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After China, India’s Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) is the largest in the world.This sector plays a vital role in the country’s economy, being engaged in the production of over 6,000 products – ranging from traditional to hi-end, technologically advanced items.
Given the government of India’s latest ‘Make In India’ push, along with a stunning growth in FDI flows, the Indian MSMEs sector is ready for rapid growth and integration with big global value chains.
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MOSPI) estimates that the share of MSME related products in total export from India during 2018-19 has been 48.10% so far.
It is no doubt then, that startups that are veered towards helping MSMEs ease into the digital world are receiving increasing investor interest.
Listed below, are 5 popular Indian startups helping MSMEs win in the digital age.
Instamojo was founded by Sampad Swain, Akash Gehani and Aditya Sengupta in 2012, with the sole motive to make the internet a better and more reliable platform.
They started with payment links – a simple URL that one can copy and paste anywhere on the internet and receive payments online via any payment mode. Currently they provide more than just an efficient payments solution. Instamojo makes custom-tailored business tools to support the growth of a business on the internet.
In June this year, Instamojo had launched mojoVersity, an MSME skilling platform in a bid to empower small business owners. It has also launched an API for startups and developers to leverage its platform in building integrated products.
By launching ‘Credit Book’ to help 1 million small businesses on its platform, it allows them to keep track of credit given to vendors, suppliers, and customers; monitor cash receivables from customers, vendors, and suppliers; and send due payment reminders.
Founded by by Sujeet Kumar, Amod Malviya, and Vaibhav Gupta, all ex-Flipkart employees, Udaan runs an eponymous B2B marketplace that helps in networking of small retailers with wholesalers and traders. The startup has gathered more than 3 million retailers and more than 25,000 sellers from 900 cities and towns in India.
Through Udaan, retailers can now have an approach to the widest selection of manufacturers along with credit facility. This on the other hand. enables in the expansion of their business.
Founded in 2016, the startup was operational by 2017 and achieved the coveted ‘unicorn’ status in September last year.
It has been one of the few startups to achieve a private valuation of $1 billion in the shortest possible time and is backed by the likes of Tencent, Altimeter, Footpath Ventures, Hillhouse, GGV Capital, and Citi Ventures among others. It had raised $585 million in funding just last month by these investors.
Founded in 2012 as Kartrocket by its founder and CEO Saahil Goel, Delhi-based Shiprocket is a logistic tech aggregation firm that makes logistics solutions easier for small businesses in the e-commerce sector.
Through deep technology such as data analytics and AI, this startup helps recommend the best shipping medium and partner to sellers.
They have been able to onboard 15 domestic and four international logistics providers, and aid sellers in integrating their processes with them, through the use of modern technology.
The platform integrates with several leading and specialised logistics partners such as Delhivery, Xpressbees, FedEx, Blue Dart, etc to serve perfect logistic services. It has one of the largest networks in India with 26,000 pin codes available for pickups, deliveries, and CoD.
Founded in October, 2018 by Ravish Naresh, Jaideep Poonia, Dhanesh Kumar, and Ashish Sonone, Khata Book is a ledger account book in pace of your traditional ‘bahi khata‘ by a new digital ledger cash book. This feature is free, and the states that it is safe for all types of businesses to maintain their customers’ accounts.
A traditional bahi khata (ledger book) requires consumers to spend hours tallying and recording transactions physically. On the other hand, Khatabook automatically looks after all accounting transactions.
With tools like payment reminders, where an automatic SMS is sent to your customers every time a transaction is recorded against them, Khatabook has helped users bring transparency to their business.
KhataBook is among 17 startups from the first cohort of Surge, Sequoia India’s rapid scale-up programme geared towards early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia.
Y Combinator and Info Edge are other investors in Khatabook. It has so far raised $83 million over multiple rounds between June and September this year.
Founded by IIT Delhi students, Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal in December 2015, Meesho is an Indian social commerce startup that helps small businesses and individuals to start their own online stores via social media channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, among others.
It is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and is one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. Apart from this, it was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad – Solve for India programme.
Earlier this June, Meesho received Facebook’s maiden investment in an Indian startup and further went on to raise $125 million in Series D funding from Naspers, with participation from existing investors like SAIF Partners, Sequoia Capital, Shunwei Capital and Venture Highway. Facebook and former Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin had also participated in the round.

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|Publication number||US5409752 A|
|Application number||US 08/108,812|
|Publication date||Apr 25, 1995|
|Filing date||Aug 19, 1993|
|Priority date||Sep 2, 1992|
|Also published as||CA2105335A1|
|Publication number||08108812, 108812, US 5409752 A, US 5409752A, US-A-5409752, US5409752 A, US5409752A|
|Inventors||Olivier D. Juteau|
|Original Assignee||Moore Business Forms Inc|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (23), Referenced by (9), Classifications (31), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to a set of envelopes presented as a web. The web is designed to be cut along transverse lines into individual envelope lengths.
It is known to form "Z-folding" envelopes from a web in which each envelope length in the web is divided into three substantially equal parts by two fold lines. These parts are defined arbitrarily as the anterior, central and posterior parts of the envelope. On the web surfaces may be printed information on the anterior, central and posterior parts of each envelope length. For example, address information may be printed on the anterior part of the envelope.
After the web is cut, each envelope length is Z-folded such that the printed surfaces of the central and the posterior parts are in face-to-face contact. The anterior part is folded over the central part in an opposite direction to the posterior part such that the non-printed surfaces of the posterior and central parts are in face-to-face contact.
The Z-folded envelope is sealed together with adhesives applied to the web surfaces. The contacting surfaces of the envelope parts have adhesives arranged along transverse and longitudinal lines. For example, these adhesives are positioned on the printed surfaces of the posterior and central parts, and on the non-printed surface of the anterior and central parts of the envelope length. The envelope webs may be delivered and stored either as a web roll or packets of a web folded in a zigzag configuration along the transverse cutting lines of the envelope lengths. When the web is folded and stored in a zigzag pattern, the printed envelope surfaces (or surfaces to receive printing) of two successive envelope lengths are folded so as to be face-to-face and, alternatively, the non-printed surfaces of two other envelope lengths are folded into face-to-face contact. Thus, each surface of an envelope length with its associated adhesive strips is face-to-face with its counter-part surface of an adjacent envelope length.
French Patent Application FR-A-2,431,964, describes a process for preventing the adhesive strips on the envelope lengths from adhering to the adhesive facing strips on adjacent envelope lengths during storage of web packets. This process consists of transversely offsetting parts of each longitudinal adhesion line with respect to another part of the same line on an adjacent envelope surface. However, in the process described in FR-A-2,431,964, the transverse lines of adhesives on the envelope lengths are not modified.
Web rolls of envelopes also have problems with adhesive strips bonding together during storage. However, the problem in a roll manifests itself differently than in a folded web packet, because in a roll the printed surface on one envelope comes into contact with the opposite surface of another envelope in the web. In a web roll, the relative orientation of the lines of adhesive on adjacent turns of the web roll varies from one turn of the roll to another. Accordingly, the process described in FR-A-2,431,964 is not applicable to web rolls.
It is the aim of the present invention to solve the problem of bonding between adhesive strips that come into contact during storage of a web of Z-folding envelope lengths. The present invention is intended to be applicable to web rolls and folded web packets.
The invention provides a web of envelope lengths each having front and back surfaces. The web may be cut into individual envelope lengths where each envelope may have two adhesive longitudinal edge strips and transverse adhesive strip(s) on the front and back surfaces of the web. The adhesive strips have the following features: (1) all of the transverse adhesion lines are constituted by adhesion spots spaced apart from one another, and (2) the areas of adhesive of the front web surface are contained in a first longitudinal zone of the web, and the areas of adhesive on the back surface are contained in a second longitudinal zone of the web, the first longitudinal zone(s) being outside the second longitudinal zone(s) and vice versa.
Since the areas of adhesive on one surface of the envelope lengths are in a different longitudinal zone(s) from the longitudinal zone(s) which contains the areas of adhesive of the opposite surface, the adhesive areas do not overlap when the web is in a roll. Thus, there is no bonding between adjacent adhesive areas during storage of the web roll. Similarly, when the web is folded into a packet and individual envelope lengths are folded front surface against front surface and back surface against back surface, it is possible to avoid overlapping adhesive areas by segregating the areas of adhesive appropriately in the separate longitudinal zones described above.
In the present invention, the longitudinal adhesive zones of the front surface and the longitudinal adhesive zones of the back surface may be adjacent or separated by neutral zones which have no adhesive on the front or back zone surfaces. Usually, edges of the web will constitute neutral zones as they may possibly contain drive perforations for a tractor web feeder.
The invention will now be explained in greater detail with reference to the drawings identified as follows:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of an envelope length and shows a disposition of adhesion areas according to the invention; and
FIGS. 2 to 5 are similar to the view shown in FIG. 1, but show variant embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 1 shows a web 1 having various areas coated with adhesive that are marked by hatching in that figure. For example, the adhesive areas shown as being on the front surface of the web are hatched in a downwardly sloped to the left orientation that is different than the downwardly sloped to the right hatch orientation that shows the adhesive areas on the back surface of the web. The areas having adhesion on the front and back of the web are shown superimposed in FIG. 1. The left and right edges of the web are designated by the reference numerals 2 and 3. The symmetrically disposed areas of adhesion areas on the front surface of the web include two longitudinal adhesion lines 4, 5 which each occupy a respective longitudinal zone 6, 7. The front web surface also may include a transverse adhesion line 8 formed of identical adhesion spots 9, transversely spaced in separate longitudinal zones 10.
Similarly, the back surface of the web 1 includes two longitudinal adhesion lines 11, 12 and one transverse adhesion area 13. The transverse area 13 may be formed of adhesion spots 14 similar to those spots 9 on the front surface. The back surface adhesion zones 15, 16, 17 occupied by the longitudinal adhesion lines 11, 12 and the adhesion spots 14 alternate and do not overlap with the adhesive zones 6, 7, 10 on the front surface of the web 1.
In the particular embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the various longitudinal zones are shown as being adjacent to each other, without an interposed adhesive-free neutral zone. It will be understood that the adhesive areas on the front surface will not bond to the adhesive areas on the back surface when the web is rolled because the adhesive zones 6, 7, 8 on the front web surface do not overlap with the adhesive zones 15, 16, 17 on the back surface when the web is rolled.
FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment that differs from the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 in that the adhesive spots 20 on the front web surface and the adhesive spots 21 on the back web surface are wider in the central part of the web than near the edges of the web. By this arrangement of spots, it is possible to obtain a greater resistance to tearing at the corners of the folded envelope. In this arrangement, the width of the longitudinal zones 22, 23 containing the areas of adhesive 20, 21 increase from the zones at the web edges to the zones at the center of the web. Nevertheless, the longitudinal zones corresponding to the areas of adhesive on one web surface do not overlap with the zones on the opposite web surface so that no bonding occurs between adhesives during web storage. In addition, the left-hand side of the longitudinal adhesive strip 24 on the front web surface is closer to the edge 2 than is the corresponding adhesive strip 25 on the back surface. This offset orientation of longitudinal strips is reversed on the right-hand side of the web.
As shown in FIG. 3, the adhesive spots 30 provided on the front web surface are transversely elongate, whereas the adhesive spots 31 on the back web surface are longitudinally elongate. Varying the shape of the adhesive spots on one web surface from those on the opposite surface may be desirable in certain circumstances. For example, in a Z-folding envelope the line of adhesive spots on one web surface may be used to ensure the confidentiality of the mailed correspondence, whereas the line of adhesive spots on the opposite surface may prevent the loss of the address information. The different purposes to which the web surfaces are applied may impose different requirements on the adhesive lines on each web surface that may lead to different shapes of the adhesion spots on each surface.
In FIG. 4, the longitudinal zones 40 of the front web surface contain adhesion spots 41 which form part of a first transverse line 42. Adhesion spots 43 are also in the zone 40 and form part of a second transverse line 44. These spots 43, 41 are offset transversely with respect to one another so that they cannot adhere to one another in a web packet folded in a zigzag configuration. The adhesion spots 41 and 43 are contained in longitudinal zones 40 which are different from the longitudinal zones 45 which contain the adhesion spots 46 of the back surface. Accordingly, adhesion between face-to-face adhesion spots is impossible when the web is in a roll and in a packet.
An offset similar to that of the adhesion spots 41, 43 can equally be produced on the longitudinal lines 47, 48 in the manner described in the above-mentioned document FR-A-2,431,964, without falling outside the invention, provided that the rules which have been set forth above relating to the longitudinal zones are satisfied.
FIG. 5 shows a length of a Z-folding envelopes and parts of adjacent lengths in a web that may be stored in packets in zigzag configuration, rather than in a roll. On the front web surface, where the areas of adhesive are identifiable in the figure by hatching descending to the left, the envelope length 50 has a first line of adhesive 57, which extends, along the edge, from the middle of the height of the posterior part 56 to as far as the middle of the height of the central part 55. Two second lines of adhesive 58, 59, each extend over the remaining halves of the posterior part 56 and central part 55, and are slightly offset in a transverse direction with respect to the line of adhesive 57.
The envelope length 50 further has, in the central part 55 and posterior part 56, two transverse lines of adhesive 60, 61, situated respectively along the fold line 52 and cutting line 51 respectively. These transverse lines 60, 61 are constituted by a series of spots of adhesive 62, 63 the spacing of which is equal to their transverse extension. The spots 62, 63 of the two transverse lines are located in the same longitudinal zones 64. Another longitudinal zone 65 includes the longitudinal lines of adhesive 57 to 59.
If the web is folded about a cutting line 51 so that the two front contacting surfaces of two successive envelope lengths 50 come into contact (folding in zigzag configuration), the areas of adhesive of one front surface of envelope length will not be superimposed on the adhesives of the front surface of the following envelope length. However, by folding the envelope length about the fold line 53, the areas of adhesive on the front surfaces of the central and posterior parts 56 and 55 are brought into contact and can be sealed to form a closed envelope assembly.
The back surface of the web shown in FIG. 5 has, for each envelope length 50, areas of adhesive indicated by hatching descending to the right. The design of these back adhesive areas is similar to those on the front surface, with a few differences including that the longitudinal lines of adhesive 66, 67, 68 are contained in a longitudinal zone 69 which is offset transversely to zone 65.
In addition, the line of adhesive 66 extends from the middle of the length of the anterior part 54 to the middle of the central part 55. The other two adhesive lines 67, 68 respectively extend the remaining lengths of the anterior and central parts 54, 55 of the envelope length. The transverse lines of adhesive 70, 71 are constituted by spots of adhesive 72, 73 which are situated in the anterior and central parts 54 and 55, along the cutting line 51 and fold line 53, and in longitudinal zones 74 separate from zone 64.
Identical individual envelope lengths 50 are limited by two transverse cutting lines 51. They comprise two transverse fold lines 52, 53, which divide them into three successive anterior, central and posterior parts 54, 55, 56 each of substantially the same height. In a manner similar to that described for the front web surface, a fold along a cutting line 51 brings together the rear surfaces of two successive envelope lengths, but does not place their adhesive areas in contact. A fold along the fold line 52 that brings into contact the adhesive on the back surfaces of the envelope areas 54 and 55 to seal the envelope assembly. Furthermore, as the longitudinal zones 64, 65 which contain adhesive on the front surface are separate from the zones 69, 74 which contain adhesive on the back surface. The web can be rolled for storage without bringing adhesives into undesirable contact.
Many adhesives are capable of sealing Z-folding envelopes, but adhere to one another when web storage is prolonged or exposed to heat. In the example described here, heat-sensitive adhesives may be used, but the invention is independent of the nature of the adhesive. A few preferred embodiments of the invention are described here. The invention is not limited to these embodiments. The invention covers that which is encompassed by the terms and spirit of the appended claims.
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|US2926025 *||Mar 25, 1958||Feb 23, 1960||Moore Business Forms Inc||Severance means for manifolding assemblies|
|US3203823 *||Dec 4, 1961||Aug 31, 1965||Orchard Paper Company||Cellulose with adhesive spots on both sides thereof in non-registering relationship as insulating material for electrical apparatus|
|US3916051 *||May 23, 1974||Oct 28, 1975||Moore Business Forms Inc||Continuous self-sealing adhesive forms especially for forming booklets|
|US4097619 *||May 7, 1976||Jun 27, 1978||The Mead Corporation||Manifold carbonless form and process for the continuous production thereof|
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|US4768810 *||Jun 23, 1986||Sep 6, 1988||Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company||Fanfolded tablet of a web which is separable into sheets each bearing a pressure-sensitive adhesive pattern|
|US4912080 *||Jul 1, 1987||Mar 27, 1990||Weinstein Philip M||Carbonless transfer sheets for multi-part forms packs|
|US4925213 *||Mar 31, 1989||May 15, 1990||Moore Business Forms, Inc.||Multiple part form for non-impact printer and related process|
|US4938505 *||Aug 11, 1989||Jul 3, 1990||Ncr Corporation||Business form for use in shipping parcels|
|DE2745624A1 *||Oct 11, 1977||Apr 12, 1979||Schnug Fa Otto||Endless stationery with business letters ready for dispatch - has band of detachable letters and removable edge perforations|
|EP0285514A1 *||Mar 30, 1988||Oct 5, 1988||Daniel Hedelin||Self-adhesive label|
|FR1215307A *||Title not available|
|FR2308510A1 *||Title not available|
|FR2431919A1 *||Title not available|
|FR2668979A1 *||Title not available|
|GB1594798A *||Title not available|
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|US5829670 *||Apr 28, 1997||Nov 3, 1998||Moore U.S.A. Inc.||Pressure seal form configurations to reduce printer jams|
|US5950909 *||Jan 12, 1998||Sep 14, 1999||Moore U.S.A., Inc.||Pressure sensitive cohesive patterns for Z fold and C fold business forms|
|US5989382 *||Jul 29, 1997||Nov 23, 1999||Moore U.S.A., Inc.||Utilizing identical staggered pattern forms through fax or printer via offsetting|
|US6015085 *||Feb 9, 1999||Jan 18, 2000||Moore U.S.A. Inc.||Cohesive pattern for a continuous Z-fold mailer with reply envelope|
|US6235366 *||Jan 21, 1999||May 22, 2001||Lintec Corporation||Adhesive sheet|
|US6290634||May 28, 1998||Sep 18, 2001||Moore North America, Inc.||Pressure seal form configurations which reduce printer jams|
|US7975904||Oct 18, 2006||Jul 12, 2011||Infoseal, Llc||Intermediate for Z-fold business mailer|
|US20060124914 *||Dec 6, 2004||Jun 15, 2006||Lavargna Albert L Jr||Baluster aligning apparatus and method|
|US20070090173 *||Oct 18, 2006||Apr 26, 2007||David Yost||Intermediate for Z-fold business mailer|
|U.S. Classification||428/40.1, 428/194, 428/220, 462/900, 428/906, 428/201, 428/43, 229/75, 428/131, 462/2, 428/202, 428/343, 428/195.1|
|International Classification||B42D5/02, B42D15/08, B31B23/60, B42D15/04|
|Cooperative Classification||Y10T428/24802, Y10T428/15, Y10T428/24851, Y10T428/14, Y10T428/2486, Y10T428/24273, Y10T428/28, Y10T428/24793, Y10S462/90, Y10S428/906, B42D5/025, B42D15/08|
|European Classification||B42D5/02C2, B42D15/08|
|Oct 6, 1993||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: MOORE BUSINESS FORMS, INC., NEW YORK
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:JUTEAU, OLIVIER D.;REEL/FRAME:006755/0137
Effective date: 19930927
|Oct 17, 1995||CC||Certificate of correction|
|Oct 26, 1998||FPAY||Fee payment|
Year of fee payment: 4
|Nov 13, 2002||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
|Apr 25, 2003||LAPS||Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees|
|Jun 24, 2003||FP||Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee|
Effective date: 20030425


This is yet another post I’m writing wondering if Safari is still better than Internet Explorer when the IE’s latest beta turns out to be the best on HTML5, for what Apple is fighting hard.
For a moment, let’s say there are no other browsers on the market. Firefox, Google Chrome (which later turned out to be a complete OS!), Opera, etc no other browser exists. It’s just default Internet Explorer on PC and Safari on Mac. Now, which of them is the
Well, I’m not really playing yet another controversy whether Mac is better than PC. Experts know that quite well. Today, most people compare Firefox with Chrome. But we kind of forgot about Internet Explorer. I believe most up-to-date users on Windows don’t run Internet Explorer at all. They either choose Firefox or stick with Google Chrome. But no IE. Since I don’t know a lot of Mac users, I can’t say if Mac users are happy with their built-in default browser, Safari. But so far, I’ve seen everybody using Firefox and a few of them running Chrome. No safari yet. So, the point is, is Apple still better than Microsoft when it comes to browsers?
For the time being, let’s forgive Microsoft for Internet Explorer 6 (Version Nightmare). It’s the
age dawn of IE9 which claims to unleash the beauty of the web. Now, compare it with the latest version of Safari? Which one do you think is the best?
Wait, there is a problem. Not only using IE is a nightmare, but trying it out is even full of lots of obstacles. You possible can’t run an IE on your Mac unless you’re using Windows on duel boot/BootCamp/Parallels. Most users on Mac don’t run windows so I assume you are unable to try out IE9 Beta. But hey, even Windows users can’t try out IE9 Beta unless they are running the latest edition of their OS, Windows 7.
Huh! Funny, isn’t it? Windows users can’t taste the latest beta of Microsoft’s browser unless they spend some money and upgrade their system to the latest one, which is — despite being better than Vista, nightmare edition of Windows — incompatible with some software, games and built-in graphics cards. Right now I’m on a Windows 7 machine but I also have XP installed. Most software and games run well on XP with my built-in graphics card.
But, I haven’t yet tried the IE9 Beta because if I upgrade the browser to its latest beta, it’ll debut another level of the game I call “Microsoft Real-Life Nightmare” to bring it back to the 8th full version of IE. Although the Microsoft personnel claims it not to be that hard, I don’t wanna take all of that mess just to try out a newer version of Internet Explorer, which I last used (regularly) in 2008.
Getting back to my point, I would say that when I run a Safari on my windows, most people say it takes up a lot of resources. Why is that? I don’t know. But I think maybe it’s because Safari is better compatible with Mac machines.
So, what’s the bottom line? Microsoft makes it hard to try out their latest version of browser even on its own system. I don’t really care how awesome the latest beta is, I would rather choose Safari if there were no other browsers in the market.
Good that there is; therefore, I choose Firefox.
So, what do you think? Is Safari better than IE (since IE doesn’t run on Mac, let’s make the comparison on a Windows machine)? What is your personal choice between the two?


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President Donald Trump's US Middle East peace negotiator Jason Greenblatt will return to Israel next week for talks related to the peace efforts, a senior administration official said on Friday.
The trip is Greenblatt's first to the region since Trump recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital, which created an international uproar. Greenblatt, along with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is allegedly working on a new peace plan.
Greenblatt, whose title is special representative for international negotiations, will meet with Fernando Gentilini, the European Union's special representative to the Middle East and stay for US Vice President Mike Pence's trip to Israel later in the week, the official said.
Trump's announcement, reversing decades of US policy which treated Jerusalem's status as a matter for Israeli-Palestinian negotiation, stirred anger across the Arab and Muslim world and concern among Washington's European allies.
Tension has risen across the Palestinian territories since US President Donald Trump's decision to officially recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Most countries consider East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after capturing it in a 1967 war, to be occupied territory, and say the status of the city should be left to be decided at future Israeli-Palestinian talks.
While the international community has almost unanimously disagreed with Donald Trump's announcement, reports suggest that the announcement was done with the pre-agreement of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, with the Saudi Arabia going as far as, allegedly, stating to the Palestinian President to accept a village on the outskirts of Jerusalem as the alternative Palestinian capital.

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Defending the controversial citizenship bill, BJP senior leader, La. Ganesan, has stated that Eelam Tamils residing in Tamil Nadu should return to Sri Lanka despite human raised human rights concerns.
The BJP leader stated on the matter;
“I am not against citizenship being given to Sri Lankan Tamils. But, they do not want it. They want to go back. That would be the best solution as their votes are more important in Sri Lanka”.
Human rights groups such as Freedom from Torture are particularly concerned about the situation in Sri Lanka since the election of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The Rajapaksa regime was known for its “white van” abductions, systematic use of torture and disappearance of dissident journalists.
He further added that Eelam Tamils will not be forcefully deported but maintained that this would not be the case with minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) would provide a pathway for citizenships for religious minorities from those three nations, except if they are Muslim.
This statement follows a significant defeat for the BJP in the Jharkhand Assembly election. There have been widespread protests across India in response to the bill and it has also received condemnation from United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights which described the bill as “fundamentally discriminatory”.
For more information read The Hindu.


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This is a nice oil painting on canvas by Segunda Huertas. This piece shows an abstract image with muted colors of orange yellow and brown. This piece is signed in the lower right in oil "S. Huertas". According to the auction records on the website AskArt his artwork has sold for as much as $456US.
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In my opinion it is in very good condition, but please see photo to form your own opinion to it's condition.
The image size measures 24 inches height and 24 inches width.
The canvas size measures 24 inches height and 24 inches width.
This is a biography taken from the website AskArt about Segundo Huertas.
Segundo Huertas [Aguiar] was born in San Juan, Argentina, in 1923. While growing up on a farm, he spent most of his spare time painting landscapes from nature. He is known for his seascapes, landscapes and steet scenes. "The paintings of Segundo Huertas are landscape and seascape tributes to the beauty in nature. He paints poetic settings inspired by the outdoors. The mood ranges from the peaceful solitude of a mountain paradise to the blazing fury of the heated desert horizon." -Jan Jennings, Art Critic 1977
Collectors have described Huertas as the Ansel Adams of painting. Huertas has captured the majesty of America's landscapes and seascapes on his canvas.
His entire life has been devoted to his paintings. As a youngster, he learned to paint outdoors using the landscape of his native Argentina as his subjects. During his formative years, he studied carefully the works of Rembrandt, which has greatly influenced his brilliant treatment of light in his paintings.
In 1965, Huertas moved to the United States, where he eventually became a naturalized citizen. He settled in the Chicago area, where he lived for twenty-five years. During this period, Huertas traveled extensively across America capturing virtually every region in his paintings.
In New York about 1977, he created his first lithographs at the American Atelier. He loved his new medium and was especially attracted to the wide range of colour he was able to achieve.
At the age of 83, he has moved back to Argentina.
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He often signes his paintings S. Huertas. One distinctive charateristic of his signature is the "leaning T". The letter T in Huertas leans to the left. Sometimes he signs with his full name "Segundo Huertas"
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Wildlife Professionals and Dog Trainers Collaborate to Train Dogs for Snake Bite Prevention
Get Rattled holds important Rattlesnake Avoidance Training Clinic in Penn Valley this April
Penn Valley, CA – Rattlesnakes will be active soon due to the warm temperatures, fostering an earlier and longer snake season. If you enjoy activities that take you and your dogs outdoors, you and your pets may be at risk for encountering rattlesnakes. And as the snakes keep moving in search of food and mates, they may even end up in your own backyard. According to the California Poison Control System, the state’s current warmer-than-average weather means that this spring and summer will likely be a very active rattler season.
“I’d say that most dog owners don’t really think about snake bites until they see a rattlesnake for themselves, in parks, or their backyards, and then realize their dogs can be at risk,” says John Potash co-founder and co-owner of Get Rattled. He adds, “Get Rattled is a unique training clinic designed specifically to teach dogs on rattlesnake avoidance. We have been teaching this clinic for 15 years and have successfully trained thousands of dogs.”
Potash is licensed by the Nevada Department of Wildlife and has over 25 years of experience working with venomous snakes and wildlife in areas of animal control, wildlife rescue, and public education. He works with skilled dog trainer Willie J. Stevens Jr. who has over 20 years of experience training and judging pointing dogs.
Rattlesnake Avoidance Training is a crucial tool for dog owners. Potash says, “Prevention is your number one line of defense in protecting your dogs from venomous snakes. When dogs and their owners go hiking or to the dog parks to go off leash, this training teaches them to be fearful of the rattlesnake. It protects people as well, as the dog becomes an alert system. This training has proven to be an effective tool in teaching rattlesnake avoidance to all dogs from Great Danes to Chihuahuas.
Because rattlesnakes can regulate the amount of venom they inject into another animal, the health risks to dogs from a bite can vary greatly depending on the amount of venom injected, the species and size of rattlesnake, and the size of the dog and where it was bitten. Dogs can also be bitten when owners are not around, so Potash suggests that people know some general signs of a bite along with health risks: “Dogs are usually bitten on their limbs, neck, head, or face so look for severe swelling in those areas. After some time, the venom may produce nausea, vomiting, and the dog can seem lethargic and will begin to act as if something is bothering them. If you see a snake bite happen or notice these symptoms, keep your dog calm and take them to a vet right away. It’s always better to be safe than sorry.”
Get Rattled has partnered with Friends of Western Gateway Dog Park to host a Rattlesnake Avoidance Training Clinic in Penn Valley on April 30, 2016 and area pet owners are highly encouraged to take part. Appointments are scheduled by pre-paid reservations between 9:00am to 3:00pm with sessions lasting between 10 to 30 minutes each. The cost is $85.00 per dog. (Current members of Friends of Western Gateway Dog Park will receive a $10.00 discount.) Refresher training for dogs who have previously gone through this program with Get Rattled is $60.00. Any and all proceeds collected above cost will help to continue improvements and ongoing maintenance at Western Gateway Dog Park.
The clinic does require the use of a remote training collar that will be customized to fit each dog. Please read the registration form carefully. While no dog training is guaranteed, this clinic will help provide local dog owners extra assurance and peace of mind this summer that their dogs will avoid dangerous rattlesnake encounters, protecting their health, and their families from suffering the pain and medical costs of a rattlesnake bite.
For more information, including the exact location of the training sessions, please visit their website at: westerngatewaydogpark.org and click on “upcoming events”. Registration forms can be printed directly from the website, or they may be picked up at the Dog Park and at some of the following locations: local pet supply stores, veterinary clinics and dog trainers. If you have further questions, contact Jeri Stone, President of Friends of Western Gateway Dog Park at 530-432-4949.

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A MAP displaying defibrillators across Bordon has been created by a resident, after he vowed to be “more self sufficient medically” after trying to save his neighbour when he collapsed.
Neville said he wanted to advertise where the defibrillators were after his neighbour died in 2013 despite his best efforts and those of his wife.
He added: ‘‘Our neighbour collapsed – we had a bang on the door and it was his wife in a dreadful state, so I went round and did what I could to keep things going while the emergency services were coming. But I was quite surprised how long it took for the ambulance to arrive and 20 minutes is an awful long time when you’re trying to keep somebody alive.
‘‘Unfortunately he didn’t make it, but it did make me realise I ought to become more medically aware and since then I have been on various training courses.”
But although now more aware of first responder first-aid techniques, Neville believes a defibrillator might have made all the difference in the effort to save his neighbour.
He said: “Various charities have done a wonderful job installing public access defibrillator/AEDs (automated external defibrillator) around the country.
‘‘But there is no unified, easy to access guide to where these are located.
“If you have a 999 emergency, the operator will tell you what they think is the nearest but if you already know where they are located, precious time could be saved and this could save a life.”
Working as a Local Guide for Google – a global community of explorers who write reviews, add or edit places and check facts on Google Maps – Neville began submitting defibrillator locations.
But because Google did not have a category for AEDs, Neville said they were “inconsistent in accepting updates to the central map – some are there, many are not.
He added: “But anyone with the link can access this map, people can familiarise themselves with the location of the nearest defibrillator.”


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In Estate planning it is important to give special consideration to the needs of a disabled child or relative. This is so particularly if the disabled person is a recipient of disability benefits from the Government. Under the Ontario Disability Support Programme (ODSP) anyone who has assets in excess of $5,000 may not be eligible to receive disability payments. As a consequence, if a parent leaves a gift in his will which is valued more that $5,000 this will prevent the disabled person from receiving benefits under the ODSP. The ODSP regulation provides for certain exemptions regarding what is considered an asset. For instance, an interest in a principal residence or tools of trade may not be considered as assets. Furthermore, the ODSP allows disabled persons to benefit from assets left in a trust or cash payments from a Life Insurance Policy. However, the value of such assets cannot exceed $100,000.
As a result of the requirements of the ODSP a disabled beneficiary who is left assets under a will must deplete those assets to a value of less than $5,000 before that person can receive disability payments under the ODSP.
Although the ODSP stipulates that assets for the disabled beneficiary left in trust cannot exceed $100,000 there is one type of trust that makes it possible for a parent or relative to leave assets in excess of $100,000 for the disabled beneficiary. This instrument is called the Henson Trust and is named after the case involving the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services and Henson. In that case the Court of Appeal of Ontario ruled that where a father (Mr. Henson) had set up a discretionary trust for his disabled daughter the money in the trust did not count as assets owned by the daughter and therefore should not prevent her from receiving disability payments.
The difference between the Henson Trust and other trusts which are for the benefit of disabled persons is that the Henson Trust is completely discretionary. In the latter the disabled person is the beneficiary under the trust which is set up specifically for the maintenance of that disabled person and the trustee has no discretion to withhold funds from the disabled person. Under the Henson Trust the trustee has total discretion whether or not to provide the disabled person with benefits and if so how much benefits would be provided. The disabled person cannot demand payments under the Henson Trust. As a result of the discretionary nature of the trust it cannot be said that the disabled person ‘owns’ any assets which would disentitle him from disability support payments from the government.
It is therefore important to pay attention to the wording of the trust when it is being set up.
Although Henson Trusts are permissible for the discretionary maintenance of disabled persons the ODSP places a limit on the amount of assets that can be paid out of all trusts, insurance policies, gifts or any other voluntary payments. Such payments cannot exceed $6,000 per year.
Henson Trusts can be created either as part of a will or it may be created as an inter vivos instrument during the life of the person transferring the assets to the trust. For instance, a parent receiving a divorce settlement may wish to transfer some of the money to a Henson trust for the benefit of a disabled child.
While Henson Trusts are an important tool for providing for disabled beneficiaries it should be remembered that it is a discretionary trust. The trustee should therefore be chosen very carefully and should be someone who is honest and trustworthy.


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I haven’t yet seen the show “Lost” even though everyone and their grandmother have recommended it to me. I’ll probably get some hate mail from raving “Lost” fans if I don’t say I’ll get around to it eventually. Just like “The Godfather” movies. *ducks*
I’m always interested when I find people discussing content in places I didn’t expect. I’m sure Steven Johnson would argue that “Lost” is just like a huge novel on screen, so it is natural for fans of it to also enjoy books.
What also interests me is how much richer the discussions could be if a librarian added some value to it, either guiding the discussions online or planning physical world discussions. At the very least we can use the list of books from the show to make a nice book display to go along with the DVDs.


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How enterprises must transform to survive
Micro Focus has announced a milestone in a years-long effort to create and deliver solutions that help organisations transform their business in accordance with rapidly evolving IT requirements.
By combining industry-leading software and domain expertise in four core areas – Enterprise DevOps, Hybrid IT Management, Predictive Analytics and Security, Risk, and Governance – the company is now uniquely positioned to deliver on all critical aspects of enterprise digital transformation to help customers innovate faster with less risk.
According to two recent reports from Gartner, there are indications that digital transformation is a priority in 2019.
Micro Focus has built solutions that target the four areas most critical to lasting Digital Transformation Success:
1. Enterprise DevOps
Winning the race to innovate requires a high-speed approach. Micro Focus solutions supposedly unleash the power of DevOps across the hybrid IT landscape, quickly bringing ideas to life at the pace of business to securely deliver high-quality software and services faster.
2. Hybrid IT Management
IT Infrastructure, services and even purchasing models are rapidly evolving. Maximising business value and accelerating outcomes compels organisations to find new ways to extend existing investments and take advantage of new platforms – from containers to public clouds to iOT.
Micro Focus solutions supposedly help organisations run IT Ops at the speed of DevOps, delivering services on demand and generating operational and business insights, all while helping organisations address security, compliance and governance requirements.
3. Predictive Analytics
Data lakes are valuable only if the business can surface the insights hidden within its depths. Micro Focus aims to help leverage machine learning to transform unlimited volumes of data into accurate, actionable, automated insights at the speed of your business. Be in a position to make predictions and influence business outcomes quickly and efficiently with comprehensive and relevant real-time intelligence.
4. Security, Risk, and Governance
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By delivering a holistic set of solutions that can be integrated together and with existing legacy systems, Micro Focus aims to differentiate itself by better matching the current and future enterprise IT reality.


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Charles Bridge Prague Map
Charles Bridge (Karlův most) is a 14th century rock connection connecting the two sides of Prague. This magnificent structure, among town's finest destinations, is the main pedestrian route connecting the Old Town because of the Lesser Town / Prague Castle.
From Charles Bridge visitors will enjoy fairy-tale views of Prague. The large expanse of this Vltava River flows beneath it, flanked on both sides by elegant structures. And Prague Castle towers above in its eminent place. Right here you are truly in the centre for the town.
Charles Bridge throngs with people during the day. Street designers sketch and artists play; watch out for the jazz musical organization, who are specifically entertaining. However for a really romantic and less crowded stroll, attempt morning or anytime in the evening.
King Charles IV commissioned the connection. The foundation rock was laid in 1357. Charles IV's favourite architect and builder, Peter Parler, oversaw the majority of the work. The initial idea was to build a functional construction for knight tournaments, and for many years the only decoration on the bridge was a simple crucifix. Later, the Catholic wish to have ornamentation led to 30 statues being erected between 1600 and 1800.

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Duterte’s drug task force set for scrapheap after S. Korean businessman’s murder
The Philippines' anti-drugs force is to be disbanded after rogue cops killed a South Korean businessman. President Rodrigo Duterte said he was “embarrassed” and vowed to reform the force.
It transpired in mid-January that Jee Ick-joo, a businessman from South Korea, who had gone missing in the Philippines three months earlier, was actually kidnapped in a “tokhang for ransom” scheme and then was strangled to death on the premises of the national police headquarters the same day.
“We will dissolve all anti-drugs units in the police,” Chief Ronald dela Rosa told a joint news conference with Duterte on Sunday. He added this was necessary to overhaul the force, Reuters reports.
Duterte himself, saying he was embarrassed by the crime, gave the officers on the run after the killing 48 hours to turn themselves in, or have a price set on their heads at 5 million pesos ($100,000) – dead or alive.
There is a feeling among Duterte’s critics that the mounting number of scandals involving his police force is a sign that the drug war is a cover for extortion, and that Jee’s murder was merely the latest mishap.
The leader is being accused of overseeing a campaign that has led to more than 7,000 deaths since he took office in June last year. Many of these deaths are still under investigation, while some 2,250 are believed to have occurred in police custody.
However, Duterte isn’t flinching at the accusations. The president said he believed at least 40 percent of his police force was dirty, and that the country was in need of a clean-up.
“You policemen are the most corrupt. You are corrupt to the core. It’s in your system,” Duterte addressed the fugitive officers in a statement to local press, as he vowed to “cleanse” the force by carrying out a comprehensive review of all officers ever caught engaging in extortion and other grave derelictions of duty.
On Sunday, Duterte still doubled down on his anti-crime rhetoric, and said he will extend his drug war “to the last day of my term,” according to the Inquirer. That will be in 2022.
The original timeline for the anti-narcotics units to wrap up was this March, but the president has decided that “March no longer applies.”

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owls in tree mural @Ali Potter...cute idea for Terrin's tree too...or one in a children's room
I quite like this. Similar to what I'm thinking of for the tree. Trunk seems a little thick and could use some more branches I think. Like the swirls and could easily add flowers and leaves and whatever else.
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Color inspiration: Fall for bronze
So last night was apparently 65 degrees F here in New York - seriously, it was kind of a cold one considering it's been so warm! I almost forgot what cold felt like...oh yeah, and then I remembered. Soooo, I guess it's officially the end of summer? Without me even realizing, I find that I've been drifting my color palettes towards transitional Fall palettes! Like today's bronze! I think it's such a great color and lovely touch of shimmer for Fall/Autumn to wear and to decorate your home with! That tote bag up there has got to be my favorite - go get yours at the Coriumi Etsy shop here.
And to get you even more excited for fall...and then Christmas...that gorgeous gold leaf bowl set you see up there? It's part of a fantastic 2-part DIY Christmas magazine series put together by My Little Fabric and Stop by the Corner - all about DIY, budget friendly table decoration (made for Christmas, but I think it would look great for Fall, too!). The beautiful photography and styling will definitely inspire you! Seriously, go check out the post here (and here to view the online magazine)!!
Welcome to Fall, everyone! . . .
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'Immensely grateful' Jones heading back to Glasgow from Harlequins
Scotland player Huw Jones will return to Glasgow Warriors at the end of the current Gallagher Premiership season with Harlequins. A statement by the London club read: “Arriving at The Stoop last summer from Glasgow, Jones will return to his former club ahead of the 2022/23 season following a one-season stint in Twickenham.
“Making over 27 appearances to date since his debut off the bench against Newcastle Falcons in the opening round of the Gallagher Premiership season, the 28-year-old Jones has stepped into multiple positions across the backline for Harlequins during the current campaign, most recently slotting in at full-back in place of the injured Tyrone Green.”
Jones said: “While my time with Harlequins has been a relatively short one, I’m immensely grateful to have had the opportunity to play within this team. This is a special group of players and staff and I’m looking forward to playing my role in a Premiership title defence before returning to Glasgow.
“I’d like to thank everyone at Harlequins and the supporters for welcoming me so warmly this season, I’ll always be proud of my time in this famous jersey.”
Harlequins head coach Tabai Matson added: “Huw has been a great addition to the team this season. He’s put in the hours and bought into the way we play and our ethos.
“We’re looking forward to seeing Huw finish the season and wish him the absolute best as he returns to Scotland. He will play an important role in our playoff run-in over the next month and I know he will be keen to finish his time with Harlequins on a high.”
In a separate statement by Glasgow, Jones said: “I’m really looking forward to going back to Glasgow. I lived there for five years and I made a lot of friends and memories, and I’m looking forward to making more both on and off the field in the seasons ahead.
“There is a great core group of players at Glasgow that wants to take the club forward and I’m really keen to be a part of that. I have gained a lot of valuable experience playing for Harlequins this season and I’m excited to return and show how I’ve developed as a player, and to pull on the Glasgow Warriors jersey again.”
Head Coach Wilson added: “We are really excited to bring Huw back to the club. Huw has shown for both Glasgow, and more recently for Harlequins, he is a real attacking presence at both 13 and 15. We wanted to add to our midfield to bring depth to an already strong position and the fact Huw can genuinely play other outside back positions will further enhance our squad depth for next season.”
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Starting this Wednesday, the US Coast Guard Cutter “Mackinaw” will be entering the bay of Green Bay at the Rock Island Passage to conduct several days of ice trials in the northern bay of Green Bay. While here, the “Mackinaw” will perform a series of operational tests to evaluate and record the performance of their shipboard systems in the thick plate ice. The cutter will purposely not interact with shore fast ice, not enter any port, and plans to spend each night out on the ice. It will operate in the vicinity of Chambers Island remaining north and east of Green Island and west of Washington Island. Recreational users of the ice should plan their activity carefully, use caution near the ice, and remain clear of ice cutting areas. Any questions regarding the exact timing of these events can be made by calling the Vessel Traffic Service in Sault St. Marie at 906-635-3232.


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Immaculata's 60-credit Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) and is also in alignment with the requirements for the State of Pennsylvania’s professional counselor licensure (LPC).
The M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) prepares students to function as counselors in the mental health field. You will be instructed in ethical practice, social and cultural diversity, human growth and development, career development, and helping relationships. Classes will provide training in areas relevant to the professional discipline of mental health counseling, such as:
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A Santa Ana man was arrested Thursday on Interstate 80 in Henry County, Illinois, for possessing what state troopers believe was 16.8 pounds of brown heroin.
Lucas Mendiola, 36, was the lone occupant in a SUV that was the second vehicle pulled over on that stretch of I-80 in less than a month that contained a large quantity of street drugs, according to authorities.
Mendiola was pulled over around 1:10 p.m. for following a vehicle too closely in the Silver Lexus SUV he was driving on eastbound Interstate 80 near Mile Marker 20, about one mile east of Geneseo, Ill. The heroin turned up after a search of the vehicle.
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Mendiola was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver and trafficking and held at the Henry County Jail on $500,000 bond.
Troopers on Aug. 22 made what they believed at the time was the largest heroin seizure in Illinois history after another Henry County traffic stop. Tests later revealed they'd snagged 35 pounds of ecstasy with a street value between $4 million and $8 million.
While authorities are sure it was heroin in the SUV, they wanted to await further testing before guestimating a street value.


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Woodlands Subdivision, Quail Creek Subdivision, Soult St, Mandeville Middle School, and all other St. Tammany Parish Department of Utilities customers in the areas highlighted on the map below.
Today, August 5, 2022, a contractor hit an 8” water main on Soult St in Mandeville. Water was shut off in the area so Department of Utilities personnel could repair the water main. Out an abundance of caution and in accordance with Louisiana Department of Health regulations, the customers listed above are under a precautionary Boil Advisory.
This BOIL ADVISORY is to remain in effect until rescinded by the Department of Utilities. It is recommended that all consumers disinfect their water before consuming it (including fountain drinks), making ice, brushing teeth, or using it for food preparation or rinsing of foods by the following means:
Boil water for one (1) full minute in a clean container. The one minute starts after the water has been brought to a rolling boil. (The flat taste can be eliminated by shaking the water in a clean bottle, pouring it from one clean container to another, or by adding a small pinch of salt to each quart of water that is boiled.)
Again, please be sure to disinfect your own water prior to consumption until you have been advised otherwise.
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Customers affected by this advisory will be advised when it is rescinded by hand-delivered notices.
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- Date of Notice: August 05, 2022
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- Boil Advisory Status: Rescinded
- Date Notice Rescinded: August 06, 2022


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International arrivals by air grew by 7.8% in the first two months of the year compared to 2018, as confirmed by the Costa Rican Tourism Institute, the Instituto Costarricense de Tursimo (ICT).
Between January and February, 499,693 arrivals to Costa Rica by both international airports, the Juan Santamaría (SJO) in San Jose and the Daniel Oduber (LIR) in Liberia, were reported, the highest figures for a high season in the last six years.
In January 2019 there were 248,754 international arrivals That amount represents an increase of 9.2% compared to January 2018, when there were 227,694.
In February, the percentage increase in arrivals by air was 6.4%; going from 235,830 in February 2018 to 250,939 in 2019.
“The statistics of international arrivals by air are of great importance for the country and based on these figures the promotion of the destination abroad is planned,” said the Minister of Tourism, María Amalia Revelo.
The Minister recalled that a month ago at the ITB tourism fair in Berlin, the largest in the world, the airlines that connect Europe with Costa Rica – seven of them directly – expressed in meetings held with representatives of the ICT their satisfaction with the results they had obtained in recent months as a result of their operations to our country, and their surprise by the reception that the destination has had in the markets they serve.
“This growing connectivity with Europe improves our ability to attract our best prospects from the viejo continente*,” said Revelo.
Whereas in 2006 Costa Rica had only one indirect flight to Europe; At present, there are seven airlines – Air France, British Airways, Condor, Edelweiss, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa – offering direct flights between Europe and Costa Rica
ICT international arrivals statistics are based on data provided by the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería (DGME) – Costa Rica’s immigration service.
* In Costa Rica, Europe is often referred to as the old continent

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Toyota Catalytic Converter
Catalytic Converter Our experience is that the Toyota catalytic converters are clearly and significantly superior to the aftermarket catalytic converters. They clean up the emissions much more aggressively right out of the box, and they typically last from five to ten times as long.
The brand new aftermarket cats we’ve had occasion to test have passed the emissions test by the thinnest of margins, where a Toyota catalytic converter would have easily passed with room to spare.
The Toyota cats run much cleaner on sudden accelerations as well. We’ve tested the emissions of Toyotas with brand new Toyota catalytic converters on repeated back-to-back snap accelerations (which lends itself to creating maximum emissions) and the result has been that we see a high of only 50 or 60 parts per million of unburned hydrocarbons (HC). Doing the same test on brand new aftermarket cats has resulted in hydrocarbon readings as high as 1700 to 2000 parts per million.
As for longevity, over and over we’ve seen people who have replaced their cats with aftermarket cats get stuck in a cycle where from then on they have to replace the catalytic converter every two years just to make it through DEQ. A further problem with aftermarket cats is that in order to install the “universal” cat, the muffler shop will cut a section out of the original piping in order to weld in the non-Toyota cat. At that point, if the owner ever gets frustrated with having to replace the cat over and over and wants to return to a Toyota cat, he has to spend even more than he would have, because he now has to replace the piping on either side of the catalytic converter in order to restore the bolt-up flanges that have been cut off.
We were recently discussing cat costs with a Tundra owner and had occasion to calculate the cost per mile of one of Toyota’s most expensive catalytic converters. In this instance, the cost worked out to about 1 ¾ cents per mile. It had lasted 150,000 miles. Models with less expensive cats commonly work out to less than half a cent per mile.
If the aftermarket cat this person was considering were to fail within a year-which is not uncommon-then it would cost about 5 cents per mile if it lasted 15,000 miles. That’s approaching 3 times the cost per mile. (Okay, okay, it’s 2.857 times the cost per mile.)
While going over this with the customer, she mentioned that a muffler shop had told her that they were using an OEM part that would be the same as the Toyota part because supposedly OEM meant that it was made by the original manufacturer for Toyota. What OEM or Original Equipment Manufacturer actually means is that this company at some time has supplied some sort of part for Toyota-could be anything, could be a gasket. What it doesn’t mean is that they provided the catalytic converters. If they had provided the cats, they certainly wouldn’t be trying to sell generic cats that required cutting the old ones out and welding the new ones in.
As far as Catalytic converter failures go, they can fail in a number of ways and from a number of causes. Most commonly, their ability to clean up emissions eventually simply fades out and they either fail the DEQ emissions test, or, for newer vehicles that monitor the converters, the computer can turn on the check engine light and will set a code that says “catalyst efficiency below threshold.” If your engine is chronically burning oil, it tends to leave crusty deposits on the cat and make it effectively inert. If those deposits continue long enough, eventually it plugs up the cat and you experience a severe loss of power, because the exhaust can exit quickly enough to allow the engine to take in the quantities of air it needs for power. Driving the car with a cylinder misfiring causes the cat to overheat as it ignites all the unburned gasoline to burn in the cat itself. In this case, it can run so hot that the catalytic converter material disintegrates. This can lead to chunks of material getting lodged in the exhaust system in a manner that plugs up the exhaust and causes severe loss of power. Another way in which the catalytic material can be broken up is if something strikes the outside of the cat hard enough.
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Suppose that you were adopted or for some other reason didn’t know your heritage, and you always wanted to run.
But you never did, because you didn’t want to look silly, or work always got in the way, or you felt lazy that day. But you kept feeling like you should run, and everyone you met said you looked like you would be a good runner, and when you did run it made you feel really great, like this was what you were meant to be doing!
But of course other things always prevented you from doing this, and no one else was running, so you didn’t want to stand out, and you had bills to pay, and when you were an old, old person, dying in a wheelchair, you learned that you came from a family of Olympic runners, stretching back as far as the Olympic records were kept.
And you realized that you had wasted your life doing other things that you didn’t even like that much, being like everyone else, when what you had been born to do was run.
That is sort of like what Haanel talks about in part 5, how we limit ourselves by not using the power that we were born with, our inheritance, simply because we don’t know we have it and never listen to that part of ourselves which is telling you what your true power is.
I love this section:
There is a fine estate awaiting a claimant. Its broad acres, with abundant crops, running water and fine timber, stretch away as far as the eye can see. There is a mansion, spacious and cheerful, with rare pictures, a well-stocked library, rich hangings, and every comfort and luxury. All the heir has to do it so assert his heirship, take possession, and use the property. He must use it; he must not let it decay; for use is the condition on which he holds it. To neglect it is to lose possession.
He later explains that like an athlete who has to use his strength in order to get more, a financier who must use his money in order to make more, a business that must use its inventory to get the money to buy more, we must give and use the power we have in order to get the power and resources we need.
First you have to know what power you do have, though, and it seems to me that this is what these past few weeks have been about — figuring out what truly excites us, what we need deep down in our hearts to be happy, what we want our futures to be like. I have found this to be really difficult, because I’m not used to doing this. All my life it seems like I’ve been trying to either fit in or do for others, rather than to sit and think about what do I want?
It seems as if others are having trouble with this too, if the posts in our forums give any indication.
They never said it would be easy. But it certainly seems to be worth it. 🙂

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This is in regards to the bus driver strike in Santa Clarita. The strike has been going on since Oct. 9. Since this time, the strike has had a significant impact on the lives of hundreds of seniors and people with disabilities.
The Dial-a-Ride program provides a wonderful service to the senior and disabled community. I can speak directly on how (the strike) is impacting seniors. Many seniors rely on this service to bring them to the senior center. Here, many seniors are able to stay active in the various exercise classes and socialize with others — all of this being very important to seniors’ physical and mental well-being. There are also seniors who rely on the free lunch meal, allowing them to have at least one good meal a day.
Aside from taking seniors to the senior center, this service helps us to go to doctor’s appointments, pick up prescriptions at the pharmacy, and other important places.
Without a way for many seniors to get around the Santa Clarita Valley, there are many seniors who are feeling depressed.
Thank you for your time and I hope you can convey the situation and how it is impacting the senior community.
Carmen Huezo Gutierrez
Editor’s note: The above letter was hand-signed by two dozen additional local senior residents.


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Like it or loathe it, we can at least agree Diablo Cody’s Juno was grounded in some kind of consistent reality, even one entirely of her own making. While it’s true no one actually talks like Ellen Page’s character — “pork swords”? — she seemed the perfect channel for Cody’s snarky, super-precious dialogue. We cared about her, despite her constant verbal flim flam. Alas, Cody doesn’t get so lucky with her latest screenplay effort, directed by relative newcomer Karyn Kusama. Megan Fox might be easy on the eyes, but she has almost no hope of capturing the proper wit and self-conscious sarcasm necessary to make Cody’s otherwise thin characters more flesh and blood.
Mind you, blood actually factors greatly to the story, such as it is, which concerns Jennifer (Fox) and her BFF, Needy (Amanda Seyfried). Friends since early childhood, Jennifer is the sexual bombshell, and Needy supports her already healthy ego by being hesitant and bookwormish. In short order, Jennifer is nabbed by a demonic indie band (one of the few truly funny conceits of the film: the band has to make a deal with the devil to have any chance of making it in today’s oversaturated market), and turned into a blood-soaked demon, needing to feed on smitten high school boys. There are several amusing side pieces, and ample examples of Cody dialogue, replete with homemade slang (“salty,” “freaktarded,” “cheese and fries”), but otherwise, the whole enterprise has the slight and half-baked feel of a rushed first draft.
Of the two leads, the talented Seyfried is far better equipped to contend with Cody’s particular brand of verbal insouciance. Just as David Mamet requires actors who know how to properly articulate his stylized lines, Cody needs actresses like Page and Seyfried in order for her characterizations to have any weight. There is some half-hearted attempt at horror shtick, almost entirely clichéd variations on the scary fake-out, but, ultimately, the film lives — and mostly dies — on the strength of Fox and Seyfried’s chemistry. It is here where the film really seems to falter — hyped-up Sapphic make-out session or no. Their relationship simply isn’t grounded enough for us to believe in it, or its subsequent demise, nor Needy’s speedy transformation into a would-be demon killer. Hell might be a teenage girl, as Needy informs us at the beginning, but this film is a bit closer to purgatory.
Special features included in the BD version: an audio commentary with director Kusama, deleted scenes, a gag reel, bloopers, video diaries, and a bunch of featurettes on the phenomenon of Megan Fox.
Piers Marchant is a Philly-based writer and editor, and the EIC (and film critic) for two.one.five magazine (215mag.com). His reviews can be found on 215mag.com and his tumblr blog, Sweet Smell of Success. You can also follow him on twitter @kafkaesque83.


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Twickenham RFC. by Jim Peters, Club President
Twickenham football club can trace a heritage back to 1867 when Wellesley House, Twickenham, a young men’s academy in Twickenham played against Richmond.
The academy closed in 1869. In 1873 an advert appeared in the Richmond and Twickenham Times for the formation of a football club, for sons of gentlemen only. They seemed to have taken the Wellesley House fixture, and no doubt the players, against Richmond, losing to them in a match played on Richmond green in the same year. A Twickenham seconds are recorded in 1874 and an unbroken record of fixtures exists up to 1884, with the club being accepted into the Rugby Football Union in 1880, the colours being magenta and dark blue.
The rugby mantle in Twickenham then seems to have been taken over by the Twickenham Young Men’s Friendly Society, playing as ‘Twickenham’ in 1888.
In 1893 a meeting was held in the Prince Blucher pub to form a football club and the proposal to play the rugby version of the game defeated one to play the association game’ by twenty one votes to fourteen.
The original colours were black jerseys with a very large white TFC sewn to the front.
Home games were played on Twickenham green. One year later the club was banned from playing on the green due to the damage caused and the club re-organised itself, changing colours to those worn today, black and red hoops. From then on the club has an unbroken record of fixtures.
After being turfed off the green a succession of meadows and fields in and around Twickenham were used as home grounds and the’ headquarters’ were usually a local pubs, The Albert, The Prince Blucher and the Albany to name a few.
The membership was made up of players from a number of public schools and locals and the club was referred to as’ being one of the leading metropolitan clubs’ in the press.
The club moved to it’s present ground, Parkfields , in the early 1930s and now runs four teams, and thriving Colts, junior and mini sections. Having been promoted in each of the last two seasons, it currently plays in London One South league.


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Abstract 325: Differences in the Implications of the Time Interval from Collapse to Initiation of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and to Return of Spontaneous Circulation for the Prognosis of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients
Introduction: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients have a poor prognosis even if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is administered. The time interval from collapse to initiation of CPR (CA-CPR) and the time interval from collapse to return of spontaneous circulation (CA-ROSC) are reported to be predictors of survival in cardiac arrest patients. However, the clinical implications of both durations remain unclear.
Hypothesis: We assessed the hypothesis that CA-CPR and CA-ROSC have different impacts on the prognosis of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.
Methods: We enrolled adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients between 2006 and 2010 in this study. Receiver-operating characteristic curves of CA-CPR and CA-ROSC were generated to analyse favourable neurological outcomes. We assessed the independent predictors of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and favourable neurological outcomes by using the logistic regression model. A P value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: We enrolled 1194 patients. The median age was 74 y (interquartile range 61-83 y); 61% were males. Fifty-two percent of the patients involved witnessed cardiac arrest; 76% of the patients were received by-stander CPR, 11% of the patients whose initial recorded rhythm was shockable rhythm. The CA-CPR for patients who achieved ROSC (n = 422) was shorter than that for patients who did not achieved ROSC (7 min (1-14 min) vs. 19 min (8-51 min), P < 0.001). From the patients who achieved ROSC, the patients who had favourable neurological outcomes had shorter CA-CPR (2 min (1-7 min) vs. 8 min (2-15 min), P < 0.001) and CA-ROSC (13 min (9-22 min) vs. 46 min (34-58 min), P < 0.001). The area under the curve for the CA-CPR predicting ROSC was 0.74. The area under the curve for the CA-CPR and the CA-ROSC predicting favourable neurological outcomes in patients who achieved ROSC was 0.69 and 0.89, respectively. Multivariable analysis showed that the CA-CPR was associated with ROSC and CA-ROSC but not A-CPR was associated with favourable neurological outcomes.
Conclusions: Early initiation of CPR is associated with ROSC, and early ROSC in turn is associated with favourable neurological outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Extracorporeal circulation
- Percutaneous coronary intervention
- Cardiac arrest
- © 2012 by American Heart Association, Inc.


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Blue Jays: Berrios is quietly ranking on the Major League leaderboards
Jose Berrios has been playing well for the Blue Jays as of late, a good sign after what the club had to give up in order to bring him North of the border.
After sending top prospects Austin Martin and Simeon Woods-Richardson the opposite way to Minnesota, Berrios had a great start in Toronto but did struggle on the August road trip, giving up eight earned runs through 9.0 innings with seven walks to six strikeouts through two outings.
Since the August 29th game against the Tigers, where the right-hander tweaked his mechanics with pitching coach Pete Walker, Berrios has once again found a groove and is pitching well, highlighted by his performance yesterday against his former team, holding the Twins to three earned runs over 6.2 innings with one walk and six strikeouts.
The win against the Twins was much needed as the club fights for a playoff berth, holding onto a Wild Card spot while fending off teams like the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners alongside the Boston Red Sox who occupy the other spot. Especially with Hyun Jin Ryu on the IL right now, Berrios needed to step up in a big way and he got it done.
While some criticized the trade at the time, Berrios has sneakily been making his way to the top ten in multiple categories in the American League, such as first in innings pitched (180.0), fourth in WHIP (1.07), fifth in ERA (3.45), seventh in strikeouts (187), and seventh in opponents batting average (.224).
While teammate Robbie Ray is dominating the headlines, Blue Jays starter Jose Berrios is quietly ranking amongst the top pitchers in the American League.
While this isn’t the same level as Cy Young candidate and teammate Robbie Ray, Berrios is pitching well and is a considerable upgrade over some of the internal options that the club would have had to go with without him in the rotation. Before joining the Blue Jays, the Puerto Rican product was dealing with his former club, sporting a 3.48 ERA through 20 outings with 32 walks, 126 strikeouts, and a 1.04 WHIP through 121.2 innings.
The right-hander has quietly been ranking well across the American League especially with his league-leading 180.0 innings pitched, a testament to him being able to pitch 5+ innings consistently as well as stay healthy, something the Blue Jays lacked earlier this season.
Making the matter even sweeter is that Berrios is around for next season as well, a cushion in the event that Ray, a pending free agent, leaves for another club this off-season. Factor in the rest of the starters, a rotation bolstered with at least Berrios, Ryu, Alek Manoah, potentially Nate Pearson, and hopefully the return of Ray, the Jays could put forth one of the top rotations in the American League next year.
While some may criticize the package given up for Berrios being too much at the time, it is clear that the Jays are a better team with him in the rotation and considering he is around for at least one more season, having a full season of the right-hander could be a huge difference-maker in the long run next year.