The Trump administration seems to be busy putting a bigger burden on American consumers. On top of skyrocketing prices of goods and services, they will now have to deal with a new predicament: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) acting director Mick Mulvaney.
Those pushing for a more informative government-owned database system will find some frustration in Mulvaney’s mutual feelings with the financial industry towards a collection of complaints from consumers, according to a Bloomberg column report.
Mulvaney wants to shut down public access to a popular state-backed database where clients and consumer groups file complaints against financial firms.
Over a million online and phone complaints and grievances from regular consumers about various financial establishments, ranging from banks to credit reporting agencies, were amassed by the agency’s database since it was created in 2011.
According to the agency’s website, aside from sending them to the companies concerned, it also presents the complaint data to federal and state agencies, as well as the Congress, and studies them for additional assistance in overseeing companies, creating more efficient rules, and applying the federal consumer financial laws. The CFPB additionally publishes the complaints without releasing the complainant’s personal information.
With this system, about 97 percent of the complaints were acted upon or has an on-time response from the companies, eliminating the call-center red tape.
Researchers and journalists can also use the consumer complaint database as a source in writing studies and articles on a particular industry’s performance.
Since its inception seven years ago, the regulatory agency was able to return about $12 billion to financial consumers across the United States by imposing its mandate to investigate fraudulent schemes, per WLS-AM.
However, these advantages will soon be a thing of the past as Mulvaney announced that he would rather have the CFPB investigative power removed, echoing the position of the financial industry to have the database hidden from public.
Mulvaney’s statement does not sit well with Senator Elizabeth Warren, according to the National Public Radio. The lawmaker says that the consumer chief owes the public straight answers for the allegedly “doing the bidding of the industries that he is supposed to be policing.”
Mulvaney recently talked to a group of bankers and lobbyists and said that he would only talk to them if they gave money to his campaign as a Republican congressman, resulting in a backlash from Democrats.
The same group also condemned the CFPB acting director’s efforts to “pull back on regulations at the bureau.”
Despite Mulvaney’s claims that campaign contributors do not pose a conflict of interest, Warren now wants him excluded in the CFBP’s rulings concerning companies that donated money to his election campaigns.
Besides Warren, a group of attorney generals is calling for the status quo in the operations of the consumer database. In the aforementioned WLS-AM report, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said that the CFPB’s ability to investigate consumer complaints should be retained, citing that the bureau itself was created by a powerful federal agency in order to protect consumers from abuses and predatory practices of the financial industry.
Earlier this year, the CFPB has been conducting public consultations on how it could limit its investigative authority. While it acknowledged its role as a civil investigative body, it also noted that complaints put a massive burden on companies being investigated.
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TAIPEI (TVBS News) — Currently classified as a moderate typhoon, Typhoon Khanun has significantly adjusted its projected path. Initially expected to approach China's eastern coastal areas directly, Typhoon Khanun is now expected to stall in the East China Sea and change its course towards the northeast, possibly affecting Japan and South Korea, according to the latest Central Weather Bureau (CWB) forecast.
As of 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Typhoon Khanun's center was located 800 kilometers southeast of Taipei, moving in a north-northwest direction at 13 kilometers per hour, the CWB reported.
Though the forecast path is still being adjusted, the general direction is becoming clearer. The typhoon is expected to approach the northeastern waters of Taiwan on Thursday and Friday (Aug. 3-4) before turning northeast.
The latest forecast indicates the typhoon's storm circle may potentially make landfall in the northern regions between late Thursday night and Friday morning, putting the emergency response capabilities of the northern regions' authorities to the test.
Under the influence of Typhoon Khanun's outer circulation, heavy rain has already started falling in Greater Taipei early on Tuesday morning. The weather in the northern regions will remain unstable this week, with intermittent rain and wind due to the typhoon's outer circulation. As the typhoon approaches Thursday and Friday, rain and wind intensity will increase, and dry periods will decrease.
In the central and southern regions, afternoon thunderstorms are expected in mountainous areas for the next two days. However, as the typhoon approaches on Thursday, stronger southwestern winds will bring widespread rainfall until the weekend.
Authorities closely monitor the situation and may issue a sea warning as early as tomorrow to inform the public.

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Following the horrific attacks in Paris, a parade of state and local officials across the country proclaimed that refugees are no longer welcome in their communities. Each of these statements is inherently offensive in that they vilify Syrian families, who are the victims of stomach-turning violence. But no proclamation was quite as insulting to me as the one made last by David Bowers, the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia.
Mayor Bowers held up the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a model for how we should address the global refugee crisis. I never imagined having to explain that using racial bias to incarcerate and relocate more than 100,000 people, including my parents and grandparents, was a bad policy. But here we are.
In 1942, my family members were stripped of their possessions and their freedom because they looked like some of the people America was fighting. Excluding the mayor of Roanoke, this is universally viewed as one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history. Many Japanese-Americans are still scarred by their extrajudicial internment. My parents have barely ever spoken of it.
Mr. Bowers’ comments are clearly contemptible. It’s easy to assail him with colorful adjectives, as many have. But it is far more difficult to grapple with the mentality his comments represent. Mr. Bowers may be alone in his assessment of Japanese internment, but he is not alone in his crippling fear of accepting refugees.
This week, the House voted to institute new refugee screening practices that will cause a temporary shutdown of our refugee resettlement program. This is a bill I opposed because our existing vetting system is rigorous and effective. All refugees, regardless of their origin, are subject to a robust screening process that takes roughly 18-24 months. Adding layers of bureaucracy will cripple the process without making us any safer.
In short, it prioritizes our fear over our compassion and common sense.
Few of the 289 men and women in the House who voted to pause our refugee program last week are zealots or radicals. Most are patriotic Americans who are genuinely frightened—as we all are—by an increasingly dangerous world. Here is the problem: President Franklin D. Roosevelt was also a scared, patriotic American when he ordered the incarceration and relocation of my mother and father. History teaches us that fear is never an excuse for discrimination or injustice.
The common thread through many of America’s worst moments is a lack of compassion for those of different races, nationalities, or religions. Our best moments come when we live up to our pledge of liberty and justice for all. Those two paths are rarely as illuminated as they are today.
For me, the choice is clear. The refugees deserve the compassion my parents never received. An America that can conquer its fear is an America prepared to lead the world against this new brand of profound evil.


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In the future, I see SOFREP traveling back to the Middle East. This region is just so volatile, and the United States appears to be completely unable to extricate itself from countries like Iraq. Over the last few months we have seen numerous developments that will shape the war against ISIS and the eventual post-conflict environment. Russia has jumped into the fray, backing up the Assad regime. America’s various covert-action programs run out of Turkey and Jordan to arm and train various rebels groups like the New Syrian Forces have been a bust. With few remaining options for waging proxy warfare in Syria, America has cobbled together a coalition called Syrian Democratic Forces. This confab is purely an American invention designed to appease our NATO partner Turkey. The SDF consists of the Kurdish YPG and YPJ with some Free Syrian Army components tacked on so that we can tell Turkey that we are helping out Syrian Arabs instead of the Kurds.
The ground war in Syria is about to scale down for the winter. During the winter months, the ground becomes extremely muddy and forces limited mobility options like using hardball roads almost certainly loaded with IEDs. During these months what we can expect to see is the gearing up for a spring offensive against the ISIS capital of Raqqa. To that end, SOFREP has been told that just a few days ago, American forces drove across the border from Turkey into Kurdish Syria, to a city called Qamishlo, which I visited last November. More than likely, this will be the American and coalition headquarters for the spring offensive.
In the meantime, there are plenty of other developments around the world. Russia is not only in Syria, but also in Ukraine—a conflict which appears to be frozen, at least for the immediate future. The Chinese continue their own expansionist agenda in the South China Sea, one which directly threatens the existing global order and our notions of “innocent passage”—free travel in international waters for commercial shipping.
Please write in and let us know what you think. Also, let us know if there are any additional countries or regions you think SOFREP should deploy our staff to in order to cover important issues we may have overlooked.


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Two men in the U.K. were convicted this week of money laundering and fraud in one of the first green collar crime cases, and certainly one of the first cases involving Canada.
The two men, David John Downes and Ian David Macdonald, sold shares in entities which claimed to own carbon credits, raising upwards of $9 million from investors and subsequently transferred the funds to Canadian and US banks. They operated a boiler room, an office in which several hundred persons cold-call prospective investors over a period of several months to raise funds. The investments were made to several unregistered entities including North American Charter Inc., Fidelity Capital Management, North Pacific Charter LLC, Hampton Capital Management Inc., and North Pacific Escrow.
Downes and Macdonald were sentenced to eight years in jail and 4.5 years for money laundering and fraud, respectively.

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Dhadak Box Office Day 4: The manner in which the weekend had picked up for Dhadak, there weren’t many doubts that the film would hold well on Monday as well. The Shashank Khaitan directed affair had managed good momentum already and that was set to continue over the weekdays as well. This is what happened on Monday as 5.52 crores more came in. Considering the fact that the opening day numbers were 8.71 crores, that’s a good hold by all means.
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As for the record held by Student of the Year for the best first week when it comes to a film with newcomers, it would be very comfortably surpassed by the Ishaan Khattar and Jahnvi Kapoor starrer. Student of the Year had brought in 48 crores in its first week and that number would be crossed in quick time.
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A 31-year-old Iranian-American, Yassamin Ansari has become the youngest councilwoman in Phoenix. Now, she has announced her bid for Congress.
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The king resolved to go and view the situation of the enemy. His majesty went out the 2nd of April with a strong party of horse, which I had the honour to command; we marched as near as we could to the banks of the river, not to be too much exposed to the enemy's cannon, and having gained a little height, where the whole course of the river might be seen, the king halted, and commanded to draw up. The king alighted, and calling me to him, examined every reach and turning of the river by his glass, but finding the river run a long and almost a straight course, he could find no place which he liked, but at last turning himself north, and looking down the stream, he found the river fetching a long reach, double short upon itself, making a round and very narrow point. There's a point will do our business, says the king, and, if the ground be good, I'll pass there, let Tilly do his worst.
He immediately ordered a small party of horse to view the ground, and to bring him word particularly how high the bank was on each side and at the point; and he shall have fifty dollars, says the king, that will bring me word how deep the water is. I asked his majesty leave to let me go, which he would by no means allow of; but as the party was drawing out, a sergeant of dragoons told the king, if he pleased to let him go disguised as a boor, he would bring him an account of everything he desired. The king liked the motion well enough, and the fellow being very well acquainted with the country, puts on a ploughman's habit, and went away immediately with a long pole upon his shoulder; the horse lay all this while in the woods, and the king stood undiscerned by the enemy on the little hill aforesaid. The dragoon with his long pole comes down boldly to the bank of the river, and calling to the sentinels which Tilly had placed on the other bank, talked with them, asked them if they could not help him over the river, and pretended he wanted to come to them. At last being come to the point, where, as I said, the river makes a short turn, he stands parleying with them a great while, and sometimes pretending to wade over, he puts his long pole into the water, then finding it pretty shallow, he pulls off his hose and goes in, still thrusting his pole in before him, till being gotten up to his middle, he could reach beyond him, where it was too deep, and so shaking his head, comes back again. The soldiers on the other side laughing at him, asked him if he could swim? He said no. Why you fool you, says one of the sentinels the channel of the river is twenty feet deep. How do you know that? says the dragoon. Why our engineer, says he, measured it yesterday. This was what he wanted, but not yet fully satisfied; Ay but, says he, may be it may not be very broad, and if one of you would wade in to meet me till I could reach you with my pole, I'd give him half a ducat to pull me over. The innocent way of his discourse so deluded the soldiers, that one of them immediately strips and goes in up to the shoulders, and our dragoon goes in on this side to meet him; but the stream took the other soldier away, and he being a good swimmer, came swimming over to this side. The dragoon was then in a great deal of pain for fear of being discovered, and was once going to kill the fellow, and make off; but at last resolved to carry or. the humour, and having entertained the fellow with a tale of a tub, about the Swedes stealing his oats, the fellow being cold, wanted to be gone, and as he was willing to be rid of him, pretended to be very sorry he could not get over the river, and so makes off.
By this, however, he learned both the depth and breadth of the channel, the bottom and nature of both shores, and everything the king wanted to know. We could see him from the hill by our glasses very plain, and could see the soldier naked with him; says the king, He will certainly be discovered and knocked on the head from the other side: he is a fool, says the king, if he does not kill the fellow and run off; but when the dragoon told his tale, the king was extremely well satisfied with him, gave him one hundred dollars, and made him a quarter-master to a troop of cuirassiers.
The king having farther examined the dragoon, he gave him a very distinct account of the shore and ground on this side, which he found to be higher than the enemy's by ten or twelve foot, and a hard gravel.
Hereupon the king resolves to pass there, and in order to it, gives himself particular directions for such a bridge as I believe never army passed a river on before nor since.
His bridge was only loose planks laid upon large trestles, in the same homely manner as I have seen bricklayers raise a low scaffold to build a brick wall; the trestles were made higher than one another to answer to the river, as it became deeper or shallower, and was all framed and fitted before any appearance was made of attempting to pass.
When all was ready, the king brings his army down to the bank of the river, and plants his cannon as the enemy had done, some here and some there, to amuse them.
At night, April 4th, the king commanded about two thousand men to march to the point, and to throw up a trench on either side, and quite round it, with a battery of six pieces of cannon, at each end, besides three small mounts, one at the point and one of each side, which had each of them two pieces upon them. This work was begun so briskly, and so well carried on, the king firing all the night from the other parts of the river, that by daylight all the batteries at the new work were mounted, the trench lined with two thousand musketeers, and all the utensils of the bridge lay ready to be put together.
Now the imperialists discovered the design, but it was too late to hinder it. The musketeers in the great trench, and the five new batteries, made such continual fire, that the other bank which, as before, lay twelve feet below them, was too hot for the imperialists; whereupon Tilly, to be provided for the king, at his coming over, falls to work in a wood right against the point, and raises a great battery for twenty pieces of cannon, with a breastwork, or line, as near the river as he could, to cover his men, thinking that when the king had built his bridge, he might easily beat it down with his cannon.
But the king had doubly prevented him, first, by laying his bridge so low that none of Tilly's shot could hurt it; for the bridge lay not above half a foot above the water's edge, by which means the king, who in that showed himself an excellent engineer, had secured it from any batteries to be made within the land, and the angle of the bank secured it from the remoter batteries on the other side, and the continual fire of the cannon and small shot beat the imperialists from their station just against it, they having no works to cover them.
And in the second place, to secure his passage, he sent over about two hundred men, and after that two hundred more, who had orders to cast up a large ravelin on the other bank, just where he designed to land his bridge; this was done with such expedition too, that it was finished before night, and in condition to receive all the shot of Tilly's great battery, and effectually covered his bridge. While this was doing, the king on his side lays over his bridge. Both sides wrought hard all day and all night, as if the spade, not the sword, had been to decide the controversy, and that he had got the victory whose trenches and batteries were first ready. In the mean while the cannon and musket bullets flew like hail, and made the service so hot, that both sides had enough to do to make their men stand to their work; the king in the hottest of it, animated his men by his presence, and Tilly, to give him his due, did the same; for the execution was so great, and so many officers killed, General Attringer wounded, and two serjeant-majors killed, that at last Tilly himself was obliged to expose himself, and to come up to the very face of our line to encourage his men, and give his necessary orders.
And here, about one o'clock, much about the time that the king's bridge and works were finished, and just as they said he had ordered to fall on upon our ravelin with three thousand foot, was the brave old Tilly slain with a musket bullet in the thigh. He was carried off to Ingolstat, and lived some days after, but died of that wound the same day as the king had his horse shot under him at the siege of that town.
We made no question of passing the river here, having brought everything so forward, and with such extraordinary success; but we should have found it a very hot piece of work if Tilly had lived one day more; and, if I may give my opinion of it, having seen Tilly's battery and breastwork, in the : face of which we must have passed the river, I must say, that whenever we had marched, if Tilly had fallen in with his horse and foot, placed in that trench, the whole army would have passed as much danger as in the face of a strong town in the storming a counterscarp. The king himself, when he saw with what judgment Tilly had prepared his works, and what danger he must have run, would often say, that day's success was every way equal to the victory of Leipsic.

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Most of us dream about going on a holiday abroad, but it is not often we can actually fulfill this dream. What if I told you there were domestic counterparts to some of the world's most popular holiday destinations? Here are 10 domestic addresses which are twins of some of the world’s most popular holiday … Continue reading 10 Destinations in Turkey Which Make You Feel Like You are Holidaying Abroad
Famous Singer, Lara Fabian, known for her pieces "I Will Love Again" and "Je’Taime" sold over 20 million, will meet art lovers in Cesme district of İzmir and in Istanbul. Fabian, a Canadian citizen born in Belgium in 1970, is the best-selling Belgian female singer of all time. She represented Luxembourg in the 33rd edition … Continue reading Lara Fabian Comes to Turkey!
Modularity of mind is the concept discussing whether specific modules in the mind work independently, or the mind is not organized in a modular way and it is an integrated whole. Since this concept is an unresolved issue, there is no one true answer to our question. However, I am going to argue for the modularity of … Continue reading Is There a Language Module in the Mind?
Knowing a language is an ability to perform linguistic functions. Humans and animals use language as a communicative skill throughout their lives. There are some drastic differences between the human`s way of communication and the animal`s way of communication. For instance, human language is based on words. Whereas, animal communication is based on screams, gestures … Continue reading Can Animals Learn a Human Language?
In this essay I discuss whether human language is an instinctual behaviour or a learning behaviour by considering Eric Lenneberg’s criteria for instinctual behaviours (1967). This has been argued for years and although some follow Skinner`s theory of language acquisition as a learning behaviour, there are still people who consider language as an innate ability, … Continue reading Is Human Language an Instinctual Behaviour?

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The UK has pledged to do its best to keep the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, “Hamas” on the European Union’ s list of terrorist organisations, despite the EU High Court’s decision to take the group off of the list on Wednesday.
While the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it is studying the judgment carefully, its Home Office confirmed the decision would not lead to a change in the UK’s position on Hamas.
Early Wednesday, the EU General Court, the second highest EU court, judged that the Palestinian movement should be removed from the bloc’s terror blacklist.
On 27 December 2001, the Council of the European Union added Hamas’s Izz al-Din al-Qassem brigades to its blacklist as the “terrorist wing of Hamas,” Hamas was added two years later.
The judgment said the EU decision to designate Hamas as a terrorist organisation had been based on "factual imputations derived from the press and the internet,” not on reviewing of movement' actions.
The FCO said the Court judgment to remove Hamas from the EU’s terror list is procedural.
“It does not mean the UK or EU have changed their position on Hamas,” a FCO spokesperson told Ahram Online.
“Will do everything in our power to ensure that the listing of Hamas at the EU is maintained”, she added.
Hamas' lawyer, Liliane Glock, has been quoted as describing Wednesday’s EU decision as "satisfying.”
She added that "every decision since 2001 imposing restrictive measures, including on the armed wing, have been annulled. I believe that this judgment shows the whole world that it exists and is legal.”
FCO spokesperson reiterated that the court verdict will not change the UK position, adding that it has its own separate proscription process.
It is understood that implications of Hamas’ listing at the EU will remain in place for three months as the judgement – which is appealable before the higher court – has no immediate practical outcome.
The UK Home Office, in its turn, said the EU judgment will not have “automatic implications” on the UK list of terrorist organisations.
“This (the judgment) is an EU issue”, its spokesman told Ahram Online.
“We have to wait and see if there will be legal challenge to the EU Court verdict,”he added.
However, he refused to state whether the UK will be taking part in any possible legal challenge.

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Six pack of 100% cotton muslin squares.The muslin sheets measure approximate 70 x 70 cm. They are multipurpose. Can be used as a burp cloth, cleaning any little mess ups. Very easy to wash and dry as the have a soft weave. Manufactured to a high standard for Cuddles Collection.
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~ Friday, March 7 ~
Art Made from Electronic Wires
Artist Charis Tsevis (previously at Neatorama) makes beautiful images out of all kinds of media you wouldn’t normally associate with art. He has a series of works made from colorful electronic wires.
~ Tuesday, March 4 ~
MAGICAL LANDSCAPES CREATED INSIDE A 200-GALLON FISH TANK
NYC-based artist Kim Keever makes photographs that double as lush, dreamy landscape paintings, and we bet you’ll be surprised about how he creates them. Each unique landscape is the product of a handcrafted diorama and a 200-gallon fish tank. Keever starts out by building a set from found and sourced materials, placing it either in front of or behind the tank. He then fills the tank with water and gingerly injects paint into the water to create cloud formations.
~ Monday, March 3 ~
22-Year-Old Designer Stunningly Blends Art with Fashion
Michelle Hébert is a 22-year-old up-and-coming designer that creates fashion that seems larger than life. Her dream is to produce her first professional collection focusing on artistic pieces like the ones you see here.
~ Thursday, February 27 ~
The Ultimate Pop Culture Alphabet
Illustrator Jeff Victor has a new series called The Ultimate Pop Culture Alphabet. It was an excuse to draw characters that wouldn’t fit into his other art series, and the result is absolutely neat. They run from Ariel to Zombie, with superheroes, sci-fi characters, storybook friends, and video game icons in between.
~ Wednesday, February 26 ~
James G Hancock
New York City
Every. Single. One. James G. Hancock is Trying to Draw All the Buildings in New York City
Brooklyn-based Australian, James Gulliver Hancock, has set out to catalogue all the buildings in the Big Apple, from famous skyscrapers to ubiquitous brownstones, and he’s doing it by drawing each and every building.
~ Sunday, February 23 ~
Lee Kyu Hak
The Classics Recreated As Mosaics of Newspaper
By wrapping different colored strips of newspaper, magazines, and tissue paper around small pieces of wood, Korean artist Lee Kyu-Hak has found the perfect way to imitate some of the greatest artists of all time.
~ Saturday, February 22 ~
Idyllic Oceanside Landscapes Photographed by Andrew Smith
Smith shoots mostly in locations around his home in New Zealand where he captures breathtaking oceanside landscapes both in and out of water.
The Surreal, Infrared Photography of David Keochkerian
These infrared photographs taken by France-based photographer David Keochkerian look like bizarre, saturated landscapes created from a Dr. Seuss illustration. Seasons seem reversed, with white trees appearing in spring, and bushes are transformed into something that looks like fragile blades of bubble gum.
Time in Motion
Qi Wei Fong
Several months ago we featured a photographic series called Time is a Dimension by artist Qi Wei Fong that depicted layered collages of landscapes and cityscapes photographed over a 2-4 hour period. Fong has since taken the project a step further by animating the images in this new series called Time in Motion. The new photos, shot in locations around China, show the change in light at sunrise or sunset through angular rays and concentric circles that shimmer as time passes.
~ Thursday, February 13 ~
Pencil vs. Camera Goes Huge: 3D Charcoal and Pencil Drawings by Ben Heine


In a few months time he’ll be heading up Melodifestivalen 2018 as the sole host. Before that though, David Lindgren is out with a single of his own. A yuletide offering for the coming weeks. He’s released ‘Christmas Everyday’, a retro flavoured, chilled out track. Less rocking around the Christmas tree – more taking it easy beside the log fire. It already sounds like a Christmas staple.
You can find ‘Christmas Everyday’ on our A Scandipop Christmas playlist.


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Monthly Archives: January 2016
“SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon is now offering full refunds for customers who bought hoverboards, the popular electric self-balancing riding devices which have been implicated in multiple fires and explosions.”
We found these great tips and wanted to share them for people who drink.
“1.Drink water or soft drinks between alcoholic drinks to dilute the alcohol.
2.Eat something before or during drinking. Food makes the body absorb alcohol more slowly.
3.Know how to refuse a drink. You don’t have to take one just because it’s offered or take part in rounds you don’t want.
4.Learn the strengths of your drinks so you can stick to your own limits, bearing in mind the safe limits are 2-3 units per day for women and 3-4 units per day for men (but not every day).
5.Plan how you’re going to get home before your night out. Take a cab or ask a non-drinking driver to collect you.”
To see more tips go to the link below
Notes from us,
Please don’t drink and drive! Don’t over drink either this can help avoid alcohol poisoning
Have a great weekend everyone 1/8/2016
Shout Out To Enjoy Responsibly For Sharing These Tips.
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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
Go be happy!!!
“NEW YORK (AP) — Natalie Cole’s family said the singer’s cause of death was idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, which led to heart failure.
Her family said in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday that after Cole received a kidney transplant in 2009, she was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare lung disease that causes shortness of breath, dizziness and sometimes chest pain.
Because Cole’s case was idiopathic, the exact cause is unknown.”
Note from us,
Natalie Cole was an remarkable singer, she will truly be missed.
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Can this S2 dominate the reigning king of electric scooters…Hiboy Max2… the Xiaomi Mi M365? In this Hiboy S2 review, see how this budget plan commuter competes with popular scooters in its class. Technical Specifications Tested top speed: 30.6 kmh * Tested variety: 20.4 km * Weight: 14 kg * Max rider weight: 120 kg Water resistance: IP54 Emphasizes Strong acceleration Effective dual braking system Good power for size Brain massage on regular terrain Narrow honeycomb tires
The Hiboy S2 guarantees a lot, especially in its mission to compete with an already remarkable list of budget scooters. Features such as cruise control, an incorporated mobile app, and digital lock push the S2 into the “premium” bracket when it comes to the feature-set of budget plan scooters. The greatest property of the S2, however, is the ability to add a seat whilst preserving a spending plan cost– the next best seated scooter costs over , 1,000.
The Hiboy S2 is best-suited as a scooter for leisurely flights at the weekends. The 350W motor, efficient in hitting a top speed of 18.6 miles per hour, and a larger-than-average load capacity, 118 kg, make the S2 a good entry into the scooting world for both grownups and teenagers.
However, there is one caution– you require to adhere to well-maintained roads and pavements. The S2 boasts double rear shock absorbers, the 8.5 inch strong tyres quelch the dampening advantages– ultimately leading to vibrating wrists and shaking knees.
On either side of the handlebars, you’ll discover the dual braking system. It’s unusual to see dual brakes that can be operated independently on a budget scooter that has a leading speed of less than 20 mph, but this is since the electronic brake lacks the power needed to bring you to a fast halt.
In the centre of the handlebars sits the elegantly designed LED display, expressive of the Xiaomi Mi 365. It keeps track of your speed, rider settings, battery level, and cruise control.
What you get with the S2, like the remainder of the variety, is a sleekly developed matte-black surface that not just delivers however looks the part, too. The robust and durable scooter is made of an aviation-grade aluminium alloy. It includes a little bit of weight to the scooter however it means the S2 can easily confront everyday wear and tear without falling apart.
The Hiboy P10 is most likely the smallest folding e-bike I have actually ever utilized; It is even smaller than the Gotrax bike that I evaluated not long ago. It includes 12-inch air tires which are tiny on the planet of e-bikes but they are still substantially larger than e-scooter tires; Therefore, the tires can still absorb shocks pretty well when riding on rough roadways. Besides, the saddle is relatively thick and comfortable for long journeys.
The bike comes put together out of the box and it is almost prepared to utilize. You will simply need to connect the pedals and fenders, fill the tires, and totally charge the battery before first use.
The Hiboy P10 uses tiny tires, it is not really a compact e-bike since of its design. The huge battery is installed in the middle of the bike, so the frame is unfoldable.
This is not the fastest e-bike but the max speed of 15mph is great enough for the majority of typical customers. The motor will kick in as quickly as you start pedaling, so you need to get used to it in the past hitting the road; The abrupt speed boost may amaze brand-new riders. The dual disc brakes are rather fast and responsive to avoid accidents.
How fast does the hiboy S2 electric scooter go? Hiboy Max2
The Hiboy P7 Commuter Electric Bike is an ebike that I have actually been using for a bit now for travelling and doing food deliveries. I was lucky sufficient to have Hiboy connect to me to see if I want to try it out and I have to say, I’ve been having a blast utilizing it. I think it’s a strong entry-level ebike for the majority of riders and it’s worth having a look at if you remain in the market for an ebike to get you around town or to utilize for food delivery or side hustling.
To get started, let’s take a look at the specifications for this bike. The Hiboy P7 is a commuter ebike with a detachable battery that connects inside the frame. It’s a classically shaped bike and a great deal of individuals may not even discover it’s an ebike if they weren’t looking thoroughly.
Max Speed– About 22-23 miles per hour.
Range– Advertised as approximately 60 miles
Battery– 48v/15ah removable battery
Gears– 9 Speed Shimano Gears
Motor– 500-watt brushless rear-hub motor with 5 levels of pedal help
Other Functions: Aluminum frame, puncture-resistant tires, mechanical disk brakes, integrated headlight.
The majority of the parts appear to be unbranded or are brand names I have actually never heard of, besides the Shimano equipments, which is to be expected for a commuter ebike at this cost point (Hiboy sells this bike for between $1,300 and $1,400 depending upon if there is a sale). That being said, all of the parts appear to be strong quality and you might update the components if you wanted to make it a more high-end ride.


45-year-old Nollywood actress Bimbo Akintola looks fancy in new photos with blonde hairstyle
Bimbo Akintola is a Nollywood actress who began her acting career back in 1995. She studied Theatre arts in University of Ibadan and went on to pursuing her dreams by gracing television screens for decades.
The witty actress recently shared photos of her make over where she went hard on the blonde hair trend. The blond hair look was finished with semi-n*de make-up
Do you like her new look?


Vice President Bush, challenged here tonight by a member of Britain's antinuclear movement, responded with an emotional defense of U.S. arms-control policy that drew applause from a large audience of foreign-policy specialists.
Bush, who had just delivered an address to some 1,000 members and guests of England's Royal Institute of International Affairs, was asked by an official of Britain's Committee for Nuclear Disarmament why the United States does not end the "grotesque overkill" of weapons deployment and agree to a multilateral freeze on nuclear arms.
Bush responded that a balance of atomic power is a surer way to keep the peace than the kind of imbalance that now exists. "Balance is the way to deter war and keep the peace," he said.
"Do you think we don't want peace?" Bush asked. "Do you think we care less than others about a nuclear war?"
Bush referred to a few hundred demonstrators outside the meeting hall protesting against the scheduled deployment in Britain, beginning in December, of 112 new U.S. cruise missiles.
He said it was right for those demonstrators to protest because everyone is concerned about nuclear weapons. He also said people cannot protest in communist eastern Europe and that it is wrong to assume that he had no feeling for what the demonstrators were saying. "I can see my own sons out there," he said.
Bush then defended President Reagan's zero-zero plan for eliminating intermediate-range nuclear weapons from Europe. "I think every churchman, every young person, should join" the movement that would support a plan to banish these weapons, he said.
The Soviets have flatly rejected Reagan's proposal, arguing that there is already nuclear parity between East and West in Europe and that the new American missiles will upset that balance.


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Play! Pokemon Events to Remain Suspended Through End of 2020
TPCi has officially announced the continued suspension of all Play! Pokemon Program events throughout the remainder of 2020. All in-person events, including tournaments, Pokemon League, and Prerelease events remain suspended through the end of the year.
This news follows the cancellation of the 2020 season and suspension of sanctioned events back in March.
Since the initial announcement in March that all Play! Pokémon Program events would be cancelled, we’ve been closely monitoring the global health pandemic. In keeping with a commitment to ensure the safety of fans, players, and organizers, the Organized Play team is continuing to assess the situation. As of September 2020, we have determined that the Play! Pokémon Program will remain suspended through the remainder of 2020.
Please check back in November 2020 for more details and announcements regarding our Play! Pokémon program in early 2021.
In the meantime, Pokémon Trading Card Game players can continue to participate in League at Home events. We will also be providing additional details about a new Pokémon TCG Online series named Play! Pokémon Team Challenge launching later this year.
Until we can all play together in person again, stay safe and enjoy playing and battling online.
Players looking to continue to enjoy the Pokemon Trading Card game can do so playing the game on the Pokemon Trading Card Game Online and by joining local League at Home events.

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All training takes place outside in fresh air & open space in Bridgewater, NJ. A variety of training tools & techniques are used to continuously motivate & challenge you in new ways. You'll use your own bodyweight, kettlebells, medicine balls, TRX, ropes, buddy straps, evasion belts, speed parachutes, agility ladders, jumpropes, the jogging trail, obstacle courses, ab straps, superbands, tires, and more! With an emphasis on functional, multi-joint movements, combined with cardio drills, these workouts are a departure from the traditional gym routine & way more fun!
Morning workouts are designed based on a 3-day training program so each session has a specific training focus: (note: 2 day training packages also available)
Mondays: Circuit training with high-intensity intervals
focus: strength building & fat burning
Wednesdays: Cardio & drills
focus: cardiovascular fitness, fat burning, & speed & agility training
Thursdays & Fridays: Core strength & Power
focus: functional strength and athletic performance development (in other words, whether it's tennis, soccer, running, cycling, swimming or even playing "tag" with the kids, you'll be better at it!)
Tuesday/Thursday evening classes offer a variety of circuit training, cardio intervals, & core training.
3 sessions per week (4 weeks) $199.
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guest columnist Donn Zea is
president of the California Forest Products Commissions
When mythology drives forest
One of the most enduring myths
about forest management is the idea that California's Sierra Nevada forests
should somehow be returned to pristine "pre- European conditions"
through fire suppression and bans on logging. The idea has been used to justify
the creation of vast "biodiversity corridors," leaving tens of
thousands of acres of charred lumber to rot rather than salvage them, and to
hamstring the forestry industry at every turn. This vision of "pre-
European" conditions has little to do with what forests actually were like
before Europeans arrived.
Downieville from Cannon Point
Naturally occurring, long-lasting,
low-intensity fires have always modified forests and thinned out stands that
would otherwise become too dense. Native Americans also used fire
extensively-the only large-scale landscape altering tool at their disposal-to
shape the Sierra for agriculture and hunting. In fact, the historical evidence
now indicates that pre-European Sierra Nevada forests looked much more like
modern managed forests than the overgrown federal lands created by gridlock in
our national forest policies during the past 10 years.
The irony is that the super-hot,
catastrophic wildfires seen in recent years are largely the result of
anti-logging policies based on modern mythology about what
"pre-European" forests were like. A new book called "Fire in
Sierra Nevada Forests-A Photographic Interpretation of Ecological Change Since
1849" (Mountain Press), published with help from The Forest Foundation,
makes all of this abundantly clear.
The author, wildlife biologist
George Gruell, uses photographic evidence to prove that today's over-dense,
tree-choked forests are not at all like the more open forests that existed in
the recent historical past. The book is filled with actual photographs of how
forests looked when they were first encountered by westerners in the wake of the
California Gold Rush. Gruell contrasts these photos with others taken from
precisely the same vantage points, about a century later. In almost every case,
the comparisons show that forests today are much denser, with taller trees and
fewer open spaces, than they were prior to 1900.
Furthermore, Gruell identifies
many burnt tree stumps in the historical photos, showing that many fires swept
across the Sierra Nevada in "pre-European" times, and that these had a
significant- and beneficial-impact on the ecological landscape. In fact,
"periodic disturbance," says Gruell, is a major part of a healthy
forest's continuous, natural cycle of growth, death and rebirth. In the old
days, unchecked, mostly low-intensity fires burned through vast areas. Instead
of trying to freeze these natural processes environmental activists should try
to restore the natural rhythm of "periodic disturbance."
Instead of getting the government
to ban logging, human access and roads in vast areas, forest managers should
figure out the best way to duplicate the cleansing effects of the natural cycle
of fire and rejuvenation, through logging, thinning and prescribed burning. If
we don't, disaster can result. For example, last year's Star fire burned 16,000
acres of Sierra Nevada forest, part of which was old-growth timber that had been
earmarked for fire-safe thinning.
These stands were burned to the
scorched earth because endless appeals to "save" the older trees
delayed the thinning. Aerial photography now shows that where the national
forests abutted private managed forestlands-which had been properly thinned-the
fire did not spread. As Gruell makes clear in his book, this is exactly how
historical forests would also have responded when low-intensity fires reached
previously burnt meadows and thinner stands. In the 1930s some 35 million acres
of American forest and wildlands burned each year. By 2000, that amount had
dwindled to less than one-tenth as much.
The great success of fire
suppression has unwittingly created an extremely dangerous "condition
red" in the public wildlands. This is especially true in the blurred border
zone of encroachment-the interface-between humans and the forests, as
Californians continue to consume farm and forest land for development.
Ironically, California private timberlands, managed for harvesting timber under
the most stringent ecological regulations anywhere on earth, are a very close
approximation to the kinds of western forests that greeted the pioneers.
Such is not the case on
government- owned forests, but that can change. Today, defensible fire breaks
and thinning can be done for profit, within the guidelines of the most
comprehensive environmental reviews the U.S. government can mount. In the
process we can reduce our reliance on overseas resources, renew our federal
forests, create economic opportunity in rural communities, and produce the
consumer products all Californians enjoy.
But to do this, we can't continue
with rigid "hands off" policies that fuel catastrophic wildfires,
polarize public debate, and forfeit the advantages of managed forestry.
Pre-European, publicly owned, fire-safe forests can be recreated through more
flexible forest management policies, increased reforestation efforts, and more
attention to local fire suppression and community needs. It would be tragic if,
before we reach this goal, many more dangerous wildfires had to rage.
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Shopping Mall Makeover
Shopping Mall Makeover is the latest entry into the world of makeover games. Your best friend, Marie, got hired to completely redesign the old mall in your town. But look at this mess! Marie desperately needs help and you, as her best friend, are there to help her! She needs help with cleaning, repairs and redesign of the shoe and clothing store, and the perfumery and cafeteria also need some rework. Get rid of the rubbish, cobwebs, and use your toolbox to make everything new and pretty again! Then choose the right furniture to make all the shops as inviting as possible. If you don’t like the result - don’t worry, you can always come back to any room and change the decor and get a better score! Play Shopping Mall Makeover now for free and show all your friends your design skills!
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Play Dino Steak and collect as much of tasty the food as possible in this puzzle game! The cute baby dinosaur is on a diet and he is very, very hungry. A baby dinosaur on a diet? Who in his right mind would do this to the poor little fellow?! Okay he may be a bit big boned, but look at him, he is hungry! The Dino needs your help to get a juicy steak and the amazingly appetizing rolls for his breakfast. The Dino has to eat a lot, to be able to make it through a world full of danger and adventures that is waiting for him both on land and under water. Play Dino Steak now and help the poor little fellow!
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Ice Cream Way
In Ice Cream Way you have to combine resources following the popular match 3 rules to create higher-value ones. You combine three cows to get milk, combine three milks to get a mixer and finally three mixer to get a tasty ice cream cone. You have to plan your moves ahead to find the optimal place for your tiles and combine them, as the new resource appears where you placed the last of the inferior resources. To make your task a bit easier, you can put a resources on hold in the storage locker and place it later. And if you happen to make a mistake, you are able to invest some of your points into extras that for instance allow you to clear a tile.
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President Ilham Aliyev and his son Heydar Aliyev toured on Friday the military facilities of the Azerbaijan Air Force to observe the flyover of the new Bayraktar Akinci unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UAV).
At the modern UAV Academy, President Aliyev was briefed by Selcuk Bayraktar, Chief Technology Officer of Baykar Technology – the manufacturer of Akinci – about the facility’s all-in-one training and services grid equipped with cutting-edge technologies and equipment.
The president’s next stop was the runway for different types of UAVs at the military facility, where he first watched the take-off of the Akinci combat drone and then proceeded to the control station to practically fly the Turkish-made aerial device.
With its unique fuselage and wing design Bayraktar Akinci is a strategic class platform, which can carry various payloads. The top-notch UAV is equipped with dual artificial intelligence avionics, which supports signal processing, sensor fusion, and situational awareness in real time.
Bayraktar Akinci can conduct operations that are performed with fighter jets. It carries electronic support systems, dual satellite communication systems, air-to-air radar, collision avoidance radar, and synthetic aperture radar. At a 40,000 feet (12.1 km) flight altitude, the drone hovers in the air 24 hours uninterruptedly.
Bayraktar Akinci can be used in air-to-ground and air-to-air attack missions as well. The payloads include various classes of smart munitions, guided bombs, as well as air-to-air and stand-off missiles.
The UAV made its combat debut in 2022 in Northern Iraq during the Turkish Armed Forces’ operations against terrorist organizations PKK/YPG.
Azerbaijan became the ninth country to add the cutting-edge UAV to its drone fleet. So far, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, and Saudi Arabia are announced to have acquired Bayraktar Akinci from Türkiye.
Bayraktar Akinci adds to Azerbaijan’s rich UAV arsenal, which includes devices of domestic production, as well as those purchased from Türkiye and Israel.
During the Second Karabakh War, the Azerbaijan Armed Forces deployed military hardware purchased from Türkiye, including Bayraktar TB-2 drones, to gain an advantage over Armenia's occupying forces on the battlefield. The cutting-edge drone fleet of the Azerbaijani army, which includes Bayraktar TB2 next to Israeli-made UAVs and loitering munitions, is said to have destroyed more the 200 pieces of armor and artillery systems of Armenia during the hostilities.
Azerbaijan’s state budget allotted a total of AZN 6.421 billion or $3.77 billion for defense and national security in 2024. The funds will go towards building national defense, security and defense material-technical base, foreign intelligence, and border security services, as well as organizing events and measures of special defense designation.
This year’s defense allocations surpass the defense expenses for 2023 by more than AZN 367 million or around $216 million. Since 2018, Azerbaijan has increased the state budget’s national security and defense allotments twice from $1.85 billion to $3.77 billion.
During and after the 2020 war, President Aliyev revealed Azerbaijan’s intention to strengthen the national army based on the Turkish model but on a smaller scale.
In 2023, President Aliyev said Azerbaijan has been uninterruptedly accelerating the army building process, which was crucial in ending the Second Karabakh War of 2020 with a complete victory.


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1. 1/2 C shredded coconut; 2. 3/4 C pitted dates; 3. 1/4-1/3 C cacao; 4. 1 table spoon of sesame seeds; 5. 1 tea spoon of coconut oil; 6. 1/2 C blackberry; 7. 1/4 C sunflower seeds or cashews; 7. 1 tea spoon of honey
1. Process shredded coconut in food processor, add cocoa and sesame seeds and process again.
2. Add pitted dates and coconut oil, and process again.
3. Line shapes with plastic and put mixture into shapes.
4. Freeze cookies for 1 hour.
5. To make blackberry cream process seeds or cashews in food processor or blender, add honey and berries and process again.
6. Frost cookies with blackberry cream. Enjoy!
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The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), a joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Karnataka, has invited applications for filling various vacancies.
Interested candidates should read the following information properly and apply online or offline. Below is a direct link to apply.
The following posts are hired in the BMRCL Operations & Maintenance division on a outsource basis. Candidates must apply within the prescribed date.
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited job recruitment -2021
Industry: Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Government of India)
Working Place: Karnataka (Bangalore)
Name of post: Managers (F&A), Assistant Managers (Stores) and Assistant Managers (HR).
Number of post: 03
Salary: Not disclosed
Application Fee: Not Applicable
Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited job-2021 Eligibility Criteria
- Qualification : Defend on post and experience
- Experience: Applicable
- Age Limit: Minimum 18 years Maximum years not disclosed
- How to apply: Online/ Offline
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Candidates can apply application online or offline. Candidates applying for the posts of Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) should apply through the official website of the corporation.
Below is a direct link to apply or apply application to office. For more information can visit website.
Name of the Vacancies: In Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Regular, the posts of Managers (F&A), Assistant Managers (Stores) and Assistant Managers (HR) are recruiting.
Last date to apply: 27-8-2021 on 4 pm.
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A woman in Anne Arbor, Michigan, recently learned what can truly happen when you come for first lady Michelle Obama.
When the FLOTUS delivered her remarkable speech at the Democratic National Convention many took to Twitter to not only speak admirably about the speech itself, but also about how beautiful and classy the first lady appeared.
However, Lisa Greenwood, a loan officer for Home Point Financial, decided to tweet her own racist opinion.
“FLOTUS beautiful??? Seriously she is an ugly black bitch,” Greenwood tweeted.
Immediately, commenters not only made Greenwood aware that her comments were uncalled for, but they tagged the financial institution that employed her.
So many people shared the racist comment made by the woman that Home Point Financial took swift action and fired her. The company released a full statement that read:
First of all, and this might be a bias statement, Michelle Obama may be one of the most beautiful, intelligent, graceful, and charismatic first ladies in history. Second of all, shame on you Lisa Greenwood for attacking the first lady in such a classless way. And let this be a lesson to us all, a remark against the Obamas is a remark against us all.
(Photos from left: Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images, Lisa Greenwood via Facebook)
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A controversial project to reintroduce sea eagles to southern England has been scrapped in the first of the government budget cuts to impact on the natural environment.
The majestic predators have been successfully reintroduced into the Scottish islands, after being driven to extinction in Britain nearly a century ago. But this morning Natural England, the Government's wildlife agency, will announce that it is pulling out of a long-running scheme to bring back a breeding population of the birds to the coastline of Suffolk.
Ministers have made clear to Natural England that the £900,000 the project was expected to cost over six years will not be forthcoming. However, there is more to the decision than that.
The plan to bring back Britain's biggest birds of prey – they have eight-foot wingspans – to coastal East Anglia has been extremely unpopular with some of the region's farmers and landowners, who have feared for the safety of their livestock, and the decision to scrap it has been taken by Jim Paice, the Conservative Agriculture Minister, who is himself an East Anglian farmer.
Natural England officials and biologists, from the top down, are extremely disappointed at the cancellation of what they saw as a wonderful addition to England's bird life, much along the lines of the successful reintroduction of the red kite in the 1990s. They had just received the results of a feasibility study showing the re-establishment of a sea eagle population in Suffolk was possible, and were about to embark on a public consultation exercise about the scheme.
Also unhappy is the agency's partner in the project, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. "We are very disappointed, because this is a great project, and we think most people in Suffolk are behind it," said Mark Avery, the RSPB's conservation director. "Many Suffolk businesses would benefit from the increased tourism revenue these birds would bring.
"We are also afraid that this is just the first of many damaging cuts that will impact on the natural environment over the next weeks and months."
The sea eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla, also known as the white-tailed eagle, once bred all over Britain from the Isle of Wight to the Shetlands. It is much more of a lowland and coastal bird than the golden eagle of the Scottish Highlands. But it had been persecuted to extinction in England by the 19th century and retreated to a last stronghold in the Hebrides, where Victorian collectors further hunted it until it disappeared. The last nest was seen in 1916; the last native British sea eagle was shot, on Skye, two years later.
However, in 1975 a reintroduction scheme was begun with young birds from Norway being released on the island of Rum, and several years later the first breeding took place on the Isle of Mull. There are now more than 30 breeding pairs, which are a considerable tourist attraction in some places, as the birds are a spectacular sight. They mainly feed on carrion, fish and small mammals but they occasionally also take lambs.
The Natural England scheme intended to reintroduce the birds on the area of mixed heath, forest and farmland of the Suffolk coast known as the Sandlings, centring on the RSPB flagship reserve of Minsmere. The plan envisaged bringing young birds from Poland to Suffolk at the rate of 20 a year for five years, beginning in 2011.
Dr Avery said he did not think farmers' fears of livestock losses were justified. "This bird is not seen as a pest elsewhere in Europe, where it is very common," he said. "This is fear of the unknown, rather than well-grounded worries."
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“Thank you Hypnotherapy Academy for the PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION, I’M ENJOYING THE RESULTS OF YOUR PROGRAM. I am a different person than the one who showed up in Santa Fe a few months ago. I have a new company, I have a beautiful new office, I have my first clients and a series of four seminars already booked… Can’t wait to see what happens when I actually have business cards, a brochure and a web site (all coming soon).”
There is only one Hypnotherapy Academy of America curriculum designed by its lead instructor, Tim Simmerman-Sierra. He has EXCLUSIVELY held the position of lead instructor since 1995. Hypnotherapy Academy of America is a federally registered trademark, awarded to Tim and Angela Simmerman-Sierra. In recent years we have seen that others have started to use “Hypnotherapy Academy” as part of their name. We believe this is to borrow from our name brand recognition, credibility and professional reputation. We have been using this name since 1999. Do not accept any imitation.
Sessions with a Professional Hypnotherapist can relieve stress, insomnia and physical discomfort, change negative or limiting habits and beliefs, improve self esteem, confidence, motivation, creativity, learning, and memory. And there are many other challenges people face in their lives that can be changed or eliminated with hypnosis, including the 2 more well known reasons people contact a hypnotist, stop smoking hypnosis and hypnosis weight loss.
To investigate the effectiveness of cognitive hypnotherapy (CH), hypnosis combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), on depression, 84 depressives were randomly assigned to 16 weeks of treatment of either CH or CBT alone. At the end of treatment, patients from both groups significantly improved compared to baseline scores. However, the CH group produced significantly larger changes in Beck Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and Beck Hopelessness Scale. Effect size calculations showed that the CH group produced 6%, 5%, and 8% greater reduction in depression, anxiety, and hopelessness, respectively, over and above the CBT group. The effect size was maintained at 6-month and 12-month follow-ups. This study represents the first controlled comparison of hypnotherapy with a well-established psychotherapy for depression, meeting the APA criteria for a "probably efficacious" treatment for depression.
Contemporary hypnotism uses a variety of suggestion forms including direct verbal suggestions, "indirect" verbal suggestions such as requests or insinuations, metaphors and other rhetorical figures of speech, and non-verbal suggestion in the form of mental imagery, voice tonality, and physical manipulation. A distinction is commonly made between suggestions delivered "permissively" and those delivered in a more "authoritarian" manner. Harvard hypnotherapist Deirdre Barrett writes that most modern research suggestions are designed to bring about immediate responses, whereas hypnotherapeutic suggestions are usually post-hypnotic ones that are intended to trigger responses affecting behaviour for periods ranging from days to a lifetime in duration. The hypnotherapeutic ones are often repeated in multiple sessions before they achieve peak effectiveness.
Hypnosis -- or hypnotherapy -- uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance. The person's attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored. In this naturally occurring state, a person may focus his or her attention -- with the help of a trained therapist -- on specific thoughts or tasks.
The only campus of the Hypnotherapy Academy of America is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. No other trainings in the world qualify for affiliation at this time. We have no “Denver Campus,” we have no “Midwest Campus,” we have no “Florida Campus,” we have no “California Campus.” When other schools do become affiliated it will be announced on our website.
Jump up ^ The accreditation criteria and the structure of the accreditation system were based on those described in Yeates, Lindsay B., A Set of Competency and Proficiency Standards for Australian Professional Clinical Hypnotherapists: A Descriptive Guide to the Australian Hypnotherapists' Association Accreditation System, Australian Hypnotherapists' Association, (Sydney), 1996. ISBN 0-646-27250-0  Archived 2009-09-12 at the Wayback Machine.
In this special mental state, people feel uninhibited and relaxed. Presumably, this is because they tune out the worries and doubts that normally keep their actions in check. You might experience the same feeling while watching a movie: As you get engrossed in the plot, worries about your job, family, etc. fade away, until all you're thinking about is what's up on the screen.
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Braid can be taken to imply, in later writings, that hypnosis is largely a state of heightened suggestibility induced by expectation and focused attention. In particular, Hippolyte Bernheim became known as the leading proponent of the "suggestion theory" of hypnosis, at one point going so far as to declare that there is no hypnotic state, only heightened suggestibility. There is a general consensus that heightened suggestibility is an essential characteristic of hypnosis. In 1933, Clark L. Hull wrote:
Before people subject themselves to hypnotherapy they are advised to learn as much about the process and about the chosen therapist as is necessary to feel comfortable. Rapport and trust are two key ingredients in making a potential hypnotherapy patient comfortable. Therapists should be open and willing to answer all questions regarding qualifications, expertise, and methods used. A well-qualified professional will not undertake the use of hypnosis without interviewing the patient to ascertain their level of understanding of the process. This is very important for two reasons. First, it allows the patient the opportunity to have questions answered and to develop some rapport with the therapist. Second, it is important for the therapist to know the patient's expectations since meeting these expectations will enhance the likelihood of success.
Therefore, Braid defined hypnotism as a state of mental concentration that often leads to a form of progressive relaxation, termed "nervous sleep". Later, in his The Physiology of Fascination (1855), Braid conceded that his original terminology was misleading, and argued that the term "hypnotism" or "nervous sleep" should be reserved for the minority (10%) of subjects who exhibit amnesia, substituting the term "monoideism", meaning concentration upon a single idea, as a description for the more alert state experienced by the others.
Since hypnotherapy is an adjunct form of therapy, used along with other forms of psychological or medical treatment, there are many applications. Hypnotherapy can be used to treat anxiety, phobias, substance abuse including tobacco, sexual dysfunction, undesirable spontaneous behaviors, and bad habits. It can be used to help improve sleep, learning disorders, communication, and relationship issues. Hypnotherapy can aid in pain management and help resolve medical conditions such as digestive disorders, skin issues, and gastrointestinal side effects of pregnancy and chemotherapy. It can also be used by dentists to help patients control their fears or to treat teeth grinding and other oral conditions.


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The Hon. Dr Kwabena Donkor, Ghanaian Minister for Power, has formally launched the rollout of PayGo home solar power in the Assin district of Central region, Ghana.
Starting with households in the area of Assin Sienchem, the first phase of the program will deliver power to over 100,000 households with particular focus on Cocoa growing regions in Central, before being rolled out more widely.
Dr. Donkor affirmed:
“Solar power has the potential to make a tremendous difference to rural households that do not yet have access to the grid. The ability to bring power to households within months instead of the years it takes to build out the grid is testament to how new technology is changing the face of energy provision in Africa.”
The technology service, designed by UK-based Azuri Technologies, is provided in Ghana by Oasis Africa Resources Limited. It combines four LED lights with mobile phone charging, a torch and a rechargeable radio. The system is powered by a 10-watt solar panel, and efficient power consumption allows for all four lights to be used for eight hours a night. This technology will be followed by larger systems in 2016 that offer additional capabilities including TV and devices for use in small businesses.
Mr. Isaac Kodom, CEO of Oasis Africa Resources Limited said:
“We are working closely with the Ghana Cocoa Board and the AMCOFA District Cocoa Farmers Association as we launch in the Assin district. This is a solar service which is grounded in the community and will serve the region as a long term solution to clean energy access.”
The solar technology is paid for in monthly installments and is provided as a power service by Oasis. Customers are supplied with a system, trained on how to use their energy efficiently and supported by telephone and home visits should any issues occur during their service period. Azuri PayGo incorporates market-leading features such as the HomeSmart power management system, which automatically optimizes the way power is used based on the customers’ needs. With the combination of leading technology and post-sale support services, users of Azuri PayGo have complete confidence in their investment.
The Azuri technology has been integrated with MTN Mobile Money to allow Oasis’ customers to make easy regular top-ups, either via their own Mobile Money accounts, or through a designated local agent.
Eli Hini, Senior Manager of MTN Mobile Money, Ghana commented:
“MTN Mobile Money is committed to supporting the Oasis PayGo power in Ghana. As a socially responsible organization, MTN’s interest is to continuously contribute to the development of our communities, and we are proud to support this unique electrification plan,”
Azuri Technologies CEO Simon Bransfield-Garth added:
“Making a success of distributed power in rural regions requires innovation and commitment at all levels, and here in Ghana we see strong partnerships. Azuri is delighted to support this development, and help bring modern lighting and information services to thousands of hitherto deprived households.”