Before working with a design, it may not be obvious exactly how much power an energy harvesting circuit will be able to provide given the conditions of its environment. This influences the required size and quality of the energy harvesting source and energy storage. To further complicate the design, considerations such as energy storage leakage, regulator power loss, load average/peak power, transducer max power point regulation, and battery capacity can have a significant impact on the system’s reliability. These issues must be addressed and tested in a real-world environment to accurately understand whether a system will work reliably out in the field.
At the start of an energy harvesting circuit design, two frequently asked questions are:
- How do I efficiently convert my transducer’s high-impedance output into a regulated power supply?
- Given my size and ambient energy availability constraints, is it possible to meet my load requirements using power from an energy harvesting source?
A variety of energy harvesting switching regulators can efficiently convert a high-impedance transducer’s output into a regulated supply (Fig. 1). An important feature of these ICs is their ability to regulate the output of an energy harvesting transducer to a particular operating point regardless of how much power is pulled from the device. This feature is used to keep the transducer operating at its maximum power point (MPP) so that the regulated output has the highest power capability possible for the chosen transducer in the given ambient conditions.
1. This energy harvesting switching regulator is powered by a high-impedance source meeting load requirements.
When designing an energy harvesting circuit, it is necessary to minimize the amount of power consumed by the load while maximizing the amount of energy extracted from the transducer. Under normal operating conditions, the average power available to the system must be greater than the average power used by the system. Furthermore, the system must be able to survive load transients. So, in addition to the average power condition being met, the system must also have enough energy storage to provide the maximum burst of energy required by the load while still maintaining a reasonably regulated power supply. This energy storage is generally employed through the use of a bank of capacitors, a supercapacitor, or a battery.
Another challenge of energy harvesting circuit design is that ambient energy is often not a reliable or consistent source of power (Fig. 2). In a solar-powered system, for example, about half of a daylight cycle offers little or no energy. Also, clouds passing over a solar panel are not predictable and can cause a significant loss in available energy. In cases like these, the energy storage capability of a capacitor may not suffice.
To combat long periods of energy unavailability, it may be necessary to rely on the long-term energy storage of a battery. Energy harvesting circuits that include a battery have the added benefits of load transient handling and instant power-up.
However, using a battery often decreases the amount of time that the system can remain in the field without maintenance; primary (non-rechargeable) batteries will eventually need to be replaced and secondary (rechargeable) batteries will deteriorate in health over time. Several energy harvesting switching regulators use batteries to back up the energy harvesting source during periods where the ambient energy alone is not enough to support the load.
2. Terrestrial solar panel irradiance (partly cloudy) is shown.
Energy Harvesting Prototyping
The Gleanergy energy harvesting wireless sensor node development platform is a fully-customizable kit that allows users to prototype many varieties of energy harvesting (EH) wireless sensor node (WSN) solutions. The kit is broken into several parts:
- DC2344A Multi-Source Energy Harvesting Demo Board with Battery Chargers and Life-Extenders
- DC2321A Energy Harvesting Application Demo Board with E-Ink Display
- DC2510A Shield Board for Use with DC2321A Dust Demo Board
- DC2274A-A SmartMesh IP USB Network Manager
Designers can configure the kit to accept a veriety of unique energy harvesting sources, write a custom program on the LTP5901-IPM Dust mote assemble their own sensor circuit on the shield board, and communicate with the SmartMesh manager over the wireless network. The LTP5901 is a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) product with on-board chip antenna in the Eterna family of IEEE 802.15.4e solutions. It features a highly integrated, low-power radio design as well as an ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit microprocessor running SmartMesh IP embedded networking software. The LTP5901-IPM, at 24 mm × 42 mm, is built for surface-mount assembly.
The DC2344A handles all the energy harvesting aspects of the kit and is used to power the rest of the application. The board hosts two types of energy harvesting transducers (thermoelectric generator and solar cells) and a terminal block for connecting a piezoelectric transducer or any other high-impedance AC source. In addition to the provided sources, input turrets allow the user to connect external transducers to the board.
As a backup power supply, the board holds a primary and a secondary battery which can be easily routed to any of the appropriate ICs. On-board energy storage is also available in the form of a supercapacitor or a bank of ceramic capacitors.
Low-Power Wireless Sensor
The DC2321A is a wireless sensor node equipped with an E-ink display for user feedback. The system is capable of monitoring and managing its available energy, logging information from sensors, and sharing this data over a wireless network.
When connected to DC2344A for power, the DC2321A board monitors the status outputs of all the on-board energy harvesting ICs. Two coulomb counters on the DC2321A allow the processor to monitor the energy output of these batteries, which will vary depending on the amount of energy which can be harvested from the system’s surroundings.
Data acquisition and general operation is controlled by the LTP5901-IPM, a wireless sensor node, or mote. This module is integrated with Dust Networks’ low-power radio design, as well as an ARM Cortex-M3 32-bit microprocessor which is embedded with SmartMesh IP networking software, allowing it to form a reliable network with other motes in even the harshest of environments.
The GUI which supports the DC2321A displays all of the data monitored by the mote in a user-friendly way that consumes much less energy than an update to the E-ink display. In addition, long-term data logging is supported, and the gathered data can be exported to a comma-separated value (CSV) file for review in Excel. The GUI can also be used for changing network settings.
Sensor Prototyping Board
The DC2510A is a shield board for use with the DC2321A Dust application demo board. This board is designed to allow users to build their own custom application circuits directly on the DC2321A with access to all pins of the LTP5901-IPM Dust mote. The board offers footprints of common sensor and IC packages, as well as prototyping space for routing.
ADI’s low-power sensors are a great fit for energy harvesting circuits. Demonstration circuits and firmware are available using the following products:
- ADXL362 Micropower 3-Axis Digital Output MEMS Accelerometer
- ADT75 ±1⁰C Accurate 12-Bit Digital Temperature Sensor
- ADPD2214 Low Noise, High Sensitivity Optical Sensor
SmartMesh Manager USB Dongle
The DC2274A-A serves as a network manager for a SmartMesh IP wireless sensor network. With its compact USB dongle form factor, the DC2274A-A, along with SmartMesh IP wireless nodes, makes it easy to rapidly deploy a wireless mesh network for field trials and to accelerate sensor product development.
The USB dongle connects to a computer’s USB port and allows for a user interface to monitor data being transmitted wirelessly. The SmartMesh Python GUI examples can be used to send and receive raw data between the manager and a remote DC2321A connected to the same mesh network. The SmartMesh SDK can also be used as a template for creating custom Python GUIs specific to any application.
Prototyping with the Gleanergy Kit
With all pieces of the Gleanergy kit combined, a complete energy harvesting wireless sensor node is formed. The boards can then be configured to convert the system into a custom solution:
The DC2344A can be configured to work with the user’s transducer; custom batteries, capacitor energy storage, and regulation settings are also chosen. The DC2510A can be populated with a sensor specific to the user’s application and the DC2321A can be programmed with custom application code to read from this sensor and transmit data over the network. Network data is monitored by the USB manager plugged into a computer, and this data is then displayed on a user’s custom Python GUI built from the SmartMesh library.
3. The Gleanergy kit interconnectivity and data flow diagram is shown.
The Gleanergy kit’s demonstration program provides examples of all of these features, so the user only needs to tweak the existing hardware and firmware in order to create their own system (Fig. 3). Once all of these steps are completed, the prototyping phase is finished. All that remains is to strip away the parts of the kit that are not needed and create a final energy harvesting wireless sensor node system design from the components used during prototyping.
As a result, prototyping with the Gleanergy kit offers the following benefits:
- Demonstrates energy harvesting circuits. Educates users unfamiliar with energy harvesting by showing how a complete system can work. Demo manuals and datasheets offer additional detailed information.
- Speeds up prototyping. Demonstrates a complete solution, allows integration of custom transducers and components, and gives demonstration code that can be modified into a final solution, GUI allows real-time monitoring of the system for testing. Includes a prototyping board for out-of-the-box configuration.
- Minimizes prototyping costs. Offers all components of the system in one kit so that they do not need to be purchased separately.
The following demonstrates some of the tools and example designs available for learning how to use the kit to create a custom application.
This application is based off of the ADT75 ±1⁰C Accurate 12-Bit Digital Temperature Sensor. This sensor, along with a few others, is compatible with a DC2321A sensor firmware demo and a Python GUI specifically made to demonstrate the usage of the kit with custom sensors.
1. Mount the Sensor onto DC2510A
The ADT75 can be mounted directly onto one of the SOIC footprints on the DC2510A. With the IC soldered, the rest of the pins can be routed to the headers according to the DC2321A header pinout.
2. Reprogram DC2321A with the ADI Sensor Demo Firmware
Using a JTAG debugger or Eterna Serial Programmer (ESP), load the ADI Sensor Demo firmware onto DC2321A. Source code and programming instructions are available at the GitHub address below.
3. Run the Python GUI and Monitor the Sensor Data
Connect the DC2274A-A Network Manager into a USB port on the computer and run the Python GUI. From the GUI, temperature data can be requested at a configurable interval. When the data is received over the network, it is plotted on a graph (Fig. 4) that shows a fingertip being placed on the ADT75 and then being removed.
Source code and Python GUI usage instructions are available online.
4. The DC2321A Python GUI displays and plots the wireless sensor node temperature data.
The example firmware and GUI code can easily be tweaked to work with any sensor attached to a DC2510A.
Through these design examples and the other features of the kit, users can familiarize themselves with energy harvesting while minimizing prototyping time and cost.


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As women face the ongoing threat of sexual violence, some are harnessing technology to face it.
- Judge Who Said 'Some Girls Enjoy Rape' Is Resigning His Post
- Breaking Israel's ultra-Orthodox Taboo on Discussing Sexual Abuse
- Israeli Rape Victim Not Humiliated in Court, Ombudsman Rules
“So here is my situation,” says U.S. filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman, whose own experience of being sexually assaulted in Jerusalem has led her to develop a White House-recognized app that allows users to avoid potentially dangerous situations. “I already went home with this guy. Part was consensual, part was not, part of it was a terrible, awful rape that I was screaming through. So where is the line, at what point do I have my rights, my autonomy?”
Schwartzman, a 35-year-old Pennsylvania native, has been exploring these questions through “The Line Campaign” against sexual assault, which has been going strong since the release of her 2009 documentary "The Line." In the film, she returns to Jerusalem to confront her perpetrator, recording the meeting with a hidden camera.
The app, "Circle of 6," which was launched last year, drew on conversations she had with the audience at screenings of the film. Through it, users can text their circle of friends their location via GPS, ask to be interrupted with a phone call in an uncomfortable situation - “the bad date button” - or ask to be picked up in a time of need. The app also connects users to an emergency hotline.
Initially aimed at college students in the U.S., today the White House award-winning app is used by nearly 100,000 people in 32 countries, including Israel. A localized version for India launched in April this year. In November, Schwartzman plans to announce a partnership with the Mexican health ministry for another localized version.
“Circle of 6” is about empowerment, she explains, and localizing it means fine-tuning it to a country’s cultural and societal norms, as well as linking users to relevant local resources. In India, the “bad date button” makes no sense, says Schwartzman, because people don’t go on dates. “It’s more like ‘I wish my phone would ring right now, somebody is staring at me on the bus, please call me,’” she explains via Skype from Copenhagen, where she is attending a film festival and hackathon.
An Israeli version would also work, she says. “It’s a country that has tons of cell-phones, it’s a very saturated market. What always interested me is what’s the culture of a place, how would they want to use it? In Israel, 18-year-olds are in the army, people don’t go to college at the same time (as they do in the United States). It would be interesting to work it out.”
Individual but not institutional support
Schwartzman's assault occurred 11 months after she moved to Jerusalem in 2000 to work on her first film, which looked at American kids who moved to the city, also investigating the sexual behaviors of young people there.
After she was raped, a film investigating the sexual choices of other young people in Jerusalem didn’t make sense anymore, she explains. She wanted to “investigate my own experience and then bring that out to a larger context.”
One month after the assault, Schwartzman returned to the States, not visiting Israel again until she shot the film, in which she confronts the perpetrator while protecting his identity. Back in the States, her project received mixed reactions.
“In 2008, I went out there and said I am making this, I want to have this conversation - and they had no interest. Individuals within the (American Jewish) community were supportive, but it was institutions and foundations that did not want to touch the project, they were very protective of Israel,” she says.
When “The Line” premiered at the 2009 International Women’s Film Festival in Rehovot, the New Yorker was “terrified to show it. I had no idea how it would play to an Israeli audience.” But the response was positive.
“My film was really trying to overturn that conversation,” Schwartzman says. “There’s no smart way to ‘not get raped,’ it’s about someone choosing not to sexually assault you.”
A key factor is to educate men and boys, she says. “A lot of men say to me: ‘What can I do to help? What can I do to change this?’” Many have responded positively to the app, the film, and the campaign. “A lot of men feel overwhelmed, and they are so relieved that this is the story of a victim of sexual violence who isn’t a victim.“
Four years on, the film is in 1,200 university libraries around the States. Schwartzman holds screenings at colleges, women’s centers, with the U.S. military, and with anti-violence coalitions, where she addresses the difficult question of where “the line” is.
Schwartzman’s second documentary short “xoxosms,” which aired on PBS in July, is a real departure from ”The Line.” It is “a sweet film about two people that meet online and treat each other well,” she says. She is also working on a series of fiction shorts for this coming winter.
But Schwartzman, a founder of the hip Jewish publication Heeb Magazine, doesn’t just want to make films; she wants to see how people respond to them, and how they understand the issues they raise. In the works is an interactive documentary about the Steubenville rape case, in which high school football players sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl, documenting and talking about it on social media. The story shocked America when it broke in August last year.
The Steubenville film will be an additional tool in her campaign toolkit. When it comes to boundaries and consent, Schwartzman intends to keep up the challenging conversation. “As much as possible, I’m always going to be interested in combatting gender-based violence,” she says. “Its endemic, its everywhere and it is something we can alleviate.”

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posted on Jun, 8 2013 @ 05:58 PM
Originally posted by Infi8nity
Thats one bad lookin mofo. Is it cheaper to make one, comparing it to one in store of similar quality?
You should show us your others.
I spend around $600 on hardware. I have ordered basses from the internet for $250 and used the hardware and pickups from them before. Typically, the
pickups are cheap. I use Bartolini pickups. They are superior to anything I have used in the past. I use Carvin EQ and tuners. They are reasonably
priced. The neck runs around $250 to buy. The ones I make cost me around $50, but the time it takes to fret the neck is involved. You can build a
bass if you have the ability to make templates for routing. The routing is the difficult part to get right. For shaping the body and necks, I use an
angle grinder with a lapped sanding bit. It cuts the wood like butter. After that, I use a file to refine the shape and then a sander. After doing
this for some time now, I have it down to a science.
Here are some other pics.
This is one I wish I would have kept. I stretch the bottom wing out so that neck dive is eliminated.
I also do my headstock different than usual and fan out the tuners.
I made this one for a guy in Japan
Another Six String Fretless
This next one is the second bass I had ever made. It was a good bass, but not nearly as nice as the ones above.
And then there is base One. Ouch! The guy that bought it LOVE IT! It was a hollow body fretless and did have a great sound. It was made entirely
from wood off an old piano. The hardware was purchased from pawn shops for under $40. The guy that bought it swore it was the best fretless he had
ever played. Had a real growl to it.
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I’ve lost a little bit of my writing mojo of late, probably for a few reasons – I’m working in two different jobs so it’s harder to get into a routine of writing; my commute has changed and is less conducive to writing; I’ve been learning Japanese which has taken up a part of my brain that I think writing used to take up… and there are probably more reasons besides. Anyway, to try and get back in the groove I bought a couple of books on esoteric subjects. Most of my stories revolve around magickal goings on in an otherwise ordinary setting, and there’s nothing like having a read of people actually doing (or thinking they’re doing) that stuff to help get inspired. But I discovered something really horrible.
Previous contenders for ickiest things I’ve read are probably sections of Timothy Taylor’s incredible The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death (well worth reading as long as you have a strong constitution) and, in fiction, Poppy Z Brite’s Exquisite Corpse (less worth reading). I used to keep a copy of the latter in my bag at school and try to get my friend Barry to read a section where a serial killer scoops out the lungs of a victim described in erotic detail.
For the new batch of books I went to Treadwell’s, an esoteric bookshop near the British Museum (so close to where John Dee’s scrying mirror, amongst other things, resides). I came out with two slim volumes: a primer on chaos magic rituals, and a sort of autobiography of a ghost healer. It’s the latter that has caused me concern.
Autobiography isn’t quite accurate, it’s actually a series of short recountings of times the author investigated or healed ghosts. He was a man of the cloth, and his healings involve performing a Eucharist.
Some of the healings are on the vague side – in one case the author sits down in a cottage that keeps having its electrics turned off, and thinks with the homeowner about who might have lived there in the past. Maybe someone used to sit out the front (where the electrics are), and maybe they were an elderly woman and maybe people thought she was a witch. Just to be clear, this wasn’t researched, they just thought about it and extrapolated. And then performed a Eucharist for the imagined witch, and lo, all was resolved. Others are more detailed though and based on reportings of historic happenings.
And then I came to the anecdote in question. A military base. Some Satanic goings on. The chaplain had been arrested because two young girls had reported him for spanking them. What then follows is, in a nutshell, a confession from one of the girls that she was sexually abused by her father and the Chaplain. And the author smugly recounts how he was able to quash her story as a fabrication.
It’s told so briefly that there’s next to no reasoning given for the outcome. Simply that the second girl couldn’t corroborate her story. Given that the perpetrators would be likely to try and cover their tracks, that’s not the sturdiest reasoning. The anecdote ends by saying that the Chaplain in question was moved elsewhere 6 months later because of all the ‘tittle tattle’ about the case. Moved on, covered up, and free to continue.
And that’s it. There are no horrendous details of what went on. Just the impression that the author helped abuse continue. It’s really shaken me up. Perhaps at some point it’ll provide the basis of a villain in something I write, but to be honest I’d rather not have it in my brain at all.
The book is Healing the Haunted by Dr Kenneth McAll, and based on my experience with it I would strongly recommend not buying it.

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Mississippians pardoned. Washington, December 23.
--The President to-day pardoned all Mississippians of the twenty-thousand-dollar class, and others, who have been endorsed by Messrs. Sharkey and Humphreys, and has ordered that the pardons be given over to a Mississippi agent.
The income tax — internal revenue.
It is said that a respectable minority, if not a majority, of the members of the Finance and Ways and Means Committees of the Senate and House are to state in this connection that the Secretary of the Treasury and at least one of the commissioners appointed to revise the revenue laws are in favor of the system. --New York Express.
Governor Holden relieved — his Reply. Washington, December 23.
--The Secretary of State has, by direction of the President, addressed a letter to Provisional Governor Holden, of North Carolina, relieving him of that trust, and expressing the President's acknowledgment of the fidelity, the loyalty,

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Roukagia Afan says spare a thought for Syria
January 11, 2016 | Nick Taylor
Spare a thought for Syria, these are the words of Roukagia Afan, a young woman studying at a school in Manchester.
Roukagia, like many young people, has watched on in horror at what is happening in Syria. She has decided that enough is enough and has written powerful words setting out how she, and her friends, will take action to make a difference.
Roukagia is a future leader for Peace and is planning to work with the Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace as part of the THINK project.
Already Roukagia is sending ripples of change through her school community encouraging people to look out to the world around them and to think critically about their place in the world. Roukagia is an ambassador for her school and will soon be part of our network of young peace builders.
THINK is a bespoke programme aimed at young people, aged 14–19. It equips them to THINK critically and confidently about their place in society. In the process, the young people develop skills, knowledge, and understanding around core values and beliefs. This allows them to play a positive role in managing conflict and to become peace builders and leaders – just like Roukagia – please read her thought for Syria and watch the film she has made:
Thought for Syria by Roukagia Afan:
Hello my name is Roukagia and I come from Greece
From the capital named Athens near the Peloponnese
My background however is also Ukrainian and Syrian
Both countries are in a condition which is so horribly dystopian
I have a question for you about your morning today
Did you find it a hard task to get up to school again?
I’m sure most of you did, honestly, so did I
But Syrian people don’t even have a bed, and they don’t moan and cry
You think the children go to school and have a normal day?
Or worry about if sending that “risky text” was okay?
They don’t, they look around, foraging for food
And don’t complain about what to eat when they’re not in the mood
And after school what do we do? Study and go to bed
It feels like heaven in the cold winter, and you’ve got all that heat and comfort in our head
what about the Syrian children? That’s if they aren’t dead
They’ll be lucky to find something softer than ground to replace in the night of dread
Now you’ll be thinking “but there are refugees” and yes you’re right there are!
But those are the richest Syrians and they still don’t get very far
What about the poor majority which are left behind?
Will you say “it’s not my responsibility”? cause that’s the biggest lie.
We are all humans created in the same way
So why should watching the deaths of others make everything okay?
If you really do think that, let me tell you you’re very wrong.
We should help these people live and help them stay strong.
Wouldn’t you expect help if you were in their place?
I bet you would, you’d beg and plead, crumbs of bread you’d chase!
So turning your back on them is a heartless, evil thing
How could you even bare to ignore all the crying and the pleading?
And what about all those 1 and 2 pence some of us throw around?
Shouldn’t we collect them instead of watching them hit the ground?
We are all 1000 kids, times that by a penny each day
After a week we’d have 70 pounds ready to send away!
And so my classmates and I, around forms we’ll go
Collecting for these people to watch their happiness grow
Because it makes me truly happy to create smiles
On faces with the same blood as us, we’ll help them from here, the British Isles.
For the past 4 years I’ve been watching all this war on screens
And now decided it’s time to do something rather than hear those bombs and screams
So we should all help each other rise to become stronger
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By Abebe Gellaw,
Criminal records rarely go unnoticed wherever they are meticulously archived and preserved. Let alone leaders that hold state power, ordinary people are even required to go through criminal background checks for jobs that require high level of trustworthiness. Today one of the most serious criminal offenses in the world is quite obviously terrorism.
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), which is a center of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security at the University of Maryland, has made the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) available online “in an effort to increase understanding of terrorist violence so that it can be more readily studied and defeated.”
GTD is arguably the most authoritative and comprehensive open-source database on terrorism incidents from 1970 to date. The database also reveals “the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and–when identifiable–the group or individual responsible.”
The Meles regime has recently adopted a new strategy of crushing dissent by accusing famed and respected journalists, politicians and activists of committing acts of “terrorism”. It is for this very reason that I found it necessary to do some background checks related to terrorism on the accused as well as the accusers.
Using the searchable GTD online interface, I started entering the names of some of the “terrorists” accused by Meles Zenawi of committing acts of terrorism. The search result for Eskinder Nega, Reyot Alemu, Woubishet Taye, Andualem Arage, Bekele Gerba, Olbana Lelisa, Debebe Eshetu, the two Swedish journalists, Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye among many others, was negative. As some of those charged with terrorism were linked to Ginbot 7, it was also needed to check the group’s terrorism record. But as consistently as the suspects, the search result for Ginbot 7 was nill. According to the GTD record, there is no single terrorist act that has ever been linked to the group.
And then it was TPLF’s turn for the terrorism background check. It is an open secret that TPLF’s history is tarnished with violence, bloodshed, brutality, mass killings, genocide, robberies, corruption, mass displacement and kidnappings, to mention a few in the long litany of crimes the group has been committing since it started its armed insurrection in 1975 as an ethnocentric bandit group with a declared mission of seceding Tigray from Ethiopia. Along with the world’s most virulent and violent terrorist groups Al Shabaab, Al Qaida, Hezbollah, Basque, Islamic Jihaad, the drug cartels in Latin America, the Tamil Tigers, the TPLF’s the terrorist records are linked to committing mass killings, assaulting civilians, NGOs and hostage taking of foreigners. The GTD record on TPLF is not very comprehensive given the fact that TPLF became the government in 1991 and changed its terrorist tactics to state terrorism. It is a tragedy for Ethiopia that the terrorist group TPLF now controls Ethiopia abuses its power to crush innocent civilians like insects.
TPLF has obviously committed countless acts of terror before and after it seized state power in 1991. GTD only contained TPLF’s terrorism record from 1976 up to 1991. Puzzled why GTD does not contain acts of terrorism that the TPLF has been committing after it came to power, I called Erin Miller, Project Manager of the Global Terrorism Database.
Miller explained that despite the fact that in circumstances where terrorist organizations like the TPLF have succeeded in seizing state power, they automatically fall outside the domain of the GTD due to the fact that it only records and archives terrorist acts committed by non-state actors. “The rule of inclusion does not include state actors. Terrorism acts committed by governments are state terrorism,” she said.
The Tigray people’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has almost total monopoly over state power, the economy, the military, the security apparatus, and every key institution and public resources from 1991 to date. It continues to use the TPLF as the name for the main political party that controls the ruling EPRDF.
Meles Zenawi, the prime minister and the chairman of the TPLF, had a candid interview in Tigrigna with the Eritrean magazine, Hiwet some years back. The translated version was published in Amharic in Ethiop Magazine, Vol. 5 Issue No. 52. Answering a question on when he was first engaged in armed combat operations, he told the Eritrean magazine with a sense of pride that he took part in a bank robbery in Adwa, his birthplace. He also said that prior to the bank robbery effort in Adwa, in which he admitted to be one of the armed robbers that raided the rural bank; TPLF had also robbed banks in Axum and Shire. He referred to those robberies as “victories.” TPLF’s mindset of promoting every criminal and terrorist misadventure as a heroic act has been one of its chronic problems.
The former US Chargé D’affaires to Ethiopia, Ambassador Vicki Huddleston, is widely known to be one of the hawks in US government circles that publicly declared that the Meles regime should not be abandoned or admonished by the United States as it is a key US ally on the so-called “war on terror”. Currently based at the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Africa in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Huddleston has played a key role in maintaining unqualified US support to the Meles regime. In an op-ed Huddleston and Tabor Nagi published in the New York Times in November 2007, she advocated on behalf of Meles that the US congress lacked wit when it unanimously passed HR 2003, Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007, which eventually died in the US Senate.
Despite her support to the TPLF hegemonic rule in Ethiopia, Huddleston did not try to hide the terrorist acts of the regime. In the Wikileaks diplomatic cables, there is a very interesting secret cable that Vicki Huddleston wired to Washington.
On October 6, 2006 Huddleston reported: “A series of explosions were reported in Addis Ababa on September 16, killing three individuals. The GoE announced that the bombs went off while being assembled, and that the three dead were terrorists from the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) with links to the Oromo National Congress (ONC). An embassy source, as well as clandestine reporting, suggests that the bombing may have in fact been the work of Government of Ethiopia security forces.”
Despite the fact that the diplomat linked the TPLF regime with such a despicable terrorist act that is not expected of a responsible government, the regime chose not deny or admit the damenning accusation. One of the reasons why TPLF cannot argue with US officials about its terrorism records is due to the fact that the United States backs up its statements with accurate intelligence that it collects throughout the world using overt and covert means.
The Global Terrorism Database provides incontrovertible evidence that TPLF is indeed a certified terrorist organization that has seized state power two decades ago. TPLF has continued terrorizing the people of Ethiopia using the apparatus of the state. TPLF’s scandalous anti-terrorism law, which is being used to silence critics, only shows the great danger a nation faces wherever ruthless terrorist organizations like the TPLF seize state power. For those TPLF fans who puff up their chest when they try to sell the TPLF as a heroic liberation movement, we should only encourage them to visit the Global Terrorism Database, where the TPLF is permanently housed along with its peers such as the extremists Islamic Jihaad, Al Shabaab and Al Qaida. TPLF is nothing but an ethnic Jihadist group that has taken hostage an entire nation it has been terrorizing with arrogance and impunity.
So many ordinary Ethiopians and scholars are very puzzled with the TPLF. But the best way to understand it is in the context of its well documented terrorism for the last four decades and driven by not its mask of leftist ideology that it claims now to have abandoned but a virulent ethnofascist ideology.
In spite of the the fact that GTD does not document state terrorism, Genocide Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters without Boarders, local and many international organizations have been documenting the state terrorism that TPLF has been committing with impunity. No matter what TPLF says and does, one cannot teach new tricks to an old dog. TPLF is a committed terrorist organization that will not change at all.
Those Ethiopians who frequently take to the streets and condemn Meles Zenawi and TPLF as terrorists are not expressing their disdain. They are telling the truth which is certified by the United States Homeland Security, which keeps the most comprehensive database of terrorists around world. .
Given the weight of evidence, facts and figures against TPLF and its leaders, it is totally absurd and childish that Meles is still playing this terrorism and treason cards in its most outrageous form. It appears that terrorists are shameless.


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PERU — The more than 130 teachers at Peru Community Schools received a 1.79 percent pay raise this year, making it the largest pay increase in four years in the district.
The raise was part of the master contract negotiated this year by the district and the Peru Community Education Association.
The pay increase will cost the district an additional $110,000 in wages and benefits.
“We wish we could give our teachers much more than that, but we just don’t have the general fund dollars to do it,” said Superintendent Chuck Brimbury. “We’ve experienced very challenging budgets over the last four years.”
Association President Scott Thompson said teachers are also set to get bonuses from a state grant the district received for implementing the state’s teacher evaluation system. He said each qualifying teacher will receive a chunk of the $176,000 grant.
“The raise is good, but the bonuses are twice as nice,” he said.
The more than 270 non-teaching employees, including administrators, custodians and secretaries, also received a 1.75 percent raise that totals another $110,000 in extra wages and benefits for the district.
The contract also increases the minimum salary a teacher can earn to $33,883, and the maximum salary to $63,000. Brimbury said those numbers have increased every year for three years.
“Our teachers are a hard working group and they deserve that,” Brimbury said. “We always work cooperatively and collaboratively with the teachers association. We work arm in arm so we can move forward.”


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Let me be frank about something that will probably shortly become obvious anyway: I have something of a crush on the Electoral Commission. Recently, they released their report into the 2014 election. I spent an afternoon reading it and tweeting about it, and about three days boring people solid talking about it. Luckily for you, I have a blog.
The major area to be addressed, of course, is declining voter participation. This isn't a trend unique to New Zealand, as this graph makes clear.
You might also think that graph says something about compulsory voting, but that's not mentioned at all in the review. Participation in 2014 was up slightly on 2011, which is encouraging. However, the number of eligible people not enrolled to vote is estimated at 250,700, up from 147,200 in 2008. The groups least likely to enrol and/or vote are Pasifika, Asian, and young people.
The problem with young people's engagement turns out to be a bit more complex, and a bigger problem, than you might have thought. It's not that 18-25 year olds don't vote. It's that they don't vote, and when they're 25-30 year olds they still don't vote, and when they're 30-35 year olds, they keep on not voting. They establish a pattern of not voting, and carry it through their lives. Meanwhile, new groups of non-voting young people keep coming along, and the percentage of the population voting goes down, and down, and down...
The report mentions a number of things the Commission has already done to try to encourage people to vote. This includes a Kids Voting program, which apparently ran in 556 schools. I found this a bit disappointing, because in my frequently-expressed-while-drinking opinion, civics education was the key. Get young people excited about being able to vote. Don't let that pattern of not-voting get established.
The Commission has no specific recommendations for future new action on this problem, past stating it requires a "whole of government approach". Still, this is the first election that the Commission have been actively involved in motivational messaging as well as informational, and perhaps the pay-off is still to come.
The main reasons non-voters gave for not voting in post-election surveys were: “lack of interest in voting” (27%), other personal reasons such as health and religious reasons or being away from home (22%); “didn’t know who to vote for” (11%); and “other commitments” (10%). Only 3% gave a reason of not knowing how, when or where to vote. Only 2% said it was because the voting place was too far away and they did not have transport. This indicates that it is less about institutional barriers and more about lack of interest or motivation to vote and the need to encourage people to value their vote.
There are many other smaller points of significant note in the review. You know that thing where people can vote for weeks before the election, but advertising is only restricted on election day? They've noticed how weird that is, and would like it looked at. The number of people advance voting is now so high (29%) that the whole way we run and regulate elections needs to be reviewed. For instance, under current law, scrutineers are banned from, say, wearing t-shirts with "Vote [Party]" slogans on them on election day, but not in advance polling booths before election day. Nor are there any restrictions on how close to advance voting booths campaigning is allowed. Discussing this is one of the many, many places the Commission has noticeably not used the phrase "this is fucking stupid".
The Commission would also like the laws on Treating, and on election advertising and satire, reviewed. " The application of these provisions raises difficult issues regarding freedom of expression." They would like to change the way parties are allocated funding for opening and closing addresses, as (to paraphrase) no fucker watches them, and the money could probably be better spent on some Facebook ads or something.
The section on voter expectations is an example of why I find the Commission so fabulous they're probably brunette and have an opinion on the Oxford comma. It's not about changing voters' expectations, it's about how they can meet them.
For instance, many Special Votes are disallowed because the voter is not enrolled (95% of disallowed Special Votes). People not enrolled to vote who have cast a Special Vote assume that, in that process, they were enrolled to vote. So, says the Commission, why not change it so that casting a Special Vote at one election means you're enrolled to vote at the next? In fact, is there any reason why, when someone goes into a polling booth, advance or not, we couldn't just enrol them?
Also, given growing concerns about privacy, is there any particular reason we publish electoral rolls and make them available for purchase? Some people who don't meet the threshold for the unpublished roll don't enrol because they don't want their details made public. " The Commission recommends that electoral rolls (and habitation indexes) no longer be available for general sale, that the inspection of rolls should be limited to offices of the Commission, and that house/flat/apartment number and occupation information should no longer be included in rolls available for inspection."
The Commission believes that people should be able to change from the General to the Maori roll every electoral cycle, and that this option could be offered when packs are sent out for people to check their enrolment details. The delay in the last Census made the restriction on changing rolls worse than usual, but even under normal circumstances, is there really any justification for it?
" The Government has indicated that e-voting for parliamentary elections will not be a priority for 2017." So the Commission, while noting they will study overseas developments, has not considered electronic voting.
Nonetheless, something interesting has happened with overseas voting. The Commission noted that in 2011, overseas voting had dropped significantly because, and I shit you not, people were having trouble accessing the requisite fax machines.
So now, if you're overseas and not voting from somewhere like the Embassy in London, you can download a ballot paper, print it out, fill it in, scan it, and upload it. The Commission reported no security issues with this system, used by over 22 000 people, and few technical issues not caused by a Browser Which Shall Remain Nameless.
This column is getting too long for reading, and I haven't even touched on the Commission's award-winning work on providing secret voting for visually-impaired people. I can only touch on the substance of the report: you guys get in there, dig stuff out, and let's talk. I'm off to find out what the Electoral Commission's favourite martini style is, because I bet they have one.


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A serious effort has begun to develop therapies that may be capable of eradicating established HIV infection in man. Because of the biological complexity of HIV infection that persists despite potent antiretroviral therapy, it is widely believed that if such therapies can be developed they will involve complex, multimodality approaches. We highlight some of the recent studies in this effort.
An inhibitor of histone deacetylase has been demonstrated to disrupt latency in man, and new histone deacetylase inhibitors have been identified. Other potential targets, such as histone methyltransferase, protein kinase C, and BRD4, have been recently studied. Model systems, both in primary cells and in animal models, are beginning to be validated. In the clinic, immune-based therapies to aid in the clearance of persistent infection are also being tested.
It is too early to know what combination eradication therapies for HIV infection will look like in the future, but candidate therapies and model systems to perform preclinical validation are beginning to take shape.
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bInfectious Diseases, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA
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Sino-American Strategic Restraint in An Age of VulnerabilityWebsite or Online Data - 2012
Despite their vast power, the United States and China are becoming increasingly and mutually vulnerable to attack in three strategic domains: nuclear, space, and cyberspace. The futility of defense and dim prospects for arms control in these domains will lead both countries to develop strong offensive capabilities, at least to deter the other. The United States and China should deal with these vulnerabilities by pursuing mutual restraint in the use of strategic offensive capabilities in all three domains, building on a foundation of mutual deterrence based on the threat of retaliation. A strategic restraint agreement should include reciprocal pledges not to be the first to use nuclear or anti-satellite weapons against the other or the first to attack the other's critical computer networks. These pledges should be reinforced by regular high-level communications about capabilities, doctrines, and plans, as well as concrete confidence-building measures to avoid misperceptions, provide reassurance and engender trust"--Publisher's description.
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Love story08 Jun, 2010 10:58 AM
[This is a story about a dog named Kayla, she is in love with a dog named Stanley, please enjoy.]
Stanley and I walked alongside the beach, his golden brown fur blew in the wind, my fur stayed sleek against my body, I flicked my tail and smiled, rubbing against Stanley's side.
"I don't want you to go away tonight." I say sadly.
"What do you mean?" Stanley asks me, our eyes meet, his eyes pale green.
"Your master, you told me you were going to the forest to hunt." I reply
"Oh yes, I am." Stanley says.
I sigh and look down at his paws, he was a german sheppard, I was just a husky.
I don't even remember how we met, I only know we fell in love at first sighting.
Stanley licks my ear lightly and nuzzles my cheek. "Hey, Kayla," he starts.
I look up.
"I won't leave you forever, if that's what you're worried about."
I smile. "It kind of was..." I admit.
He laughs and flicks his tail, he taps his nose against mine.
I smile and lick his nose, I stop as we bump into our masters. I sigh. "Goodbye." I say, holding my head out.
Stanley rubs his head against mine. "I'll see you at your house after hunting." He whispers.
I wait in my masters front room, looking out the window, I see my eyes in the reflection of the window, thay sparkle blue from the night sky.
I see Stanley's master come to my masters door, but I didn't see Stanley...
I run to the door, expecting it was a trick.
My master comes and opens the door, they walk to the kitchen together.
Nothing comes in behind Stanley's master.
I run into the kitchen and see Stanley's master handing my master a red collor, like the one Stanley had... My eyes widen. "What happened?!" I think to myself, I bark.
Stanley's master bends down. "Hey Kayla, listen, Stanley, he.. you won't be seeing him ever again..."
I bark and back up whimpering. "WHY?!" it only comes out a bark to a human.
Stanley's master holds his hands out, blood drips off onto the floor.
I shake my head.
"I did nothing Kayla, it was a bear. Stanley's too young to fight those off, but he came too close to a cub and well, momma got him..." He holds his hand out to me.
I yelp loudly and run to the window and scratch on it barking loudly, I feel tears run down my cheeks.
Stanley's master gets up and sighs. "I'm sorry..." He says as he leaves.
For more than many years now, I have stayed on the couch by the window, watching german sheppards pass our house, hoping at least ONE will be Stanley.
Eventually, I died, I had stopped eating for over 3 years. I starved myself in this depression I have picked up from my one lost love.
I don't know what brought us together, but I hope it brings us together in heaven as angels. No one can ever stand against my love, I'll never trust another dog in my life... Ever.
[Sorry for any mistakes, hope you enjoyed :)]


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MORE seats will be available to commuters using trains from Crow Country. Train operator First Capital Connect has revealed that, following an agreement between themselves at the Department for Transport, an extra 2,750 seats will be available on services
MORE seats will be available to commuters using trains from Crow Country.
Train operator First Capital Connect has revealed that, following an agreement between themselves at the Department for Transport, an extra 2,750 seats will be available on services in and out of King's Cross station, which connects to Royston and other stations in Crow Country.
The news was revealed by transport minister Chris Mole in a letter to North Herts MP Oliver Heald.
Mr Heald said: "I am continuing to press for more capacity on our line and am pleased that some extra seating has been achieved with new rolling stock.
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"The next battle is to have the infrastructure works done, so that we can have twelve car services on our line.
"The lengthening of Royston and Letchworth Garden City Station platforms and the additional power supply upgrades are obviously vital."
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (FOX 47)--As of Thursday night, freezing rain was coming down in Rochester, but a large storm system passing through the area threatened to change that. Minnesota Department of Transportation officials said they are preparing to head out early Friday morning to clear roadways.
The winter like weather is expected to hit the region by Friday morning on April 4th. MnDOT said Highway 52 and 63, particularly near Zumbro Falls, could get dangerous. They said they'll be deicing in the early hours Friday morning before the snow has a chance to accumulate on Highways.
MnDOT said the spring temperatures helped melt away compacted snow and cleared the way for plows.
"This winter was hard because it stayed cold the whole time," said Joe Fogarty from MnDOT. "We had a lot of half inch to one inch snowfalls and you can't really plow them really well to get the roads clean."
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At this point in his life, Sevren Sanders has had more poetry flow from the tip of his pen than most writers ever ink. Emotional scars that never seem to heal use eclectic beats as mediums to transform his writings into music. In this project, a truth is being told that most other artists are not telling. Thought-provoking topics such as abuse, war, politics and religion are just some of the things that SEVREN is not afraid to put a beat to. This poetic lyricism began years before he would ever grab a mic...
As the son of Steve Sanders, child Gospel star and baritone singer for the Oak Ridge Boys, Sevren was introduced to music in a way that most children will never know. Sevren played drums while he was still young, however, instead of pretending to be on stage with the Oaks, he was pounding out beats that he could rap to.
As an adolescent, some of the friends closest to him began to spend more time in jail, and less time being positive. These weights were soon amplified by the death of his father. Now, a young man searching for an identity was branded with one....SEV. Now his writings have become his life.
Sevren's world premier was heard on a Nashville radio station where Def-Jam recording artist, Haystack said, "SEVREN has definitely got dedication and that's what it takes." Haystack went on to say that he would like to work with SEVREN in the future. Award-winning radio personality Carl P. Mayfield says, "This kid is brilliant...SEVREN, you have a new fan in me. This is the first time in a long time I have heard so much truth in music... this is what I've been looking for!"
SEV: Chapter 1 has already sold over 1000 copies. The follow-up, Chapter 2, is a continuation of the life story of a guy who has about 100 life stories to tell. It will make you laugh and cry but most of all it will make you think. Sevren has written, composed, published, produced and recorded the entire project with the help of his "40 Family." A witty southern style and eclectic urban hip hop beats, these tracks are like nothing before. Sevren says, "To me RAP stands for Rhythm And Pain" so his lyrics, melodies, and tracks are really poetry put to a beat. Nothing about his writing is shallow or silly (like a lot of the mainstream RAP today). This is deep, meaningful stuff that he has pulled from his own life- every bit of it is from his heart. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are truly the first 2 chapters in his biography. And what a story to tell!
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3. I Am
4. Here Lately
5. If You Don't Like What You See
6. Whatcha 20
8. The S.e.v.
12. Night Moves
13. Conscience Calling
14. Words From the Wise
15. Tomorrow Was Yesterday


Elevators allow you to move between floors easily (through teleportation or smooth travel). Signs must be created in the same location but above or below in order to link floors to each other.
- Using [Lift Up] on the second line of a sign allows players to right click the sign to go upwards toward any other elevator sign.
- Using [Lift Down] on the second line of on a sign allows players to right click the sign to go downwards toward any other elevator sign.
- Using [Lift] on the second line of a sign prevents anyone from right clicking the sign, but you can use it tandem with the other two signs types.
The first line of a sign can be used to tell players who arrive at a level the name of the level.
If the elevator looping setting is enabled, if lift up is used and no elevators are above it, it will search from the bottom of the world up. The same goes for down lifts.
Elevators, as of version 2.0, will no longer put players in blocks and suffocate them if a teleportation would put a player in such a position. Elevators will also now check to see if there is flooring below the player at the destination. Be aware that elevators teleport the player directly upwards or downwards. Also when constructing an elevator, be sure to have enough room height-wise or else you'll get the message "Your destination is obstructed."
You can't have one elevator system for multiple floors. An elevator goes always from the sign to the sign above or below it (defined by the sign text). If you want a multiple-floor elevator you simply need multiple elevators.
|craftbook.mech.elevator||Allows creation of elevators.|
|craftbook.mech.elevator.use||Allows usage of elevators.|
|Configuration Node and Path||Default Value||Effect|
|mechanics.elevator.enable||false||Enables the Elevator mechanic.|
|mechanics.elevator.enable-buttons||true||Allow elevators to be used by a button on the other side of the block.|
|mechanics.elevator.allow-looping||false||Allows elevators to loop the world height. The heighest lift up will go to the next lift on the bottom of the world and vice versa.|
|mechanics.elevator.smooth-movement||false||Causes the elevator to slowly move the player between floors instead of instantly.|
|mechanics.elevator.smooth-movement-speed||0.5||The speed at which players move from floor to floor when smooth movement is enabled.|


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Three stolen 13th Century manuscripts have been returned to Italian officials after turning up in the hands of a rare book dealer in Oregon.
Italian police contacted federal officials in 2010 after noticing two of the manuscripts were for sale on the McMinnville book dealer's website.
The two pages were removed from two different antique choir books stolen from an Italian church and a monastery in 1990 and 1975. Homeland Security agents said the book dealer was also in possession of a third stolen manuscript.
The bookseller cooperated with investigators and will not be criminally charged.


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关于”压力的有人害怕压力“的英语作文模板2篇，作文题目：Some people are afraid of pressure。以下是关于压力的有人害怕压力的高三英语模板，每篇作文均为真题模板带翻译。
高分英语作文1：Some people are afraid of pressure
With the college entrance examination approaching, more and more senior three students find themselves under great pressure. Now some people find it difficult to fall asleep, some people have a bad appetite, and some people are afraid of the exam. Effective ways to relieve the pressure have become a hot issue.
Here are some effective methods. First of all, we must remember that stress is natural, we don't have to worry at all. In fact, the right amount of stress can stimulate our brain's efficiency, and we will perform better under the right pressure.
Secondly, if we can't overcome the fear of stress, we should turn our attention to other aspects, such as listening to music. For myself, when I feel stressed, I often listen to light music. In the process, I always find myself full of energy and relaxed.
In addition, exercise can achieve the same effect. Last but not least, we can turn to our parents and teachers to remember that they are not only the s we rely on, but also our reliable friends. If I talk to them, I will feel that I am not alone.
In my opinion, I have got their physical and mental support. The key to release pressure is to keep a stable mood and believe that I will be succesul Work.
With the acceleration of the pace of modern life, more and more people live under great pressure. Some people are afraid of pressure. They think that the pressure and pressure of work deprive them of happiness and happiness in their eyes.
Pressure is harmful to their body and spirit. That's why they prefer things that are more competitive and fierce than demanding and more challenging. Others think that stress doesn't have to be as bad as you usually think, unless it's too high.
A certain amount of stress is essential to provide motivation and stimulation without stress. You may slack off and do nothing, which gives purpose and meaning to a meaningless and boring life. People under pressure tend to give full play to their potential and achieve their goals.
In my opinion, we should not avoid the pressure, but face it, because all we can do is to adapt to the pressure and profit from it, rather than avoid it.
With the acceleration of the pace of modern life, more and more people live under great pressure. Some people are afraid of pressure and think that the pressure and pressure of work make them lose happiness and happiness. Pressure is harmful to their body and spirit.
This is why they prefer more competitive and fierce things than demanding and challenging things. Other people think that stress is not as bad as usual, unless it is too great. A certain amount of pressure is very important to provide motivation and stimulation without pressure.
I think that people under pressure tend to give full play to their potential and achieve their goals. We should not escape from pressure, but what we can do in the face of pressure is to adapt to the pressure And profit from it, not escape the pressure. "I can't stand the pressure and competition," one of my friends explained when asked why he recently decided to quit a high paying but demanding position in the company.
My friend may have his own reasons, but I don't think his decision is wise. In fact, my friend's case is not the only one. In the past few years, many men and women have chosen to do some They are afraid that the pressure and pressure of work will deprive them of happiness and harm their physical and mental health.
However, stress is not a bad thing, unless it is out of control, a certain amount of pressure is essential to provide motivation and challenges. In order to give a meaningless, idle life goals and meaning, people under pressure tend to give full play to their potential and realize their own personal value. The goal of human life stress is a natural part of our daily life.
We can't avoid it. What we can do is to cultivate our adaptability to cope with it, not to escape it.

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Thu, Jun 21, 2018
by Thomas Ice
The current situation in Israel is one of constant tension and turmoil. Yet in the midst of Arab aggression and opposition, it appears that Jewish interest in rebuilding their Temple continues to grow. In the last few months there have been a number of events that have taken place that appears to be ratcheting up the interest level of the Temple movement in Israel among Jews. One of the more interesting developments has been the reestablishment of the Sanhedrin after 1600 years of absence...


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I bought a hybrid tomato plant from Costco last year and saved seeds. I planted the seeds a few weeks ago and they are growing all right. Will these seeds grow to tomatoes that will produce fruits? Generally speaking , can we save hybrid seeds?
Thank you in advance.
Thank you for contacting the Toronto Master Gardeners. Hybrid tomatoes come from distinct parents that are deliberately bred for certain traits, like fruit colour / size / taste, disease resistance, higher yields and good vigour. Their offspring (first generation which is called F1, presumably the plant you bought) will have the best of all of these desirable traits and tend to grow better and produce higher yields than the parents. However the seeds produced by these first generation plants including yours will usually grow but the resulting fruit will be unpredictable and usually not true to type and less vigorous. These seeds are considered to be genetically unstable.
If you are interested in growing tomatoes from seed, F1 seed (that your original plant grew from) is commercially available but expensive because of the years of breeding (including very careful control of pollination) that went into producing it. These hybrids have their benefits, however you could also consider open-pollinated seed which will grow into plants that are more genetically diverse and can result in more variety in the plants produced, which can allow the plants to slowly adapt over time to local growing conditions and climate.


MOSCOW, Idaho -- Elijah Dotson ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns and Sacramento State beat Idaho 31-7 on Saturday.
The Hornets (8-3, 6-1) moved into a three-way tie with Montana and Weber State atop the Big Sky Conference standings with one game left in the regular season. Sacramento State beat the Grizzlies 49-22 on October 19 and lost 36-17 to the Wildcats on November 2.
Caelan Barnes recovered a fumble forced by Marcus Bruce on the game's second play from scrimmage and six plays later Kevin Thompson's 4-yard touchdown run gave Sacramento State a 7-0 lead. Josiah Erickson recovered another Vandals fumble early in the second quarter at the 19 and, after the Hornets went three-and-out, Devon Medeiros made a 33-yard field goal but Idaho was called for roughing the kicker, giving Sacramento State a first-and-goal at the 6. Two plays later, Dotson scored on a 4-yard run. Medeiros kicked a 33-yarder midway through the period and BJ Perkinson's 22-yard TD run with 54 seconds left in the half made it 24-0.
Sacramento State, which went into the game ranked No. 6 in the FCS Coaches poll, limited the Vandals to 194 total yards and just eight first downs. The Hornets tied the program's single-season record for conference wins and set its Division I mark for overall wins.
Graziano: Riley would be highly coveted in NFL if he chose to go
Dan Graziano breaks down some prospects -- including Lincoln Riley, if he chooses to make himself available -- who will be top candidates for upcoming NFL head-coaching openings.
Appalachian State promotes Shawn Clark to head coach
Appalachian State interim head coach Shawn Clark has been given the job permanently, sources confirm.
1994 Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam's burden to carry
Heisman Trophy weekend is a special time to celebrate nominees and former winners. But for Colorado running back Rashaan Salaam, it represented another year of having to face the spotlight, of having to answer questions.
Notre Dame, offensive coordinator Chip Long part ways
Notre Dame offensive coordinator Chip Long and the school have parted ways, a source said.
Dvoracek: Oklahoma is a more complete team than last year
Dusty Dvoracek thinks Oklahoma could challenge LSU because they are a more complete team than in years past.
Dvoracek: Norvell set up for immediate success at FSU
Dusty Dvoracek thinks new Florida State head coach Mike Norvell will turn things around quickly at Florida State.