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To “open” an account with a Supplier generally means you need to complete a trade application form. The form will ask you specific questions about your business, how much you are likely to spend with the Supplier, as well as provide references of the others whom you trade with. Having an account with any Supplier, regardless of them being part of the n3 network, means you have met their credit criteria and terms. Once you have set up an account with a Supplier, you purchase goods, and pay for them at a later date, when they send you an invoice. This is the most common trading method for businesses, as it helps with cash-flow and management.
Your n3 Account Manager will help facilitate the account opening process between you and n3 Suppliers. Application forms are available online or in hardcopy, depending on the Supplier. If you are logged into the website, you can also navigate to a Supplier's dedicated page and download their Application form, and upload it.
Visit www.n3.co.nz/suppliers and click on a Supplier that interests you. Once you are on their profile, you will see "Ways to trade with this Supplier". Under this will show On Account, Trade Card & App, depending on the ways you can trade with that Supplier.
If your business already has contracts set up with one of our Suppliers, “Linking your Account” means switching your existing account over to n3 pricing. You maintain the direct relationship with the Supplier, simply on n3 pricing. We’ll only ‘Link your Account” where beneficial. Plus, if you already have an account with the Supplier there is little or no paperwork involved with this process.
To Link an Account you will need to know your account number and name (usually you can find this on a recent invoice), and in some cases the branch you have an account with. Your n3 Account Manager can help you to contact the Suppliers, otherwise you can login to the n3 website. Simply navigate to their Supplier profile and click ‘New Case’. From the drop down box you can select ‘Link Account’, you will be prompted to add your account number, and in the Notes section add in any other relevant details you may have. Note that n3 will only ever Link an Account if the price structure benefits your business.
The Supplier will confirm that you will save money before moving you onto n3 pricing.
It really comes down to how your business works. If you prefer to pay cash and manage receipts then the Trade Card is going to be the best option. However, On-Account will give you the biggest range of Suppliers, and best credit term. With a few of the Suppliers the On-Account discount is better than the Trade Card.
The savings you achieve will vary from Supplier to Supplier. Most Suppliers do not offer a flat discount across all their products or services, and savings can vary by product category or individual product. Individual Member savings depend on the products and volumes purchased by each Member. The savings percentage shown against each Supplier on the website is therefore intended as a guide only.
The majority of n3 Suppliers provide detailed monthly reports which show the spend and savings for each Member. The savings are reported against the Supplier’s baseline which may be the retail price, a list price, trade price, or distributor price, depending on the Supplier’s operating model.
On the 25th of every month we email our Members their Spend & Savings report. You can also login anytime to our website. On your Member Dashboard, you’ll find some quick stats about your savings, and can download the report by clicking on the ‘See Full Report’ button. Note we only upate the report once a month.
The n3 website shows the savings achieved across the aggregate of all n3 Members’ spend. Individual Member savings will depend on the specific goods and services purchased by that Member, which may not be representative of all n3 Member purchases. Individual Member savings may therefore be greater or lower than the figure shown on the website.
The savings percentage shown is intended as a guide to the savings that may be achieved when purchasing from the Supplier as an n3 Member.The savings figure shown for each Supplier is based on the aggregate of all n3 Members' spend for that Supplier, and may be calculated from:
1. Savings for all n3 Members where these are reported in detail by the Supplier.
Typical member saving = All n3 Member Savings/ All n3 (Member Spend + Member Savings)
2. Where Suppliers do not provide as much reporting detail, the estimated savings are calculated based upon a number of factors including the Supplier’s contracted n3 rates and discounts, savings calculated against RRP/list price from a sample of n3 Members’ actual spend, the Supplier’s tender response pricing, or other relevant information.
3. A combination of the above if the actual savings have only been available for less than six months.
Most sales (over 83%) have detailed savings reported by Suppliers, so provide an accurate guide to the savings achieved. Sales and savings figures are regularly reviewed by n3, and the typical savings figures are updated accordingly.
The Trade Card is a Card and/or App that allows our Members to receive in-store or online discounts on business purchases from some of our most popular Suppliers without the need to open a trade account.
The Trade Card is great for adhoc business-related purchases when you don’t have an account set up with a Supplier. For example, if you owned a painting company and you realise you’ve forgotten to bring paint brushes. Rather than driving across town, you save time and money by using the Trade Card at a Supplier close by.
If you’re an n3 Member and the person who primarily deals with n3 you should already have access to Trade Cards when you login to our website, under 'Manage Trade Cards'. If you need help email firstname.lastname@example.org or your Account Manager and we will make sure you and your staff have access.
If you are not the Prime Contact, firstly confirm – do you make purchases on behalf of your business? If yes, then the best place to start is with your employer.
Only the person in your organisation who primarily deals with n3 can manage Trade Cards, and order new ones. If you’re the Primary Contact, head to your Member Dashboard and click on ‘Manage Trade Cards’. A page will load showing you all of your existing cards. Click on “Request New Trade Card” and select a contact. If you can’t find the person you are looking for, you can also add a new contact.
No you don’t. Purchases using the Trade Card must be paid for with cash/card at the time of purchase.
We provide limited reporting for Trade Card spend. We recommend keeping your receipts from your Trade Card purchases if you would like to keep track of your business spending.
Send an email to your Account Manager, or to email@example.com with the name of your organisation, and the name of the employee. Alternatively, you can login to our website to manage your Trade Card users under the "Manage Trade Cards" tab.
Yes, we have a Trade Card App. To get the app the person in your organisation who primarily deals with n3 will need to place an order for you. They can do this within the ‘Manage Trade Cards’ section of the website, under ‘Request new Trade Card. They can select to just order a card, just order an app, or order both.
Firstly, let us know so we can deactivate your Card for you. Then you will need to request a new Card via the person who primarily deals with n3.
On the back of the Trade Card or within the App you will see a full list of Suppliers of where the card is accepted at. Fuel is not currently available on the Trade Card. There are Fuel cards available from Mobil, BP, Caltex and Z as part of a full n3 membership. To find out more click here.


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Nigerian Hollywood actress, Sope Aluko who played Shaman in the box office record breaking Hollywood blockbuster movie, Black Panther revealed how her personal faith and trust in Almighty God gave her a bigger role after she auditioned for a small role.
Then the Miami-Dade County in Florida proclaimed April 10, 2018, as Sope Aluko Day to honour her.
Sope: It was an extremely competitive movie set; everybody wanted to be part of the movie immediately the auditions were put out. Everybody was trying to clinch a role in the film and it’s just so ironic because I initially had auditioned for Spiderman a year ago and the (at) last minute, I didn’t get the role. My children and I were very disappointed so when Black Panther came along I was like, ‘well, Lord this is the kind of movie I really would love to star in’. I actually auditioned for four roles – individual roles and different roles, and I didn’t get any of them for various reasons. I was too young or maybe too old, I don’t know. And then I got a call to audition for a smaller role, and I went to the director session with the director, LA (casting,) local casting as well as the producers for Marvel. I auditioned for the role and didn’t hear anything for a few weeks. And all of a sudden, I got a call from my agent and they said: ‘Oh, you didn’t book that role, but they have created a role for you and it’s this, and it’s a bigger role.’

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Name That Book Challenge 2017
BISD is hosting the Annual Name That Book Challenge on April 8, 2017. This is an exciting competition for all grade levels in BISD. The 20 books for the 7th and 8th grade students are available in the LJIS Library.
This is the perfect event for students who love to read!

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Design, Analysis and Optimization of Engine Mounting Bracket for SAE Supra Car Using Finite Element Analysis
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Published September 25, 2020 by SAE International in United States
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Citation: Mekalke, G., "Design, Analysis and Optimization of Engine Mounting Bracket for SAE Supra Car Using Finite Element Analysis," SAE Int. J. Adv. & Curr. Prac. in Mobility 3(2):802-805, 2021, https://doi.org/10.4271/2020-28-0374.
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Growing up within sight of Boston, Massachusetts meant lots of grade school field trips to the earliest landmarks of America. We looked forward to those excursions because they meant a day out of school. The only downside was the inevitable essay. Back then, I had no love for either history or essays. Go figure!
Some field trips are vividly remembered even a half century later. A visit to the deck of “Old Ironsides,” the U.S.S. Constitution in Boston Harbor, stands out as the most exciting. Visits to the sites of the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and Paul Revere’s famous ride also stand out as great adventures in hands-on U.S. history – the essays notwithstanding.
Then there was the trip to Plymouth Rock (YAWN!), the most underwhelming national monument in America. Everyone of us emerged from the bus to file past Plymouth Rock while poor Mr. Dawson had to listen to an endless cascade of “That’s IT?!”
“Dedham granodiorite.” That’s the scientific name of the rock where the Mayflower Pilgrims were left to settle in the New World in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. Plymouth Rock was noted and described in the Pilgrims’ journals, but it fell into obscurity for a century until the town of Plymouth decided to build a wharf in 1741. That’s when 94-year-old church elder Thomas Faunce set out to identify Plymouth Rock and mark the site. Thirty-four years later, the town moved the rock to a more prominent location, accidentally breaking it in half in the process. Only the top half made its way to the town’s new site.
Then shopkeepers began chiseling away at it, selling chunks to tourists for $1.50 each. Over the ensuing years, Plymouth Rock was moved again and again, split in half a second time, cemented back together, then what was left of it ended up surrounded by a concrete portico to become the nation’s first national landmark.
A Missing Catholic Story
The lack of awe inspired by Plymouth Rock is in inverse proportion to the story of how the Pilgrims came to stand upon it. Every grade school student knows the tale of the Mayflower. In 1620, its pilgrim sojourners fled religious persecution from the established Church of England. They embarked on a long and treacherous voyage across the Atlantic in the leaky, top-heavy Mayflower. Landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Pilgrims befriended the native occupants, endured many hardships, then, after a successful first harvest in the New World, celebrated a Thanksgiving feast with their Native American friends in the autumn of 1621.
That story is true, as far as it goes, but the story your grade school history book omitted is downright fascinating, and every Catholic should know of it. Before boarding the Mayflower, the Pilgrims were called “Separatists.” The religious “persecution” they came here to flee consisted mostly of their determination to purge the remnants of Catholicism from the established Church of England.
Author, Philip Lawler summarized their agenda in his book, The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture (Encounter Books, 2008):
[T]he Puritans were campaigning against the lingering traces of Catholicism. Decades of brutal persecution – first under Henry VIII, then under Elizabeth I – had eliminated the Roman Church from English public life in the sixteenth century; the country’s few remaining faithful Catholics had been driven underground. For the Puritans, that was not enough ••• They were determined to erase any vestigial belief in the sacraments, any deference to an ecclesiastical hierarchy. (The Faithful Departed, p. 22).
The Pilgrims came here to establish a New World theocracy, a religiously oriented society that would reflect their religious fervor which was also anti-Catholic.
Puritanism deeply affected the American national character, but I wonder if the Pilgrims would even recognize the American religious landscape of today. It is far from what they envisioned.
The Puritan Pilgrims were not always considered the survivors of religious persecution American history made them out to be. Writer, H.L. Mencken described Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” And G.K. Chesterton once famously remarked:
In America, they have a feast to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims. Here in England, we should have a feast to celebrate their departure.
When the Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower on December 11, 1620, they were not at all prepared for life in the New World. They were originally destined to colonize what is now Virginia, but the Mayflower veered badly off course. They also considered settling at the mouth of the Hudson River in modern day New York, but Dutch traders conspired to prevent it.
Before leaving England on September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims used their meager resources to purchase a second ship to sail along with the Mayflower and remain with them in the New World. That vessel was called the Speedwell. It was anything but well, however, nor was it speedy. Just 200 miles off the English coast, the Speedwell was sinking. Those aboard had to transfer to the crowded Mayflower while the Speedwell returned to England. There was evidence that the Speedwell was intentionally rigged to fail, leaving the colonists with no vessel with which to explore once the Mayflower departefor the voyage back to England.
The voyage across the Atlantic was delayed for months, finally landing the Pilgrims in New England at the start of winter. There were 102 aboard the Mayflower when it left England, but by the end of their first winter in the New World, only half that number were still alive. Unable to plant in the dead of winter, their first encounter with the indigenous people of coastal Massachusetts – known to those who lived there as “The Dawn Land” – came when the near starving Pilgrims stole ten bushels of maize from an Indian storage site on Cape Cod. It was not a good beginning.
Massasoit, the “sachem” (leader) of the once powerful Wampanoag tribe, was not at all enamored of the visitors, and the fact that they seemed intent on staying disturbed him greatly. The Pilgrims had no way to know that prior European visitors to those shores left diseases to which the people of The Dawn Land had no natural resistance. By the time the Pilgrims arrived, 95% of the indigenous population of New England, including the Wampanoag, had been decimated.
Still, Massasoit could have easily overtaken and destroyed the invaders, who were barely surviving, but they had something he wanted. Massasoit feared that his tribe’s weakened state might spark an invasion from rivals to the south, and he noted that the Pilgrims had a few cannons and guns that could help even the odds.
The Pilgrims Meet “The Wrath of God”
So instead of attacking the Pilgrims, Massasoit sent an emissary in the person of Tisquantum, known to history as Squanto. He was actually a captive of Massasoit and arrived just weeks before the Pilgrims. Tisquantum was likely not his original name. In the language of the people of The Dawn Land, Tisquantum meant the equivalent of “the wrath of God.” It may have been a name given to him, and, as you’ll see below, perhaps for good reason.
Squanto was to become the primary force behind the Pilgrims’ unlikely survival in the New World. On March 22, 1621, the vernal equinox, Squanto walked out of the forest into the middle of the Pilgrims’ ramshackle base at Plymouth, a settlement known to Squanto as Patuxet. That place was once his home. To the Pilgrims’ amazement, Squanto spoke nearly perfect English, and arrived prepared to remain with them and guide them through everything from fishing to agriculture to negotiations with the nervous and well-armed Massasoit and the Wampanoag.
As historian Charles C. Mann wrote in “Native Intelligence,” (Smithsonian, December 2005), “Tisquantum was critical to the colony’s survival.” Squanto taught them to plant the native corn they had stolen instead of just eating it, and he negotiated a fair trade for the theft of the corn. The Pilgrims’ own supplies of grain and barley all failed in the New World soil while the native corn gave them a life-saving crop. Squanto taught them how to fish, and how to fertilize the soil with the remains of the fish they caught. Most importantly, Squanto served as an advocate and interpreter for the Pilgrims with Massasoit, averting almost certain annihilation of the weakened and distrusted foreigners.
A Catholic Rescue
For their part, the Pilgrims interpreted Squanto’s presence and intervention as acts of Divine Providence. They had no idea just how much Providence was involved. It is the story of Squanto – of how he came to be in that place at that very time, and of how he came to speak fluent English – that is the most fascinating story behind the first Thanksgiving.
In 1614, six years before the arrival of the Mayflower, Captain John Smith – the same man rescued by Pocahontas in another famous tale – led two British vessels to the coast of Maine to barter for fish and furs. When Smith departed from the Maine shore, he left a lieutenant, Thomas Hunt, in command to load his ship with dried fish.
Without consultation, Thomas Hunt sailed his ship south to what is now called Cape Cod Bay. Anchored off the coast of Patuxet (now Plymouth) in 1614, Hunt and his men invited two dozen curious native villagers aboard the ship. One of them was Squanto. Once aboard, the Indians – as the Europeans came to call them – were forced into irons in the ship’s hold. Kidnapped from their homes and families, they were taken on a six-week journey across the Atlantic. Not all the captives survived the voyage. Those who did survive, Squanto among them, were brought to Malaga off the coast of Spain to be sold as slaves.
Fortunately for Squanto, and later for our Pilgrims, Spain was a Catholic country. Seventy-seven years earlier, envisioning injustices visited upon the indigenous peoples Of the New World, Pope Paul III issued “Sublimis Dei,” a papal bull forbidding Catholic governments from enslaving or mistreating Indians from the Americas. The Pope declared that Indians are “true men” who could not lawfully be deprived of liberty. “Sublimis Dei” instructed that European intervention into the lives of Indians had to be motivated by benefit to the Indians themselves. It would take America another 300 years to catch up with the Catholic Church and abolish slavery.
As a result of the papal decree, the Catholic Church in Spain was opposed to the mistreatment of Indians, and opposed to bringing them to Europe against their will. Of course, the Catholic ideal did not always prevent slave trade on the black market. At Malaga, Thomas Hunt managed to sell most of his captives, and was about to sell Squanto when two Spanish Jesuit priests intervened. The Spanish speaking priests seized Squanto who somehow convinced them to send him home. Not knowing where “home” was, the priests arranged for Squanto’s passage as a free man on a ship bound for London. It is likely that the Jesuits even baptized Squanto as a Catholic. It would have been a way to assure his status as a free man.
Squanto’s world tour was underway. In late 1614, having no idea where he was, Squanto walked into the London office of John Slaney, manager of the Bristol Company, a shipping and merchant venture that had been given rights to the Isle of Newfoundland by England’s King James I in 1610. Squanto spent the next three years stranded in London before being placed on a ship bound for St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1617. By now fully immersed in the language and ways of the English, Squanto spent another two years stranded in Newfoundland – 1,000 miles of sea and rocky coast still separating him from his native Patuxet.
Late in 1619, Squanto befriended Thomas Dermer, a British Merchant in Newfoundland who agreed to sail Squanto home, though neither knew where home was. They knew it was south, so south they sailed. Squanto eventually recognized a Patuxet landmark – maybe even what we came to call Plymouth Rock.
With Thomas Dermer’s ship anchored off Patuxet, Squanto stepped onto the shores of home after a nearly six year absence. But the people of The Dawn Land – Squanto’s people – were no more. Squanto was devastated to learn that disease had ravaged his home in his absence, and not a single Patuxet native had survived. Squanto was alone.
Squanto knew he could not remain there. He convinced Thomas Dermer to accompany him inland in search of anyone among his people who might have survived. There was no one. It wasn’t long before both men were taken captive by Massasoit, sachem of what had been a confederation of 20,000 native Massachuset and Wampanoag tribal peoples. By the time Squanto and Thomas Dermer stood captive before Massasoit, however, all but 1,000 of them were dead from diseases carried to the New World aboard European vessels.
Just weeks later, it was to this setting that the Mayflower’s naive and ill-prepared Pilgrims arrived to face the winter of 1620 in the New World. Squanto, now alone – his life ravaged and his home and people destroyed – convinced Massasoit to send him to the Pilgrims as a negotiator and interpreter instead of attacking them. Squanto put his wrath aside, and became a bridge linking two disparate worlds.
Without Squanto – and, indirectly at least, the Pope and some Jesuit priests – the fate of the Puritan Pilgrims would have been vastly different, and Thanksgiving would likely have never taken place. Squanto was, as Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation wrote of him,
“A spetiall instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectations.”
On that point, both Puritans and Catholics might agree. At your Thanksgiving table this year, say a prayer of thanks for Tisquantum – Squanto. Our national ancestors were once pilgrims and strangers in a strange land, and that land’s most disenfranchised citizen assured their survival.

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Maya the Bee Drawing Artist
The Maya the Bee Drawing Artist game is under the animal, bee, coloring, drawing, fun, kids category. Maja coloring the Bee Drawing Artist is fun drawing and coloring game for kids that you can play online for...
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Crates And Devils
The Crates And Devils game is under the collecting games, evade, jumping, platforms, timing game category. In the platform skill game 'Crates And Devils' you only have to collect the boxes, but don't touch the devils...
The Ball Up game is under the ball, canon, shooting category. Shoot the ball as long as you can and don't let it go outside the ring.
The Nurse Angel game is under the dress up, girl, girls category. Dress up this nurse angel for her day shift at the hospital.
Baby Cow Day Care
The Baby Cow Day Care game is under the animal, caring, dress up, girl, girls, grooming category. How cool it would be if you actually could take care of a baby cow, well you could and this...
Eremes Dress Up
The Eremes Dress Up game is under the dress up, girl, girls category. He's coloring always as dashing as ever.
Dress and Jackets Dressup
The Dress and Jackets Dressup game is under the dress up, girl, make up, makeover category. There are some pretty nice crop jackets that she can wear over a top, a blouse or a dress.
The Tetra Cube game is under the arcade, blocks, bricks, tetris category. A classic game of Tetris with great graphics.
Dream Doll Dressup
The Dream Doll Dressup game is under the dress up, girl, girls category. Dress up your dream doll with appropriate dress and items.
Trichy and Hedgehogs
The Trichy and Hedgehogs game is under the adventure, arcade, collecting games, platforms, retro category. Collect all blue boxes, you can touch hedgehogs by their left and right sides, but do not jump on them.
Car Brands Logos
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The Neon Blitz game is under the blocks, html5, mouse skill category. In this game, you are a neon cube that must be tracking all the stars that appear throughout the game.
Dancing Party Dress
The Dancing Party Dress game is under the dress up, girl, girls, princess category. Dancing Party Girl Dress up game.
Delicious Fresh Corn
The Delicious Fresh Corn game is under the dress up, fun, girl, mouse skill category. Dress a beautiful corn as you would like to eat it.
Dress Up Sailor Sur'kesh
The Dress Up Sailor Sur'kesh game is under the alien, dress up, girl, girls, parody category. Try some alien sailor soldier.
The Carnival Dance game is under the dress up, girl category. This pretty carnival girl will be performing live in front of the audience.
The Sarah Silverman game is under the celebrity, dress up, girl, girls category. This Hollywood humor bomb is getting ready for a day out.
Elsa Polaroid Dress Up
The Elsa Polaroid Dress Up game is under the disney, dress up, girl, girls, princess category. Elsa has found a new hobby - she bought herself a Polaroid camera.
The Stone Aged game is under the adventure, collecting games, dinosaur, evade, html5, ipad, iphone, jumping, mobile, mouse skill, obstacle, touchscreen category. Welcome in an Age of stones, in this endless runner game run as a cave man to collect coins and...
Mermaid Friends Dressup
The Mermaid Friends Dressup game is under the dress up, girl, girls, water category. These underwater cuties are searching for a whole new look.
Bachelorette Party Dresses
The Bachelorette Party Dresses game is under the dress up, girl, make up, makeover category. How should a girl dress up for her bachelorette party?

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As the lower atmosphere becomes warmer, evaporation rates will increase, resulting in an increase in the amount of moisture circulating throughout the troposphere (lower atmosphere). An observed consequence of higher water vapor concentrations is the increased frequency of intense precipitation events… — NASA’s Earth Observatory
Just off the coasts of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the Pacific Ocean has been abnormally warm of-late. For the past month, sea surface temperatures have ranged between 3 and 5 degrees Celsius above average. This excess heating of the ocean surface, facilitated by human-forced climate change, has pumped a prodigious volume of moisture into the atmosphere of this coastal region. Southerly winds running along the western edge of South America have drawn this moisture north and eastward — feeding into the prevailing storms that originate on the Atlantic side of South America and track eastwards.
(Sea surface temperature anomaly map from Earth Nullschool shows 4 degree Celsius above average ocean surfaces just off-shore of Ecuadore and Colombia. These extremely warm waters have helped to fuel very severe storms over Peru and Colombia during recent weeks. Such warm ocean waters are not normal and their highest peak temperatures are being increased by a human-forced warming of the Earth, primarily through fossil fuel burning. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
Lately, these systems have blown up to enormous size as they’ve run across the Andes or collided with pop-up storms along the coast. And the amount of rainfall coming out of the resulting monster thunderstorms has been devastating. In Peru, hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered homeless by these deluges which have caused the tragic loss of 100 souls, destroyed thousands of buildings, 200 bridges, and 2,000 miles of highway. For the state, the estimated damage toll from this ongoing climate disaster is now 6 billion dollars.
Friday night, a member of this new breed of monster thunderstorms, pumped to greater intensity by the moisture bleed off the record warm ocean waters, unloaded a total of a half-month’s worth of rainfall in just a few hours upon the small Colombian city of Mocoa. More than five inches fell in 1-2 hours on a region where three rivers run out of the mountains toward this community of 40,000. The deluge arrived in the darkness. Its ferocious intensity unleashed a massive flood of boulders, mud, and water as the combined rivers leapt their banks and invaded the town. A nearby hillside, unable to retain integrity beneath this merciless assault of the elements, gave way — burying a large section of Macoa in rubble.
(Extremely high atmospheric moisture loading in the thunderstorm system approaching the Macoa region on Friday, March 31 is indicative of global warming’s impact on the Earth’s hydrological cycle. As oceans and lands warm, the rate of evaporation and precipitation increases. This change generates more extreme versions of storms and droughts by increasing the highest peak intensity for such events. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)
Residents caught unawares were forced to immediately flee homes with little more than the clothes on their backs — carrying infants or dragging children in tow as the flood waters swirled around them and as a wall of moving earth, uprooted trees and large rocks tore through town. Many escaped, but an estimated 254 residents were not so lucky and are now counted among those lost to the raging torrent and landslides.
President Juan Manuel Santos declared the city a disaster zone Saturday even as relief workers searched for survivors in the rubble and as make-shift shelters and hospitals were set up to aid the injured and displaced. According to CBC:
Santos blamed climate change for triggering the avalanche, saying that the accumulated rainfall in one night was almost half the amount Mocoa normally receives in the entire month of March. With the rainy season in much of Colombia just beginning, he said local and national authorities need to redouble their efforts to prevent a similar tragedy (emphasis added).
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The official YouTube channels of several top cryptocurrency influencers were hacked on Sunday to post unauthorized videos and ask for cryptocurrencies from followers. The compromised YouTube channels include BitBoy Crypto, Altcoin Buzz, Ivan on Tech, The Moon, and a few others. Security of the account of boxing champion Floyd Mayweather was also breached to post unauthorized videos.
Hackers shared unauthorized videos to receive cryptocurrencies from victims.
The hackers shared a Binance Smart Chain video with unauthorized videos to receive cryptocurrencies from victims. However, that address only had a total of nine transactions worth a value of $850. Interestingly, these types of scams are not new, as dozens of fraudulent YouTube channels continuously stream videos of interviews and discussions with known personalities, usually asking for cryptocurrencies from viewers to participate in giveaways. However, most of the YouTubers were quick enough to take down the unauthorized videos within minutes. But it is not confirmed if any of their followers fell victim to the scam.
Several from the crypto community hold Youtube accountable for security breaches.
Though the exact technique used by the hackers to get hold of the Youtube channels is not known yet, some are pointing out that the hackers used the SIM Swap tactic to bypass the two-factor authentication. But, others are not convinced that it couple be a SIM Swap attack. Unlike YouTube, attacks on Twitter accounts are very common. Over the years, the official Twitter handles of several state leaders, company CEOs, and even tech companies were compromised to post about fraudulent crypto giveaways. Earlier, several YouTube also took down the videos of several top crypto channels without any warnings, only to restore them later. The largest video-sharing platform even cut short live streams of crypto influencers several times.

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Human Rights Watch weighs in with a report damning Zimbabwe's drive against squatters.
It's great to have another voice raised against Robert Mugabe's Operation Murambatsvina. Still, I'd like to offer one loyal cavil: the report has some terrific and needed recommendations, but the legal language gets a bit squishy. For instance, this is the fifth recommendation:
"Develop a legal framework free from gender discrimination, for conferring security of tenure on those who do not yet have it, including those in informal settlements or who are occupying land or housing."
First, housing rights could be the first demand. But also, the process of developing a legal framework is a bureaucratic process. Mugabe could agree with this demand and nothing would get done for decades. I'm all for working within the system. But something has to be done immediately to protect the rights of those who Mugabe treated as if they had no rights at all. How about an immediate pledge that no one, except in cases of absolute risk to themselves, shall be evicted from their homes in the informal settlements. Then people can discuss legal approaches.

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Probably not what the advertiser had intended but this is hilarious and… Real. And in that I mean not virtually friended.
I am watching the follow-up by director Gary Hustwit. Objectified like Helvetica gives me much to think about, especially about my own life as a designer.
My favorite quote by designer Karim Rashid is paraphrased thusly:
Out of the million chairs that have been designed in the world, how could there be an uncomfortable chair?
If you haven’t seen it catch it on Netflix or on PBS.
In my Tweets this morning, Guy Kawsaki posted this video from Lewish Howes about the top eight ways to use social media. If you ask me there’s only two things you need to do: be interactive and give relevant content. The video’s cool.
I cannot wait for a cup like this to be mainstream. Imagine how much less wasteful. As a marketer, what a great buzz piece at a tradeshow or around the office. Actually you could put some cool stuff in a container like this.
Found it on PSFK but you can see the real deal on the company’s website.


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Here it is, a Sunday in the realm, I am sitting in my office at 0500 hrs on a Sunday, and I am still having to provide content for a blog that seems to have all but died. Oh well, here goes, in no particular order:
- Ancient Arrow Is Among Artifacts to Emerge From Norway’s Melting Ice
- ABC/WAPO: Biden Poll Disaster Trump Leads 52-42%
- Republican Rep. left family to live with lobbyist mistress, wife claims in divorce papers
- CLAIM: Meadows burned so many White House docs, wife complained of ‘bonfire’ smell
- Biden campaign is off and running against Trump — out of public view
Okay, here is my drive-by commentary based solely on the headlines:
I am fascinated by archology, especially from civilizations that predate our recorded history.
Presidential polling fourteen months out? Who’s to say that either of these candidates will even be alive this time next year? I have some doubts as to whether either of these guys will be still running six months from now.
Oh gee, a congresscritter left his wife? Do tell. What makes this story more laughable is that Republicans have loved to hold the mantle of “Family Values”, and the “Sanctity of marriage” and all that nonsense. Turns out that Republicans take their pants off one leg at a time, just like the rest of us…
The White House had a “Burn Barrel”? Didn’t they know of this fairly new invention called a paper shredder?
I kinda wish that the Biden campaign — wasn’t. I’m still holding out for someone else to emerge — from both sides.
Okay, that was my quick and dirty comment on the headlines that caught my eye this morning. It’s about as much news stimulation that I can handle these days.
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FERNLEY SWIMMING POOL
The Fernley Swimming Pool District is an NRS 318 GID in Lyon County. We are seeking a Facility Director for our year-round indoor pool and Splash Park. This position is a full-time, exempt, management position reporting to the FSPD Board of Trustees, and is a key member of the district team.
As established by the Board, primary responsibilities include accountability for general operations, personnel activities and fiscal management.
Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in business or public administration, at least three years of public agency administrative experience including responsibility for management of staff and programs. Base Salary:
$47,871.00 – $67,019.00 EE/ER PERS (DOE)
$41,769.00 – $58,477.00 ER PERS (DOE)
Benefits include: PERS retirement, full health, dental, vision and life insurance To be considered for this position, apply here: www.lyon-county.org/jobs
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Since drug addiction has destructive effects on abusers and those around them, dependable rehabilitation facilities are essential because they always have a positive effect.
Elm Tree Recovery is intended to assist drug addicts in reclaiming their lives. They provide numerous services, such as treatment and counselling. If you have a problem with drug addiction, you must choose a good rehabilitation center so that you can be helped to overcome the problem and return to your normal life.
Elm Tree Recovery is a twenty-bed intensive and comprehensive young adult drug rehab facility that addresses and treats the underlying causes of addiction in a residential setting while placing a concurrent emphasis on education.
We provide a 90-day initial inpatient rehabilitation program that addresses not only drugs and alcohol, but also dual diagnosis treatment, trauma recovery, and other compulsive behaviours.
Our licensed clinical team is committed to providing the best available treatment following SAMSHA-recognized best practices. SAMSHA is the federal agency responsible for regulating addiction treatment. This ensures not only the most effective and modern treatment methods but also acceptance by the majority of insurance providers.
Our program is designed to foster a genuine community where recovery and education converge. Our rehab center is within a few blocks of Arizona State University and several other universities and community colleges. Individuals at Elm Tree acquire the skills necessary to enter adulthood.

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Air Injection Silver 20 System
|Online Auction Description|
13-inchx54-inch resin tank
No potassium permanganate or any other chemicals are required for operation of the system, it simply backwashes with water.
Removes up to 15 ppm iron
Causes red/orange staining with levels as low as 0.3 ppm. Treats both ferrous (clear water or dissolved) and ferric (red water or oxidized) iron.
Removes up to 15 ppm hydrogen sulphide
The cause of rotten egg odor. Incorrectly referred to as sulfur most of the time.
Removes up to 5 ppm Manganese
Can cause black slime buildup in toilet tanks and may impart a metallic taste to the water
4.5 GPM Service Flow
Treats a constant flow rate up to 4.5 GPM
8.3 GPM Backwash Flow REQUIRED
Requires a minimum 8.3 GPM available for backwashing
Stops Red Rust Stains
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Fleck 2510SXT Air Injection Control Head
Patented air injection piston inside the rugged 2510 valve and controlled by the user friendly SXT controller
Structural USA Resin Tank
Durable, high quality polyglass tank made by a trusted name it tank manufacturing
Catalytic Carbon Media
Synthetic carbon allows for removal of a wide range of tastes, chemicals, and odors. Combined with Air Injectio, this system provides an excellent broad range treatment solution.
Simple system connections and detailed installation instructions allow most homeowners to install this system themselves. For those who prefer to leave the work to a professional, most plumbers can install the system in 1-2 hours.
Iron is a common problem in homes today. It causes red staining on fixtures, as well as turning clothes and sometimes even your hair a reddish orange color. Iron bacteria is sometimes present in water with iron, creating a slimy build up in standing water (such as your toilet tank) and can smell like rotting vegetation. Hydrogen Sulfide (mistakenly called sulfur quite frequently) is easily detected by the presence of a "rotten egg" odor, and is sometimes associated with yellow staining. Manganese is most often seen as a black slimy substance that builds in standing water, and may impart a metallic taste to the water.
All of these problems can be eliminated with the Air Injection Gold System. Using the principle of oxidation, the system uses a patented piston inside the Fleck 2510SXT to create a bubble of compressed air at the top of the tank. As water flows through the system the contaminates are forced into contact with oxygen. This causes them to oxidize into a larger form which is then trapped by the Catalytic Carbon media.
In addition to the iron, hydrogen sulfide, and manganese removal capabilities of the Air Injection Gold system, by using Catalytic Carbon media a wide range of additional treatment is provided. Numerous chemicals including herbicides, pesticides, organics, MTBE (Methyl tert-butyl ether or methyl tertiary butyl ether) are removed by the Catalytic Carbon, as well as a wide range of tastes and odors.
Controlled by the Fleck 2510SXT control head, this system automatically backwashes. The backwash process uses no chemicals, simply using the force of water to clean the media and flush the contaminates down the drain while replenishing the air bubble. Made by Fleck, the #1 manufacturer of control heads in the US, the digital control head allows for easy user interaction, automatic backwashing, & a professional look.
The patented piston design allows for air injection in a single tank, which is a significant advantage over two tank or venturi (inline) injection systems. By containing the oxidation process to a single tank routine mantenance is reduced, part replacement and associated costs are decreased, and less space is required.
The lack of chemicals does not mean a lack of performance, as this does an excellent job of treatment. This system a great solution for broad range treatment of a variety of common well water problems.
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Backwash Flow Rates
The backwash flow rate is the minimum rate that MUST be available to ensure proper backwashing and adequate media life. While lower flows can be used and MAY provide adequate results, using less than the recommended flows WILL void the 30-day satisfaction guarantee. Warranties on the tank and control valve will remain unaffected.
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Take a trip back down the Yellow Brick Road with the first teaser for "Judy."
Renee Zellweger takes on one of the most famous songs in movie history in the first teaser trailer for her upcoming Judy Garland biopic "Judy."
Yep, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
The Oscar-winning actress transforms into the legendary performer in the sneak peek, which is set to Zellweger's rendition of the classic "Wizard of Oz" tune.
In the film, Zellweger plays Garland -- then in her 40s in 1968 -- as she prepares for a series of sold-out performances in London's The Talk of the Town. Garland died one year later in June 1969.
"It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in 'The Wizard of Oz,' but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown," reads a press release. "As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of 'the world's greatest entertainer.'"
Director Rupert Goold explained he felt Zellweger was "uniquely qualified" to play Garland, as she's an Oscar-winning actress, "wonderful comedienne" and proved her singing chops in "Chicago."
"I made it clear to Renee that I wasn't looking for an impersonation of Judy Garland's inimitable voice," he added, "but what I wanted was for Renee to make the songs her own and this she did to thrilling effect."

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If you’re a confident homeowner, you’re probably used to doing things yourself. DIY is a great way to save on a budget. But if you’ve ever stared at a failed or unfinished Pinterest project, you’ll know that the most important part is knowing when you’re in over your head. Check out these air conditioner maintenance tips for the smart way to do it yourself (and when to call a pro).
Safe DIY Air Conditioner Repair Tips – Things You CAN Do Yourself
Here are some safe and effective DIY tasks to do yourself.
Batteries Not Included*
Replace the batteries in the thermostat. Avoid air conditioners not working properly due to malfunctioning digital controls. Make your digital thermostat easy to remember by changing the battery of the digital thermostat at the same time as the smoke detector (the spring and fall time change).
Replace Filters Frequently
Replace or clean the air filter according to the manufacturer’s instructions. If you don’t have the paperwork that came with the device, check the external device for a nameplate. You can then search the manufacturer’s website for instructions on the model number. Failing that, you can safely assume you should change the air filter every 60-90 days, depending on your environment. Things like pets, nearby construction, and dusty roads can clog your filter more frequently. Choose the filter that suits your environment. If your family has allergy sufferers, use a filter with a MERV rating of 10 or higher.
Keep the System Clean
The best air conditioning repair tips we can give you include keeping your system clean. Air circulation is important to your air conditioning system. Make sure there are no clogged filters, closed or blocked vents or leaking ducts to help with this. Move furniture away from AC/heating or return air vents, and remove leaves and junk from the external cooling unit. Airflow problems can cause temperature changes, stuffy air, coil freezing and compressor failure.
Track Maintenance Schedules
You should perform routine maintenance on your HVAC system twice a year, so mark your calendar the last time you’ve done it. Be sure your routine maintenance plan includes coil cleaning for more insurance against breakdowns during peak cooling season.
Clean Water Damage by Leakage
After a failure, try to prevent water damage as much as possible and try to find the source of the leak. This will give you a better understanding of the situation when our service technician arrives. You can use a shop vac to remove standing water to prevent damage.
Keep Those Ducts Clean
Make a duct cleaning appointment. It’s not part of routine maintenance, so it’s a good option if you suspect clogging or contamination. If you notice a musty smell, or you notice you’re having to dust your home frequently, your ducts definitely need cleaning.
Complicated Air Conditioner Repairs You Shouldn’t Attempt
The key to successful DIYs: don’t get in over your head. Air conditioning repairs can be complicated and potentially dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. All those DIY remodeling projects on HGTV where the host completes them in ½ hour are a fantasy! When it comes to air conditioning repair tips, DIY failures are a recipe for disaster. Not only will you further damage the air conditioner if you are not properly trained, but the use of refrigerant chemicals and high voltage electricity can be life-threatening.
When You Should Call a Pro HVAC Technician
Stay safe by having professionals complete the following tasks:
- Do not attempt to replace a digital. Replacing a damaged or dysfunctional digital thermostat can be tricky. A few years ago, this was a relatively simple project. However, if you have a digital thermostat, you may fry the eletronics by connecting it incorrectly. We have many affordable options to update your thermostat to a new WiFi controlled digital thermostat.
- Do not attempt to clean the coil yourself. Evaporator and condenser coils are delicate; these tiny fins can easily be damaged if the wrong cleaning product or method is used. These parts are vital to your air conditioner. Damaged coils will cause overheating and larger failures.
- Do not attempt to add refrigerant. Handling these chemicals is dangerous and requires an EPA certification. The task requires trained precision and knowledge of exactly how much refrigerant is needed. If your air conditioner is low on refrigerant, simply re-filling the system will not solve the problem. You must have a qualified professional service technician to find and fix the leak.
- Don’t try to fix electrical problems. If the AC power or furnace is damaged after a power outage, power down the system and leave it off until professional help is available. Needless to say, doing this yourself can be a fatal mistake if you’re not trained to handle high voltage electricity. Even the best air conditioning maintenance tips won’t save you from the danger of electrocution. At any given moment, AC equipment is using enough power to kill you or start a fire. Do not put yourself at risk by messing with the electrical parts of the device.
- HVAC technicians require years of training. They are certified to ensure they can handle a wide range of equipment properly. Technicians not only learn how to fix HVAC equipment, but also how to perform preventative maintenance. YouTube tutorials are no substitute for the education an AC technician receives.
- This training must continue throughout the technician’s career. Standards and technology in the industry change so quickly that it is necessary to avoid outdated skills.
- HVAC technicians use expensive tools only available to professionals. Often the cost of a single tool can negate the cost advantage of DIY.
- Each system and brand of air conditioning system is different and complex. People who offer unprofessional air conditioning repair tips online may not realize that their advice doesn’t apply to all systems or situations.
- In addition to the dangerous elements, certain air conditioning components are also delicate. Evaporator coils and heat exchangers are easily damaged. So before heading to Wikihow for some air conditioning repair tips that technicians have spent years learning, think about the consequences. You don’t want your repairs to make things worse (and they often do).
- Faulty, leaking furnaces can leak deadly carbon monoxide(CO) into the home. The furnace’s heat exchanger expands and contracts as it pushes combustion gases out of the building. This can cause cracks that allow odorless, toxic gases to enter the building. Most homeowners don’t have the expertise or detection equipment to detect a deadly CO leak.
More Air Conditioning Repair Tips
Learn! The best way to take care of your air conditioning system yourself is to understand its needs and most importantly, your limitations as a DIYer. Familiarize yourself with the type of system in your home; record brand names, model numbers and serial numbers and keep the information accessible, ready to share with your HVAC service when you call for service. Keep track of when it was last service.
Maintenance plans vs Full Home Warranty. We offer annual maintenance plans which includes semi-annual routine maintenance for your HVAC system, discounts on labor and parts, and front of the line service. But another type is a full-coverage warranty contract, which supposedly pays for replacement parts and labor. Our experience is these home warranty programs are generally not worth the trouble; the warranty companies often fight with homeowners over needed repairs and often deny coverage. They can also take days to ‘approve’ a repair. Many HVAC contractors prefer not to perform repairs through a home warranty program, as they tend to disapprove needed repairs or refuse to pay market price on repairs.
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Another Starway directed visual from Boola’s forthcoming album, Cut From A Different Cloth. Get the mp3 below. DOWNLOAD: Boola – No TomorrowDetails
NSFW. Directed by Court Dunn.
Yo, this video is crazy, in a good way. If you get it, you get it. If you don’t, you don’t. The collage of webcams was a dope concept for the song. Well done.
Robin Thicke took stage at LAVO in NYC for Remy Martin’s “V” launch party. Performing some of his hits such as Lost Without You, Shakin It For Daddy and Magic.


text: The 3 stories all have good to very good elements and will satisfy a seven or eight year old as a read aloud. Stories have neither the vocabulary nor grammar for independent reading by a first or second grader and I believe the author must have intended read aloud to be the understanding of the title. The first story has three elements (1) a modern girl; (2) an Irish harp; and (3) an Arabian Nights style adventure. The connection between these elements is very tenuous. The set up of the relationship between Shannon and her magical harp is by far the nicest part of the book. But she does not bring the harp with her on her adventure and it has no role in the solution to the conflict. I had hoped that the harp was to be like the good fairy in Pinocchio or the Psammead in The Five Children and It, a frame for a series of adventures, and the story does have potential to be developed that way. I would encourage Ms. McGrath to do so. But here the two plots smushed together with little reason. The second story is a little engine that could story about a robin, well written and pleasant for a seven year old, easy to follow. The final tale about a Chinese dragon transported to modern Great Britain could be confusing to a second grader. I was a little confused about how the dragon arrived in London. The ethhnic Chinese characters were asian stereotypical. The second generation Chinese Britishers are portrayed as culturally ignorant restaurant drones. I was left wondering how much Ms. McGrath knew about Chinese culture regarding dragons.


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A New Jersey native, Philip Roth was born in Newark in 1933 to middle class parents whose ancestors were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. While Roth and his brother enjoyed their childhood with close friends and relatives, they experienced anti-Semitic prejudice. Roth's Jewish background influenced his writing: many of his short stories and novels have Jewish themes and characters. He is both proud and critical of his background. He went to the local high school in his Newark neighborhood, attended Rutgers/ Newark for a brief time and graduated with a B.A. in English from Bucknell University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. In 1955, he earned an M.A. in English from the University of Chicago. He served in the U.S. Army for two years but was honorably discharged due to a back injury. He then returned to the University of Chicago for two years as an instructor of English. He worked for the "New Republic" for a brief time, and in 1959 published "Goodbye, Columbus." This book, and the title novella were well received, but with its satirical treatment of certain aspects of American Jewish culture, also received harsh criticism. The title story was made into a movie in 1969. Roth earned a National Book Award as well as other awards for "Goodbye Columbus." It was apparent to critics that Roth was a skilled and talented young writer, who showed great promise. Roth published "Letting Go" in 1962 and "When She Was Good" in 1967. While praised by some, the majority of critics were not impressed by these novels. Roth went through a difficult period but kept writing and teaching ( at the University of Pennsylvania). In 1969 he published " Portnoy's Complaint," a novel that was both highly praised and vilified. Some considered the novel a masterpiece, while others thought it obscene, even anti-Semitic. In 1970, Roth was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Roth continued to publish throughout the 1970's and 80's. "My Life as a Man" which Roth published in 1974 was well received. Many critics regard this novel as Roth's best work. Roth kept writing throughout the 1990's: "Deception", in 1990 and "Patrimony" a sympathetic account of his father, Herman Roth, a hardworking man who died in 1989. Other books followed. In 1997 he wrote "American Pastoral", the first book in a trilogy. Roth won the Pulitzer Prize and much praise for this book. Growing older did not stop Roth. He kept writing: "The Dying Animal," "Everyman," "The Human Stain," and "Indignation." This list is not complete. Roth's output over the years shows his dedication to his art and his self discipline. He once told an interviewer that he works sometimes seven days a week, six to ten hours a day.
Over the years, Roth has consented to numerous interviews to discuss his work. He does not like to talk about private matters. These interviews can be found on Youtube and show a thoughtful man, well spoken, intelligent with a hint of humor. Married twice, once to the actress, Claire Bloom, Roth lives alone most of the year on his forty acre farm in Connecticut, writing in his comfortable studio near his home.


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Man Going to Prison for Putting Children in Clothes Dryer
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Kansas man has been sentenced to 110 months in prison for putting his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter in a dryer and turning it on, according to the Associated Press.
Aron Pritchard was originally sentenced to 124 months in prison, but his case went to the Court of Appeals, where a new judge issued the same sentence.
Pritchard’s defense attorney appealed again, according to the A.P., and this judge gave him a 110 month sentence.
The attorney claimed his sentence should not have exceeded 62 months.

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The American Legion etched a permanent place in history in 1944. That year, Legionnaires ushered into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act – better known as the GI Bill. Since then, millions of veterans have received free or discounted higher education benefits. So effective was the GI Bill, it is often credited for spurring more than 50 years of economic prosperity across the nation.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the G.I. Bill into law on June 22, 1944
As the decades unfolded, however, the benefit fell out of pace with the changing times. The GI Bill was no longer covering fast-rising tuition costs. In some communities, it barely covered transportation cost to and from campus. National Guard and Reserve veterans were not receiving the same GI Bill benefits as those who’d served in the active-duty branches, regardless of their combat experiences in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly 25 years removed from its last major overhaul, it was no longer your grandfather’s GI Bill.
Everything changed in the summer of 2008.
The American Legion and Congress had worked together for more than three years to overhaul the federal veterans’ education benefits package, including elimination of a $1,200 “buy-in” for service personnel and extending the time span a veteran has to use the benefit after discharge.
The Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Act was signed into law on June 30, 2008, and implemented Aug. 1, 2009. Four different education programs now exist: the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Montgomery GI Bill, the Montgomery GI Bill/Selected Reserve and the Reserve Educational Assistance Program (REAP).


Lt. Gen. James M. Lee
Lt. Gen. James M. Lee commanded the US Army, Pacific (Western Command) from 1983-1985. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps Reserve in 1944 and served in World War II before graduating from the US Military Academy in 1950. He later graduated from the Air Command and Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army War College.
In the Korean War, Lee served as an infantry company commander. In Vietnam he commanded the 196th Infantry Brigade in 1969. An Army Aviator, Lee served Chief of Legislative Liaison in the Office of the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff for the Allied Forces in Southern Europe. His awards include the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.
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Sunday, Dec 6, 2015
South San Francisco, CA -- December 6, 2015 --
Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), today announced new, positive data from the Phase II M13-982 study of venetoclax, an investigational medicine being developed in partnership with AbbVie. Results of the study showed a clinically meaningful reduction in the number of cancer cells (overall response rate, ORR) in 79.4 percent of people with previously treated (relapsed or refractory) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with 17p deletion. No unexpected safety signals were reported for venetoclax.
“The high response rates, including complete responses and duration of response, demonstrate the potential of venetoclax to help people with this hard-to-treat type of leukemia,” said Sandra Horning, M.D., chief medical officer and head of Global Product Development. “This is a patient population that has very few treatment options, and we are working with AbbVie to bring this new option to people as quickly as possible.”
These pivotal data from the Phase II M13-982 study were featured in the official press program of the 57th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in Orlando on Sunday, December 6, and will be presented during the Late-Breaking Abstracts Session on Tuesday, December 8, at 7:30 A.M. EST by Dr. Stephan Stilgenbauer, University of Ulm, Germany (Abstract #LBA6). The results show:
· The study met its primary endpoint, with an ORR of 79.4 percent with venetoclax, as assessed by an independent review committee (IRC). In addition, 7.5 percent of people achieved a complete response with or without complete recovery (complete response without normal blood counts) in the bone marrow (CR/CRi).
· Forty-five people had an assessment for minimal residual disease (MRD) in the blood. Notably 18 people (17 percent of the total, 21 percent of responders) achieved MRD-negativity, meaning no cancer could be detected using a specific test. Ten of these 18 people also had bone marrow assessments and six were MRD-negative.
· At one year, 84.7 percent of all responses and 94.4 percent of MRD-negative responses were maintained. The one-year progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) rates were 72 percent and 86.7 percent, respectively.
· No unexpected safety signals were reported. The most common Grade 3-4 adverse events were low white blood cell count (40 percent), low red blood cell count (18 percent), and low platelet count (15 percent). Grade 3 or higher infection occurred in 20 percent of people. Laboratory tumor lysis syndrome was reported in five people; none had clinical consequences.
Data for venetoclax as a monotherapy or in combinations with other medicines across multiple blood cancers, including CLL, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), multiple myeloma (MM) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML), will also be presented during the ASH Annual Meeting.
Separately, positive results in people with CLL included in the Phase I M12-175 study of venetoclax were published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The findings support the potential of venetoclax monotherapy for people with relapsed or refractory CLL, including those with 17p deletion.
AbbVie has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) for venetoclax to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under breakthrough therapy designation (BTD), based in part on results of the M13-982 study. Venetoclax received BTD from the FDA earlier this year for the treatment of people with relapsed or refractory CLL harboring the 17p deletion. AbbVie has also submitted a marketing authorization application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Submissions to other regulatory authorities around the world are planned in 2016.
About Study M13-982
M13-982 (NCT01889186) is a Phase II, open-label, single arm, multicenter study evaluating the efficacy and safety of venetoclax in patients with relapsed, refractory or previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) harboring the 17p deletion. The main study cohort included 107 patients with relapsed or refractory disease (all patients except for one had 17p deletion) and approximately 50 patients with relapsed, refractory or previously untreated disease have been enrolled in the safety expansion cohort. The primary endpoint of the study is overall response rate (ORR) as determined by an independent review committee (IRC), and secondary endpoints include complete response (CR), partial response (PR), duration of response (DOR), progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). The level of minimal residual disease (MRD) in peripheral blood and/or bone marrow was assessed in a subset of patients.
About Study M12-175
M12-175 (NCT01328626) is a Phase I, open-label, multicenter study of venetoclax in patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). The study involved an initial dose-escalation phase, followed by an expanded safety phase. The study enrolled approximately 116 patients with relapsed or refractory CLL or SLL, and approximately 95 patients with relapsed or refractory NHL. The primary endpoints of the study included safety, maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and recommended Phase II dose (RPTD). Secondary endpoints included progression-free survival (PFS), overall response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS) and duration of response (DOR). The level of minimal residual disease (MRD) in peripheral blood and/or bone marrow was assessed in patients with CLL.
About Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
CLL is one of the most common forms of blood cancer and in 2015, it is expected that there will be about 4,650 deaths from CLL in the United States. Most cases of CLL (95 percent) start in white blood cells called B-cells that have a protein called CD20 on their surface. In certain cases of CLL, a part of chromosome 17 is lost and along with it an important gene that controls apoptosis called p53. The 17p deletion is found in 3 to 10 percent of previously untreated cases and approximately 30 to 50 percent of relapsed or refractory cases.
About Venetoclax (RG7601, GDC-0199/ABT-199)
Venetoclax is an investigational small molecule designed to selectively bind and inhibit the BCL-2 protein, which plays an important role in a process called apoptosis (programmed cell death). It is believed that blocking BCL-2 may restore the signaling system that tells cancer cells to self-destruct. The BCL-2 protein is linked to the development of resistance in certain blood cancers and is expressed in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). In collaboration with AbbVie, venetoclax is being evaluated in a robust development program as a single agent or in combination with other medicines. There are ongoing Phase II and III studies for venetoclax in CLL, and Phase I and II studies are also ongoing in several other blood cancers, including indolent NHL, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and multiple myeloma (MM).
About Genentech In Hematology
For more than 20 years, Genentech has been developing medicines with the goal to redefine treatment in hematology. Today, we’re investing more than ever in our effort to bring innovative treatment options to people with diseases of the blood. In addition to approved medicines, Genentech’s pipeline of investigational hematology medicines includes an anti-PDL1 antibody (atezolizumab/MPDL3280A), an anti-CD79b antibody drug conjugate (polatuzumab vedotin/RG7596), a small molecule antagonist of MDM2 (idasanutlin/RG7388) and in collaboration with AbbVie, a small molecule BCL-2 inhibitor (venetoclax/RG7601/GDC-0199/ABT-199). Genentech’s dedication to developing novel molecules in hematology expands beyond oncology, with the development of the investigational hemophilia A treatment emicizumab (ACE910).
Founded more than 35 years ago, Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. The company, a member of the Roche Group, has headquarters in South San Francisco, California. For additional information about the company, please visit http://www.gene.com.


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The xiaomi has announced about there next mid-range segment flagship, set to launch on November 22nd in India. The successor of Redmi Note 5 Pro has already launched in Thailand a few weeks ago. The Xiaomi’s Redmi note 5 Pro has been the popular choice under the 15000 segment, till from the launch time. However, xiaomi has announced the Note series 6th generation smartphone will be launched through the event in New Delhi. Before moving further, we want to mention that the upcoming xioami redmi note 6 pro doesn’t have many new impressive features from its predecessor.
The Redmi Note 6 pro has a larger display as compared to the previous note series smartphone from xioami. It has 6.26-inch Display with a resolution of 1080×2280 pixel and aspect ratio of 19:9. Although it varies with the 2018 trend over it, a small notch the top and 2.5D curved glass over top.
Despite the cosmetic changes, the Redmi Note 6 pro resembles same as Note 5 pro in specification. it is 0.5cm thicker and slightly wider in the design. The Redmi Note 6 Pro has power on/off button and volume rocker while the hybrid sim slots on the left side of the smartphone.
This time good news for the Mi fans boys that upcoming Note 6 pro has water repellant P2i coating over it. This clearly implies you will be getting the basic protection from the water spills, while if caught in rain anytime.
The Redmi Note 6 pro has same Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 chipset, under the hood. The chipset isn’t different from its predecessor. The smartphone will be going to available in two variants option 4GB and 6GB of RAM respectively. But the internal storage will be same with 64GB of ROM and 4,000mAh battery.
The Xiaomi has this time given “flagship camera killer” smartphone for Note 6 Pro. The Smartphone resembles a dual camera set up at the rear. The 12-megapixel primary lens with autofocus sensor and 5-megapixel lens with a depth focusing sensor. Both the sensors have a larger aperture size of f/1.9 which is significantly same to the last year note series handset. Apparently, this means that camera specification will be able to deliver or capture images better even in low light along the daylight condition.
Further coming to the front camera, upcoming redmi note 6 pro will be carried some new features with it. There is also a dual camera module at the front- 20 megapixels of primary sensor and 2-megapixels of the supportive lens with a depth sensor. Xiaomi has planned to provide the best protrait shots. As earlier, we have seen that in the previous version of the note series certain modes was been facing laggy in terms of giving thee detailing shots.
In terms of software department, xiaomi is not on the interesting part at all. The Redmi Note 6 Pro will be running on MIUI 10 as the custom skin over the Android 8.1 oreo. However, no official statement released by the company about updating it with android 9 pie. The xiaomi handsets alike the other handsets will be coming with lots of installed apps like-RAM cleaner, security scanner, battery manager, data usage overview, and more.
Talking about the security options, the Note 6 Pro has fingerprint scanner at the rear and Face unlock option too. It will be interesting to see does the note’s 6th generation handset will be supporting the fast unlock option or not as 3D Face unlock.
As the Thailand site specs, the Redmi Note 6 Pro is 2gms heavier than the Note 5Pro. If we see the overall weight of the handset which is 182 gms.
So, these are the things we got up about the upcoming Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro in India which is unveiling on 22nd of November. The sale will start from 23rd November through Flipkart. Stay tuned with us for the in-detailed review of Redmi Note 6 Pro, where we will be analysing the display, hardware, camera performance and much more. Does will be able to compete with other handsets like Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1, Nokia 6.1 Plus, Motorola One Power, and Honor 8X at around the same price.


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I found this link at thru-hiker and wondered how it might turn out making a insulated hammock. I thought about 2 yards of the 5.0 oz on bottom, and then making the top quilt maybe 48" X 2 yards. The top quilt I would tack quilt so not to compress, but the bottom of the hammock I would only sew the ends with a #9 needle, and put the backstiches on the unused sides. Another thought might to use crossgrain. At first I was worried that the bottom might bunch up on the ends but my hammocks are usually 10.5' and I don't think the bunching would be a problem after I stretched out.
Has anyone used Climashield before? Is there any flaws in my plan? I thought this would be a lot easier to work with than down, and $56 for 4 yards isn't bad either.


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text: The high incidence and prevalence of epilepsy in developing countries has partly been attributed to an increased frequency of central nervous system (CNS) infections. Of the CNS infections, bacterial meningitis is endemic in many countries and several epidemics have also been reported in these regions. Unprovoked seizures and epilepsy (recurrent unprovoked seizures) can be long-term sequelae of bacterial meningitis. The probability of developing an unprovoked seizure or epilepsy varies according to the etiologic agent responsible for meningitis and this probability appears to be higher for Streptococcus pneumoniae. The risk factors for late unprovoked seizures/epilepsy include early seizures during the acute phase of meningitis and persistent neurological deficits other than sensorineural hearing loss. The majority of unprovoked seizures occur within 5 years of the meningitis episode and tend to be recurrent. The burden of epilepsy associated with bacterial meningitis depends upon the incidence of the latter and hence is to some extent preventable. Implementing vaccination programs against the three most important meningeal pathogens can reduce the incidence of bacterial meningitis. In developed countries, a decline in the incidence of bacterial meningitis has been accomplished with the implementation of vaccination programs.


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By Mary K. Stein, Managing Editor
Reprinted from Eating Disorders Review
September/October 2007 Volume 18, Number 5
©2007 Gürze Books
At a plenary session at the International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) in Baltimore in May, a panel of eating disorders experts discussed the many challenges and increasing success of working with families of patients with eating disorders. (For more on the ICED meeting, see the July-August 2007issue of EDR). This was the first time the national meeting has offered a plenary session specifically focusing on issues facing families and friends of eating disorders patients.
Panel members included George Szmukler, MD, and Ivan Isler, PhD, FRCP, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK; and Janet Treasure, PhD, DRCP, of Maudsley Hospital, also in London. Two parents of children with eating disorders also participated in the session.
Caregivers for People with Mental Health Problems
Dr. Szmukler noted that until recently the role of parents and caregivers has been marginalized. In Great Britain, he explained, caregivers have been given more attention because of community care, where it is recognized that the families are providing care. In that setting, caregivers can ask to be involved, can ask questions, and can express their dissatisfaction with the medical care being given. In addition, he said, there is a sociopolitical edge because parents are finally realizing that they have certain rights as caregivers.
Dr. Szmukler urged audience members to stop using the phrase, “caregiver burden.” It is a very unhelpful concept, he said, first because it is a pejorative phrase that not only isn’t very accurate, but also does not reflect that caregiving has positive elements.
Dr. Szmukler also shared the results of his recent study of 700 caregivers. Some of the important feedback was information about the stigma associated with an eating disorder, problems with services (doctors don’t take the parents seriously), and the degree of loss that some parents feel (‘I think about how she could have been’). Generally, studies have shown that ‘caregiver burden’ does not change over time, he said; however, in one study from the University of Calgary involving a large number of schizophrenic patients, very dramatic changes occurred as a result of better communication between clinicians and families (Qual Heal Res 2004;14:562). Family-led therapy programs have also had some positive results, especially in China, he said.
“Finally, a start has been made in understanding the role of carers,” Dr. Szmukler said, but he also pointed out that little progress has been made in relieving caregivers’ distress. Certain questions also arise, he added, such as, if the patient remains seriously ill, can we improve the condition of the carers? “We have treatment for the person who is ill,” he said, but added, “Shouldn’t we also be focusing more attention on the caregivers?”
Caring for Adolescents with Eating Disorders
There is now a consensus that we have an effective therapy for anorexia nervosa (AN), and that is family therapy, Dr. Ivan Eisler told the audience. “More importantly,” he stressed, “There is now a consensus that family therapy does not mean treating difficult, problematic, pathological families, but instead means working with families. It isn’t treatment of families but treatment with families.”
The idea that parents and siblings are somehow at the heart of the problem behavior may have roots in early research in eating disorders, he said. In 1873 Ernest-Charles Lasègue and Sir William Gull recognized the importance of the family. In the 1940s, the concept of the “parentectomy” emerged, and family therapy was largely neglected for decades. According to Dr. Eisler, Minuchin’s work had a lasting influence because he never said that families caused AN but rather that a certain set of family features had to be changed to help the patient. “We now know that it is not true that a family who has a child who is anorexic has certain characteristics,” Dr. Eisler said. Perhaps we can symbolically cut out these ideas, he added, while continuing to work to understand what causes families to feel paralyzed and hopeless when their child has an eating disorder.
Dr. Eisler suggested that a helpful starting point in thinking about the role of families should be different from the historical model; thus, one should not ask what it is about this family that caused the eating disorder, but what has happened to the family living with an eating disorder. Often the relationship is dominated by what is happening day by day—the child is eating or refusing to eat, the child feels the parents don’t care, and families feel ‘stuck.’ He suggested investigating how the family got to where it is now. It doesn’t mean that things don’t need to change, but that some things originally being done to help the child are not helpful now.
Dr. Eisler noted that outpatient therapy with multi-family work is increasingly being used successfully. Most groups meet weekly and families are often enthusiastic about such programs. One of the most dramatic outcomes of such programs is a sense of hope, he said, where parents now say, ‘I’m not sure how we are going to do it, but we are going to find a way.’
Caring for Adults with Eating Disorders
Dr. Janet Treasure described a workshop her group conducts for caregivers with adult children with long-term eating disorders. Family members of adult patients experience general distress, anxiety, and a diminished quality of life as they deal with overwhelming stress and anxiety, she said. These adults live with the shadow of death in their peripheral vision all the time, she added.
Dr. Treasure and her colleagues have developed a self-help guide and workshops for parents, to try to make the caring experience easier. They used animal models to illustrate how parents express their emotions and behaviors; for example, a rhino might represent a teen’s hostility, a kangaroo, to exemplify a parent who drops everything for a child, an ostrich, who ignores the problems, and a jellyfish for a parent who is wrapped around the child and feels the sting of shame (‘If I were a better parent, this wouldn’t have happened’).
“To change these behaviors, we believe that family members need to be helped in better ways of working with loved ones, to be heard, and helped to change the behavior,” said Dr. Treasure. Parents find the tools and techniques of motivational interviewing and learning about the theoretical elements of change, for example, are helpful.
She added that sometimes understanding the eating disorder can be very difficult for families, who may isolate themselves and refuse to talk about the problem. Also, it is often difficult for parents to understand at the beginning if the behavior is just normal teenage behavior to excess or an addiction, or the beginnings of an eating disorder. Educating parents about the illnesses and using group therapy can also help them feel less guilt and shame.
Dr. Treasure pointed out that a major obstacle to changing behavior is the fact that parents or family members may be trying to keep the peace in the family but actually are enabling the destructive or negative behaviors. “In your own practices, how many times has a parent described driving 10 more miles to get a particular food the patient wants, or who turns a blind eye to certain antisocial behaviors, such as stealing money or leaving a toilet filthy after purging?” she asked. She added that parents may do this because they don’t want the rest of the family to have to confront these behaviors. With their workshops and manuals, Dr. Treasure and her colleagues try to teach parents practical management skills and to help learn how to remove the negative consequences and establish boundaries in an assertive but positive way.
The workshops use a small-group approach, with training, motivational interviewing, and targeted changes. The researchers have seen some reduction in the level of distress and in negative caregiving experiences, and parents also report some changes in their daughters, including some desire to enter treatment again.
None of this is easy for caregivers who have been taking care of an anorexic family member for 20 years, she said. However, workshops for parents and caregivers can moderate some of the difficulties for those who have “been there, done that” and who are burned out and discouraged.
Voices of Parents
The final session included Washington, DC freelance writer Laura Collins, author of Eating with Your Anorexic (McGraw-Hill, 2005), and Joan Riederer, both of whom are members of the Eating Disorders Family Support Network. This part of the session was moderated by Susan Ringwold, Chief Executive of beat™ (Beating Eating Disorders) in Great Britain.
Collins and Riederer both have daughters with eating disorders. Collins’ daughter became anorexic after a bout with intestinal flu and lost 10 lb within a week and failed to regain the weight. Their pediatrician advised them not to worry. However, the illness eventually led to 14 years of treatment for AN. She noted that her daughter wanted her parents to have more control but met resistance from clinicians. For example, when the child was first hospitalized, the 11-year-old was not allowed to have any contact with her parents. As a result she felt abandoned and developed posttraumatic stress syndrome.
Joan Riederer’s daughter developed AN while the family was on vacation, and the disease developed rapidly. Her eating pattern was obviously strange and was noticed immediately by the family, said her mother. For example, her daughter ate an apple and was frightened that it was making her fat—she said she could see it in her arm. Although the true diagnosis wasn’t made for a long time in spite of all the family’s efforts, she eventually found good care.
Reiderer said she has seen positive changes in the attitudes toward parents in recent years. If she had a single wish, she said she would wish for humility on the part of clinicians who treat children with eating disorders and, and hoped that clinicians will get rid of the idea that parents have to ‘be managed.’ Many parents are still too humble and need to step up and make their wishes known, and will do so if clinicians ask them to, she said.
Collins said her single wish would be a call to action to reduce the death rate in eating disorders, and to set a date for this to happen. She said, “We can do it—we know that the eating disorders organizations are on the same page. These girls are dying,” Collins said.

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