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Aleksandar Mitrovic thai sbo continued his excellent form with a match-winning brace against Preston at Deepdale last night.
The on-loan Newcastle striker helped his side make it four wins on the bounce. Fulham are now up to third in the Championship table.
Mitrovic joined the Londoners on loan in January and he has been an inspired signing so far. The 23-year-old has managed to score 7 goals in 8 appearances for Jokanovic’s side so far.
The away side had a couple of good chances to go ahead in the first half but Mitrovic failed to find the net. The Serbian made up for his first-half miss with a goal in the 69th minute.
The 23-year-old fired in from Cyrus Christie’s cross from 12 yards out. Maguire got thai sbo the home side back on level terms in the 76th minute but Mitrovic’s injury-time winner sealed a fantastic away win for Fulham after Cairney’s cross found the Serbian at the back post.
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The embryology lab consists of several rooms which are spatially and functionally connected:
Anteroom, embryologists change before entering the lab. It is equipped with a powerful ventilation system for air purification.
Main room, where IVF and embryo culture take place. It is subdivided into three sectors, each of them equipped with a laminar flow hood, stereo microscope, inverted microscope and micromanipulator for ICSI. The main room holds five large, nine small and two benchtop incubators. Incubators are functionally allocated by tasks – for media equilibration, for warming up of consumables, for keeping eggs after retrieval, and for culturing embryos. The lab has two embryoscopes too. These are integrated incubators with in-built systems for monitoring, analysis and storage of information for the course of development of each embryo.
A room designated for work with liquid nitrogen and freeze/thaw procedures. It is equipped with an incubator, a dewar shipper for transferring frozen specimens to the cryobank, as well as a central liquid nitrogen supply system.
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Get this from a library. National Health Service: the reorganisation of the health service in Wales. [Great Britain. Welsh Office.]. Peter Crome, in Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (Seventh Edition), United Kingdom.
The National Health Service came into being in July based on the principles of universality and provision on the basis of need rather than the ability to pay. Devolution of political power to the Nation’s of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales. Get this from a library. National Health Service reorganisation in Wales: presented to Parliament by the National Health Service reorganisation in Wales book of State for Wales.
[Great Britain. Welsh Office.]. NHS Wales (Welsh: GIG Cymru) is the publicly funded healthcare system in Wales, and one of the four systems which make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.
NHS Wales was originally formed as part of the public health system for England and Wales created by the National Health Service Act with powers over the NHS in Wales coming under the Headquarters: Cathays Park, Cardiff, Wales. ) c. Section 10(1) was amended by sections 57 and 58 of, and Schedule 5 to, the National Health Service Reorganisation Act (c.
32) and section 4(2) of the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (c. 7) (“the Act”). Section 12(2) was amended by section 10(1) of the Act. For most of the life of the health service, reorganisation has been high on the political agenda.
There could be no better reminder of the salience of this issue than the production of the three national White Papers, on NHS reorganisation in England, Scotland, and Wales, by the Labour government, only a few months after its return to office.
Public Health moved into Local Authorities. Establishment of Clinical Commissioning Groups and the NHS Commissioning Board. Health and Social Care Act NHS Mandate. Publication of the Health and National Health Service reorganisation in Wales book Care Bill. Reorganisation of PCTs into clusters and Strategic Health Authorities grouped into sub-national organisations.
The word. The government published the white paper National Health Service reorganisation: England. It proposed widespread changes to the way in which health services were organised in England.
Central themes included the unification of the administration of health services under regional health authorities, the introduction of a planning system, consensus management and co. The National Health Service Reorganisation Act * (repealed by HA Act ) The National Health Service (Wales) Act The National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act Delegation of service delivery to local governments is critical for improving accountability and responsiveness of health services.
Health workers. The National Health Service Reorganisation Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The purpose of the Act was to reorganise the National Health Service.
The Act also established the posts of Health Service Commissioner for England and Wales. Separate legislation was passed establishing the post in Scotland. Secondly, I remain determined to pursue a health service led by preventative, primary and community services. Accordingly, a Ministerially appointed vice chair, in each body, will be made responsible for primary, community and mental health services in a practical demonstration of the importance which, as an Assembly Government, we attach to the future.
National Health Service. Due consideration is given. those aspects of history that largely determined the origins of the hospital buildings inherited by the NHS in The book describes many of the various factors that have influenced the formation of the hospital estate in Wales.
the present day. is not intended. toFile Size: 6MB. If we didn’t have the National Assembly we would be faced with the same disastrous prospect in Wales. Currently, about 80 per cent of the £ billion annual NHS budget in England is given to local health managers working for primary care.
The National Health Service, abbreviated to NHS, was launched by the then Minister of Health in Attlee’s post-war government, Aneurin Bevan, at the Park Hospital in Manchester.
The motivation to provide a good, strong and reliable healthcare to all was finally taking its first tentative steps. The National Health Service Reorganisation Act reached the statute book in July and the new structures came into effect on 1 April 11 Barbara Castle, Secretary of State for Health and Social Services in the new Labour government.
The NHS Reorganisation Act received royal assent in July The NHS Reorganisation Act replaced the tripartite NHS structure consisting of primary care, secondary care and community care services (established by the National Health Service Act ) with. Read more. The National Health Service Reorganisation Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The purpose of the Act was to reorganise the National Health Service. The Act also established the posts of Health Service Commissioner for England and Wales.
Separate legislation was passed establishing the post in Scotland. National Health Service has been promised for early this year, I would like to publish it as soon as possible after the publication of the White Paper on the reorganisation of local government, to the contents of which it will be closely related.
The lines. Summary. This article surveys historical writing on the British National Health Service since its inception in Its main focus is on policy-making and organisation and its principal concerns are primary care and the hospital sector, although public health, and psychiatric and geriatric care are briefly by: Abstract.
The object of the National Health Service Act is to maintain the establishment in England and Wales of a comprehensive health service available to all in need of hospital, specialist or general practitioner or dental or optical services, or of those public health services such as maternity and child welfare clinics, midwifery, health visitors or home nursing formerly Author: John Finch.
1 The estate assets of the National Health Service in Wales (NHS Wales) exist to support the provision of health care services in Wales. The hospitals, health centres and clinics of the NHS Wales are used by nea people a week, provide s beds for patients and are the working environment for directly employed staff.
A district health authority was an administrative unit of the National Health Service in England and Wales from to Both the configuration and the responsibilities were altered several times during that period. Area Health Authorities, which existed from towere an intermediate tier created by the reorganisation.
Reorganisation of national health service. General powers and duties of Secretary of State to provide services. Medical and dental service for pupils. PART III The health service commissioners for England and for Wales.
Appointment and tenure of office. Salaries and pensions. Administrative provisions. P Call for an Independent judicial Inquiry into the reorganisation of services within Cwm Taf Health Board. This petition was submitted by Mark Adams and Robert Bevan having collected a total of signatures. Text of Petition.
This petition calls on the Welsh Government to undertake a fully independent judicial inquiry into the management and implementation of the. Home; This edition;, English, Book, Government publication edition: National Health Service Reorganisation ActNational Health Service Act and Health Services Act Accounts Summarised accounts of health authorities and special authorities in England and Wales, and boards of governors, summaries of trust funds held by health.
Public Health Wales is an NHS body whose purpose is to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. We improve. Changes over time for: Section Alternative versions: 01/03/ Amendment; Changes to legislation.
Reorganisation of the NHS. Healthcare services in Wales may be able to learn from the native people of Alaska, a new report has claimed.1 The Nuka.
e-Petition: Call for an Independent judicial Inquiry into the reorganisation of services within Cwm Taf Health Board This petition calls on the Welsh Government to undertake a fully independent judicial inquiry into the management and implementation of the NHS South Wales programme at Cwm Taf Health Board and its impact on the services provided.
Aneurin Bevan publishes his National Health Service Act. The Act sets out a duty for the Minister of Health to: “promote the establishment in England and Wales of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people of England and Wales and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and for that purpose to provide.
Abstract. The tripartite structure of the British National Health Service arose out of conflict and schism via disagreements not only between the profession and the State, but also between the three main branches of the profession — the specialists, the generalists and public health practitioners.
1,2,3 Power and prestige were and still are differentially distributed between Author: D. Gill. WHITLEY COUNCILS FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES (GREAT BRITAIN) GENERAL COUNCIL National Health Service Reorganisation Act Where these rights The Secretary of State for Health, The Secretary of State for Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland have approved the General.
The National Health Service Act came into effect on 5 July The Act provided for the establishment of a comprehensive health service for England and Wales. There was separate legislation produced for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The first Minister of Health was Aneurin Bevan MP.
The Act stated that it shall be the duty of the Minister of. Adult Mental Health Services. The NHS and Social Services are the key government organisations delivering local mental health services. All the recent Welsh Assembly Government’s policies and strategies for both mental health and carers, including the Mental Health Strategy, the National Service Framework, and the Carers’ strategy, emphasise the.
passage of the Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill through Parliament S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES The Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) Regulations Made - - - - *** Laid before Parliament *** Coming into force - - *** CONTENTS 1.
PDF | OnDavid Hughes and others published The Reorganisation of the National Health Service: The Rhetoric and Reality of the Internal Market |. For example, the chairman of the BMA Council in accused Bevan of trying to establish a “whole-time State Medical Service,” and he confirmed that the BMA was unrepentant over its advocacy of a health service based on the old National Health Insurance system.
6 Bevan took the BMA at its word, and the government’s plan for unifying the Author: Charles Webster. A district health authority was a division of the National Health Service in England and was introduced by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act It was created in and disestablished in There were when they were established in.
South Wales NHS reorganisation: Row erupts over consultant hours. The South Wales Programme was established in January to oversee restructuring plans for five Health Boards across the : Graham Henry.
The National Health Service Reorganisation Act reached the statute book in July ‘Shadow authorities’ were established to prepare for implementation and begin to make appointments, taking over from a series of local Joint Liaison Committees. 77 The new structures came into effect on 1 April Author: Philip Begley, Sally Sheard.
The Grey Book says that. The foolish reorganisation of local government last year has made it impossible to create an efficient health service. I do not believe that the placing of the control of the new health service in Wales within the Welsh Office will result in getting the innovatory impetus that is necessary to make sure not only that.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a department of Her Majesty's Government, responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England, along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland oversees the English National Health Headquarters: 39 Victoria Street, London, England.
National Health Service Ambulance Services provide free at the point of use emergency medical care to any person requiring treatment, regardless of immigration or visitor status, within the United services are provided by National Health Services of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern current system comprises 14 NHS organisations: 11 NHS .


The tragedy of the Soviet submarine which was silenced for almost a quarter of a century
Since the end of WWII, Russia hasn’t been involved in any serious conflicts at sea. However, there have been at least two dozen tragic incidents in peacetime.
The Cold War accidents were often hidden from the press. Most of these incidents were classified, and relatives received little or no information.
On October 21, 1981, in the Sea of Japan, the submarine under the command of Valery Marango was hit by a cargo ship. The crew fought for their lives as their burning sub began to sink. After three days, the sailors were rescued, but their story was ‘erased’, and the commander was jailed for ten years. The tragic event claimed the lives of 32 sailors and was swept under the rug. The XO of the boat Sergey Kubynin has been fighting for almost 40 years for justice and to restore the reputation of his crew and commander.
Soviet submarine S-178, where 27-year-old Sergei served as an XO, was returning from exercises in Ussuri Bay. Near the coast, the boat surfaced, and the commander and eleven officers went to the bridge. The sub was due to reach the Pacific Fleet base in Vladivostok’s Golden Horn in a few minutes.
Known in the Soviet Union as a Project 613 type submarine, with the NATO codename Whiskey, the S-178 is a diesel-class, combat vessel built in the early Cold War period. Initially developed in the early 1940s, Germany’s U-boats heavily influenced the submarine’s design.
Along the shore, a refrigerator ship, REF-13 was heading towards the submarine with its lights off. That day, the REF-13 crew was celebrating the birthday of their XO, Victor Kurdyukov, and everyone on board was probably drunk. The cargo vessel received a good to go by mistake, so it weighed anchor with a drunken crew on board. Kurdyukov decided to surreptitiously make his way through the Soviet Pacific Fleet’s training area. The cargo’s lights were switched off to hide from the Coast Guard.
The submarine must have been visible to the REF-13’s sonar, but Kurdyukov stayed on course, apparently thinking it was a small ship that would clear out of the way.
The weather that evening was calm and clear, and the submarine crew was in a joyful and lively mood. They smoked, joked and were sharing plans for leave. As dinner on the sub was over, Kubynin was finishing checking the course to the base. A few minutes later the sonarman reported a vessel approaching the submarine at high speed. Stunned, those standing on the bridge deck turned around and saw the looming nose of the refrigerator ship.
The commander immediately ordered right full rudder, but it was too late. At top speed, the refrigerator ship hit the sub’s engine compartment and almost tore the boat in two. The commander Marango with the officers were tossed overboard from the bridge deck. Out of the twelve on deck, seven, including the commander, were saved by the cargo ship’s crew. With an eight square metre hole in its side, the boat sank in just 20 seconds in 32 metres of water. Sailors in the 5th and 6th compartments died in the first minutes after the hit.
As parts of the submarine sand, the crew sent out radio beacons to send distress signals. Onshore, a rescue team responded to the accident. At the moment of impact, XO Kubynin was in the sub’s 2nd compartment, which was set on fire. Fearing they would run out of oxygen, the submariners tried to get to the bow compartment with other survivors, but the hatches were jammed. A sailor from the other side of the door was shouting he wouldn’t let anyone in. Opening the door could put the chance to flee the vessel through torpedo silos at risk. After two hours, the rescuers managed to communicate with the crew via the radio buoys. The sailors from the bow then let the survivors from the second compartment in.
Kubynin said when he entered the compartment, Vladimir Yakovlevich was lying on a bed, pale, white as a sheet, and only nodded in response to questions.
Four sailors were still stuck in the seventh compartment as the hatch through which they could get to others was jammed. Senior sailor Oleg Kirichenko and foreman Alexander Zykov were in communication for two hours until they said: “Goodbye. The water reaches our shoulders. “
All 34 survivors gathered in the nose compartment. XO Sergei Kubynin took command of the boat. The crew “handed over” the emergency buoy and began to report the situation to the rescuers via radiotelephone.
The rescue operation was led by Chief of Staff, First Deputy Commander of the Pacific Fleet Rudolf Golosov. He decided to save the submariners using the unique Lenok submarine. The rescue sub would be placed side by side with the S-178.
The damaged submarine’s crew would climb out of it through an empty torpedo tube. They would use emergency breathing equipment, and once they are out of the torpedo tube, they would be guided to the surface by rescuers from Lenok.
However, the involvement of Lenok sub was later found to be a fatal mistake. Its batteries had reached the end of their service life. Plus, its sonar didn’t function properly, and the search for the sunken sub lasted for more than a day.
The situation was compounded by a lack of experienced divers on Lenok.
In the meantime, the temperature in the compartments dropped to eight degrees. Kubynin had to boost morale and cheer up the sailors who were frozen to the bone.
There was also a box of badges on board, which read “First Class Specialist”, “Master of Military Affairs”, or “Excellent Worker of the Navy”. Kubynin awarded these titles to the submariners. Some of them he hailed for perfecting their skills and promoted others to a higher rank. The sailors became noticeably more cheerful.
On the third day, the rescue divers found S-178. They deposited breathing apparatus for the crew in one of the torpedo tubes and gave final instructions for the rescue. The divers gave the submariners a signal to exit by hitting the hull with a hammer.
XO Kubynin ordered the men to put on the apparatus and start flooding the compartment. The sailors began to crawl out through the narrow torpedo tube. The last to leave the boat was Sergey Kubynin. Losing consciousness from lack of oxygen, he ducked out of the tube and left the sunken sub.
But rescue divers were not waiting for him outside. They couldn’t believe anyone could flood the compartment and escape. Miraculously, they returned and found Sergey unconscious floating on the surface. He woke up in the hospital, where he spent several months with the bends, an embolism, oxygen poisoning, and pneumonia.
Relatives were summoned for identification under great secrecy and forced to sign a secrecy agreement. There was not a word in the Soviet press about the accident in the Golden Horn. The silence lasted for almost a quarter of a century. Several veteran organisations filed appeals to award Sergei Kubynin the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of the USSR. But things didn’t go well: the departments chose not to stir up the past.
Sergei Kubynin filed an appeal with the Supreme Court to reopen Marango’s case and prove his innocence, but the military prosecutor advised him to keep quiet.
Despite the Soviet press’ silence, a monument to the S-178 submarine crew was erected in the Vladivostok Sea Cemetery at the mass grave on the first anniversary of the tragedy in 1982. The names of the 32 dead submariners are engraved on the granite tablets at the foot of the monument. Sixteen submariners were buried in the mass grave. Ten sailors were buried at their place of residence, the bodies of six were not found.
For almost 40 years the former crewmates have been trying to restore the good name of the commander. Kubynin even spoke with President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Vladivostok in 2016. The commander, Valery Marango, died in 2001 after being released from prison.
Recently a memorial deck for Marango was opened in Moscow in a private museum of a Russian prominent marine explorer Fyodor Konyukhov. But authorities still refuse to reconsider the sentence for the commander officially. Speaking to a Russian newspaper, a former Soviet Fleet officer said he sees no need in changing the verdict and blames Kubynin for failing to prevent the tragedy.


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This way, you can prevent material wastage and ensure optimum stock utilization.Sales amp Marketing Management SystemTypical sales processes like inquiry handling amp analysis can be performed easily with the sales force automation software module of manufacturing ERP. All types of sales transactions can be managed with this module. It also helps with lead generation and nurturing through email campaigns and SMS to ensure the continuous flow of revenue.Purchase Management SolutionThrough the purchase management software module of manufacturing ERP, you can manage the procurement of raw materials. It also provides functionalities for supplier vendor listing and preparing purchase orders. Using this module, you can also track purchase items and update the stock whenever it reaches the minimum level. The purchase module can be integrated with the inventory module to ensure complete stock management.Manufacturing Finance SolutionThe financialnbspmanagement software module of manufacturing ERPnbsphelps you stay right in terms of all transactions. From expenditure to the balance sheet, budgeting, and bank statements, all can be taken care of with this module. Financial reporting is further made easy, as all insights can be readily available with just a few clicks.Manufacturing CRM SolutionThe CRM solution module further helps in enhancing sales performance. You can maintain customer contact details and establish a healthy relationship with customers using this module. This module can be further integrated with the sales module to tap on new sales opportunities.ERP Production PlanningThe manufacturing planning and production management system management module is widely adopted by manufacturing firms to perform material scheduling and raw material usage efficiently. This module also helps with production forecasting and reporting. It integrates with the Bill of Material feature to ensure that the raw material used is as per the requirement. Moreover, you can have a 360-degree view of the production process to ensure that quality standards are met unfailingly.Manufacturing Supply Chain Management SystemUsing the supply chain management software module, you can manage the flow of raw materials, parts, and components from the manufacturer to the consumer effortlessly. You can perform demand amp supply management efficiently with accurate shipping and transportation tracking. Not to forget sales returns, which can be managed through a centralized platform using this software.Types of Manufacturing Software (Industry Specific ERP Software For Dirffrenet Manufacturing IndustrieGarment manufacturing softwareThis Garment manufacturing industry is one of the most popular sectors for using apparel ERP for manufacturing and produce quality products with the help of production planning software features.Food manufacturing softwareFood ERP software helps food manufacturers and food distributors to improve food safety, streamline operations, high-quality productions and manage business growth.Pharma manufacturing softwarePharmaceutical ERP helps to provide resource planning, process,nbspnbspmanufacturing functionalities such, batch tracking, production scheduling, expiration management, quality control, compliance tracking, and production scheduling.Furniture Manufacturing SoftwareFurniture ERP improves production planning, quality control, lead times, and control costs, inventory control, supply chain management and increases production. here are the most popular furniture ERP software solution providers.DeskeraCyRoc ERPGlobal Shop Solutions ERP SoftwareSanderson Unity ERPMRPEasyInfor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine)Epicor E10 ERPWinManSanderson Unity ERPSapphireOneAppriseTRIMIT FurnitureElectronics Manufacturing SoftwareERP for the electronics manufacturing industry and Acgil is the best solution for this it will help effective quality management, excellent recall, and traceability, Outstanding compliance support for industry and regulatory standards, Lot or serial number tracking of the stored stock, advance planning of production.Steel Manufacturing ERPSteel manufacturing software is now adopting advanced strategies, such as just-in-time and other quality improvement programs to compete globally. Steel ERP systems are designed to address their strategic challenges and achieve quality products at every stage.Metal Fabrication ERPnbspSoftwareERP software for metal fabrication manufacturers helps to improve production with low cost and without wastage of raw metals.nbspnbspThis is focused on low-volume and high-quality production.ERP chemical softwareERP for the chemical industry is to improve quality control management, analysis of prices, revenues, liabilities, price estimates, RampD of a replacement product, plant maintenance and work progress management.Follow Steps Before Buying manufacturing ERP systemsThese days, manufacturing firms have plenty of solutions to choose from. However, they need to choose, compare and select the one which provides unique advantages. After considering these factors, you will surely get a process manufacturing ERP software which is perfect for your business needs.Your Business NeednbspStart by making a list of your requirements, depending upon the necessity of your different departments. Then, make a list of manufacturing ERP systems that will fulfill all your requirements. Based on the manufacturing ERP modules and features, make the final selection for the bestnbspERP for the manufacturing industry.Cost of OwnershipnbspThe choice of the best ERP for small manufacturing businesses depends on the size of your team and the processes that demand automation. Accordingly, you can search for the best ERP for manufacturing with all essential features. And the one which fits into your budget and provides all essential features is a good option. Plus, check for the total cost of ownership for the ERP software for the manufacturing industry you get. If you need to pay the annual maintenance cost, or do you need to pay additionally as the number of users increases. Be clear about all hidden software costs before making the final selection.IntegrationnbspNowadays, production managers use a variety of solutions to organize their manufacturing activities, such as attendance tracking system, accounting solutions, business intelligence, and reporting tools. To ensure smooth workflow, you need to invest in a manufacturing software small business, which integrates freely with all other existing tools and systems in your organization.SupportnbspLook for those manufacturing ERP systems vendors who can help you use the software features wisely. Whether you are facing difficulty in creating invoices or tracking everyday processes, a quick call with your software vendor can help you get quick solutions. Along with quick implementation, most manufacturing ERP systems vendors also provide training modules to help your employees pick up easily.Ask for Free and Open Source Manufacturing ERP for TrialSome manufacturing ERP software providers in the market offered a free trial version of the ERP system for a limited time so the users satisfied before buying and upgrade to a premium version.nbspManufacturing ERP Free DemonbspTrial sessions of the manufacturing ERP software can make everything easier for you. You can learn about the functions of the software and finalize the most suitable one. Look for those vendors who allow you to use the software on your own and analyze the simplicity of features and ease of use. Learning about manufacturing process software from a vendor is not enough until you get to try it on your own. At the time of the demo, you can also have a clear picture of the amount of customization required.


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The Netherlands can be seen as one of the most important gateways to Europe. It has approximately 17.5 million inhabitants and a relative small surface which makes it one of the densely populated countries worldwide. Despite it’s modest size, the country houses the largest port in the world as well as one of the busiest airports in Europe. A large part of the population lives under sea-level.
The Hague plays a prominent and important role in the international legal domain given its four international tribunals and Europol. The Netherlands has a temperate climate with mild winters and cool summers. The Netherlands is a prosperous country with an open economy that is mostly driven on export. For example, the country is, in absolute terms, the third largest exporter of agricultural and horticultural products.
New Zealand consists of two major islands. It is one of the most bio diverse countries in the world. By it’s isolated location it was not until 1250 AD that the first people landed on New Zealand. New Zealand has a moderate climate while big differences exist between regions. Famous for its stunning landscapes the country attracts tourists from all around the globe.
Well-known cities are Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington. Also New Zealand ranks high on quality of life, public health, education and economic rights and liberties. Its economy is well developed. The OECD ranked New Zealand’s educational system as the best worldwide.
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It is also where the federal government has its seat since the creation of the federal state. Switzerland has a history of neutrality: in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna the perpetual neutrality of the country was recognized by the European powers. It is not a member of the European Union, but economically it depends heavily on the EU.
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The United Kingdom is a monarchy consisting of England, Wales, Scotland and North-Ireland. The UK has 64.1 million inhabitants of which 9.8 Million live in the capital: London. Its economy is the 6th largest in the world. EU-citizens can freely travel to and work in the UK since it is part of the EU. The local language is English. The UK is home to many interesting cities, museums, restaurants, theaters and other getaways.
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France is a country in Western Europe and the second largest country in Europe. The country has an area of 674843 km2 including all overseas territories with a total of 66 million inhabitants. Contemporary it’s a decentralized unitary state and a democratic semi-presidential republic. The country is among the 20 most developed countries in the world.
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- Dr G.N. SinghDrug Controller General of India
Ban the sale of newly animal tested cosmetic products and ingredients in India
The Beauty Industry’s Ugly Secret
Animal testing is the ugly secret that the beauty industry would prefer consumers didn’t know about
Have you ever got shampoo in your eyes? Stings, doesn’t it. Or applied perfume to broken skin? Or even accidentally breathed in hairspray? Your skin hurts, your throat burns. Imagine you’re a rabbit, guinea pig or rat in a cosmetics testing laboratory and these aren’t relatively mild finished products, but raw chemicals. If you’re a rabbit having these chemicals dripped in your eye, you have no tear ducts, so you can’t cry out the liquid. If you’re a guinea pig having chemicals spread on your skin, your protective fur has been shaved off and your bare, delicate skin cut so that the chemicals penetrate deeper. If you’re a rat squeezed into a thin tube barely wider than your body, you can feel your eyes smart and your throat burn as the chemical vapours are pumped into the tube, forcing you to breathe them in. Soon you will find it hard to breathe at all.
But Humane Society International’s global Be Cruelty-Free campaign is leading a massive global effort to ban cosmetics animal testing wherever it takes place in the world. We want to turn the whole world cruelty-free — a world where no animal has to suffer for the sake of cosmetic.
HSI’s campaign in India was instrumental in mobilizing support from key Parliamentarians and Legislative Assembly Members to convince India’s Drug Controller to order the deletion of all animal tests from India’s cosmetics standard. Once complete, animal testing for cosmetic products and their ingredients will effectively be banned in India.
India Sales Ban Also Needed
Banning cosmetics animal testing in India is a necessary first step, but it doesn’t stop companies from outsourcing their animal testing to other countries and then importing their newly animal-tested products or ingredients back into India. That’s why India also needs a sales ban — to make it illegal for companies to import or sell cosmetics and ingredients that have been newly animal tested anywhere in the world.
A new amendment requiring registration for import of cosmetics to India will come into effect on April 1, 2013. India should seize the opportunity to ban animal tested products altogether.
Israel and 27 countries in the European Union have stopped animal testing and the sale of animal tested products for cosmetics. India should be next.
Sign the petition to immediately end cosmetics animal testing and ban the import of animal tested beauty products and ingredients in India.
- Drug Controller General of India
Dr G.N. Singh
I was delighted to learn from Humane Society International/India of your compassionate and progressive directive to keep in abeyance all animal tests from India’s Cosmetics Standard IS4011. I trust this marks the end of animal testing for cosmetic products and their ingredients in our country.
However, this is not the end. Because this action does not prevent companies from outsourcing animal testing to other countries and then importing their newly animal-tested products or ingredients back into India, it is also vital that India enact a sales ban — making it illegal for companies to import or sell cosmetics and ingredients that have been newly animal tested anywhere in the world.
I have learnt that, from April 1, 2013, a new amendment to Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 requiring Registration for Import of cosmetics to India will come into effect. With this in mind, I urge you, on whom the lives of untold thousands of animals and humans depend, to not allow India to be a dumping ground for those cosmetics — whether in the finished form or ingredients — which have been tested on animals. It is essential that countries that do inflict cruelty on animals for the sake of cosmetics not be allowed to profit from India.
Article 51-A (g) of the Constitution makes it my fundamental duty to be compassionate towards other living beings. If the Government of India allows import of cruel animal tested products into our country, it will not only be hurting India’s practice and principle of “Ahimsa” but also be preventing me from fulfilling my duty as an Indian.
For your information, a complete ban on sale and marketing of animal tested products will come into effect in European Union on March 11, 2013. You have a golden opportunity ahead of you: while you are putting an end to the suffering endured by the animals used for cosmetics testing in India, please also do your part to help end this shameful practice in other countries by banning the import and sale of newly animal tested cosmetic ingredients and finished products in India. I sincerely hope you do the right thing for animals — and India.
Humane Society International: India started this petition with a single signature, and won with 12,355 supporters. Start a petition to change something you care about.
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Mods...everybody makes 'em, some much more than others. Everybody likes to talk about 'em. We experimental aviators are a tinkering bunch. Each modification is a great idea in the mind of its inventor...and a terrible one according to someone else. Each increases aircraft weight, which is bad; each adds some design risk. Since I'm building the plane of my dreams here, it must suit ME...but I don't intend to spend the next few years squaring a circular wheel, so I'll mod what I feel I must, and try to leave well enough alone.
I can't recommend ANY of these mods, since I haven't proved them in flight. I think they'll work for me; what works for you is another kettle of fish.
That said, I'll note that there's almost no such thing as a "stock" Long-EZ. There are the changes and updates covered in Canard Pusher, which I'm not going to mention, and a number of other mods which over the years have become almost standard. Then, there are others that are just nice to have....
Mods I'm making:
Electric Speed Brake (note my high-tech 12-volt battery)
Wortmann Symmetrical Gear Leg Fairings
Front-Mounted Brake Cylinders -- basically per Deb Iwatate , but with a custom widget to allow E-Z rudder pedal adjustment.
Rear Canopy Arch instead of arrow stock. The backseater will love me for it.
Ram air cooling for the rear seat -- a NACA duct feeds a fisheye vent. Also intended to win points with the backseater.
Canard hole covers -- I want cooling air on demand, but not ALL the time. These keep the hole covered at any elevator position, and weigh and cost about nothing.
Heated pitot tube.
Deb Iwatate 's canopy latch. I modified the mod by skipping the access door. A key set into the fuselage side pulls on the canopy release and gets it open enough that motivated fingers do the rest. Locking is accomplished by lowering the canopy to 1/4" above the rails, then finishing with an AUTHORITATIVE push.
Landing light is a 75W narrow-beam track light, not the per-plans glass monstrosity.
Increased-span ailerons -- my ailerons extend outward 20" more than plans, necessitating a fourth hinge position. To prevent wing torsion from negating the benefit, a wing pin holds the wing leading edge in place against the strake. The wing pin complicates wing bolt installation considerably; it's probably not worth it.
O-320D2B (160 HP) Engine.
Flush rudder bellhorns
"Unkinked" strakes -- straight line along the leading edge; fuel and baggage slightly further forward, Cp doesn't move much. Done largely because it means I could use strakes direct from Aerocad, instead of doing it myself.
Downdraft cooling, with over-the-shoulder intakes and a smaller NACA on the bottom to feed the carb air intake and cool the mags.
Aileron end plates, inboard and outboard . Should prevent spanwise flow and keep control surface effectiveness at low speeds. Cribbed shamelessly from Klaus Savier , of course
Then there are things I just don't have the time for, and/or I bought a project where these steps had already been done.
Mods I am NOT making:
Roncz canard -- I inherited a built per-plans GU canard, and I plan to run with it. If it changes pitch trim in the rain, badly, then I'll have a future project once I'm flying, but not before.
Removing the lower winglets -- One significant aerodynamic mod should be enough. Besides, removing the winglets don't do anything detectable for speed, but might have adverse effects on stall/spin characteristics. I'll keep those lower winglets on!
Electric nose lift. They seem great, but I can live without 'em, and I have to stop modding and GET FLYING sometime. Perhaps I will retrofit this later.
Electronic ignition. As for the nose lift. I want 'em, and will probably retrofit them as my magnetos crap out.
Wider fuselage, panel, and canopy -- Everybody should probably do this, but it's too late for me.
Retractable main gear. Tempting, but no. Not at this time.
Longer nose -- I inherited a per-plans nose, though it had been built with enough "roundness" that it's not as downright ugly as most per-plans noses. I'm going to press on with it, as a per-plans nose can be made to work with an O-320 in the back; especially as I'll have a full IFR panel and front-mounted brake cylinders (read: forward ballast). Also I weigh 210 lbs or so, so I'm forward ballast in my own right.
Still, you guys with Ronnenberg noses are COOL. Sigh.


Budget makes Wisconsin a ‘laughing stock’
EDITOR: The joke is on us.
For years while we were in Tucson for the winter my wife and I laughed at the antics of the Arizona Legislature.
They reduced taxes on the rich and corporations, leading not to the Republican promised land of increased revenue but the inevitable state budget deficits.
They used the deficits to pass budgets that decreased state aid to public education at every level including a once-decent University of Arizona, which is now a shell of its former self. They also increased sending taxpayers’ money to religious schools under the guise of charter schools as they decreased money to public schools.
They appointed developers to head the Arizona DNR, gutted the scientific section of the DNR and decreased spending to protect land from development. And, yes, state parks are in terrible shape and you have to pay a lot more to use them.
They inserted clearly unconstitutional regulations to limit women’s access to reproductive health care, imposed restrictions on the legal right to terminate a pregnancy and wasted taxpayer money defending these senseless restrictions in court. And they lost.
But now the joke is on us for our legislature and governor are doing the same things that made the Arizona Legislature a laughing stock.
I wish state Rep. John Spiros would address these issues in detail in his own words rather then send out boiler plate that his party provided him.
What happens to our state now because everything that was in this budget was not there to help Wisconsin citizens, but so Walker could appeal to the Evangelical reactionaries that make up the Iowa Republican primary voters?
Edward B. Blau,


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Right now, is your body in a relaxed or stress state? All of us suffer from negative stress on our body. You feel it. Michelle and I discuss how positive stress can get you relaxed to a healthier state.
Highlights (podcast times):
(0:40) Can positive stress keep you healthy.
(2:10) What are overwhelming negative stress.
(4:50) Body’s internal reaction to negative stress.
(6:55) Solutions for negative stress.
(19:10) How to tolerate more stress.
(12:55) Start with stretching.
(18:20) Positive stress for physical jobs.
(21:10) Why your negative stress state is your normal.
(22:55) How to get to a healthier, relaxed state.
(29:00) Building the habit (for adults and kids).
(35:55) Overall solutions.
(36:40) Your doctor’s attitude affects your healthier state.
(38:10) How exercise is a positive stress.
(39:55) Dr. Tony’s wrap.
Learning positive stress techniques (and habitually doing them) will help you go from a stressed to a healthier, relaxed state. Based on your personal daily stress, you may need to pick exercises, stretching, even music to neutralize the negative stress.
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Scientists have recently discovered that the California mantis shrimp can talk. Well, it’s not the same as human speech, but it is audible communication. Researchers studying sounds on the ocean floor had long suspected that burrow-dwelling creatures made noise, and they decided to spy on a group of shrimp by dropping recording devices into their habitat. What they heard was fascinating. The California mantis shrimp not only made noise, but each individual seemed to have its own unique voice. Part of the "News of the Day" series.


The latest addition to LG Electronics' range of optical storage devices has debuted at GITEX 2003, in Dubai. The internal LG Super-Multi drive is compatible with all three DVD formats, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/+RW and DVD RAM as well as all CD formats.
'One current concern is over the DVD format that will become standard in future and the LG Super-Multi removes this problem from the equation,' said Mr. P. C. Choi, President, LG Electronics Gulf FZE.
'Aside from the obvious advantage of reading every DVD format, the Super-Multi drive supports 'simultaneous read/write' through DVD-RAM where data is recorded and verified simultaneously.
'If there is a defect, the drive will write to another area on the disc, whereas with DVD+ and DVD- a defect on the disc makes the drive stop writing and the disc becomes unusable.'
The LG Super-Multi drive gives the additional benefit of recording up to seven times the amount of data accepted on a single CD-R, making it ideal for back-ups of large data files.
LG's Super-Multi drive is compatible with Windows 98SE, ME, 2K Professional, XP Home and XP Professional.


Election observer Rajendra Chandrekar held a meeting with returning officers of Fatehgarh Sahib, Bassi Pathana and Amloh on Thursday and Friday and asked to keep watch on activities of flying squads.
Sub-divisional magistrate (SDMs)-cum-returning officers of the constituencies Arvind Gupta, Navraj Singh Brar and Amandeep Singh were asked to make sure that every event including rallies and road shows were video recorded. He also asked them to enter their observation on shadow register to bring accuracy in cost calculation of candidates’ campaign.
Meanwhile in a meeting with flying squads, Chandrekar asked police officers to videograph every vehicle they check on nakas. In an another meeting, Chandrekar directed officials to convey to the candidates that the cost spent in setting up any booths on poll day will be included in their poll expenditure.


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London Fashion Week
Designer Kiki Kamanu is creativity defined. There is no dull moment with this busy bee of American and Nigerian parentage. Her almost frail build is a sharp contrast with her creativity which is evident in her designs. Educated both in …
The British Council and British Fashion Council will collaborate for a second time on the International Fashion Showcase during London Fashion Week February 2013.
27 embassies will display the work of over 110 international emerging designers. The public, together with international press and buyers, will have the opportunity to explore these innovative collections throughout the month of February.

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Pumpkin Spice Pudding Halloween Party Cupcakes: A moist fluffy cupcake with tons of Fall flavor. Adding pumpkin spice pudding to your cake mix not only offers a fluffy cupcake but also lends all the fall flavors without the expense of buying the spices. No Frosting! Scroll down to find out how to add sweet topping without making frosting and how easy it is to make the edible moon background.
- That’s right, I didn’t add any frosting to these Pumpkin Spice Pudding Cupcakes. Instead I dipped the tops of each cupcake into melted black candy melts. I know….I know…candy melts will never take the place of light and fluffy buttercream but in this case it really works. I needed something easy and smooth to get the look I wanted and candy melts seemed like the best way to go. Don’t get me wrong I am and will always be a buttercream girl. The candy melts still offer a nice sweet touch to the pumpkin spice cupcakes and adds a fun twist too. I love using candy melts for lots of different project. Check out how I use candy melts to decorate cookies→HOW TO DECORATE SUGAR COOKIE WITH CANDY MELTS.
How to melt Candy Melts
- Pour candy into microwave safe bowl.
- Heat on high 30 seconds, stir.
- Heat an additional 30 seconds, stir until all the candy is melted
- FOR BEST RESULTS (in this project), pour melted candy into a decorating squeeze bottle.
HOW TO MAKE A MOON FROM CANDY MELTS
This one simple step will take a normal Halloween Party Cupcake to THE BEST Halloween Cupcake
MORE HALLOWEEN PARTY CUPCAKES
HAPPY PUMPKIN HALLOWEEN CHOCOLATE CHIP CUPCAKES 2. TRICK OR TREAT HALLOWEEN PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES 3. HALLOWEEN ORANGE CREAM MINI CONE CUPCAKES 4. MONSTER PARTY HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE 5. SLIME FILLED COCONUT LIME HALLOWEEN CUPCAKES
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3½ teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 (3.4 ounce) pumpkin spice pudding mix
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup apple cider
- Optional: black and yellow candy melts, sprinkles, small lollipop sticks cupcake picks
For the Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Line 24 cupcake wells with cupcake liners and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl add the flour, baking powder, sugar and pudding mix.
- Whisk together.
- Add the oil, eggs and cider.
- Mix on medium 2 minutes or until well combined and creamy.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full.
- Bake 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool on wire rack.
For the Moons:
- Measure your pick to determine how big your moon should be. I used a biscuit cutter.
- Trace circles on a piece of parchment paper.
- Turn over and tape to a cookie sheet.
- Melt yellow candy melts. Either put the melted candy in a squeeze bottle in a zip top bag with the corner cut off.
- Trace around the line first and then fill in. ( to help cover the unevenness of the candy I added yellow sugar sprinkles.
- Put in freezer for 10 minutes.
- Once the moons are hard shake off any excess sugar sprinkles.
- Place back on the covered cookie sheet.
- Turn the moons over.
- Dip small lollipop sticks in more yellow melted candy and lay in the center on the back side of the moon.
- Put back in freezer for 10 minutes.
- Melt black candy melts.
- Dip cooled cupcakes in the melted candy and then directly into the colored sugar sprinkles.
- Immediately add the moon and then the cat pick.


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Casual and urban style men’s flip flops. These are flip flops ideal for going to the beach or the pool, always enjoying the comfort and lightness they offer. You’ll feel like you’re walking on the sand in these casual flip flops.
They have resistant textile strips and padding attached to the sole by another strip located in the area of the big toe. The arrangement of the straps makes the flip-flops more attached to the foot, allowing the athlete to walk comfortably and safely.
The sole is made of light and long-lasting foam, very comfortable. In addition, not weighing too much are flexible.
Easy to clean and quick drying.

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In the US: Wednesdays, 10pm, FX
In the UK: Mondays, 10pm, FX UK. Starts November 7th
A new horror show from the creators of Glee!
Yes, Glee. Psyched now? Of course, not.
But then, when Glee was announced as a charming new show from the creators of Nip/Tuck about a High School glee club, there was a similar reaction, so let’s just say “a new horror show from the creators of Nip/Tuck” and take it from there.
Anyway, American Horror Story is something of a misnomer in that it’s not just one horror story, it’s actually every single American horror story ever, more or less, particularly the ones from the movies: there’s The Amityville Horror, Psycho, The Shining, Don’t Look Now, Rosemary’s Baby and more, all rolled up into one big story in which Dylan McDermott (The Practice, Dark Blue) and Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) move into a spectacularly haunted house in LA with their teenage daughter and have to deal with everything from a two-faced maid, ghosts and a weird melted man who murdered his family to a gimp and a boy who might also be a demon.
And the theme of this big story? What do the creators of Nip/Tuck and Glee think is the ultimate ‘American Horror Story’? Family – and sex, apparently, and plenty of it.
Here’s a trailer:
American Horror Story revolves around the Harmons, a family of three who moved from Boston to Los Angeles as a means to reconcile past anguish. The all-star cast features Dylan McDermott as “Ben Harmon,” a psychiatrist; Connie Britton as “Vivien Harmon,” Ben’s wife; Taissa Farmiga as “Violet,” the Harmon’s teenage daughter; Jessica Lange in her first-ever regular series TV role as “Constance,” the Harmon’s neighbor; Evan Peters plays “Tate Langdon,” one of Ben’s patients; and Denis O’Hare as “Larry Harvey.” Guest stars for the series include Frances Conroy as the Harmon’s housekeeper; Alexandra Breckenridge as the Harmon’s housekeeper; and Jamie Brewer as Constance’s daughter.
The pilot episode of American Horror Story, shot in Los Angeles, was written by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, and it was directed by Murphy. In addition to Murphy and Falchuk, Dante Di Loreto will also serve as Executive Producer of the series. American Horror Story is produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television.
Is it any good?
The show doesn’t seem to have the confidence to know what it’s doing, so much is thrown at the screen. The show does have the occasional moment of fright, but these are mostly directorial choices, involving strobe lighting and things in the background caught out the corner of your eye. But it also has plenty of moments of inadvertent comedy, moments when there’s a knowing wink to the audience and moments that just don’t work. There’s no real coherence – everything just sort of leaps from scene to scene, each scene having a completely different tone and style to the previous one.
So Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton move from Boston to LA to put their old lives behind them. They move into a house where there’s been multiple murders and is full of disturbed art. Next door, Jessica Lange lives with her Down Syndrome daughter, who keeps telling people they’re going to be murdered. There’s a red-headed maid who looks like Frances Conroy to Britton but who looks like Alex Breckenridge in stockings to McDermott (at least she had a good reason for that red hair after all), forcing him to go off and wank naked while crying to get it out of his system. He does a lot of naked wank-crying – told you there was some inadvertent comedy.
Meanwhile, teenage daughter Taissa Farmiga (younger sister of Vera Farmiga from Up In The Air and Touching Evil) is having trouble with the mean girls at school and after hitting it off with one of dad’s patients, invites the ringleader down to the basement where she gets demon-attacked by the boy. Who might be a demon. Or something.
Is all of this making sense yet? Really? Because it shouldn’t. There’s no real interconnection at the moment, no real explanation for why any of this is happening. Largely, you’re supposed to be puzzling along, trying to work out how this mad jumble of horror jigsaw pieces fits together. But imagine a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and you’ve only got eight of the middle bits – how invested are you going to be in putting that puzzle together?
Unfortunately, it’s also such a confused mess that even if you find one thing frightening, the next moment you’ll be laughing at Alex Breckenridge pleasuring herself, thus naturally forcing McDermott to go off for a naked wank-cry, or wondering why Connie Britton is being raped by a gimp she thinks is her husband without complaining about the hygiene of putting on an old gimp costume that’s probably been up in the attic for years and is full of the gods know what.
Indeed, a lot of the horror is sexual in nature: the horror of a crumbling marriage, the horror of an affair that just won’t go away, the horror of sexual violence (against women – never men, of course), the horror of ‘wrong’ attraction and so on. And if you don’t find those things horrifying, you’ll be asked to find every single horror trope under the sun frightening instead, from the opening titles based on those of Se7en right down to the music of Psycho being played during a stabbing.
Of the two episodes so far, episode one was more interesting, episode two failing largely to advance the story much at all, beyond letting us know that weird things are afoot. Indeed, while episode one did at least grab the attention, episode two was mostly yawn-inducing, with just a few moments to really grab the attention.
If the producers and writers can settle down and focus, rather than go ADHD with their references, American Horror Story does have the potential to be a good show. The main cast, bar McDermott, are all good, as is the direction. The mystery presented is tantalising. But at the moment, though, it’s a show that’s trying too hard to be all possible frightening things to all possible people, but without the nerve not to wink at the audience and say “Bet you know where this is from, right?”. And as a result, it’s more silly than frightening.


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When Ronald Burbick retired 13 years ago from Schneller Inc., a maker of aircraft laminates in Kent, he envisioned a relaxing retirement spent primarily on the golf course. Instead, he ignited a wave of development in downtown Kent that had been just a pipedream of many. Jaded by a lack of action by the city and other developers to overhaul Kent's aging business district, which had come to be dominated by bars and tattoo parlors, Mr. Burbick invested a chunk — make that a large chunk, since it's about $18 million so far — of his own fortune into transforming the small downtown area that had seen little change for decades. Although he has worked in the Kent area for years, Mr. Burbick, 66, says he was a relative unknown in the city until he opened his checkbook to help overhaul the downtown. “I have the ability, working with my own money and not having to work with all the politicians to start it, and I can get it done a lot quicker,” said Mr. Burbick, who was vice president of sales and marketing and a part owner at Schneller. “I pulled the trigger and went, and now they're scrambling to catch up.” Mr. Burbick's investments resulted in two bustling retail and office developments in the heart of Kent's business district — dubbed Acorn Alley I and II. His investments were the first of what morphed into $100 million of new construction in downtown Kent. Kent State University, for one, is building a $15 million hotel and conference center. Fairmount Properties of Cleveland is leading the development of a $27 million mixed-use complex that will house corporate units of Davey Tree Expert Co. of Kent and Ametek Technical & Industrial Products Co. of Berwyn, Pa. Also, the Portage Area Regional Transit Authority is building a $26 million transportation hub thanks to $20 million in federal stimulus money. “It's a once-in-a-lifetime type of investment and opportunity to transform a city, and it was Ron's vision that kick-started it all,” said Dan Smith, Kent's economic development director. “It took someone like Ron Burbick to prime the pump.”
Longtime Kent businessman Ron Burbick primes the city's development pump
Last week, construction crews started interior renovations on Mr. Burbick's latest pet project and what he considers the “cherry” of his work — renovating the old Franklin Hotel at the intersection of East Main and South Depeyster streets near his other developments. Mr. Burbick bought the poorly maintained five-story building nestled at the front door of downtown Kent last year for $400,000 from the city. Now Mr. Burbick is planning nearly $6 million of renovations and construction on the more than 90-year-old structure. “It's been an eyesore as long as I can remember,” Mr. Burbick noted. “Even when it was operating, it was an eyesore.” Mr. Burbick last week announced the building's anchor tenant would be Buffalo Wild Wings, which will move from its small location on Franklin Avenue and will contribute about $1 million to renovate the space. The old hotel also will house other retailers, office space, transitional housing for veterans and two or three luxury apartments. Mr. Burbick said the project, which he's calling Acorn Corner, will be finished and fully occupied by year's end. Asked whether the hotel project would be his last, Mr. Burbick smiled and said there's one more he wouldn't mind tackling: the old post office building on South Water Street. The more than 100-year-old building now houses the Kent branch of the Portage County Municipal Courthouse; the county plans to build a new courthouse on East Main Street. “Every year I tell my wife, "This is my last project.' ... But whoever gets that has got to make sure it's done right,” Mr. Burbick said.
Beyond the nearby multimillion-dollar projects financed by the university and other developers, Mr. Burbick's investments have sparked smaller changes that already are paying dividends in the city. Mike Beder, a longtime Kent-area bar owner and co-owner of Tree City Coffee & Pastry, which recently opened in the second Acorn Alley development, called Mr. Burbick one of the reasons the “town's alive before 7 p.m. now.” Moreover, the city of Kent's Mr. Smith said both Dominic's and Ray's Place — two local pubs — installed new façades on their buildings. Also, other businesses have contacted the city about relocating to the downtown area, which Mr. Smith attributes largely to Mr. Burbick's work. “We're getting a lot of calls, and higher quality calls,” Mr. Smith added. But when Mr. Burbick broke ground on his first Acorn Alley development in late 2008, it wasn't an easy sell convincing businesses to open up shop downtown — a move that he contends now is paying off as some of the small shops scramble for more space. “It was tough getting the seats in the chairs, but you know, I worked some deals with them,” Mr. Burbick noted. “Now it's standing room only.” Sue Nelson, a business owner in Kent for more than 30 years, said the momentum stirred by Mr. Burbick's projects has brought an enormous amount of pedestrian traffic downtown, ultimately generating more business for her design studio. “Ron was definitely a savior for Kent,” Ms. Nelson said. “So many downtowns are really dying. For him to take the plunge and invest and think forward was wonderful.”

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WAEC Embraces CBT for SSCE Exams
By Bliss Okperan
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that it has discarded the use of the paper and pencil test model and has adopted the Computer-Based Test (CBT) for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).
In a statement obtained on Monday by Business Post, it was disclosed that this system will become effective from February 2024.
In the statement signed by the acting Head of the Public Affairs Unit at WAEC, Ms Moyosola Adesina, the examination body said it adopted this mode to meet up with the latest global system.
“In line with global best practices, the Nigeria National Office of the West African Examinations Council wishes to inform the general public, and all its stakeholders, that it has concluded plans to migrate its WASSCE for Private Candidates Examination Diets from Paper and Pencil Test to Computer Based Examination,” the statement partly read.
In August 2023, the organisation released this year’s WAEC results, with 79.81 per cent after over 1.6 million students sat for the exam.
It was disclosed that about 1,287,920 candidates obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, while the results of 262,803 candidates were withheld “due to reports of cases of examination malpractice.”


The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that federal abortion rights protections are no longer valid.
The conservative majority voted to uphold the Mississippi law at the heart of the case which seeks to ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a contradiction to the standard set by Roe, which allowed abortions until about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Six justices ruled in favor of Mississippi's 15-week ban, but it was the majority opinion of five judges that changed the course of the Supreme Court case.
The justices voted in the decision.
Roberts was in agreement with the majority in the case. The chief justice disagreed with the conservative majority's rebuke of Roe, opting for a more middle ground approach that would have allowed Mississippi to keep its statute without nixing federal abortion protections.
Roberts criticized the court's five other conservative justices for going too far in their decision.
The chief justice wrote that the court's decision to overrule the case was a serious blow to the legal system. The decision rejecting the misguided viability line would be less frightening.
The conservative majority opinion was written by Alito who was appointed to the court by Bush.
Alito's passionate rebuke of abortion was included in a leaked draft opinion.
Alito stated in the opinion that the right to abortion is not protected by the constitution.
He said that Roe was wrong from the beginning. The decision has had damaging consequences. The abortion issue has not been brought about a national settlement of it's issues.
Thomas, the longest-serving judge on the court and a conservative stalwart, voted with his fellow conservatives to overturn the abortion law.
He wrote a concurring opinion that separated himself from the majority and allowed him to come to the same conclusion as his other justices. In his opinion, Thomas called for the court to reexamine past decisions that protect contraceptive access, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriages.
Alito had assured the public that the court's revocation of abortion rights wouldn't endanger other civil rights.
Donald Trump's first Supreme Court appointment, Neil Gorsuch, joined his fellow conservatives to overturn the decision to allow abortion.
After a tense Senate approval process that centered around decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct against the justice, he voted to overturn the decision to allow abortion in the United States.
The decision after Friday's opinion was criticized by both Collins and Manchin, who said they were misled by the justices during private conversations.
Collins said that the decision was inconsistent with what the justices said in their testimony and their meetings with her.
The conservative majority in Friday's decision was rounded out by Trump's final appointment.
During her confirmation hearing, ConeyBarrett suggested that there were legitimate legal disagreements about abortion.
In a strongly-worded dissent, Breyer, who is set to retire this summer, sided with the court's liberal justices in rejecting the majority opinion in the abortion case.
No choice is being made withdrawing a woman's right to decide. They wrote that a majority of the court wrenched the choice from women and gave it to the states.
Millions of women have been given control of their bodies by the two men. They said that closing our eyes to the suffering would not make it go away.
The Obama appointees also dissented.
The liberals warned that other civil rights could be at risk.
They wrote that no one should be confident that the majority is finished. There is more than one right Roe andCasey.
The court's other liberals dissented, including the one who was confirmed to the court.


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Beautifulish // MEGA LAVERNE & SHIRLEY (巨拉夫恩和謝莉) // Three Hands Clapping
August 4, 2019 @ 8:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Frequency Series Presents
Katie Young and Sam Scranton make music together as Beautifulish. They fuse free improvisation with composed musical material. Tightly interwoven gestures smudge into expansive textures. Rainbows of noise produced through haptic and breathy friction create proximity and space, timbre and harmony, pitch and rhythm. Young and Scranton use electronics and amplification to augment their primary instruments; Young plays bassoon, Scranton, percussion. The result is an integrated sound world that exists as its own beautifulish thing.
MEGA LAVERNE & SHIRLEY (巨拉夫恩和謝莉)
MEGA LAVERNE & SHIRLEY (巨拉夫恩和謝莉) is a band birthed from the fictitious art scene known as big TEEN. big TEEN bands revel in aesthetics of distraction, multiplicity, and metatheatrics. MEGA LAVERNE & SHIRLEY (巨拉夫恩和謝莉) embrace this artistic framework with monolithic performances that incorporate synthesizers, MIDI, multilingual declamations, choreography informed by Chinese calligraphy, baked goods, and LED light worship. That is, MEGA LAVERNE & SHIRLEY (巨拉夫恩和謝莉) overwhelm their audience in the hopes of bringing them into a new kind of focus; a transcendence through multitasking and confusion. It’s like witnessing a monumental event happen in two parallel universes simultaneously, or watching an episode of Laverne & Shirley in two languages.
Three Hands Clapping
Three Hands Clapping is a collaborative trio consisting of Ben Zucker, Rebecca McDaniel, and Henry Breneman Stewart—combining an experimental approach to forms and sounds with percussive technique and nuance, they create immersive coexistences of texture and groove.


text: Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) has been identified as a common cause of hip pain in young adults. However, treatment is not well standardized. We retrospectively reviewed 97 patients (100 hips) who underwent osteochondroplasty of the femoral head-neck for FAI using a mini-open anterior Hueter approach with arthroscopic assistance. The mean age of the patients was 33.4 years. The labrum was refixed in 40 hips, partially excised in 39 cases, completely excised in 14 cases, and left intact in seven. Six patients were lost to followup, leaving 91 (94 hips) with a minimum followup of 28.6 months (mean, 58.3 months; range, 28.6-104.4 months). We assessed patients clinically using the nonarthritic hip score (NAHS). One patient had a femoral neck fracture 3 weeks postoperatively. At the last followup, the mean NAHS score increased by 29.1 points (54.8 +/- 12 preoperatively to 83.9 +/- 16 points at last followup). Eleven hips developed osteoarthritis and subsequently had total hip arthroplasty. The best results were obtained in patients younger than 40 years old with a 0 Tönnis grade. Refixation of the labrum did not correlate with a higher NAHS score (87 +/- 11 with refixation versus 82 +/- 19 points without) at the last followup. The technique for FAI treatment allowed direct visualization of the anterior femoral head-neck junction while avoiding surgical dislocation, had a low complication rate, and improved functional scores.

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VIDEO: Johnny Drille - Forever (Live Performance)
When you count Nigeria's top musical treasures of all time, then Johnny Drille should be somewhere at the top of your list! I know I have said this over and over again but this dude kinda deserve some major international recognition and I'm not even joking!
Whatttt?? Just after dropping his latest singles - "Shine" and "Forever", the excruciatingly talented musician (you know, musician as per he can do almost all things music!) decides that before the real visuals, he should bless our eyes and ears with something superb as he delivered a top-drawer live performance of "Forever" at a top terrace somewhere around Lagos, Nigeria and this guy, this guy absolutely murdered it!
We actually do not deserve Johnny Drille! We don't!
Peep below, guys!
I think of you tonight
You're always on my mind
It's a miracle that you're mine
I can see it in your eyes
I see it deep inside
Under sun or rain, you will be by my side
Stay with me forever
This love will last forever
For more info, tracks and videos, check out Johnny Drille's notjustOk page
Some of Johnny Drille's tracks and videos includes:
- Johnny Drille - Shine + Forever
- VIDEO: Johnny Drille - Halleluya ft. Simi
- VIDEO: Clay - The One ft. Johnny Drille
- Morayo ft. Johnny Drille - Happy
- Johnny Drille - Awa Love
- VIDEO: Johnny Drille - Romeo & Juliet
- VIDEO: Johnny Drille - Wait For Me
- Niniola x Johnny Drille - Start All Over
- Johnny Drille - My Beautiful Love
- Johnny Drille - Love Don't Lie


text: I saw Ben Folds in September with the Minnesota Orchestra. It was a terrific show, as Ben performed his perfect punchy piano pop with the Minnesota Orchestra. His songs are very well-suited to be played with an orchestra, and the arrangements of his songs were very well thought out. Of course, Folds has performed with orchestras for a couple of years now, so it’s not like this was the first time he’s done this. I have to confess, I don’t know a lot about Ben Folds’s career, and I’m just starting to get more familiar with his songs. (My wife and my best friend have both introduced me to Ben’s music.) I like his intelligent, witty lyrics and his catchy melodies. (“Steven’s Last Night in Town” has been stuck in my head for the last two days.) Folds puts on a great show, he really seems to love performing, and he seemed to get such a kick out of the orchestra playing his songs. He performed a lot of his best-known songs like “Steven’s Last Night in Town,” “Brick,” “Zak and Sara,” and “Army.” The highlight of the show may have been Ben performing “Annie Waits” as the orchestra left the stage. Ben then proceeded to make up a song about the Minnesota Orchestra, and how they have to quit playing because they have strict union rules. He then ran around the stage and played any instrument he could find on stage. It was awesome, a fun way to end the show, and it showed how much enthusiasm Folds has for performing.


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Uncover the stories of the world’s most notorious gangsters, drug lords, and criminals.
From Columbia and Mexico to even America’s own soil, criminals have always lurked behind the scenes - some more successful than others. Now, this biography delves into the lives and careers of some of history’s drug lords, from Pablo Escobar’s empire to the legend of Al Capone.
Inside, you’ll find some of history’s most infamous crime lords, including:
Al Capone, the crime boss during prohibition, who earned the name “Scarface”
El Chapo, a man once considered to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world
Jesse James, the notorious American outlaw and train robber
Whitey Bulger, crime boss-turned-FBI informant
John Gotti, who became the boss of the Gambino crime family
Pablo Escobar, the Columbian drug lord and wealthiest criminal in the world
Each of these men have a story rich with conspiracy, crime, and murder. From drug trafficking, racketeering, and even robbing trains, the world of the criminal underground continues to fascinate and unnerve those with a morbid curiosity.
This bundle is a must-listen for anyone interested in the incredible - and infamous - stories of the world’s most notorious crime lords.

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