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From greeting foreign leaders to heading regional summits, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is taking over the reins from his elderly father and becoming Saudi Arabia's uncrowned king.
With increased concerns over the nearly 86-year-old King Salman's health, Prince Mohammed, 36, is taking charge of presidential meetings and reception of dignitaries, with the king rarely making public appearances.
While Prince Mohammed has been considered the de facto leader since his appointment as heir to the throne in June 2017, his growing prominence has never been more apparent than when he met with French President Emmanuel Macron in early December, and led the Gulf Cooperation Council summit on Tuesday.
King Salman, who usually heads the annual meeting after warm embraces and friendly handshakes, was a no-show.
“The idea that a crown prince is the de facto ruler of the country, meeting with foreign presidents and presiding over summits, only happened before when Saudi kings were not in good health,” Yasmine Farouk, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told AFP.
“What's new is that there is now national and media acceptance of a parallel, even more important, role for the crown prince even when King Salman fulfils all his duties.”
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, King Salman has been residing in Neom, a futuristic development on the Red Sea.
His last meeting with a foreign official in Riyadh was in March 2020, when he sat down with then-UK foreign minister Dominic Raab, and his last trip abroad was to Oman to offer his condolences over the death of Sultan Qaboos in January 2020.
Prince Mohammed has sought to position himself as a champion of moderate Islam, even as his international reputation took a hit from the 2018 murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate.
The crown prince, also known as MBS, has opened Saudi Arabia to tourists and foreign investments in an effort to diversify the economy of the world's largest oil exporter economy away from crude.
He has overseen sweeping social changes, including allowing women to drive and work in the public sector, enabling citizens to enjoy the additional income and recreational outlets that opened up across the country.
These changes have come alongside a crackdown on dissent and free speech.
He even seemed more open than his father towards Israel, allowing its commercial aircraft to pass through Saudi air space.
According to Kristin Diwan, of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, Prince Mohammed has benefitted from the king's longevity.
“His ongoing presence conveys traditional authority to cover MBS's youth and unconventional actions while rarely impeding them,” she told AFP.
The Saudi authorities did not say why King Salman was not present at Tuesday's summit, especially since he delivered a televised address on the country's budget earlier in the week.
However, Saudi government adviser Ali Shihabi said the king is well and just being careful.
“Reliable sources confirm that the King is in excellent health, exercising every day etc but is 86-years-old and is uncomfortable wearing a mask and has a tendency to want to shake hands and warmly greet people so extra caution is taken to keep him safe and away from public meetings,” Shihabi tweeted on Wednesday.
Rivals driven out
Prince Mohammed embarked on a Gulf tour ahead of the summit, meeting with heads of Gulf Cooperation Council member states.
“Any current arrangement with the royal court happens only through the crown prince's office,” a western diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
“The king is no longer in the picture [...] (Prince Mohammed) is no longer a king in the making, he is a king in the palace.”
His path to the throne is clear and has been for some time, with no foreseeable obstacles after he drove out one rival after another.
“There is no identifiable source of effective opposition inside or outside the royal family,” said Hussein Ibish, a Washington-based Middle East expert.
He added that “MBS is indeed becoming more prominent and powerful”.
Despite some concern that the international community would not want to deal with Prince Mohammed, especially after the Khashoggi murder, a Riyadh-based diplomat said that such fears “dissipated after Macron's visit to Saudi Arabia”.
While US President Joe Biden vowed a tougher approach than his predecessor Donald Trump, and has yet to directly communicate with Prince Mohammed, the administration has made it clear that it is inevitable.
“It's only a matter of time,” said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.


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By: Lisa Briggs | Thursday, Dec. 17th, 2020
Snowstorms have a wonderful way of slowing everything down, forcing us to live in the moment. All of the distracting details of daily life that ordinarily occupy every moment of your time are suddenly moved to the back burner. Your mind clears as you focus on the storm and the immediate tasks at hand. For us, gardening does the same thing. It allows us to slow down, breathe and enjoy the simple pleasures of a new leaf or flower bud. During the holidays, when we need stress relief the most, we turn to gardening again and again, not only because it’s our passion, but because it is also our favorite form of therapy.
Lose yourself in the beauty of an orchid flower for just an instant and feel your blood pressure drop. Delight in the way the sunlight plays on the surface of a spiny cactus stem and sense your smile. Be amazed as an amaryllis reaches upward and stretch yourself inwardly as well. These are the moments that help us get through one of the most hectic and stressful times of the year.
Gardening projects in this season don’t have to be large and they don’t need to be complicated. Simpler is better as far as we’re concerned. Small blooming plants don’t take up much space or require much care. Our favorites are mostly in the Gesneriad family, home of the famous African Violet. They can have, shall we say, an “old lady plant” image, but they are among the most collectable and sought after plants in the greenhouse industry. If you’ve never grown a violet from a leaf cutting you should really try it. It’s quite fascinating to watch and can lend a great sense of accomplishment to novice gardeners. Seeing the first tiny leaves of the new baby violet emerge is wondrous.
Propagating violets is really easy. All you’ll need are small, clean pots with drainage holes and some lightweight potting soil suitable for houseplants. Cut a midsize leaf, including the stem, from the violet you are propagating. Fill your pot with potting mix and insert the leaf stem into the mix about an inch deep. The oval leaf blade will be sticking up out of the container. Lightly water and place in a warm location. After a few weeks, look closely and you will start to see a teeny tiny violet plant starting to grow off of the old leaf stem. That’s it. You did it! The waiting is the hardest part of the entire process.
Cacti and succulents are always fascinating to grow and observe. We always think of them fondly as the sculpture gardens of the plant world. There are thousands of species, each one uniquely interesting in its own way. If you have a cool room in the house, you might even get some of them to bloom in the spring. Cool to cold temperatures help to set the flower buds and start the flowering process in motion. Keep in mind that the plants still need sunshine, but not much water at this time of year.
How about enjoying the science and art of aromatherapy right in your own kitchen? Herbs, whether culinary or strictly aromatic, can lighten up a dreary winter day and also spice up your dinner. A sunny windowsill can be home to small pots of lavender, rosemary, basil, or any herb you can think of. Start from seeds or buy the plants already started. Herbs can change your mood if you give them a chance. Crush some fresh lavender leaves for a calming effect after a hard day out shopping or brew some tea with fresh mint leaves to perk up after work. Herbs don’t require much more than a sunny window. Use the leaves fresh or dry some for potpourri or make a sachet to scent a drawer.
We are all looking to a quiet Christmas and a peaceful transition into 2021. We wish the same for you and yours. Happy Holidays!

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Tottenham midfielder Erik Lamela has struggled to settle in London and reports that he could return to Italy are gathering momentum.
The Argentine starlet made a name for himself at Roma last season before joining Tottenham in the summer for £30m.
But Lamela hasn't exactly set the Premier League alight and there have been suggestions that the lifestyle in England doesn't suit the 21-year-old, prompting speculation that he could head back to Italy as soon as this winter.
Inter are known to be keeping an eye on Lamela but it is widely believed that a deal will be tough to broker as the Nerazzurri don't have access to the necessary funds without selling first.
It seems that the answer could lie in a loan switch that would allow Lamela to rediscover his form in Serie A and remove his salary from Spurs' wage bill.
The paper stresses that the discussions are at an early stage and that Lamela hasn't yet clarified his position.
While Lamela will be reluctant to admit that White Hart Lane isn't working out for him, his priority must be securing a spot in Argentina's World Cup squad and he will need a change in fortunes to achieve that.
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Hey everyone! Today I'm writing to you a little earlier than usual because I might be too busy later to write a post.
Anyways, parts of today were simply magical. Of course, other parts I felt resistance. But with each high, I experienced feelings that were new and shed insight onto many parts of the Law of Attraction. Most importantly, the concept of "Believing is seeing". I always understood that if we were to believe we had what we wanted, we would have it. What we see with our eyes would match our belief. Until today, I had only experienced glimpses (if at all) of what it's like to believe without seeing. But today, I believed I had my ideal appearance. Not the entire day, but for hours. The belief would ebb and flow and it felt quite magical. I was not fooling myself. I actually believed it even though I didn't see it. Natalie was able to simply hold onto it the whole time. I believe that as I practice my visualization I will be able to hold onto that belief constantly.
Another thing I practiced in addition to visualization was "feeling the emotions associated with having my desire". I always resisted that notion because my mind's default mode is to reject feeling anything that doesn't have "evidence" to support it. And that is where most of us go wrong! We resist feeling these things because we believe we can't (or shouldn't) when things in our life appear the way we don't want them to. But remember, "believing is seeing", not "seeing is believing!". What I did was visualize to the best of my ability, my ideal appearance, then I tried to tap into the feeling of "what if I did look like this?" Then I reminded myself "oh! I do have it already!! It's not a 'what if'" I took several deep breaths and tried to feel beautiful, happy, grateful, and in love with what I looked like. Once I was able to connect with the feeling, I did the technique of feeling the emotion 10x stronger (this is not in Natalie's method, just another technique I picked up somewhere else). The rest of the day I continued with Natalie's method and it was a lot easier. The times I was feeling resistance, is when I was interacting directly with my appearance. For example, washing my face (because it gets oily), or having to shave, etc. It's best to minimize those distractions and avoid looking in the mirror. But if you do, remember Natalie's words:
"When you look in the mirror, do not see your old feature; do not focus on your old feature changing. That implies that your old feature is still there. You must focus on your new feature being there already."
Yes it's true that she looked in the mirror and was able to visualize her desired appearance, but that's not necessarily easy for all of us and I think we can achieve physical results without needing to master that right away.
What I've found though, is that these effortless visualizations while looking directly at your appearance as it physically appears, do not emanate from the mind. If you're struggling to visualize, that indicates you don't have belief. As Abraham says, the reason for experiencing resistance when looking at your current physical circumstances is the mindset of "it's true therefore I believe I should give my attention to it". The point is, if you didn't think it was true, you wouldn't pay attention to it (aka what's in the mirror). You'd see it BUT NOT CARE. This is really important and I believe this is what Natalie was experiencing. The visualizations just help us get there.
When you practice feeling the emotions associated with your desired appearance, it's easy to look at your body/what you don't like and completely disregard it and pay attention to what you want instead. You simply stop identifying with how you look in current physical reality. Your mind is somewhere else. I've experienced this today and yesterday as well, but it's something I'm still working on. My guess is when I get to that constant level, then I will have absolutely mastered "Believing is seeing" and my physical manifestation will follow. It's quite amazing and I'm excited to see what the rest of my journey has in store!
This fact about stars reminds me of "Believing is seeing": Many of the stars you see in the night sky don't actually exist. By the time their light travels many light years and reaches our eyes, it's already been extinguished! The point is, things can appear that don't exist anymore, and things can exist before they appear! Instead of travelling physical distance though, they are travelling between the etheric and physical realm!
Lastly, one of the biggest forms of resistance I have/had is that the Universe doesn't "want" me to have my desire. But I encountered a quote that is helping me overcome that belief: "Why would the Universe give you a burning desire for something it didn't want you to have?" :)
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Check out the video of the My Chemical Romance cover of the Bob Dylan classic “Desolation Row”— featured in the upcoming Watchmen movie.
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For original Big East rivals who have been playing once or twice a year for decades, UConn and Seton Hall sound like strangers.
“Who is Herb Pope?” UConn’s Andre Drummond asked, innocently, after practice on Monday. “I don’t even know who that is. … I don’t mean any disrespect. I haven’t seen any other team besides my own.”
By way of introduction, Pope, Seton Hall’s 6-foot-8 senior, is one of the best all-around players in the Big East. Drummond, a freshman, wasn’t being arrogant. He’s just learning the Big East, still matching names with the players he is seeing on film and being told about. It’s for George Blaney, who will serve as head coach one more time before turning the Huskies back over to Jim Calhoun, who has seen plenty of Pope, to make sure UConn’s front-court players know who he is.
“Right now, he’s an all-Big East first team, the way he’s been playing,” Blaney said. “I’m really impressed with the defense he’s playing. We’re just going to have to be solid with him and keep him off the boards as much as we can.”
The Pirates, who haven’t made the NCAA Tournament since 2006, are playing their way back onto the league and national radar under Kevin Willard. They don’t seem to be very concerned about the last UConn team they played, in which they blew a 14-point lead and lost 61-59 in February of 2011.
“It doesn’t mean anything at all,” Seton Hall point guard Jordan Theodore told reporters after the Pirates win over West Virginia last week, “because they don’t have their best player in Kemba Walker. He’s not there anymore. UConn, they’re going to have a hard time in the Pru Center.”
The Huskies will return to The Prudentual Center in Newark, N.J., Wednesday night in the third Big East game of the year for both teams. Crowds there can be hostile, especially when Seton Hall is playing well and the opponent can be portrayed as a dragon. The defending national champs, ranked eighth in the major polls, certainly fit that bill.
“Jim [Calhoun] always talks about hostile crowds,” Blaney said. “He’ll say, ‘Let’s hear silence.'”
The Pirates (12-2, 1-1 in the league) began receiving votes in the major polls for the first time in several years after their non-league schedule was over. But they were blown out badly, 75-49, by top-ranked Syracuse in the league opener. They responded with an impressive win over West Virginia, closing the game out with a 13-0 run.
Theodore, who is averaging 15.6 points per game, has 98 assists and only 34 turnovers, numbers that get an opposing coach’s attention. Pope’s comeback is a stirring story. He collapsed and nearly died from a heart defect two years ago, and though he made it back last year was not quite the same. This year, he has been outstanding, scoring 32 points in a win over Northwestern, averaging 18.6 points and 10.9 rebounds per game. The Pirates start another big man in 6-9 Patrik Auda, so the Huskies’ combination of Drummond and Alex Oriakhi could again be challenged, as they were against South Florida last week.
UConn (12-1) beat St. John’s, 83-69, on New Year’s Eve to go 2-0 in the Big East. They have out-shot opponents 51 percent to 37 percent in the first two league games. Jeremy Lamb is shooting 69 percent in the last three games, helping the Huskies overcome any anxiety or issues related to Calhoun’s absence.
“We’ve shown we can handle controversy and stuff like that,” Lamb said. “We’ve got two Big East wins, one on the road, one a tough game at home. I’d say we’re handling it pretty smooth.”
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Chimps and Bonobos Use the Same Body Language to Communicate
The shared gestures suggest the primates — as well as humans — may have inherited the traits from a common ancestor.
Gestures are a form of visual communication that humans often use with seemingly little thought. For example, if a person wants someone to go away, the individual might fling their hand to shoo them off.
Similarly, if a person desires something, he or she might hold out a hand flat, with the palm up. These gestures connect us to other primates, since the moves are exactly the same in bonobos and chimpanzees.
"We don't have to learn them; they are part of the shared ape inheritance," Richard Byrne, an emeritus professor in the school of psychology and neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, told Seeker.
Evidence for the shared forms of visual communication is presented in a new study by Byrne and his team. The research, reported in the journal PLOS Biology, focused on bonobo and chimpanzee gestures, and found that approximately 90 percent of them overlap. This suggests that the cognitive ability underlying such visual communication skills was inherited from their common ancestor.
Lead author Kirsty Graham of the University of York’s department of psychology told Seeker that bonobos and chimps are closely related. They are thought to have diverged around one million years ago along the Congo River.
For decades it was believed that chimpanzees were the closest living relatives of humans. Recent genetic studies, however, show that bonobos also have about 99 percent of our DNA, which means they are now thought to be as closely related to us as chimps.
For the new study, Graham collected data on two neighboring communities of wild bonobos in the Luo Scientific Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Co-author Catherine Hobaiter of the University of St. Andrews traveled to another part of Africa, the Budongo Conservation Field Station in Uganda, to gather data on a community of wild chimpanzees. Both researchers filmed interactions that took place between the primates.
The scientists next analyzed the 2,321 instances of intentional gestures that they recorded. Such gestures included movements of the body, limbs, and head that are directed to a recipient and do not achieve a goal through force.
Most, but not all, of the gestures mirror the physical form of the corresponding behaviors.
"Humans can often guess the meanings correctly, but that is likely to be because we too have inherited the potential to use and understand many or most of the gestures found in chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas, from the shared common ancestor," Byrne said.
Videos showing these and other non-human primate gestures are at The Great Ape Dictionary.
Graham added that she does not think the gestures are iconic.
"To be really iconic, a bonobo would have to know that their gesture looked like the thing that they're communicating about and know that the other bonobo would understand them because it looks like that thing," she said. "That would be a lot to unpack, and we don't have any evidence suggesting that that's how their gestures work. ... If the gestures resemble the actions, it's maybe for different reasons."
Humans often create symbols that bear little resemblance to their corresponding behaviors or meanings. Examples include giving a thumbs up for approval and lifting the middle and index fingers to form the v-shaped "peace sign."
"Sign languages and symbolic gestures like 'thumbs up' or the 'peace sign' are quite different because they are acquired culturally by social learning, not from genetic hard-wiring, and are therefore culturally specific," Byrne said.
"In some cultures," he noted, "the peace sign is not understood, and thumbs up is an insult."
Bonobos, chimps, and humans all raise their arms as a gesture, but in humans this usually is a non-vocal way to draw attention to oneself. Students in class might raise their hand, for example, signaling a desire to be called upon. Byrne said that this gesture was taught to him and to others.
"It did not come naturally," he explained.
Some human gestures were therefore inherited from our primate ancestors, but others were not, the research suggests.
Graham said that while she and her colleagues are always careful to keep their distance from the wild primates they are studying, sometimes their inquisitive subjects break that intended barrier.
She recalls a young bonobo named Natsuko who would teasingly run up to the researchers, shake branches, and then run away. Bonobos appear to do this amongst themselves to get attention.
"'Object shake' is a somewhat ambiguous gesture, so I don't know what she wanted from us, but it definitely wasn't for us to ignore her," Graham said.
Robert Seyfarth is one of the world's leading experts on primate communication and other primate social behaviors. He and his wife Dorothy Cheney have conducted decades of fieldwork on various non-human primates. The pair were mentored by Robert Hinde (1923–2016), the noted animal behaviorist who supervised Jane Goodall's dissertation on the behavior of chimpanzees in the mid-1960s.
Seyfarth told Seeker that he was not surprised by the discovery that bonobos and chimps share many gestures, and that physically similar gestures in the two species have roughly the same meaning.
"Chimps and bonobos, after all, share many things: They live in similar habitats and have similar anatomy, social organizations, and social relationships," Seyfarth explained.
He said that the similarities could have evolved in a few different ways. The gestures might have evolved before the shared lineage of chimps and bonobos separated, or they could have converged after separation, or a bit of both.
"Given the results of this paper, it would be interesting to compare the gestures of gorillas with those of chimps and bonobos," he said, explaining that gorillas are not as closely related to chimps and bonobos as the latter two primates are to each other.
Byrne indicated that this additional research was on the horizon.
He said, "We have yet to compare the meanings of gestures of the chimpanzee and bonobo with those of the gorilla, but that species too has a repertoire of gestures that are very similar in physical form, and I would predict that they too will prove to be closely similar in meaning."
Gorilla DNA suggests that human primate forbearers and gorillas last shared a common ancestor around 10 million years ago. If gorillas do share certain gestures with humans, bonobos, and chimps, then those gestures could have been present in the human primate lineage for millions of years.
The researchers hint that the likely inherited longstanding skill helps to explain why people may understand non-human primate gestures so well.
"We have just finished an online experiment with over 15,000 participants assessing whether humans can understand chimpanzee and bonobo gestures," Graham said. "We showed people videos of chimpanzee and bonobo gestures and asked what they think the gestures mean. We're analyzing the results now and it looks really exciting, but that's about all we can say for the moment."


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Lower Saxony's Minister for Environmental Affairs, Stefan Wenzel, delivered the opening address. Among the participant were representatives of national state and regional governments from Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, the Wadden Sea national parks and other partner organizations, as well as a delegation from the Italian Dolomites World Heritage site. The Wadden Sea Day is an annual event is organized by the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS) and the National Park Administration Wadden Sea Lower Saxony.
Left to right: Rüdiger Strempel (CWSS Executive Secretary), Bernard Baerends (Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs), Stefan Wenzel (Lower Saxon Minister of Environment), Juliana Köhler, (Head of the UNESCO Wadden Sea World Heritage Visitor Centre Wilhelmshaven), Andreas Wagner (First Mayor of Wilhelmshaven), Dr. Christiane Paulus (German Ministry of Environment), Peter Südbeck (Head of the National Park Administration Wadden Sea Lower Saxony), Co Verdaas (Chair of the Wadden Sea Board).
The focus of this year's event was on different forms of cooperation, such as the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral education in the Danish part of the Wadden Sea, partnerships with various stakeholders in World Heritage sites, and the multidisciplinary and transnational cooperation of scientists in the Dutch Young Waddenacademie. Stakeholders from all parts of the Wadden Sea region, representing NGOs, science, commerce, consulting and administrations, made presentations on a broad range of initiatives and activities.
In his welcoming speech, Environment Minister Stefan Wenzel stressed the importance of deepening international cooperation: "Every World Heritage site needs active partners at all levels of society. The protection of our unique landscape is and will remain a task that goes beyond borders and generations. World heritage sites are wonderful places for young and old to learn and gather lasting experiences. "
Mechthild Rössler, the Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris, introduced the symposium to the theme: "I have been working for over 25 years for the Word Heritage Center and I have seen that long-term conservation depends mainly on successful partnerships." Though she could not attend the event in person, she greeted the 90 participants via video message. "The international cooperation between Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands to protect the entire Wadden Sea through the World Heritage Convention may be seen as a lighthouse example of excellence in transnational cooperation and partnership. The important role of the trilateral Common Wadden Sea Secretariat as focal point for this partnership should be emphasized in this respect," says Rössler.
In the afternoon, the speakers discussed the suggested approaches and their significance for the Wadden Sea World Heritage in a panel discussion. In spite of different understandings and approaches, there was an overarching consensus that the Wadden Sea and its outstanding universal value have to be protected and conserved for future generations. It is therefore necessary to win over visitors and inhabitants of the Wadden Sea region for this unique natural landscape and turn them ambassadors for nature conservation and sustainability. Active partnerships between stakeholders within the Wadden Sea region and beyond are an indispensable means for this.
An Italian delegation from the Dolomites participated in the Wadden Sea Day. The UNESCO Dolomites Foundation and CWSS have established an informal partnership and took part in the common booth of the Wadden Sea World Heritage at the ITB Berlin in March. “The dunes of the Wadden Sea and the rocky peaks of the Dolomites seem quite the opposite, yet they are so similar,” says Marcella Morandini, Director of the foundation (left photo): “Not only because of the selection criteria of the nomination to the World Heritage List, but also because they share the peculiarity of having many administrative boundaries and language borders within them.” In her talk, Morandini presented the challenges of and insights gained through cross-sectoral cooperation in the Dolomites World Heritage site.
In the framework of the closing reception the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1987 and based in Wilhelmshaven, the office coordinates the trilateral cooperation between Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands for the protection and conservation of the Wadden Sea and has decisively prompted the entry of the site into the World Heritage List.
Statements of the day:
Co Verdaas, Chair of the Wadden Sea Board:
In my opinion, a World Heritage Site cannot exist on its own; it needs active partners at all levels of society. A World Heritage Site needs partners that, instead of just capitalising on it, are willing to make an active contribution and project a positive image of the World Heritage concept to the outside.
Peter Südbeck, Head of the National Park Administration Wadden Sea Lower Saxony:
31 years after the founding of the National Park we know: Without cooperation, a genuine partnership with as many social groups as possible and a joint commitment for the objectives of nature conversation, we won’t be successful. This is a precondition for a strong identification of the people with their world heritage and for the important steps toward the preservation of the unique nature of the Wadden Sea.
Rüdiger Strempel, CWSS Executive Secretary:
World Heritage belongs to all humankind. Its protection is a task of global significance, which, nevertheless, has to start at our doorstep. The successful conservation of the Wadden Sea and its outstanding universal value requires cooperation with global partners as well as the engagement of the public and stakeholder groups in our Danish-Dutch-German Wadden Sea region.
Eelke Folmer, Young Waddenacademie:
Partnership - which entails dedicated, continuous and long-term collaboration regarding scientific and societal questions - is required to optimally adapt to and benefit from the upcoming changes in the Wadden Sea region. Understanding of the functioning of the Wadden Sea area as a complex socio-ecological system requires a systems analysis approach in which the components and their interactions are studied trans-disciplinary fashion. Holistic and deep understanding can be developed if there is dedication and partnership and is the key to identification of opportunities.
Peter Simonsen, Head of National Park Danish Wadden Sea:
In creating an education network I see a bottom-up approach as a key to get everyone involved and create the understanding that everyone is responsible for their own learning. Our National Park programme for education, learning and competence development follows this approach.
Hans-Ulrich Rösner, Wadden Sea Team:
The Green NGOs began the first conservation work in the Wadden Sea more than 100 years ago. We became then partners of the Wadden Sea World Heritage and will continue to support it, by furthering protection, by public information and interpretation, and by liaising with those who make a living in the region and do this in a sustainable way.
Marco van der Ree, Brokering Solidarity:
World Heritage is ours, and represents the identity of all of us. When we collaborate to protect it, and make it part of our current identity; we are building multi-stakeholder partnerships. Then we should look for the opportunities of where tangible and intangible, natural and cultural, heritage can help us (re)build sustainable lifestyles that fit our identity and can be sustainable for generations to come.
Gerard Kremer, MKB Noord:
If the Wadden Sea wants to become a successful sustainable destination for tourism then both the entrepreneurs and the governments must invest.

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Kris is an Associate Scientist in the Department of Geology & Geophysics. His research aims to understand the dynamics of the tropical ocean and atmosphere as a coupled system, its interaction with ecosystems and with higher latitude regions, how and why the climate system has changed in the past, and how climate will continue to change in the future–both naturally and as driven by human activities. As an OCCI fellow, Kris will focus on improving our understanding of centennial-scale climate variability by integrating large sets of global climate model simulations with in situ observations, paleoclimate proxies, and high-resolution ocean models.
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It's fair to say the highlight of the 2010-11 European season for Asian football was the number of players who had breakthrough campaigns with their clubs.
The apparent increase in Japanese players heading to Europe to embark on club careers arguably had an influence, but the number of young footballers from around Asia developing their game abroad certainly bodes well for the future.
With that in mind, Goal.com takes time to reflect on the Top 10 Asians in Europe for the 2010-11 season.
|10. Ryo Miyaichi (Feyenoord)
Little was known about the Japanese schoolkid before his loan move from Arsenal to Feyenoord in January, but when given his chance in Rotterdam he thrived. Miyaichi was man-of-the-match on his Feyenoord debut before scoring in his home bow for the club. The 18-year-old left-winger helped the club move away from the drop and his sparkling late-season performance against Willem II, when he scored two and assisted two more, saw him nicknamed 'Ryodinho'.
|9. Javad Nekounam (Osasuna)
The Iranian midfielder has had another strong season in the challenging Spanish La Liga. Nekounam has been a mainstay in the Osasuna starting line-up all term as the side have hovered just clear of relegation, although they are not safe just yet heading into the final day. Nekounam is incredibly Osasuna's top scorer this season with six goals, two of which came in a fine performance against Espanyol in February.
|8. Ki Sung-Yueng (Celtic)
The 'Korean Gerrard' certainly handled himself well enough in his first full season in the hurly-burly Scottish Premier League. At times the 22-year-old struggled to assert himself in midfield, which affected his consistency, but he displayed lovely technique and great creativity to offer Celtic fans plenty of hope with him pulling the strings. Ki's performance also aroused interest from Italian club Napoli.
|7. Atsuto Uchida (Schalke 04)
The former Kashima Antlers defender surprised many by becoming a regular feature in the Schalke side following his move from Japan. Uchida took a few weeks to settle in but found his feet, settling in at full-back as Schalke went all the way to the UEFA Champions League semi-finals. In his first European season, Uchida made over 25 appearances and was one of the bright points for Schalke who had a poor league campaign.
|6. Tim Cahill (Everton)
The Australian is a player who gives his all for the cause and this season has been no different despite struggling through the second half of the campaign with a foot problem. Cahill's early season form saw him near the top of the Premier League scoring charts with nine goals before the turn of the year. He had been at his predatory best with his trademark headers, but hasn't scored since the Asian Cup.
|5. Ali Al-Habsi (Wigan Athletic)
The Oman goalkeeper has been one of struggling Wigan's most consistent performers this term. Al-Habsi, on a season-long loan from Bolton, was given the nod ahead of Chris Kirkland as Wigan's number one early in the campaign and hasn't looked back, making countless saves which have given the Latics hope of survival going into the final day.
|4. Lee Chung-Yong (Bolton)
The Korean right-winger was a revelation in his first term in England and there was no second-season blues this term. Lee's creativity, pace and tirelessness have made him a popular figure at Reebok Stadium. He's provided eight assists and scored three goals for the Trotters this term and his importance to the side was shown when, after he left for the Asian Cup in January, the Trotters lost four of their next five league games.
|2. Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund)
Few imagined the impact the Japanese midfielder would have at eventual champions Dortmund when he signed for a mere €350,000 from Cerezo Osaka last year. Kagawa's midfield play was arguably the key to Dortmund's superb first half of the season which set up their title charge. By the break, Kagawa had eight goals in 17 games. Unfortunately he injured his metatarsal at the Asian Cup and missed most of the second half of term, otherwise he'd have been number one.
There you have it. Disagree with our selection? Let us know who you would have included in your esteemed line-up. As ever, we’re open to your suggestions and musings.

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Natural Cures For Yeast Infection, Causes And Remedies
Yeast infection is a very irritating problem faced by most of the women. Severe itching, burning sensations mostly in the vagina can be the most bothering and embarrassing at times. This infection can occur in other parts of the body like breasts, skin folds, nail bed and lower abdomen. Some yeast infections also occur in mouth resulting in white patches and sores; occasional bleeding from the infected parts creates lots of discomfort.
Men also contact this infection from the infected female partner through sexual contacts. Though this infection does not turn serious, but other discomforts faced by women are -
1. Problem in urination
2. Painful sexual intercourse
3. Foul odor from vagina
4. White and thick vaginal discharge
Yeast generally thrives in damp and moist conditions and when the pH level of the vagina changes to acidic. Other factors are -
1. Injury in the vaginal membrane
2. Dryness of vagina due to menopause
3. On prolonged intake of antibiotics
4. Pregnancy when there is hormonal change
5. Use of sanitary napkins
6. Tight clothing that induce moist conditions
7. Frequent contact with semen
Yeast infection in mouth is caused due to the weak immune system of the body or due to regular use of inhalers in asthma treatment.
Most of the infected persons are always in the look out for antifungal creams, pills in the drug stores for instant relief. Very few care for the natural remedies which work with long lasting effects and can be reused to prevent such infections.
1. Application of curd is a good natural therapy as the beneficial lactobacillus bacteria replaces the harmful yeast in the vagina.
2. Garlic fights yeast very effectively. Application of garlic few times a day is soothing providing relief.
3. Apple cider vinegar if applied in dilute concentrations kills the yeast.
4. Adding yoghurt to the daily diet or drinking butter milk helps in preventing any sort of yeast infection.
5. Drinking plenty of water flushes out the sugars that aid in the growth of yeast resulting in low chance of its infection and also to the cure.
6. Taking oil of oregano in prescribed doses also helps in combating the infection.
7. Mouth infection can be cured by frequent rinsing of the mouth with salt water.
8. Drinking cool liquids soothes the sores in the mouth and strictly avoiding sugar content food that helps in yeast formation.
Maintaining clean hygiene and good diet prevents such infections. Wearing of loose garments to allow free movement of air prohibits the growing of yeast.

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ConsenSys and AMD team-up to develop Blockchain-Based Cloud Computing
Blockchain software company and the Ethereum development studio ConsenSys is entering into an association with computer semiconductor producer AMD and Abu-Dhabi-based investment management firm Halo Holdings to develop a new cloud computing infrastructure based on blockchain technology.
ConsenSys announced this association in a press release which was published on January 4.
It announced that it was working with AMD and Halo Holdings to produce the so-called W3BCLOUD, a cloud computing architecture supported by the manufacturer’s computing hardware made specifically for supporting decentralized applications.
Both AMD and ConsenSys have gone through a bad phase in the recent crypto bear market of 2018. On one AMD, saw its stock losing ground up to 40% in the past four months while on the other hand, ConsenSys has made a major employee cut and downsizing.
This new partnership could help put some life back into the two companies before crypto markets start to recover.
As per the release, W3BCLOUD would become “the first” independent cloud computing blockchain substructure which would meet the needs of both the public and private sector.
Joseph Lubin, the founder of ConsenSys, who is also the co-founder of Ethereum, stated that “Bolstering the compute power of blockchain networks with AMD’s leading-edge technology will be of great benefit to the scalable adoption of emerging decentralized systems around the globe. The combination of hardware and software will power a new infrastructure layer and enable an accelerated proliferation of blockchain technologies.”
ConsenSys shall provide its expertise in the field of blockchain transactions with regards to security issues, how the transactions need to be processed and use cases for the technology. Whereas, as mentioned by Jerog Roskowetz, AMD’s director of product management for blockchain technology, AMD would provide ConsenSys with access to “high-performance hardware technologies capable of better scaling and proliferating decentralized networks and services.”
Joerg Roskowetz also mentioned that the product would be designed to “tackle challenges ranging from smart identity, enterprise data centers, and health ID tracking, to licensing and supply chain management.”
He further added that “We are excited to work with Consensys and provide them with access to high-performance hardware technologies capable of better scaling and proliferating decentralized networks and services to meet the growing interest from large corporations and governments looking to tackle challenges ranging from smart identity, enterprise data centers and health ID tracking, to licensing and supply chain management,”
ConcenSys had in the last month signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korean technological holding SK Group.
Earlier in November, AMD entered into a partnership with seven major tech companies to produce eight new cryptocurrency mining rigs. AMD had mentioned that these partnerships would provide better and updated “blockchain compute solutions” to the market, which will be made particularly to meet the requirements of “innovative blockchain platforms.”


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Khloe Kardashian has been undergoing a huge transformation for years now.
She looks different today than she did yesterday, and she looked different yesterday than she did the day before.
It's just that today she looks really, really different.
She shared that photo above on Instagram yesterday, and although she's cuddling with the fluffiest little puppy that ever was, people couldn't help but notice her face.
Or whatever's going on in the area where her face used to be.

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I’m headed out on the town tonight with some of the gals from work.
Relaxation, laughter, fun, and… possibly some terror are on the docket for the evening.
Tonight is the night I’m supposed to get up, in front of a crowd of strangers, and some of my strange co-workers, and sing karaoke.
I may, or may not, end up in a psych-ward tomorrow. It all depends on whether I can work up my nerve to actually pull this off.
My hands are shaking, my palms sweaty, my stomach churning.
But I chose to face this fear, of my own free will.
It’s time to put another phobia to rest.
Goddess help me, I’ve got to be completely bonkers to be contemplating this.
Wish me luck.
If I don’t end up in a padded room with a beautiful new, white jacket with lots of pretty, shiny straps and silver buckles, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Unless, of course, they decide on shock treatments.
In which case, I won’t remember a thing but the pretty colors.
Ooooh Nooooo! How could you possibly let them talk you into anything that might cause you to lose your sanity? 😉
Seriously though, good for you! I hope you had a blast … I know I was scared silly when I got talked into doing a duet with my step mom. But we did have fun. 🙂
And if you decided not to go up … I totally understand (’cause I know I wouldn’t!) and still congratulate you for even considering it. *hugs*
LOL, I did it!
I sang karaoke once. Just to say I didn’t. It wasn’t as bad as I thought. What song did you do?
“You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon, it’s a great favorite of mine, and was one of my best friend’s and my theme songs in high school.

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The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbor, and it apparently has been hiding a dark past. Scientists from the University of Michigan discovered that this sinister figure cannibalized our sibling approximately two billion years ago. That’s right, at one point, the Milky Way had a sister galaxy, and Andromeda ate it.
Scientists have been aware for some time that a large galaxy like Andromeda probably ate smaller galaxies around it; that’s where the halo of stars surrounding Andromeda comes from. But there was really no way to determine how many galaxies it had consumed over the course of its lifetime, nor how insatiable its hunger may have been. But now, using computer models, researchers have determined that much of that outer halo is actually composed of one larger galaxy that Andromeda mercilessly ripped into.
“Astronomers have been studying the Local Group — the Milky Way, Andromeda and their companions — for so long. It was shocking to realize that the Milky Way had a large sibling, and we never knew about it,” said Eric Bell, a co-author of the paper published in Nature Astronomy about the discovery, in a release. The sister galaxy, called M32p, was massive, third in size only to Andromeda and the Milky Way in our small section of the universe.
What’s more, this revelation may also solve a secondary mystery: Andromeda has a small satellite galaxy, M32, and scientists don’t know where it originated. Using this theory, they can extrapolate that the dense, compact galaxy is actually the remnant of M32p. “M32 is a weirdo,” Bell continued. “While it looks like a compact example of an old, elliptical galaxy, it actually has lots of young stars. It’s one of the most compact galaxies in the universe. There isn’t another galaxy like it.”
Not only does this discovery help scientists learn more about the universe around us, how we got here and how galaxies evolve, but it also tells us just how mean Andromeda is. While our large and menacing neighbor is not actually coming for us anytime soon, it’s going to happen eventually, and we’d best be prepared for the fight.


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A new report from the United Nations, “Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” looks at how women around the world are faring in several key areas.
But the results aren’t great.
According to the report — pegged to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — women are poorer, more hungry and more discriminated against than men.
The report says there are 122 women ages 25 to 34 who live in extreme poverty for every 100 men in that age group. The percentage of women living in poor households hovers at about 12.8 percent. For men, it is 12.3 percent, which means about 5 million more women are struggling.
It is harder for women to escape poverty, the report’s authors say, because women have less access to jobs and economic opportunities. In many places, the laws make it impossible for women to inherit wealth, own land and access credit. Even when women do find jobs, they are often paid less than men. Women have less time to work, too, because they do a disproportionate share of the housework, cooking and child care.
Women are also more vulnerable to food insecurity in nearly two-thirds of all countries. When a crisis hits, the report finds, women are more likely than men to go hungry. The highest percentage of women who face this challenge is in sub-Saharan Africa, though it is a problem worldwide.
Maternal death continues to be a major problem.
Globally, 303,000 women died from pregnancy-related causes in 2015. Nearly two-thirds of those deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, the report’s authors say. Low-income women are particularly vulnerable. This is a challenge in the United States, too, the only developed country where the rate of maternal deaths is growing.
Women are vulnerable in other ways, too. According to the United Nations, 1 in 5 women and girls ages 15 to 49 reported experiencing physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner in the past 12 months.
The report’s authors also surveyed national laws around the world and found that women are more likely to face legalized discrimination.
There are bright spots. Around the world, more women are going to school than ever before, and many are staying in school longer. Worldwide, 90.3 percent of primary school-age girls were enrolled in school in 2015, compared with 82.2 percent in 2000. (For boys, the number is slightly higher — 91.9 percent of primary school-age boys were enrolled in 2015.) Even so, the report estimates 15 million girls will never get the chance to learn to read or write.
It is a particularly acute challenge in places such as Africa, where 48.1 percent of adolescent girls are kept from school, along with 25.7 percent of girls who are of primary-school age. (For boys, the numbers are 43.6 percent and 21.7 percent, respectively.)
One issue schools still need to grapple with is providing adequate sanitation facilities for menstruating girls.

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Check out these photos highlighting the Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor pre-event news conference at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Admit it, you missed Conor McGregor, and seeing him at the UFC 229 press conference felt good.
Would Conor McGregor’s performance at the UFC 229 news conference have been better had there been fans inside Radio City Music Hall?
Dana White: UFC 229 news conference 'darkest' I've seen, Conor McGregor 'best ever' at mental warfare
UFC President Dana White believes Conor McGregor successfully got in Khabib Nurmagomedov’s head at the UFC 229 news conference.
On the heels of today’s UFC 229 pre-event news conference in New York, Conor McGregor has a restructured deal with the UFC.
Check out Conor McGregor’s best quotes from today’s UFC 229 pre-event news conference at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Jon Jones is eligible to come back next month, but he won’t be headlining the event in his home state everyone thought he would.


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The iconic TV show Friends is all about fun and friendship. The audience got the privilege to solve the friendship equation with six unknowns within ten phenomenal seasons. But sometimes the math can fail for good, giving us the most meant-to-be couples like Ross and Rachel or Chandler and Monica.
But the two variables of the amity equation, Ross and Phoebe, remained loyal to their friendship. Let's forget their one-time make out, shall we? While everyone talks about Joey and Phoebe’s special bond, Ross was the one who cared enough to buy Phoebe her first bike and Phoebe was the one who truly appreciated Ross’ musical genius.
Always fighting over evolution, gravity, reincarnated spirits, lessons of unagi and of course that mugging incident, these two virtuosos always united when in trouble. Ross created the whole Vikram story for Phoebe. Phoebe made the airlines put a whole lot of extra phalanges on board, just in case.
Let’s see if you can tell apart these two crazy-type things from just one fun fact.
Answers at the end!


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Hello faithful readers! The Picture of the Week was a bit delayed this weekend so I thought I’d throw a mid-week picture at you. During my recent mileage run to Hong Kong I captured a panorama of the skyline just after the light show was done (for the photographers, I’ll detail my process in another post). Because of the way I shoot panoramas I ended up with a truly massive file, over 140 megapixels! To give you an idea of how big it is, the dimensions of the picture at full resolution are 57 inches long by 27 inches tall!
I’ll do something special for this one. I’ll show you the picture below, but if you’d like to zoom in a little further, I’ll give you a link to the full-sized image. As a warning, it’s a massive file (48 MB) but it’s fun to zoom in and see little details (although unfortunately when you zoom in it’s a little blurry, sorry bout that). You can see the image below, and here’s the link to the full-sized version: Please only use for non-commercial purposes

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A special blessing and rededication ceremony was held thursday for the newly remodeled Roger Bacon Center on the Cotter campus in Winona. Winona Bishop John Quinn will preside over the ceremony
The Roger Bacon Center hosts the Cotter Junior High School program and all of the math and science classes for Cotter High School students. The renovation project was part of Cotter's Centennial Celebration and was made possible through benefactors.
A presentation of Thanksgiving was given to the Sisters of St. Francis who formerly owned the building and the College of St. Theresa campus.


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I. The girl’s eyes sparkled with the reflection of the stars. Her little sister looked over at her, strawberry-blonde hair cascading around her shoulders as they sat out on the shingled roof.
“Do you know the story of the stars?” the little one asked.
“Tell me,” the older girl answered, meeting her little sister’s Bambi eyes.
The little girl giggled and pointed, turning back to the midnight sky. “You see those three in a row?”
“That’s Orion’s belt. And those ones… those ones are his feet. And there’s his head, and his sword is there. Orion was a great warrior…”
The little girl continued her story, staring and pointing, sometimes glancing back at her big sister for a nod or a smile of acknowledgement. She reached the tale of Medusa before she realized her sister’s usually stormy blue eyes weren’t looking at the sky, they were fixed one her.
“You aren’t listening,” she whined. Then she smiled. Her sister’s eyes weren’t storms now. They shined like the clear summer sky. Those bright blue eyes turned soft as she leaned over and hugged the little girl.
“I love you, Sophia,” she said.
“I love you too, Lyssa.”
II. The little girl’s eyes turned red as blood streamed from her forehead. Her tiny, five-year-old hands wiped her eyes but all that accomplished was to cover the rest of her face in crimson and mat her golden-brown hair. The steel shelf support lay on the ground by her feet, one corner the same red that now dripped from the girl’s chin onto her t-shirt. Her oldest brother stood petrified across the room. No one remembers why he was angry (it wasn’t an infrequent occurrence), but everyone remembers what happened because of it.
The eldest sister rushed towards the youngest and shouted for someone to get a towel. The middle one ran forward and handed the elder a dish towel as tears ran from both their eyes.
The mother stormed into the room as the eldest girl tried to stop the bleeding.
“Sophia, put Micah to bed,” she ordered the middle child. “Alyssa, get Gloria to the car.” Then she glared across at the elder boy. “We’ll deal with you later, Andrew,” she snarled.
The children hurried to follow their orders and Sophia heard the car speed away as she sang her little brother to sleep.
III. His eyes were hard that day, their usual turquoise brightness hidden far from sight. He wanted something, and he knew it would not be given freely.
They sat on the floor eating poptarts and watching television — together, like everything they did back then. He commented about her being sexy. She laughed.
“You’re missing the best part,” she chided, gesturing at the television. She rolled her eyes, chuckled, and turned back to the show, but his eyes stayed fixed on her.
He reached over and slid his hand up her back, under her shirt.
“Griffin, what are you doing?” Her voice tremorred. He wasn’t listening.
He flipped her onto her back on the ground.
The pencil fell from her fingers and she sprung back as she saw what she’d nearly done. She crouched near the wall, still ready to fight, terrified of what might happen if she did. Her hands shook. The pencil lay just a few feet in front of her. She darted forward and grabbed it, then threw it across the room, listening to it roll and bounce down the attic stairs.
A trickle of blood crept down his neck as he sat up from where she’d pinned him. She’d stopped barely short of the carotid, but it wasn’t her who’d pinned him down. It wasn’t her who’d wielded the nearby weapon, now terrifyingly far away.
He didn’t speak. He just stood up, walked to his desk, picked something off the upper shelf, and returned to his place sitting across from her on the floor. He set the knife in front of her.
“Don’t pick it up,” he said.
Her whole body shook now. Every muscle tensed, ready for a fight but not wanting one. They stayed like that for an eternity, every second fighting for control, until finally she ran from the house.
IV. The little girl closed her eyes and hugged her legs to her chest. She didn’t bother trying the door — it only opened from the outside and she knew from many previous imprisonments that she wasn’t strong enough to break it. She covered her ears against the shouting outside and retreated into a more comfortable darkness than the one her body was trapped in. She imagined a better world than this one, a world where music brought trees to life and no human ever corrupted the beautiful peace of her garden — the simplistic innocence of a child.
The door swung open and banged against the wall when the shouting finally stopped. The light stung as she opened her eyes.
“You can come out now, Sophia,” Alyssa said. “He’s gone.”
V. Sophia closed her eyes again, years later, but now it wasn’t to block out the world. She was Charlie now, and Charlie didn’t hide.
Charlie raised her arms and turned her head upward. The wind wrapped around her body and every raindrop on her skin felt like a kiss. Lightning flashed across the clouds and thunder rolled through the air. The sky’s deep indigo made the electricity all the more striking.
Charlie reached over and took her best friend’s hand, then her little brother’s. They laughed and danced in circles on the rooftop until water dripped from every part of them and they returned home.
VI. “You have beautiful eyes,” he said.
“The colors — it’s like whole worlds are inside your eyes.”
She chuckled. “Well, I guess that depends on your definition of ‘worlds’.”
They both smirked.
They lay on the roof looking at each other and the sky. The sun shone through the maple leaves above, casting starry shadows on the shingle. Wind ruffled their hair and rustled the leaves, making the stars dance on their faces and accentuating their rainbow eyes.
“Y’know, you’re kind of beautiful, too,” she said, “Dork.”
“I am not a dork, Bambi.”
“Beautiful,” he whispered.
“What color are they now?” she asked.
He described greens and browns and golds, spring flowers and summer leaves and dark chocolate. Then she described his: oceans and summer grass and twilight skies and bluejay’s feathers.
They lay there just staring into each other’s eyes until the stars came out.
“I love you, dork,” she whispered.
“I love you too, Bambi.”


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In Jessica Jones, Marvel and Netflix have given us a remarkably well done adaptation of one of their most complex and adult characters. But at the same time, it pulled double duty in doing an equally fantastic job in bringing one of Marvel’s oldest characters to life: Patsy “Hellcat” Walker.
Suffice to say, there will be some spoilers for Jessica Jones ahead.
First, a bit of background. Patsy Walker—referred to as Trish Walker in the show for reasons that will become clear later, and played by Rachael Taylor in Jessica Jones—is indeed one of Marvel’s oldest characters. She exists from the time before Marvel actually went by the name “Marvel Comics” (their third company name, and only adopted in 1961), like several older superheroes such as Captain America or Namor the Submariner.
But unlike those characters, Patsy holds a record very few comic book characters can claim: she managed to persist throughout the golden and silver ages of comics, as well as Marvel’s evolution from Timely, to Atlas, and ultimately to Marvel comics with a single, continuous series. That series, Patsy Walker, span out of the character’s debut in Miss America Magazine #2 in 1944—and back then, Patsy wasn’t a superhero.
She was the star of teen humor/romance series in the vein of Archie or Buzzy. Patsy Walker ran for 124 issues and ultimately ended in 1965, and its 95th issue was one of the first two comics to be released under the Marvel name. After Marvel reimagined themselves as a company focusing on superhero comics, Patsy Walker was one of a handful of their few non-superhero series at the time.
It was only after the end of Patsy Walker that the character would hop on over to the Marvel superhero universe. As a joke, she and her best friend Hedy made a cameo appearance in the Fantastic Four Annual #3 in the same year her own comic came to a close—but in 1972, writer Steve Engleheart (a self-confessed fan of the character having trained writing romance comics) wrote Patsy into Amazing Adventures as a superhero, and she was eventually re-introduced in the ongoing Avengers series. She adopted the persona of Hellcat: born out of an unwillingness to use Greer Grant Nelson’s hero “The Cat” (Greer went on to become the cat-mutant hero Tigra).
Since then Hellcat appeared in a support role on several teams beyond the Avengers—she was a member of the Defenders throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s (which explored her tumultuous relationship with her mother as well as her past as a teen-humor heroine). After spending a decade or so dead—like any good comic book superhero—she returned and joined the Thunderbolts in 1997, and ultimately the Defenders once more. After a popularity resurgence thanks to an appearance in the Marvel NOW! series She-Hulk, Patsy’s getting her own solo series again in Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat! next month.
That’s a lot to take in, which makes it so extremely surprising that Jessica Jones essentially layers in an acknowledgement of all this background throughout its 13 episodes, up to the point that Trish is pretty much one yellow-and-blue leotard away from standing alongside Jessica as a superhero. It speaks to Jessica Jones’ excellently developed side characters that the show ultimately serves as just as great an adaptation of Patsy Walker as it does Jessica Jones herself.
Although a superhero/private Investigator in the comics, the Trish of Jessica Jones is the host of a popular talk radio show—but from the show’s third episode, “AKA It’s Called Whisky” and onwards, the series steadily builds up her eventual path to superheroism, with plenty of nods to her extensive comic book past. We see Trish training in Krav Maga and self defence, like her Martial Artist comic book counterpart, and when we explore Jessica’s decision to try being a superhero in “AKA The Sandwich Saved Me,” it’s clear that the driving force behind Jessica’s decision is Trish’s own desire to be a hero — her own unwavering sense of what’s right and wrong that comes from Patsy’s sheer love of being a hero in the comics.
Jessica Jones goes even further with its set up for the mysterious super-drug plan IGH. When her boyfriend in the show, Will Simpson (himself an adaptation of the comic book villain Nuke), gets amped up on a combat stimulant and attacks Jessica and Trish in “AKA I’ve Got The Blues,” Trish makes the decision to take one of Will’s stimulant pills, briefly granting her superstrength and pain resistance—neither of which she actually gets in the comics, but it’s a dose of superheroism that the show definitely intends to continue in the future, considering the season ends with Trish ready to investigate the origins of IGH.
But on top of that slow development, Jessica Jones weave’s Patsy/Trish’s comic past into her background in a similar manner to how it was actually handled in the comics—most notably in Defenders #89. In the show, Trish’s strained relationship with her mother comes from a childhood spent as a youth star in her own TV series, It’s Patsy!, which Trish grew to hate as her mother, also her agent, became more and more controlling of her life. In the comics, we learn something similar.
Instead of a TV series, Patsy’s mother, dissatisfied with her daughter’s life, wrote a popular series of teen-humor comics with a fantastical, idealised version of Patsy as the star: an in-universe acknowledgement of the Patsy Walker comic series (which the series itself nods to with an easter egg).
And it went even further: in Defenders #94, Patsy gets possessed by a demon, sent to claim Patsy’s soul by her mother in exchange for saving her from dying of cancer. Naturally, it didn’t work: Patsy fought back against the demon’s control after it used her to defeat her fellow Defenders, and Patsy’s mother died, leaving the young hero in a great deal of anguish. It may be that Jessica Jones will never explore this side of Trish’s mother in the series, but the fact that so much of that comic book relationship was in there already, it’d almost—almost!—be a surprise if it didn’t.
Only time—and a second season of Jessica Jones—will tell if Trish will evolve into her current comic book persona on TV. But already, the show has done a great, and surprisingly faithful, job at laying the ground work for Trish and her long comic book history to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We can’t wait to see where it leads for the character.
Just don’t call her Patsy, and you’ll probably be fine.

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Tom Brady has earned a record seven Super Bowl victories between 2002 and 2021. The five-time MVP is renowned for his tenacity, intelligent approach to playmaking, and outstanding leadership he provides his teammates even under immense pressure. This translates into an incredible work ethic off the field too.
Brady is known for his approach to fitness, letting fans in on his secrets in his book, The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance. The 44-year-old’s prowess does not end there; he’s recently established three more successful businesses to add to his incredible profile.
Tom Brady is expanding his abilities well beyond the football field
Brady’s TB12 business offers in-person and online workouts. It also sells nutrition plans and supplements — unsurprising avenues for the elite athlete. However, the Buccaneers quarterback has recently made moves with other business endeavors, as Huddle Up reports:
Brady collaborated with tennis star Naomi Osaka to launch a new NFT, or non-fungible token, platform. The athletes seek to digitalize the ownership of sports memorabilia in a way that fans can get in on. The NFT market is growing rapidly. Brady and Osaka’s decision to jump on this wagon was a good one.
The six-time Super Bowl champion defied the odds by launching a production company, named after Brady’s selection as the 199th pick in the 2000 NFL Draft. The company will be a global platform for original premium content, focusing on documentaries, films, and TV shows.
The quarterback is launching a fashion line, aptly called “Brady,” this December despite his partnership with Under Armour. Many have drawn parallels to Michael Jordan’s partnership with Nike, which has produced millions in profits for both MJ and the shoe and apparel company. The difference? Brady is employing a notable expert, not a mega-brand like Nike, to help him do it.
Tom Brady partners with Kim Kardashian West’s SKIMS co-founder for his new apparel brand
According to Jessica Michault, SKIMS, Kim Kardashian West’s brand, is worth billions thanks to Jens Grede, a marketing mogul. Grede is SKIMS’ partner and board director, controlling profits and ensuring the shapewear brand gains popularity around the world. SKIMS has experienced “exponential growth” since it debuted in September of 2019.
Now, Grede has partnered with Brady on his new apparel brand. Brady likely recognized Grede’s success and expertise, but it’s surprising to see the rather private quarterback partner with someone who helped push Kardashian West farther into the spotlight.
Some NFL fans and Brady critics believe the quarterback should focus on football. But it doesn’t seem like his other endeavors have damaged his NFL career much at all.


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Arthur Horace Carter papers
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Overview The collection includes architectural sketches and blueprints, correspondence, artwork, and a photo album; it spans from Carter’s time at Ohio State University to his tenure at Purdue University.
Dates: 1916 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1929; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969

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For example 16 radishes in one square foot or just one cabbage per square foot. Square foot gardening is all about taking advantage of smaller spaces and raised garden beds to maximise your crop output.
A lattice is laid across the top to clearly separate each square foot.
How to Plan a Home Vegetable Garden Using the Square Foot Gardening Method. 12 inches 1 seed 6 inches 4 seeds 4 inches 9 seeds 3 inches 16 seeds. Square foot gardening is a quick way to start a new garden especially with the updated method using a raised bed filled with soilless mix so its great for first-timers. If this method interests you make sure to give it a try.
The best way to utilize the square foot gardening method is to divide the garden bed into multiple sections for different kinds of vegetables. Different crops are planted in different blocks according to their size. You have one raised garden bed.
Firstly make sure that the plants with the greatest height are planted at the north side. This is an advanced skill and best planned in the winter if you plan to grow by seed. Vining plants such as peas tomatoes and cucumbers are grown on trellises at the back of the grid.
Then calculate the total number of planting squares required for these plants in order to reach your harvest goals. The lack of space between plants means there are very few gaps for weeds to germinate one of the huge pros of the square foot gardening method. Square foot gardening is a gardening method for beginners or those who have a limited space in their garden.
Make your sides at least 6 inches deep. Plan your garden Create a map of your garden by drawing a big square with 16 squares inside. With the square-foot gardening method you plant in 4×4-foot blocks instead of traditional rows.
This layout gives you a square for each vegetable grown. Mels charts show you approximate growing times for common vegetable. The key thing is to make sure your crops get enough water all through the growing season.
However if you have access to summer transplants you can certainly do this now. Simply form one hole in the center of the 1-by-1-foot square of your choice and plant your seeds or transplant your seedling keeping in mind the seeding techniques and layout guidelines that youll find later in this article. Any vegetable can be planted in a square foot garden grid you just have to follow the correct spacing.
Larger vegetables like squash and pumpkins are grown at the corners so they can trail out over the edges. To make a 6-inch-tall raised bed for square-foot gardening in a flash buy four planter wall blocks which have 2-inch slots on four sides and four 4-foot-long 2x6s at your local home center. Sample from All New Square Foot Gardening 3rd edition.
Use a pencil as you may want to adjust your planning. Place the garden box in a spot in your garden where the plants can get at least six to seven hours of direct sunlight every day. For plants requiring one square determine how many seeds can be planted in the square based on the thin to requirement.
This is typically done by dividing the raised bed into square sections 12 inches per side using gardening twine or timber laths to achieve a grid system. If you have the All New Square Foot Gardening Method Third Edition book handy refer to chapter 3 to learn how to plan your boxes to grow the amount of produce youre likely to need. How to build and plant your own urban garden using the Quickcrop Square Foot Vegetable Gardening method.
This should be a frugal option as well. Full chart is in the book. From there youll need to know how to make the most of your garden bed.
Then you put a pallet on the backside of the bed to allow vegetables to grow up it for support. Growing root vegetables such as carrots call for sides that are 12 inches deep. Keep medium height plants in the center and the smallest plants at the south side.


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Nominate your unsung hero for Mayor's award
8:10am Wednesday 16th January 2013 in News
IT’S that time of year again when the borough’s unsung heroes are recognised by the Mayor of Dudley.
The Mayor’s Civic Awards has been showcasing the dedication of some of the borough’s residents for over a decade.
And people are once again being urged to submit their nominations for the tenth anniversary – which is being marked with a new category.
This year, the awards is hosted in association with Cougar Monitoring, with borough businesses sponsoring each of the cate gories, which are named after the borough’s famous residents.
Marketing Force is sponsoring the new William Shenstone award for environment, which has been added to the accolades this year to honour the famous landscape gardener.
The other usual categories include the Duncan Edwards award for sport, sponsored by Alliance Leisure, the Cedric Hardwicke award for arts sponsored by Stourbridge College, the Frank Foley award for community spirit sponsored by Castle and Crystal Credit Union and the Thomas Attwood award for education which is sponsored by Computeach.
A sixth trophy will also be presented for the Mayor’s Award, with four people personally chosen by Mayor, Councillor Melvyn Mottram, who he feels has stood out to him during his time in office.
The public will then be able to vote online for the winner, with a judging panel deciding the other four categories.
People have until February 18 to nominate worthy residents, with winners and runners- up decided in March.
Prizes will then be presented during a civic ceremony later that month.
Nominations can be submitted online at dudley.gov.uk or by filling out the nomination form in the paper and e-edition this week and sending it to the Freepost address listed at the bottom.
Forms can also be obtained from all borough libraries.


§ 27. Colonel YATE
asked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether Section 4 of the Superannuation Act of 1887, requiring that officers who have been retired with a pension or gratuity must have at least 10 per cent. deducted from any civil emoluments they may be able to earn in a Government Department, is held to apply to officers who have been retired from the Service owing to wounds or disablement incurred during the present or any previous War?
§ 52. Mr. PENNEFATHER
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether an officer in Government employment who is in receipt of a disability pension is in any case subject to any deduction from his salary on the ground that he is in receipt of a disability pension; and, if so, will he state what percentage of the salary earned is deducted on such grounds, and what justfication there is for such deduction?
§ Mr. BALDWIN (Joint Financial Secretary to the Treasury)
The Treasury is advised that an officer who is in receipt of retired pay granted on account of disability owing to service in His Majesty's Forces, and who accepts any civil employment of profit under any public Department, is liable under No. 4 of the Rules made under Section 6 of the Superannuation Act, 1887, to a deduction of not less than 10 per cent. from the profits of his civil employment, provided that his salary and retired pay together exceeded £400 per annum. The deduction is prescribed by Statute.
§ Colonel YATE
Then a soldier, officer, or man, wounded in this War is to have 10 per cent. deducted from any employment he gets? Will the hon. Gentleman have that Warrant cancelled?
§ Mr. BALDWIN
I used the word "disability" advisedly. The wounds pension alone is exempted under Rule No. 1 (a) from that action. It would require alteration by Statute.


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Verizon's big attempt to get millennial viewers is going through a massive shakeup.
The company laid off 155 staffers from its streaming service go90 last week, which was first reported by Variety. Sources close to Verizon told CNBC said the majority of staff changes will be mostly on the go90 engineering team, and said new employees would be on-boarded from Vessel, a digital video service Verizon acquired in October.
Verizon confirmed the layoffs to CNBC on Tuesday, saying it wasn't a change of strategy but a way to bolster go90.
"Our focus with go90 and our Verizon digital media efforts are to fulfill our strategy of leveraging Verizon content investments, enhancing user experience and strengthening our advertising infrastructure," Verizon said in a statement to CNBC. "Fulfilling this strategy has resulted in some duplicative resources and has required organizational changes impacting 155 employees as we consolidate offices in Los Angeles, San Jose and New York. These changes are not indicative to a change in our strategy and we remain committed to rapidly enhancing our existing online video products and delivering new products."
Also Tuesday, the company reported fourth-quarter earnings per share of 86 cents, slightly lower than the consensus estimate of 89 cents. It beat on revenue, posting $32.34 billion versus the estimate of $32.09 billion. Shares of Verizon fell in premarket trading after the earnings report.
Go90 is Verizon's initiative to get millennial viewers and double down on its efforts to become a media and advertising powerhouse. The over-the-top video service doesn't require a cable subscription to watch content, and allows viewers to watch content whenever and wherever they want on their mobile phones. The company signed deals with millennial production companies like AwesomenessTV, Vice and Complex, among other sports, entertainment and TV content .
Now it is adding the services of Vessel, which was started by former Hulu executives Jason Kilar and Richard Tom. Vessel allowed users to watch content for free with advertising or pay a fee for early access.
"There really isn't a distribution platform for premium content for that audience," Brian Angiolet, Verizon's senior vice president of consumer product portfolio, told CNBC when the service launched in September 2015. "It's fleeing paid TV, and right now it's blowing out into the wind. We're trying to catch it."
But UBS and others have said go90 is failing to reach its target audience. Verizon's then chief financial officer, Fran Shammo, said during an early 2016 earnings call that the company did not expect go90 to be profitable for another two years. However, a company spokesperson said the service is seeing a boost in numbers.


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Stamford earns almost $1 million in nitrogren credit trading program
Published 9:42 pm, Friday, March 26, 2010
STAMFORD -- The city's wastewater authority has earned a record of nearly $1 million from the state's nitrogen credit trading program.
The program, aimed at protecting Long Island Sound's ecology, requires sewage treatment plants to buy or sell credits based on how effectively they remove nitrogen from waste. If a plant discharges above state limits, it must buy credits at $4.54 per pound of nitrogen per day. Conversely, "over-performing" municipalities may sell credits through the state Department of Environmental Protection.
In 2009, Stamford placed first among municipalities discharging the least nitrogen, earning $961,118. Waterbury and Bridgeport's west plant trailed a distant second and third, earning $329,100 and $290,158, respectively.
The top three worst-performing municipalities were Danbury, which had to buy $1,108,335 in credits; Hartford, $470,285; and Meriden, $424,665. Buying cities must pay by July, while those selling should receive checks by August, said Jeanette Brown, executive director of Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority.
It is the third consecutive year Stamford earned more credits than any other municipality, Brown said. The city broke its own record, set in 2008, of $939,510.
Brown said the money will be used to help reduce the amount Stamford residents pay in user costs for debt service, operating and maintenance. State regulations require the money to go directly to the WPCA and not the city.
Connecticut began the Nitrogen Credit Exchange in 2002 to prevent wastewater from encouraging growth of harmful algae in the Sound. Nitrogen acts as a fertilizer to phytoplankton, microorganisms that can block sunlight from other plants. When phytoplankton die, they use up oxygen in the water, suffocating fish and other animals. The problem, defined by low levels of dissolved oxygen, is known as hypoxia. The program aims to cut nitrogen discharges to 65 percent by 2014.
This year, the program generated a surplus of $1,553,466, money the state will use to fund nitrogen removal facilities and research, Brown said.
Stamford has significantly reduced its nitrogen output since completing a $105 million upgrade of the city's sewage treatment plant in 2006. It was the largest capital project in city history, designed to accommodate increased population growth and improve sewage cleanup.
The Stamford system uses microorganisms to convert ammonium, found in wastewater, to nitrate. Other organisms convert the nitrate to nitrogen gas, which the plant releases in the air. Brown has said the effect is harmless because air is naturally about 80 percent nitrogen. The amount the plant releases is "infinitessimal" in comparison, she said.
"I'm just really proud of the job that my staff does and being able to remove nitrogen to this level," Brown said. "We have a great designed plant. It was constructed well and it's proving itself."
The WPCA owes about $60 million to the Connecticut Clean Water Fund for the upgrade, which costs about $4.5 million annually in debt service, Brown said.
"If you look at it strictly from an economic standpoint, you've got $900,000 in credits, but you paid $60 million for nitrogen removal," Basel said. "So you could say it takes you 60 years to pay it off. Some towns, they look at the economics and say, `Gee, it's cheaper to pay the penalty.' "
The Magee Avenue plant treats sewage from about 95 percent of Stamford south of the Merritt Parkway, as well as Darien. Last year, Darien asked to receive a cut of the nitrogen credits; the issue is still being addressed as part of the town's negotiations over its waste treatment contract with the city, Brown said.
The Water Pollution Control Authority of Norwalk broke ground in October on a $37 million upgrade to its 60 S. Smith St. facility, which Norwalk officials said will be financed through the state Clean Water Fund.
Staff writer Magdalene Perez can be reached at email@example.com or 203-964-2240.

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Immersed in a vast garden, the hotel offers the tourist and bussinesmen a warm hospitality and calm welcoming atmosphere.
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Le Petit has sigles, doubles, triple ,quadruple rooms.
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Dani has just discovered her foster father's horrifying secret.
Pray for her.
The lies began as fantasies, and before long, young Dani was lying about everything. Now she's being adopted by a picture-perfect family, and the lies must stop. But behind the dream is a cruel reality. No one believes her when she discovers a shocking secret. And her foster father will kill to make sure no one finds out!


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In the end, it was a distant European power that determined the fate of the subcontinent’s multitudes. Sir Cyril Radcliffe was rushed from London to Delhi to chair the two territorial commissions that determined the division of Punjab and Bengal, and the British parliament approved the India Independence Bill on July 1, 1947 without a single dissenting vote. On schedule, Great Britain terminated its rule over the subcontinent and in two ceremonies transferred authority to the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League on August 14–15, 1947.
The timing of his arrival in India was in large part a consequence of the King’s Royal Assent to the Government of India Act of 1935 that granted more selfgovernment. The Act signified a decline in British power and seemed to point to the future independence of India. It devolved more powers to the indigenous population, and eliminated dyarchy, but the center maintained special powers that were aimed at protecting the public peace. Federation was made the preferred structure for a unified India, but the many princely states, sensing their demise, rejected the arrangement.
Britain had come to dominate India because it brought a different philosophy of rule and, more importantly, a system of law that could be applied uniformly to all, irrespective of separate lifestyles and cultural practices. Colonialism was demeaning but it also had a constructive side in an environment where a diverse people had demonstrated an inability to find common identity. For all its alien character, there was in the British experience an opportunity for people at variance with one another to transcend their differences and, in the course of events, to accommodate one another.


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