. They are available in Y and in-line configurations. Burron OEM Div., B. Braun Medical Inc., 824 Twelfth Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18018.
Miniature plastic relief valves are preset to spring pressures between 0.25 and 10 psi. End fitting combinations available include 10-32 female and 10-32, 1/4-in.-28, and 1/8-in. male. Standard valves are equipped with Buna O-rings with a stainless-steel spring and polypropylene body, and Viton O-rings and nylon body materials are also available. For larger flow sizes, 1/4- and 3/8-in. male and 1/8-in. and 1/4-in. female fittings can be ordered. Industrial Specialties Manufacturing Inc., 2741 S. Wadsworth, Ste. 315, Lakewood, CO 80232.
Servo valves provide precise proportional control of fluid pressure and flow. The valves combine a torque motor with a frictionless nozzle flapper, shear orifice, or jet pipe valve. The input signal can be either voltage or current, and the output is a precisely controlled stepless flow rate or pressure. The valves are suitable for use in piloting larger valves, providing servo control of actuators, and in fluid pressure and flow control applications. Woodward HSC Inc., 390 Youngs Rd., Buffalo, NY 14221.
Designed for applications where size, dispense volume, and repeatability are important, a 1200-Hz, two-way solenoid valve can be placed directly over the individual well centers of standard 96-well microtiter plates. The 0.22-in.-diam VHS valve is available with either a 0.05-in.- or 0.02-in.-diam outlet port or a jeweled orifice for direct dispensing. The valve consumes 500 mW maximum power and has a 200,000,000-cycle life. Wetted materials include stainless steel, PEEK, PPS, and EPDM to ensure chemical resistance and fluid compatibility. The Lee Co., 2 Pettipaug Rd., Westbrook, CT 06498.
A manual diaphragm valve is suitable for use in dialysis machines and abrasive media, vacuum, flow control, and cleanroom applications. The compact design of the Type 314 valve was made possible by casting the lower body with connection threads as one piece. The valve is available in polypropylene, PVDF, and PVC, and features end connections for bead- and crevice-free infrared socket and butt fusion. Other features include an optional locking handwheel, position indicator, and threaded mounting inserts. George Fischer Inc., 2882 Dow Ave., Tustin, CA 92780.
High-flow check valves
Clear one-way check valves offer unimpeded fluid flow, low opening pressure, and no backflow, even at low back pressures. The valves can handle a much greater flow rate than duckbill, ball-check, or disk-type valves. Made of medical-grade plastics and silicone, the valves can be EtO or gamma sterilized. Miniature valves with luer end and steam-autoclavable valves are available upon request. Resenex Corp., 9614-F Cozycroft Ave., Chatsworth, CA 91311.
Miniature check valves
A manufacturer offers a line of miniature check valves and fixed-flow controls. The metal ball-type check valves are available in brass or stainless steel and are suitable for use with liquids or gases. The fixed-flow controls, which consist of a ball check valve and a precision orifice arranged in parallel, are tamperproof and ensure unchanged operation. Free flow occurs in one direction, while metered flow occurs in the opposite direction. The valves and flow controls are manufactured with 10-32 threaded connections, 1/4- and 1/8-in. NPT threads, and press-in inserts. O'Keefe Controls Co., P.O. Box Q, Trumbull, CT 06611.
Bellow-sealed vacuum valves have a low leak rate and are constructed of a 304-stainless-steel body, making them resistant to particle damage. Angle and in-line valves can be operated manually, pneumatically, or electropneumatically. The 4-in. valves can be customized for the user with a choice of flanging, seals, solenoid voltages, and a limit switch option. MKS Instruments, 5330 Sterling Dr., Boulder, CO 80301.
Modular plastic check valves can be used for gas analysis, filtration, and medical diagnostic and treatment equipment. The valves incorporate a low-inertia poppet design with double-tapered O-ring seals to achieve a fast seal in ultra-low-pressure applications. Available in a wide range of thermoplastic materials, the valves provide corrosion resistance, offer a choice of flow direction, and can operate in temperatures ranging from 0° to 250°F. Customers can specify end fittings, cracking pressure, O-rings, and body and spring materials. Smart Products Inc., 1710 Ringwood Ave., San Jose, CA 95131.
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Farmers’ market hack! Did you know you can make natural sweetener at home using jujubes? Also known as red dates, or Chinese dates, jujubes are small tree fruit that was brought to the United States from Asia in 1908. They grow on a tree and have a small pit inside, like cherries, and have a soft crunchy texture similar to apples, with a subtle sweet date flavor.
Today we’re going to be making a jujube purée that can be used as a sugar substitute in many recipes, like cakes, cookies, and smoothies! Keep your puree in the freezer for up to 3 months to use as needed, or use it right away to sweeten up your breakfasts or desserts.
Watch PCFMA’s Chef Andrew build a seasonal breakfast parfait with all fresh ingredients from our local farmers’ market, featuring Asian pears, persimmons, and locally made almond butter.

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This is part of the "Ocean Shock," Reuters series exploring the impact of climate change on marine creatures and the people that depend on them.
Greyhound Bay was once a place where old boats came to death. A series of wild coastline on the western edge of Sahara, its student made a useful place, if it is obvious, to trap a trawler, a special gauge or tug. There were so many vessels to their graves here, the Nouadhibou port was nearby and always looked at the army of a ghost; watch the brooks.
Today, walkers do not have a course design for their & # 39; This gateway to the West African country of Mauritia trying to abandon. All Turkish fishing boats are at anchor, and the laundry flows out to dry over the deck. In open sea, the dense woodlands of Chinese vessels place V-shaped watchwords with the foxes.
Closer shingles, turn-turning turns-octopus-catchers scan the surface through the heads of eyebrows that once were scattered from sandstorms.
But the activity is worth all of those behind behind high walls. It would be quite easy to lose – just the only thing to do to & # 39; turning her stomach.
On Saturday that was recently held, Hamoud El-Mami's factory manager watched over a warehouse gate in Africa, SA Protest, when two of its works were glamorous in deep sardinella, similar fish with a sardine that will Successful with a current Canal Factory from northwest Africa.
Disturbing her & # 39; smell, rubber workers put the fish into a positive appearance. Due to a large circular screw, the machine sent each sardinella to a connection, and then moved the gray ball as a result of a hole in the wall and into the devastating campaigns; at the factory.
Pregnant Africa's gadgets produce full-of-the-packed fish-powered pools; The whiskey business carries $ 160 billion. One of the fastest growing fastest growing food sectors in the world is a water farm; Bringing wildcatching quickly as the largest source of fish for human consumption.
From shrimp ponds from the eyes of the Chinese river to the Viking salmon cages, the business will thrive by fishing fish to other fish. Their needs are so foolish, around 20% of the world's fish will not even go to; go near a man's plock, instead instead grow up to make fish mines.
Unexpectedly urged China to push herbal herb prices to record elevations, companies have put their sights on West Africa as a new supply resource. From indigenous entrepreneurs from indigenous entrepreneurs, Chinese researchers build new factories on the shores of Mauritania and its two neighbors to the south, Senegal and Gambia.
But in the stream for sardinella, global business interests are capturing Western Africa's diet from the people; need most. And the blade levers of the gadgets cause a new risk to the species at a time when sardinella is at a time; swim for her life already.
"In four or five years, no fish stocks will remain, closing the factories, and the foreigners will leave," said Abdou Karim Sall, president of a small fishermen's company in Senegal. ; distinguished by his French division, Papas. "There will be left here without any fish."
Diversity data shows that the waters where northern Senegal is located; grow faster than any other part of the zinc belt called a tropical complex zone, formerly known to sailors just like the "doldrums". The adverse effects on the climate change are hidden from this view: a new study by researchers at the IRD-France-based institute based in Marseille shows that the rising temperature of sardinella is pushed at an average of 200 miles north of 1995.
The results, which were shared by Reuters, were sent to & # 39; The first clear evidence that Western Afghan sardinella is involved in diaspora across the world of marine creatures; flee from mud or deeper when warm waters. The maximum extent of this migration influences anything that is & # 39; happening on the land: fish moving 10 times is longer than the average of rural animals likely to increase temperatures, according to Professor Camille Parmesan, authorizing the effects of climax on marine life at Plymouth University.
Not only does climate change change sardinella from their traditional habitat, it's a? stressing the fish in a different way, indirectly, by increasing the incentives for additional West African fish plants.
Peru is the largest exports in the world of fish food, which has been made from large rocks of stones. So, the country affects the cost of fish mining compared to Saudi Arabia as a raw producer of raw oil. From the beginning of the 1970s, El Niño's climate philosophy has occasionally been caused by a number of invasion of Peru's conduct of aggression by disturbing the machine that has been disturbed. feed these fish with nutrition. In the last ten years, climate change seems to have been increasing the frequency and effects of El Niño, which can significantly find the prices of fish grazing.
This inequality can grow well for West African fish makers, who stand to make more money each time at prices. But overproduction may directly affect millions of people in the area, by placing the risk of the fish that they are responsible for; Main source of income, income and protein.
Demand for fish has already caused the annual capture of Mauritania de sardinella to rise from 440,000 tonnes to 770,000 tonnes within a few years, according to a report funded by the European Union published in 2015. Senegalese boats grew up to the 10 year-old landscaping of the plants between 2008 and 2012, finding the report. Current Canary fish stocks, scientists say, can not resist this weight for much longer.
Coastal communities in West Africa are already among the most vulnerable in terms of the effects of climate change.
The increase has been accelerating coastal towns as a whole, and the weather is harder than its; fishing is always more dangerous. Tickets and irregular rainwater have allowed farmers to leave their land and go to the shoreline, and indicate the numbers of people who are in the water. is becoming increasingly bigger than the best hope of baiting their families over the break.
But despite a landfall in the Nouadhibou where staff waiting for the next fish are poor, factory leaders will be able to do so; gutting their shoulders when they talk about sardinella blister rods that will be used; ever run.
"Fish is still plentiful," El-Mami said, moving to the nearby beach with a smile. "If you pick up your fishing rod right now, you'll find beautiful fish."
Painted eyes look from the prodigles of the pinnacles that appear; climbing in the hole at Joal-Fadiouth, a remote center of Senegal fishing industry. Including the names of the spiritual leaders who are. affecting all Senegal society, some also show a more global ambition: the strong logo of the Manchester City football club or the words "Barack Obama."
Gold debate has doubled the size of the small fishing boats in the country over the last decade. He is willing to win votes, the government has supported the motors outside a board to allow fishermen to go further. Now 600,000 people are employing directly or indirectly, or 17 per cent of the staff, continues to threaten the protection of its storage.
On Tuesday, the captain Doudou Kotè removed his & # 39; his boat and on a horse-drawn cart clearly at home in the waves. As a result of affecting the climb in a & # 39; This map, Kotè said what many of the fishermen say: Sardinella, a talismanic species in Senegal, is in the middle of an action that is missing.
"Today, there are more pirogues: People who have no pinnacles now now, and now have two of them now," said Kotè, who was a scarce mariner, Graveling of green wading birds and crab shrimp. "We often come home without taking anything – there is not enough to buy or even eat fuel."
An exciting man with two women and six children; , when Kotè's expression was found in its obscurity while & # 39; as he expected sardinella to be stressed; Bringing a short time on fish stocks falls. "If I had any other work to do, I would have to fish," he said.
Not just Senegalà who has a & # 39; miss out because the accuracy is converted to fish mines. In Mauritania, the industry has been agitating at least 330,000 tonnes of fish each year previously sold in the West African markets such as Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast. & # 39; estimate. That's almost the total annual fish consumption of Senegal's population of 15 million.
Although Senegal does not produce just a few of the number of fish sold by almost 30 factories from Mauritania, her twelve plants could be an unsuitable danger by blocking a dynamic market engine that was then limited to what fishermen would have; taken.
In the past, in the seasons when Sardinella left closer to land, Kotè and her countries could add more to how the local market could catch. The teams would release the fish that did not; They can sell them to go to the sand, and then go to the sand; stay home to get them out. With the factories that are now willing to buy all the latest fish, there is nothing to stop the fishing boats from pushing stock to date.
"We could be involved in a devastating situation," said Patrice Brehmer, a marine scientist at IRD-France, who wrote the study telling that cooling waters are pushing sardinella to North.
The growing disparity between people and nature in the Canary Current. Fishermen are think they need to be back to the poverty of ancestral settlements.
When Ibrahima Samba writes a living to grow peunuts and honey on his family outside the Mbour Senegalese town. When the waters started too early or too late, he went into other farmers who swim the nets for their nets.
"We can change the climate: things have never been working out how we hoped, and there was astonishment," said Samba.
"With the sea, you're going out today, you're fishing today, and you're selling off – and you do not have to be a professional professionals to do. We saw the car at cars and we were building houses. "
After 22 years as a fisherman, Samba says that climate change is again threatening his animation, this time by going to her; running sardinella. "There is no climate change that affects the agriculture sector, but also fished," he said. "People may have problems selling the ground, because there is a great chance of getting back to farm."
The effects of blue fish factories are already prominent in the face of a local woman. It was not long ago from the beach at Joal-Fadiouth, cautious pillars of fog were moved from folded outer ovens with simple sardinella lines; dry slowly over a high hill. Many of them were going to go. had to be worn and served on a bed of spicy rice in the national diet of Senegal, known as Thiéboudiène.
When there were times good, thousands of staff could have a " Outdoor Fish Driving Facility – Almost all women – make more money than the married fishermen, and save enough to buy new engines, or even boats.
Among them was Rokeya Diop, a matriarchal figure of good standing among the community that prepares, and Smoking and salt salting for sale in local markets. These days, the hungry pale that hung over the desert met his mind.
As the smoke saw, firemen still gave them straw into the empty ovens and, Using long poles to take the ash that carried several hours. But the fish factories are willing to pay twice as much as Diop and his friends can for new sardinella, leaving nothing but their hands.
"I'll stay up to 10 tonight every night at night but I'm going home empty," said Dip, pulling her pieces together.
Although demand from factories is just one of many reasons that affect the fish that is in a position that is a problem. Getting from season to season in Senegal, the gutting is higher than the shoreline of the huge changes that make it happen; happening at sea.
"We can not behave everything on the factories," said Maimouna Diokh, treasurer of local council who, management of a fishing activity in Joal-Fadiouth, as the men who dragged stones of sharp fish into trucks parked in a lofty bay on the beach. "Climate change is a" warming up of the waters, and so there is less fish. "
Sea to heat
Years of sun and salt have been enforcing for a & # 39; Bringing a curly, catamaran anchored in the Nouadhibou harbor, a special weather-bearing. But the two-engine ship is still a great help to bring science teams into Greyhound Bay to gather information on the cooling seas.
One Saturday, the Amrigue placed an acre near sand called Gazelle Bank, about two miles from the harbor.
Abdoul Dia, head of the laboratory at the Mauritanian of Oceanographic Research and Fisheries Institute, no Imrop, used a device to collect sediment from the seabed where the splash vessel was made.
Continue to a sample on its & # 39; he put down the gravel into a plastic tank and started scrapping it with a sieve and a pipe. He was looking for microbirals that could help his colleagues build a more detailed picture of how the conditions change.
The big picture is already clear: there are thirty years of measurements that show that the balmy waters where Mauritania are in existence are clear. grow warmer. "If you look, you will see an increase in average temperature that reinforces the warming guide," said God, spread an orange life jacket over his white geek coat.
At Imrop's headquarters, on a bluff that overlooks it. bay, God explained why this warmth was so important. Nouadhibou is located near a common zone where the coolest waters of the north are affected by tropical waters south. The extreme severe backdrop of this diameter slightly oscillates every year. But how waters have warmed up, it has begun to grow far further north, even to # 39; stretching as far as the Moroccan town of Casablanca, 870 miles away. The sardinella stock friction center has moved north as the species has been trying to maintain the best temperature.
The shift is good news for Mauritania's mining factories, because the sardinella is now closer. But it's a bad news for fishermen to the south in Senegal and in the USA; Ghambia, which has live fishing stocks that move further.
Some researchers believe, over time, that the warming movement may increase the amount of fish in the Canary Current as new species have; supported in changing situations. But others are seeing a more expensive future.
Vicky Lam, an economist fisherman at the Institute for Oceans and Fishing at the British Columbia University in Canada, and three researchers published in 2012 investigated the potential impact of Climate change in fishing in 14 West African countries, including Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia. Their projections for 2050 were tough: 21 per cent decreased in the annual capture value, 50% reduction in jobs related to fishing and annual loss of $ 311 million to the regional economy.
The fish industry does not add to the weight. Ad Corten, who is chaired by a sardinella committee, is a stock evaluation group that advises the U.N Food and Agriculture Group, saying that fishing vessels were availed. Take too much from Chanary Today even before the factories came.
"This is going to be deleted within one or two," said Corten to Reuters. "We are already aware of the shortage of sardinella in Mauritanian waters. We will hear the same stories from Senegal."
Fishermen are feeling that the character of the sea changes. Last year, the coldest weather out of Nouadhibou in 20 years gave sardinella and octopus gorts. Stones moving through the holes were near six weeks later. The wild wind that will run will decline. Sea is usually blown between March and June. In Morocco, the fall of Zagora's wilderness fell in the first half of fifty years.
"Last year, the harbor was very distressed," said Abdel Aziz Boughourbal, manager of Omaurci SA, one of the largest Mauritanian fish companies and fish fish, an e-dish in a restaurant where there are sailors who are there; Visit to cracking cans into the mountain. He said that the Chilein team had been surprised at one of his ships recently when running his boat into a huge shooting of the ship; Wikiquote – Peru usually found.
Rush of Chinese museums
Some Chinese researchers seem to share the fear of the fisherman. Over the last few years, key fisheries companies have invested debt worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to establish fish processing and fish plants around Nouadhibou, their huge bigger campaigns above her & # 39; sand. There is even a smaller Chinese player with a port for expansion.
"If we have the opportunity, we will do other projects – from more fish to work and frost," said Fan Yongzhen, a giant manager at Continental Seafood, one of the seabed factories in Nouadhibou.
In the capital city, Nouakchott, Road China and Bridge Corp., which have built large collections of projects across Africa, have submitted proposals to develop a 40-square maritime business park south of a & # 39; town. According to the company's feasibility study, viewed by Reuters, plant to process, frost and & # 39; Bringing out fish – and, indeed, fish fish.
Everyone from Chinese businessmen to Senegealse funding farmers who are looking at Canary Current to do their fortune, the games have begun to go to; climbing.
In January, the Senegalese Saint-Louis porters had been killed by fishermen after one of their co-workers was killed by the Mauritanian coast soldiers. A defense defense officer told Reuters that the man was seriously killed when a fire officer opened to try to convince the engine of Senegealse's pirogue to be convicted of being killed. shearing the Mauritanian patrol work.
Sardinella moves over a 1,000 mile zone divided by Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia. Officials from each country say they want to keep their fish steadily and improve the type of processing, frozen and export activity that can create thousands of jobs. But with an effective divisional management system still exists, this objective may not be consistent with the installation of devices that are in place; eroded more for the benefit of fish farms that bring food to Asia, Europe and North America.
Bamba Banja, a permanent secretary to the Gambia fishing minister, said the government was a priority to ensure that local people had enough fish to eat. "If it comes to the fish, we would like to block the fish factories and allow normal Gambitness – women and vulnerable people – have access to these resources," he said.
Despite government commitments, the town of Gambia in Gunjur has emerged as a symbol of its " conflicts that may take fish away.
In 2016, a Chinese center opened a planning center called "Lead Lead". Although many in Gunjur are grateful to work as a wedding party for the factory, one of three who grows up on a 50 mile coastline, others fear that & # 39; company for fish fish that can endanger the long-term survival of the community.
In March, a number of people gathered on the beach and excavated factory material; pipe pouring into the sea. Local entrepreneurs declare that Gold Leadership is about to nearby lock hunting, a breeding area and a nutrition area for migratory aquacles where crocodiles come to a satellite lounge-room in the middle of the middle heat. After that they showed Reuters's pictures of dead fish and a sparkling red shadow that scattered the water.
Gold Shape was then ordered by the Gambia environmental organization to expand its 350 pound waste pipe into the sea, according to official document published by Reuters. A few weeks after excavating the young people, staff came to make the necessary expansion. The factory managers identified the event by placing a Chinese banner on the beach.
Gold Leadership says that he respects the rules of Gambia and has been in attendance; Benefits the town in many ways, including to & # 39; Delivering work for dozens of staff, developing a school and doing it; giving sheep to grandfathers at Ramadan.
"We are a businessman," said a member of staff, who refused to be named. "If we do not, someone comes."
Lamin Jassey, an English teacher, played a key role in the campaigns against Golden Lead. He is among a small group of activists arrested from the destruction of crime, crime and the "compelling and difficult" of his company. He had to post a $ 8,400 trust – almost 20 times the annual annual income in Gambia.
"Today, Gunjur is growing enormously – we have a lot of fishermen. Thousands of people come from Senegal," he said, looking at the porters of a & # 39; go into the water to go away to the factory door. "But if stock of fish is under pressure, and at the end it's very scarce, what do you think about the future?"


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Drogheda artist’s debut exhibition depicts the local in a new light.
There has been some excitement around Drogheda about a new art exhibition which is visiting the Abbey Gallery. Local artist Rodney Thornton is introducing himself to the art world with his exhibition entitled Stilling a Recurring Light. His paintings depict the local ice cream van, the corner sweet shop, the Gaelic football pitch and empty street scenes that invite the viewer to visit once again. The paintings simplify the ordinary things in the times we live in and embody the grass root culture found on every street corner in Ireland.
Rodney received an honours degree in fine art at the Institute of Technology, Sligo. It was while teaching English in South Korea that he first took to the streets making drawings. He found this a great way to communicate with the locals and continued to paint on the streets of Drogheda on his return.
Rodney has been blown away by the support he has received since he started painting around the town of Drogheda and would like to thank everybody for their interest and words of encouragement.
The exhibition will be opened by Mayor Oliver Tully on Friday May 26th at 7.30pm in the Abbey Gallery, 4 Dominic Street, Drogheda.


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European profits at the US parent of HomeSense and TK Maxx, The TJX Companies, have rocketed by 42%.
In the first quarter to May 2, TJX Europe, which includes homewares chain HomeSense as well as TK Maxx, profits rose to US$15.5m. Like-for-like sales were up 6%.
The TJX Companies saw total group sales up by 1% to US$4.35bn, while like-for-like store sales grew by 2% on those of the previous year.
Commenting on the results, The TJX Companies president and chief executive Carol Meyrowitz said they were “the strongest in our history and achieved despite the economic downturn.
“Customer traffic increased significantly across virtually all of our divisions.
“Our strategies of planning comparable store sales conservatively, running our business with lean inventories, and aggressively managing expenses drove strong bottom-line results.”
She said the company was encouraged by the performance of HomeSense in the UK, which continued to do better than expected.
There are currently eight HomeSense stores in the UK, in Poole, Cardiff, Bristol, Northampton, Manchester, Gloucester, Thurrock and Cambridge, with plans to build the chain to around 150 stores over the next five to seven years.

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A stunning early 20th Century French Art Deco chryselephantine figure of a beautiful young dancer wearing a long flowing skirt holding a stylised pose. The cold painted bronze clothing and hand carved hands and face exhibit excellent detail, raised on a shaped cream onyx plinth, signed D Chiparus
Height: 55 cm
Width: 26 cm
Depth: 13 cm
Condition: Excellent Original Condition
Materials: Chryselephantine and Onyx
Book Ref Chiparus Master of Art Deco by A Shayo
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Chiparus – The Master of Art Deco
Romanian by birth, Chiparus worked entirely in Paris, first exhibiting in the Salon of 1914. He is best known for his figures or exotic dancer made of carved ivory and highly worked bronze. The subjects of these chryselephantine works were taken from popular personalities of the day, from contemporary theatre characters and the Orientalist zeitgeist in Paris in the interwar years, as exemplified by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russe.
Chiparus’s early figures, those on a relatively simple bases, were primarily cast by Etling, a Paris foundry the retailer of contemporary French decorative arts in the 1920s and 1930s. The later pieces were made by the Les Neveux de J Lehmann foundry which specialised in making the more elaborate marble and onyx plinths.
The Ballets Russes
The Ballets Russes was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev and performed until his death in 1929. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to French dance and penetrated every facet of entertainment. The great Paris music halls, the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge and others put on spectacular shows inspired by the Ballet Russes.
Chiparus attended the music halls and purchased all the magazines which illustrated the dancers. His wife and occasional models posed for him as he varied some of the photographed illustrations, never wasting a good attitude, this gave Chiparus an inexhaustible supply of material and influence from which he derived his most flamboyant, exotic and dramatic statues, frozen in spectacular attitudes, tall and sensuous. Chiparus’s repertoire symbolises a brief golden era and the sculptures that survived stand graceful, self-confident and proudly decorative
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Recognizing the Significance of Alcohol Rehab
The grasp of alcohol addiction can have far-reaching consequences on your life, impacting not only your physical health but also your relationships and overall quality of life.
Alcohol addiction is a serious and widespread issue that affects millions of individuals worldwide. If you or a loved one is grappling with alcohol addiction, opting for assistance through alcohol rehab could be a transformative choice.
Alcohol rehab programs are crafted to offer all-encompassing backing and therapy to those striving to defeat their alcohol dependency. These programs are customized to tackle addiction from physical, emotional, and psychological angles, aiding individuals in attaining sustainable recovery and reestablishing authority over their lives.
Opting to enroll in an alcohol rehab program constitutes a brave move towards a future that is healthier and more content. In the following sections, we will delve into the pivotal facets of alcohol rehab, encompassing its advantages, the treatment journey, and the process of locating the ideal rehab facility aligned with your requirements.
The Benefits of Alcohol Rehab
Participating in alcohol rehab programs offers an array of advantages that bolster your path to recovery. Primarily, these programs furnish a structured and nurturing milieu that aids in breaking the chains of addiction. A squad of seasoned professionals will encircle you, devoting themselves to assisting you throughout every stage of your recovery odyssey.
Furthermore, alcohol rehab programs furnish individualized treatment schemes that are customized to align with your distinct prerequisites and circumstances. This ensures that you receive the appropriate therapies and interventions that address the root causes of your addiction and promote holistic healing.
Additionally, alcohol rehab programs frequently amalgamate a myriad of therapeutic techniques, spanning individual counseling, group therapy, and holistic pursuits like yoga and meditation. These approaches not only tackle the addiction per se but also equip you with pivotal coping mechanisms and strategies to maneuver through life’s trials without resorting to alcohol.
If you or a loved one is struggling with alcohol addiction, seeking help through an alcohol rehab program is a crucial step towards recovery.
Alcohol rehab programs are designed to provide a structured and supportive environment for individuals seeking to overcome alcohol addiction.
When considering alcohol rehab, you’ll find a range of options available to you.
Inpatient rehab, also known as residential rehab, involves staying at a treatment facility for a designated period.
This type of rehab provides round-the-clock care and support, allowing you to focus solely on your recovery without the distractions and triggers of your regular environment.
In contrast, outpatient rehab permits you to receive treatment during daylight hours, allowing you to return to your home environment in the evening.
This option provides more flexibility and is suitable for individuals who have responsibilities they can’t step away from for an extended period.
When seeking an alcohol rehab program, it’s essential to consider the approach and philosophy of the facility.
Certain programs align with the 12-step model, placing strong emphasis on spirituality and group camaraderie as essential facets of the recuperation process.
Conversely, other programs may adopt a holistic stance, concentrating on the comprehensive well-being of the individual-encompassing the mind, body, and soul.
Choosing the right alcohol rehab program depends on your individual needs and preferences.
It’s important to conduct thorough research and, if possible, visit the facilities in person to get a sense of the environment and the treatment approaches they offer.

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Ages 5 - 9 years
Our program has grown to include classes for ages 5-9 year olds, Macro Makers! We will expand on our process art program to include more materials and new techniques appropriate for this age level.
This program is geared toward students ages 5 - 9 years old. Classes include more challenging independent projects with open ended opportunities. Students are introduced to a variety of different materials and art supplies to experiment with and create projects that include their individuality. Caregivers are encouraged to drop off children for this class.
Check our registration page for details on all of our summer camps for ages 5-9.
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THE EXAMINATION OF VOCAL CLASS
After a long progress of learning in Vocal Class, Recently, Art Division of BSSC held the last meeting of Vocal Class on Wednesday, 12th April 2017 and that was called The Examintaion of Vocal Class. 19.30 the participants of Vocal Class started to gather and some of them felt nervous to attend the examination day.
On this last meeting, participants were being reviewed about some theories that they had been learned and they gathered together to sing as one choir. During the first session, class participants divided into two rooms, both male and female participants did some vocalizing and song review. Then the next session, participants were gathered into a single room and sing together. Finally the male choir did the collaboration with the female choir. They did some preparation to do their best for vocal class performance alongside with the performance of Guitar Class on the next event, Guitar and Vocal Class Performance.
On the vocal examination day, it’s not all about how to sing well but it’s about how to sing well with the right technique and the feeling that was flowed from each participants. After the examination was over, the mentors gave the participants some advices to improve their skill and so they could do the performance better than they did on theVocal Class examination.
Shaffira Tiara, One of the Vocal Class participants said that she felt nervous at first, she thought the Vocal Class examination would be hard. But actually,it was different from her expectation. The examination of Vocal Class was interesting, she got some new experiences by joined the examination of Vocal Class.


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It should come as no surprise that the US is selling arms to Pakistan.
“2,769 Radio Frequency TOW 2A missiles, 415 RF bunker buster missiles, fly-to-buy missiles in both these categories, 121 TOW launchers for wire-guided and wireless missiles, E-2C HAWKEYE 2000 Airborne Early Warning Systems, simulators and support equipment. Their total worth could be up to $1.04 Billion.”
According Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, “The latest geo-strategic rationale for many US (arms) sales is the so-called war on terror…. US officials claim that the recent sale to Pakistan of F-16 jets with air-to-air missiles will help in the fight against Al Qaeda. In reality, they are for fighting India and they create a market for selling similar US fighters to India.” [Emphasis mine.]
Of the many causes of third world poverty (and India accounts for a pretty large share of the third world), the buying of arms from the so-called first world must be a major cause. Yes, the US is the largest seller of weapons of mass destruction — it not only develops the weapons of mass destruction, but it also sells them around the world. The US has to keep selling these WMD so as to keeps its WMD factories humming.
But the US could not sell these weapons unless the leaders of the third world impoverished countries did not want to buy these for self aggrandizement. You need drug dealers and drug addicts. If there were no addicts, there wouldn’t be any profit in dealing. Or to put it another way, if there were no bidders, the auctioneer would be jobless. The dollar auction continues.
India’s development and the trade in WMD is clearly related, and I have pondered the issue on this blog before. From “Benefits of Weapons Trade“:
Take, for instance, trade in weapons of mass destruction. Is it welfare enhancing? The seller of these weapons clearly profits from the trade. What about the buyer? Does it really promote the security of the buyer? These questions bear investigation. While the answers may all be very trivially obvious for some, it is not at all clear to me. Though the perception may be widely shared that buying weapons is good use of scarce resources, it could also be wildly incorrect.
The reluctance of the US when it comes to selling arms to developing countries is like Sam’s reluctance to let his gullible friends paint the fence for him. When he finally relents, the friends are happy and suitably grateful to him for his magnanimity. Only in few trades are all the gains one-sided but trade such as these are exemplars of that set.
From the “Care and Feeding of the Permanent Arms Industry“:
The care and feeding of the monstrous permanent arms industry requires perpetual armed conflict. Like sheep to the slaughter, the third world countries eagerly line up for the treat of killing their neighbors while impoverishing themselves even further. A dispassionate observer could easily conclude that these poor over-populated third-rate countries deserve their demolition and wash his hands of the whole sorry mess.
And from “Part 2 of the Care and Feeding“:
Before I am taken to task by someone for stating the above, let me hasten to add that there is no law in the universe which prohibits a country from profiting from the stupidity of other countries. That India and Pakistan are abjectly poor overpopulated underdeveloped nations constantly at each others’ throat willing to further impoverish themselves by buying impossibly expensive weapons from abroad is not the US’s fault. The US merely supplies the arms, it does not directly go and starve millions of people of third world countries. The actual starving of untold millions of abjectly poor people in third rate world countries is because of the warmongering ignorant policy makers that populate these countries.
To round it all off, here are my views on the True Weapons of Mass Destruction:
The rich sell arms to the poor and the poor pay for it through the blood, sweat, and tears of its starving millions. To be sure, it is not the starving millions who are interested in fighting the poor of the neighboring countries. These millions of poor unfortunates are merely the slave labor that supply through their toil goods that the rich buy in exchange for the arms they ship to the armies of the poor nations.
It is interesting to ask who exactly wants war. Speaking personally, I am against aggression and don’t wish to be the victim nor the perpetrator of aggression. I also believe that the vast majority of people would happily live and let live. So how does it happen that nations arm themselves to the teeth and more often than not beggar their neighbors and themselves in doing so.
I believe it is so because nations are not monolithic entities. People have different stations in a country. The generals who wage wars and the politicians who direct the ship of state do not have to pay for the wars themselves. The poor have to die on the battle fields and those who are not paid to die, starve on the streets so that their meagre production can be shipped out to pay for the weapons of mass destruction that the leaders of the nation buy for their own amusement.
It is all karma, neh?


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CHICAGO -- No gray area existed around Player Page for David Robertson's pointed postgame comments Sunday, after Justin Upton tagged the White Sox closer for a three-run, walk-off home run and a 7-4 loss at Comerica Park.
"We didn't have a great showing here in Detroit," Robertson said. "It [stinks] to lose that one. It [stinks] to give up a walk-off. We pretty much played like [garbage] the last three days and it showed. We lost three games."
After losing three out of four games in Chicago last weekend, Detroit played like a team on a mission in extending the White Sox losing streak to five consecutive games. Chicago, by manager Rick Renteria's estimation, looked a little bit tired on Sunday in what was one of its least-clean games of the campaign.
Avisail Garcia banged out three more hits, three doubles in the eighth erased a 4-2 deficit and tied the game, and White Sox hitters drove up Justin Verlander's pitch count to 66 after two innings. On the flip side, the White Sox loaded the bases in each of the first two innings and scored only one run, stranding 11 during the game.
Yolmer Sanchez committed a fielding error during a three-run Detroit sixth, and briefly bobbled a Jose Cabrera double-play grounder with nobody out in the ninth, allowing Nicholas Castellanos to get to second two batters before Upton connected. Sanchez also was picked off of first with runners on first and third and one out in the fifth, while Jose Abreu and reliever Chris Beck missed connections on a pickoff throw to first in the sixth, allowing Upton to race to third.
Adam Engel was unable to get down a safety squeeze with the game tied, runners on first and third and one out in the eighth, and eventually struck out.
"In general, I thought we were just a little tired, a little lethargic," Renteria said. "Some of our actions were a little slow today.
"They're not trying to make mistakes, they're not trying to boot balls, they're not trying to get picked off. They're not trying to do all those things. They're not trying to miss executing on bunts. But it's something that we have to really learn from, because clubs that want to have success have to play clean baseball."
Sunday's setback dropped the White Sox to a season-low seven games under .500 at 24-31, but it's a record seemingly explained away by the organization's rebuild. It's great if the team succeeds, as it had to some level for much of the season's first two months, but that sort of rebuild logic doesn't work for Robertson.
"I don't play this game to lose. I go out there to win," Robertson said. "I'm supposed to get the job done, and I didn't get it done today."
Games such as Sunday, or this weekend as a whole, ultimately can become learning experiences for the young core of this team as it moves toward sustained success.
"Definitely something to learn from," White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson said. "It could be the start of something good, so we have to keep playing and don't quit."
"Every mistake we make we can learn from," Renteria said. "And it will serve you better next time around."


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Ohio tax incentives to help create 116 jobs in region
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Ohio tax incentives approved Monday will help create 116 jobs in the Dayton region.
The state gave the OK for deals to help 11 total projects set to create 410 jobs and retain 874 jobs statewide. Together the projects are expected to result in more than $20 million in new payroll, and spur approximately $51 million in investment across Ohio.
The projects in the Miami Valley include:
• Industrial Door Company Inc. dba Industrial Spring Company, City of Piqua (Miami Co.) expects to create 26 full-time positions, generating $890,000 in new annual payroll as a result of the company’s new location project in the City of Piqua (Miami Co.). Industrial Door Company, Inc. manufactures, installs and services garage doors. The TCA approved a 45 percent, five-year Job Creation Tax Credit for this project.
• Robert Rothschild Farm Holding Company, LLC dba Robert Rothschild Farm, City of Urbana (Champaign Co.) expects to create 25 full-time positions, generating $1.25 million in additional annual payroll and retaining $3.2 million in existing payroll as a result of the company’s expansion project in the City of Urbana (Champaign Co.). Robert Rothschild Farm is a gourmet foods manufacturer that produces gourmet dips, sauces, mustards, condiments, dessert toppings and snack foods. The TCA approved a 40 percent, five-year Job Creation Tax Credit for this project.
• Air Transport International Inc., City of Wilmington (Clinton Co.) expects to create 65 full-time positions, generating $5.1 million in new annual payroll as a result of the company’s new location project in the City of Wilmington (Clinton Co.). Air Transport International flies passenger and cargo aircraft. The TCA approved a 50 percent, seven-year Job Creation Tax Credit for this project.
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Value Added Features
A recent study conducted by the National Center for Real Estate Research evaluated the features of a home based on what each contributes to the selling price.
According to the study, the feature that can most dramatically increase the value of a home is an additional full bathroom, upping the selling price by a remarkable 24 percent. Installing an extra half-bath can add 15 percent to the selling price. A garage, a fireplace and a central air conditioning unit each add a little more than 12 percent to the home's market value. A laundry room located on the main floor of the home increases its value by 15 percent, while a basement laundry room can potentially reduce the home's overall value. Homes with raised or vaulted ceilings sell for 6.2 percent more than identical homes with standard ceilings. Each extra bedroom increases the price by 4.1 percent. A family room adds 7.3 percent, and a dining room is worth 6.2 percent. A view of the water adds 7.8 percent, but a golf course view is better at 8.1 percent. A home built on the waterfront is worth 18 percent more than the same home in a landlocked location.
Every real estate market is different, so consult your real estate agent regarding the resale value of your home's special features.
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Additionally, you can produce the exterior of the door a mirror. You are able to use any dimension you desire. A chicken wire basket is fantastic for kitchens, but could also be utilized in kids rooms or even as a decorative wastebasket in your workplace. If you’d like to create your own wire baskets, here’s what you will need. It can make a nice decorative cover for your shelf. It is great for creating a decorative selves in your kitchen.
Chicken wire creates a fantastic DIY lampshade! It can make a lot of great decorative pieces for your home and garden. It can be used for a lot of creative and useful crafts. You need to have a form of U-shaped wire fencing form now. You’re able to make this DIY version a good deal cheaper and this is a really straightforward project. Watch this images to learn more.
Again, make sure the measurement ends up along a good wire. It’s slim so it’s great for sitting at the conclusion of your cabinet or you might place it in the pantry or wherever you’ve got a little extra space. You might even paint the front with chalkboard paint so that it is possible to alter the name of the produce that’s inside as you should.