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The objective of African University students’ knowledge of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and transfer of knowledge sought to examine the extent to which African university students are knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS transmission, infection and prevention, and its impact on sexual behaviour change. Descriptive statistics in the form of frequency, percentage and chi-square were used as method of data analysis. The sample comprised 366 participants drawn from three universities located in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. The results showed that the level of HIV/AIDS knowledge among the participants was very high, and that such knowledgeability had an impact on participants’ sexual behaviour change. It was concluded that such findings serve as reinforcement to the concerted effort in HIV/AIDS public education. Such effort ought to be kept in place, particularly for the fact that there are still some misconceptions about HIV/AIDS which call for timely intervention.
Key words: Sexual behavior change, human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) infection, HIV/AIDS knowledgeability, transfer of learning, African students.
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BLINKs and video game lovers will hear BLACKPINK’s music in a very special way thanks to the collaboration with PUBG Mobile.
PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS prepared some surprises for the BLINKs that are already part of the game, but best of all is that any player will enjoy the collaboration that the video game planned with the BLACKPINK girls, we will tell you what it is about.
These YG Entertainment idols will become the first K-Pop group with songs within PUBG, but you will be able to enjoy your love for BLACKPINK through various game alternatives.
From now on How You Like That joins the songs that accompany PUBG, however, that will last a short time, since a bigger surprise will come.
BLACKPINK is about to release a new record material and, with it, they will also reveal a new promotional tune, best of all, not only fans will enjoy this song, as the new release will replace How You Like That when the full album is revealed and will be listened to by thousands of internet users who are fans of the video game.
HOW CAN I LISTEN TO BLACKPINK IN PUBG?
How You Like That has been chosen to be played in a strategic area where all users can enjoy the melody, it is the lobby. If you have already played you will know that participants must enter here to select the mode they want to play in, it is the first thing you will see when entering the game, so there will be many players who listen to the songs of BLACKPINK here.
The game will also include special events inspired by the girl group, where you can add experience and win prizes such as the iconic girls’ light stick.
Very soon you will also be able to see Lisa, Jennie, Rosé and Jisoo through Netflix, the platform where the documentary Light Up The Sky will be released.

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Present Value with Constant Perpetual Growth Rate
Present value with constant perpetual growth rate is often applied to find present value or current price of ordinary share (common stock).
- C0 : base amount at the beginning of period 1 (Period 0) for constant perpetual growth rate
- g: constant perpetual growth rate
The XYZ Co. has just paid a cash dividend of $2 per share. Potential investors require a 16 percent return from investments. If the dividend is expected to grow at a steady 8 percent per year, what is the current value of the stock? What will the stock be worth in five years?
- The current value of the stock
So current price =$27
- Stock price at the next five years
Dividend in five year
=> D5 =Do*(1+g)5 =$2*(1+0.08)5 =$2.9387, so price of stock in five years:
=>P5 = D5 *(1+g)/(r-g)
= $2.9387 *(1+0.08)/(0.16-0.08)=$39.67 or
P5 = Po*(1+g)5 =$27 *(1+0.08)5 =$39.67

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BJ The Chicago Kid Sings Usher, TLC, and New Song
If you're anything like us, 1123 — the newest album from BJ the Chicago Kid — has been on repeat since its release last Friday. We have our personal favorites, like "Rather Be With You," and "Champagne." But his new single, "Time Today," will hold a special place on your playlist after this #SongAssociation challenge. Tune in as BJ takes us back with classics from Sade, TLC, and Shalamar, in an effort to beat our 10-second countdown.
Get BJ The Chicago Kid's new album, "1123" here: https://bjtck.lnk.to/1123
Watch the video for his new single, "Time Today," on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq1f1eYPTNA
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[Photo News] Fine dust blankets Seoul’s weekend
Published : Mar 11, 2018 - 15:01
Updated : Mar 11, 2018 - 15:01
Spring has finally arrived in Seoul, but an uninvited guest let locals down over the weekend: fine dust. The temperature in Seoul went down to 2 degrees Celsius on Sunday, while daytime high peaked at 12 C in the afternoon.
As of 11 a.m. on the day, the fine dust level in Seoul remained “bad,” recording 87 milligrams per cubic meter. Clear skies are expected to be seen after 3 p.m. after wind blows away the fine particulate matter.
Temperatures are to warm up Monday, with highs ranging from 11 to 19 C nationwide, though fine dust levels are expected to be bad at times in Seoul, Gangwon, North and South Chungcheong and North Jeolla provinces, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration.
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So I’ll get an email out of the blue from someone I don’t know asking “What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Why does God judge us and sent us to hell when we never even asked to be born in the first place?”
The person doesn’t tell me how old they are, whether they are male or female, where they live, if they are Catholic or whether they like hot dogs…..nothing.
Or I get an email from who know who and who knows where saying, “I need to know if masturbation is a sin.”
There is a fearful anonymity in our modern age.
Part of this fearful anonymity is a mechanical approach to most everything. There must be a list. There must be a rule. There must be a formula.
But life is not so easy.
Consider the two emails above. The first person seems to want an easy answer. She wanted a rapid solution an internet answer to a seeming riddle.
It is more complex. These are life issues that need to be explored within parish life and family life. Finding the answer to the question, “What are we here for is the work of a lifetime as well as the enlightenment of an instant.
Likewise the second question. “Is masturbation a sin?”
Behind this is the idea that there is a list of mortal sins and a list of venial sins. The first will send you to hell if you do it just once. The second is ok and you can just say, “Sorry.”
But there is not a list of mortal sins. Yes, we can identify some sins as “grave matter” and others which are not, but even then one has to analyze the person’s culpability as well as the nature of the sin itself.
A person might commit a sexual sin out of immaturity, force of habit, psychological inadequacies while stress, tension and a whole range of circumstances and factors–both internal and external may come into play.
This is not to say the action is not a sin, but to acknowledge that the objective status of the sin is considered in conjunction with the person’s culpability and that is affected by the subjective circumstances.
Here’s an example. When Mrs. Jones comes in wearing a hideous hat and says, “Do you like my new hat?” you might realize she has self esteem problems or a quick temper so you lie and say, “It’s beautiful!” It’s a lie and it’s a sin, but your culpability is low. This is because to determine culpability we assess motivation and circumstances. You lied to soothe her self esteem and to avoid a blow up over a trivial issue. Is it a lie? Yes. Is it a sin? Technically yes. Are you going to hell? Probably not.
However, let’s say you plan an elaborate lie to destroy a competitor’s business. He goes bankrupt, his wife leaves him and he commits suicide. Such a lie is a mortal sin and you’re in deep trouble.
Both are lies. Both are sins. One’s culpability for the first is negligible. One’s guilt of the second is severe.
Yes, there are some sins, which by their very nature are gravely disordered, but even then, one’s culpability is variable.
Let’s say a thirteen year old girl gets pregnant by her uncle. Her father and her uncle haul her off to an abortionist to “solve the problem.” She agrees. However, she hardly knows what has happened to her and does not understand what an abortion is. Her culpability for the sin is minimal. The culpability of the abortionist, the father and the uncle is severe.
So is there a list of mortal sins? Sorry. There is not.
Instead we approach each sin with sorrow and repentance and with a good confessor we work through the sin struggle to find God’s wholeness, healing and forgiveness.

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The first time I saw this internet image was three or four years ago. Over the years it has been sent to me many times. I suppose people know I would enjoy it and maybe this is my future fairy tale.
A fairy tale is described as being idyllic, extremely happy, and what essentially someone dreams and hopes for. It is the quintessential happily ever after. Disney folklore has been under siege in recent years for exemplifying unhealthy gender roles and stereotypes for the young women it is aimed towards. The Disney princess empire is estimated to be worth approximately $4 billion dollars. It elevates the ultimate aspiration in life to being with Prince Charming, and the ultimate duty to be the perfect home-maker.
Taking a critical look at the classic princesses, misogynistic actions are actively reinforced in these fairy tales, beyond the damsel in distress, perfect homemaker archetype. Aurora marries a man who molests her in her sleep. Ariel endures lifestyle altering plastic surgery to be with a man. Belle remains with an abusive man hoping he will change. How can a little girl who grew up idealizing these tales, identify these episodes as sexual violence as an adult? Why are boys being taught this is an acceptable way to get the girl?
I grew up with these fairy tales. I do not feel any life-altering psychological damage as a result. Unfortunately I think that is only because the ideals are so inherent and reinforced with every social construct no one particular thing can be attributed as the cause of why society is still clutching to these gender identities.
I have nieces and cousins who are on the cusp of beginning to play with dolls and watch cartoons and I wonder if giving them an alternative type of fairy tale of girls who fight oppression, seek higher education, and do not need or require a man would make a difference. With a quick internet search I found some interesting results. An example of which is:
A story of a princess who rescues the prince from dragons, and still chooses not to be with him (all while wearing a paper bag).
With children watching an average of 2-3 hours of television a day, it might not hurt to see some evolution in the typical pop media geared towards little girls. It would not hurt for happily ever after to mean something besides Prince Charming.


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Chicago's public school teachers are marching in the streets on Friday, calling on local and state officials to increase revenue not only to schools but to public services citywide—and they're joined by an astonishing upswell of support, as fast food workers, transit workers, higher education professionals, community groups, and others joined in the day of action.
I hope this will be a dagger into the heart of the neocon policy of the massive theft of public funds and resources since that fucking clown Reagan put in motion for which we the working class pay with our hard earned taxes. We must fight hard to reverse this public fleecing trend set in motion by the damn terrorist capitalist anti American and unpatriotic neocon sons of bitches like Obama and Ram Emanuel.
And then there is the privatization cabal / mafia dba: ALEC
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Even if Rahm Emanuel, or the Illinois state government, or even the federal government, wanted to do something about this (they don't), they couldn't without reversing the entirety of the neoliberalist project.
To really understand what's going on, and to understand why Hillary will be jammed down your throat like it or not, and why your life will get harder until revolution or collapse, start here:
Way to go Chicago. Now if the whole Country would just join in.
For What It's Worth:
"What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side"
It's a movement!
Emanuel should be investigated and impeached for his crimes.
Since when do leaders leave children to be attacked by rats and be subjected to poison water?
It's more like decades of fascism by the party of big government and debt republicans.
No matter what happens next, it's superb that other public employee Unions are joining the teachers' strike in solidarity.
Even if only a one-day strike, they are challenging the established limits of organized labor solidarity in the USA, and that is exactly what is needed.


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Cheque – Blind Mp3.
Nigerian Talented rapper and singer, Cheque comes through with a brand new song titled “Blind” The tune is taken from his just-released debut album “Bravo“.
The Penthauze Records star comes in real quick after releasing “LOML” and “Call me baby” couples of weeks ago. His previous single “History” with Fireboy DML is among his superb debut this year.
In all the “Bravo” album houses 13 new tracks including the previously released lead singles. There is a handful of guest artistes featured on “Bravo” , like Ayra Starr, Jackboy, etc.
Cheque takes us to the top of the ninth with this song and we are definitely picking up what he’s putting down.
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Tycho is the Moon’s most recognisable feature and crowded tourist spot. This circular blemish in the southern hemisphere is highlighted all around by brilliant rays of disrupted lunar rock, and is easily seen from Earth.
After visiting crowded Tycho, you may choose to journey south to Aitken basin. Covering a good portion of the far side’s southern region, it’s one of the largest craters in the solar system. Within the basin are the Leibnitz Mountains. The highest peak in the range, at about 27,000 feet, is 2,000 feet shy of the height of Mount Everest.
While you’re in the south, don’t miss Shackleton crater. While its bottom is a permanently shaded region, its rim is home to peaks of eternal light, where the sun always shines.
Then there’s Mont Blanc. While Earth’s Mont Blanc lies on the border of France and Italy, the lunar Mont Blanc lies just south of the western end of Vallis Alpes (Alpine Valley).

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|Quote 168||A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.|
|Quote 173||A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.|
|Quote 213||Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.|
|Quote 220||A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to slee...|
|Quote 257||Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.|
|Quote 368||A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.|
|Quote 461||All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Oscar Wilde|
|Quote 511||Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.|
|Quote 532||Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.|
|Quote 557||A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery|
|Quote 771||Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire|
|Quote 800||A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.|
|Quote 919||Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.|
|Quote 980||Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.|
|Quote 1394||A poet can survive everything but a misprint.|
|Quote 2327||Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.|
|Quote 2976||The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.|
|Quote 3585||A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.|
|Quote 3744||A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.|
|Quote 3825||Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.|
|Quote 4024||Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personalit...|
|Quote 4415||Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extin...|
|Quote 4877||Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- Robert Frost|
|Quote 7611||Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
|Quote 7661||Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.|
|Quote 7770||God is the perfect poet.
- Robert Browning|
|Quote 7852||Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.|
|Quote 7941||Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.|
|Quote 8176||The moment of change is the only poem.
- Adrienne Rich|
|Quote 8226||To have great poets, there must be great audiences.|
|Quote 8264||Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
- Charles Baudelaire|
|Quote 8296||The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
- Jean Cocteau|
|Quote 8327||There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.|
|Quote 8403||There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.|
|Quote 8407||To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.|
|Quote 8552||Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.|
|Quote 8645||A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.|
|Quote 8696||Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.|
|Quote 8715||Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.|
|Quote 8728||I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.|
|Quote 8848||You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.|
|Quote 8990||The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.|
|Quote 9068||Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.|
|Quote 9206||We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.|
|Quote 9366||Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
- Carl Sandburg|
|Quote 9558||Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.|
|Quote 9570||No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?|
|Quote 9620||A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.|
|Quote 9723||If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.|
|Quote 10144||You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.|
|Quote 10223||I like poems that are little games.
- Peter Davison|
|Quote 10282||Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.|
|Quote 10352||Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.|
|Quote 10367||Every single soul is a poem.
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|Quote 10541||One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.|
|Quote 10593||Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.|
|Quote 10720||Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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|Quote 10792||Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.|
|Quote 10914||If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.|
|Quote 10971||Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.|
|Quote 10978||However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.|
|Quote 11159||Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.|
|Quote 11368||Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.|
|Quote 11383||Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.|
|Quote 11442||Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.|
|Quote 11476||Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.|
|Quote 11537||How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.|
|Quote 11593||If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
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|Quote 11688||The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.|
|Quote 11722||Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.|
|Quote 12094||Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.|
|Quote 12319||"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.|
|Quote 12355||Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.|
|Quote 12610||No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.|
|Quote 13033||I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.|
|Quote 13048||He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.|
|Quote 13063||The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.|
|Quote 13134||A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.|
|Quote 13274||Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the ...|
|Quote 13402||The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.|
|Quote 13761||To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.|
|Quote 13763||There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.|
|Quote 13800||Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.|
|Quote 13843||Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.|
|Quote 13847||You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.|
|Quote 13868||The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a ...|
|Quote 13954||You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.|

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Strauss's somberly beautiful late work for 23 strings, ''Metamorphosen,'' is usually performed at orchestra concerts. So James Levine could have included it on one of the programs that the Met Orchestra will perform at Carnegie Hall this season. Instead, and much more interestingly, Mr. Levine conducted this thick-textured, ruminative 35-minute work at Sunday afternoon's concert by the Met Chamber Ensemble upstairs in Weill Recital Hall. The chance to hear ''Metamorphosen'' as a chamber work in a chamber hall was just one of the pleasures of this engrossing concert.
Strauss finished ''Metamorphosen'' in the spring of 1945 as World War II was coming to its cataclysmic end. It is an elegy by an old man for the German cultural life that he had revered and flourished in. One could say that Strauss might have sorrowed instead over the systematic destruction of human life by the Nazi regime. Still, Strauss's music touches on universal feelings of loss, despair and pointless tragedy.
''Metamorphosen'' presents a specific technical challenge that has long made it a problematic piece to perform. The score is subtitled ''Study for 23 Solo Strings,'' and Strauss indeed writes music for multiple, overlapping string parts of 6, 12 and more at a time. In places it can sound like all 23 players, oblivious of one another, are busy with their own lines of counterpoint. In many performances, ''Metamorphosen'' seems an indistinct mass of lushly poignant string writing.
By treating the work like chamber music, Mr. Levine and his players strove for clarity in the playing, not just in individual lines but also direction and structure. The rhetoric of the music never seemed so clear. Though the performance plumbed the work's emotional depths, Mr. Levine and his players had decided, it seemed, that if they attended to matters of articulation and phrasing the expression would take care of itself. In a way, this made the music even more moving.Continue reading the main story
The second half offered Schoenberg's seldom-heard Serenade, Op. 24, first performed in 1923, and Stravinsky's often-heard concert suite from ''L'Histoire du Soldat,'' first performed in 1920. Hearing them in succession as performed here, you were struck by the similarities between composers thought to be at odds during this period.
Imaginatively scored for clarinet, bass clarinet, guitar, mandolin and string trio, the Serenade was one of several pieces Schoenberg worked on simultaneously during the early 1920's while devising his system of 12-tone composition. By applying his radical new language in its tryout stage to time-tested Neo-Classical genres and dance forms, Schoenberg created a work in which there is a bracing reciprocity between old and new. The bass-baritone Richard Paul Fink brought his stentorian voice to the work's one vocal movement, a setting of a Petrarch sonnet in German translation.
Mr. Levine and his players approached ''L'Histoire,'' also scored for seven instruments including trombone, trumpet and percussion, not as simply the incidental music to a dramatic narrative but as a modern and complex score. The result was riveting, and served to introduce the orchestra's splendid new concertmaster, Nick Eanet, who played the tricky violin solos with brilliance and elan.Continue reading the main story


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A 53 year old lebanese identified as Ramzi Bau Hadir was abducted by suspected kidnappers at an oil station in Bayelsa state today April 5th. A soldier was also killed during a shootout.
Spokesperson of the Bayelsa state Police Force confirmed the killing to Reuters “One Lebanese, Ramzi Bau Hadir, aged 53 years, was kidnapped by the armed bandits,”he said
A resident said a second foreigner had been kidnapped but Asinim did not confirm this.
“It was a movie scene. The soldiers were shooting and the armed men were shooting. We later saw signs of blood everywhere.”a resident identified as Monday said

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And we know exactly what lipstick was used to create their perfect, Hollywood pouts. Interested? Thought so...
The band, which includes Jade Thirlwall, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Perrie Edwards (as if you needed reminding!) are currently touring down under and gave a stunning performance of their latest single, 'Love Me Like You' on Tuesday night (13 October) when they were the guest act on the Australian version of the show that made them famous.
We've been keeping a keen eye on their style while on tour and they ladies have not disappointed us with their super-curly hair, chocolate-brown lips and gorgeously glam make-up.
For Monday's performance it was all about movie-star glamour, as their make-up artist and BFF Adam Burrell gave the girls classic, sexy make-up that was to... die... for.
"Old Hollywood faces for #littlemix," Adam Instagrammed, along with snaps of Jade, Perrie and most importantly, the loot he used to create their looks.
Thanks Adam, we can always rely on you to deliver the goods!
In amongst the MAC Cosmetics, Bobbi Brown and Charlotte Tilbury goodies, we spy the tool he must have used to create those must-have, perfectly-shaped red lips...
The product in question is Barry M Matte Me Up Lip Crayon in Make A Statement, £4.99, barrym.com, a creamy, matte pencil you apply all over your lips for long-lasting colour.
We watched Little Mix sing on Tuesday night's show (below) and we have to admit, it was perfectly clear that each of their pouts kept up the pace of a live performance.
Cue: round of applause for Barry M!
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In my opinion, this particular performance was the highlight of the evening. I wanted to share it to show the impact and strength of traditional texts like Corinda's 13 Steps to Mentalism. I loved the participant's response to this piece, and it actually got significantly deeper as the camera went off. There's a very interesting connection built between a mentalist and a participant that isn't always prevalent in the performance of other areas in magic.
With that, I understand that this is far from a solid performance at all. With only a couple years under my belt, I'm still relatively new to mentalism, and I'm still exploring the techniques and getting familiar with their execution. After reading Luke Jermay's and Peter Turner's work, I understand there were several missed opportunities throughout this piece that I wish I had the courage to take advantage of.
In the end, my biggest self criticism of this performance was my lack of awareness to how guarded both she and I were to one another in terms of body language. If I had it to do all over again, I would have attempted to build more non-verbal rapport with her and ask that uncross her arms for me. Likewise, I would have done something else with my own hands besides the weird "handwashing prayer" (?) I was unconsciously doing. Again, this is a valuable lesson learned from self analysis of filming live performances. I hope others continue this trend for others to learn as well.
Despite its shortcomings, I'm relatively proud of this performance. I think a genuine connection was built at its climax.
I'd love to hear what others have to say.


Fare System Modernization
As ridership continues to increase, Metro is making major infrastructure investments to improve and modernize the customer experience, including updating fare system technology.
Metro will completely replace and upgrade all rail and bus payment systems over the next several years, as part of the Capital Improvement Program, providing customers with more options for contactless payment, faster transaction processing and improved customer reliability.
Faregate Barrier Review & Testing Project
Metrorail Faregate Replacement Project
Metrobus Farebox Replacement Project


The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center will move away from developing crop-based ethanol to fungible fuels and chemicals. "We're trying to re-task native pathways and engineer next-generation microbial factories that can manufacture valuable fuels and chemicals from renewable wastes," according to a statement by Tim Donohue, director of GLBRC.
Under-delivery and over-simplification are the biggest challenges facing the biobased industry that have led to investor and customer disappointment, according to Genomatica co-founder and CEO Christophe Schilling. He also talked about a biobased athletic shirt made with bio-butanediol, the company's first product.
UPM Biofuels' Biofore Concept Car, a joint production with the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, uses biobased materials for the majority of its parts and runs on the company's wood-based renewable diesel, said Anneli Kunnas, manager of UPM's stakeholder relations and marketing division. The concept car highlights the potential of UPM's biomaterials and the company's change into a leader of the forest-based bioindustry.
A group of 20 cellulosic biofuels trade groups sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency urging it to consider corn kernel fiber-derived cellulosic ethanol as it develops the proposed Renewable Fuel Standard renewable volume obligations for 2019. "Investments in cellulosic biofuel production are paying off, particularly through innovations in use of corn kernel fibers," said Brent Erickson, Biotechnology Innovation Organization executive vice president and head of the Industrial Biotechnology section.
Data from the Energy Information Administration showed that ethanol production in the US declined by 41,000 barrels per day from the previous week to reach an average of 1.016 million barrels per day, a five-week low. The four-week average also dropped to 1.044 million barrels per day for an annualized rate of 16 billion gallons.
A study published in Science showed how Broad Institute researchers David Liu and Weixin Tang used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to create a cellular recorder from DNA molecules called plasmids and inspired by flight-data recorders found in airplanes. Dubbed as CAMERA1, the device could read information from as few as ten bacterial cells, according to the study.
Tire manufacturer Bridgestone Americas has entered into several agreements related to the development of natural rubber and byproducts made from guayule, a desert shrub. Bridgestone and Italian firm Versalis will develop and distribute a technology package to market guayule as a sustainable source of natural rubber and as an important addition to the renewable chemical sector, while its collaboration with genomics firm NRGene aims to improve the shrub's breeding.
Wind is expected to reach grid parity with fossil fuels in the US and Denmark in 2025, according to Lloyd's Register 2018 Technology Radar, an opinion-led survey of 800 industry experts. Seventy-one percent of participants said they expect technology to shape the renewables industry more than policy or regulations over the next five years.
IKEA has partnered with Big Clean Switch to offer UK customers the lowest possible prices for renewable energy. Interested customers can sign up for the program, with the eventual energy costs to be based on the number of enrollments.
The EU can double the proportion of renewables in its energy portfolio while realizing annual cost savings of up to $139 billion per year by 2030, according to an International Renewable Energy Agency report. By increasing renewables to account for 34% of its energy mix, the EU could also reduce emissions by an additional 15%, the report states.
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Report says New York City office leases jump 27% for quarter
NEW YORK CITY, New York: In the third quarter, New York City's office leasing market rebounded from one year earlier, but remained below levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Higher interest rates and a strong U.S. dollar are also discouraging new investment in the leasing sector.
According to Colliers International Group, office leasing volume rose 27.6 percent to 9.23 million square feet, the highest quarterly increase since the end of 2019.
Leasing volume totals 24.17 million square feet so far this year, some 50 percent more than the same period in 2021 and less than 4 percent from passing last year's total. In the five years through 2019, volume remained below the quarterly average of some 9.1 million square feet.
"We are still hearing of large pending deals," said Frank Wallach, executive managing director of New York research at Colliers, adding that leases usually close by year's end, as reported by Reuters.
Colliers added that the availability rate for office space dropped 0.8 percentage points to 16.4 percent in the third quarter, the sharpest quarterly decrease in eight years.
This decline means that availability is at its tightest since March 2021, but still far higher than 10.2 percent in the first quarter of 2020 at the start of the pandemic, Wallach said.
The leasing surge was driven by several large leases in the Hudson Yards district overlooking the Hudson River, including a 456,000 square foot deal by KPMG in August, the largest so far this year.
Data from commercial real estate platform "View The Space" on potential future leases for New York office space released last week highlighted a 22.8 percent decline in August for new leasing demand.
VTS said it expects leasing activity to be "pretty good" for coming months, but if there is no new demand by year's end, leasing can be expected to decelerate in 2023.


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|Industrial Landscape. L S Lowry 1887- 1976|
Monday, 15 June 2015
Laurence Stephen (known as "LS") Lowry, 1887 -1976, was an English artist with one of the most recognisable styles of any painter and is often regarded as the most popular of English painters.
Because of his distinctive style, where he painted lots of industrial landscapes often populated with large numbers of 'matchstick' people, he was often classed as a naive artist. I think being popular led to him being looked-down-upon by many art critics. I don't accept that his work is second-rate in any way; he really captured the essence of life in northern England and he conveys a real affection for his subjects making the hard grime of living in an industrialised zone appear to be not a bad thing. Here are some more of his works to give a better overview of it:
Listening to something very rare: The Everly Brothers and The Beach Boys together singing 'Don't Worry Baby'. There is a live version on You Tube but I like the studio version at this site.


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The flowery meadow has been particularly trendy for some time and that’s good because it happily benefits the gardener’s friendly fauna. It also brings to the garden a absolutely charming bucolic touch which we never tire of. Here is a spotlight on the flowery meadow which will delight novice gardeners because it is very easy to sow but also to live.
What is the flower meadow
To install in your garden this multitude of flowers of all kinds – whether in the grass or on bare ground – you just need to buy a mixture of seeds to sow, usually sold in bags or boxes. There is something for all soil types and we also choose according to the weather of his region or even ofexposure desired, shade or full sun.
These associations sold under the name of flowered meadow are the fruit of rigorous selections of wildflowers, allowing each gardener to find something to meet his desires. They can be grouped together in the same selection by tone to easily create a monochrome for example, or on the contrary allow to bring to its green setting a note multicolored. Each flower meadow consists of species of perennials and / or annuals. They are selected according to their particularities.
Sow the flower meadow
The cultivation of a flower meadow is of a very easy. Once you have the selection of seeds that meet your expectations, you just need to sow them. The best period is between the end of March (in regions with a mild climate) and the month of June for geographic areas where late frosts are frequent. But, if you choose a selection of multi-year plants, you can sow until the end of September or mid-October. However, it is better to avoid sowing in the event of morning frost, drought or even very hot weather.
To sow a flowery meadow, it suffices to respect the procedure next.
- Start by preparing the land by delimiting it. You can use a line for an impeccable result.
- Dig deeply and turn the earth.
- Remove all weeds, the ideal being to weed by hand.
- Loosen the soil so that it is flexible. This promotes the circulation of air, water and the penetration of nutrients into the soil. It is also recommended to allow the penetration into the soil of various micro-organisms and useful insects but also so that the seeds of flowering meadows take root quickly.
- Then pass the garden rake in order to level the ground and remove the superfluous stones.
It is useful to specify here that the plants composing a flowering meadow grow very well in poor soils and are perfectly satisfied with it. Because of this peculiarity, expert gardeners advise against amending the soil before sowing. And contrary to what one might think, the plants will be stronger and more beautiful if we do not apply fertilizer, especially since in the absence of fertilizer, they will not face competition from unwanted grasses. Indeed, it is necessary to be aware that the fertilizers favor the development of the leaves. However, the interest of a flowery meadow lies in the multitude of flowers which bloom and attract pollinating insects as well as birds, while bringing an extremely aesthetic country note to the garden.
The ground being ready, when the period is favorable for sowing, all you have to do is:
- Mix the seeds with a little sand to facilitate their distribution because they are small.
- Distribute the seeds of flowering meadow seeds using the method of semi on the fly, at the rate of 6 g / m². You can increase this dosage a little if you sow your seeds on a dry and stony ground such as, for example, a bed for Mediterranean plants or in a rock garden. In fine, it is necessary that the flowers are numerous to give a compact flowery effect. However, if you put down too many seeds, nature will make a selection and many plants will not develop. We must therefore find a good compromise.
- Do not bury the seeds in the earth.
- Firm the soil either at the foot or with the back of the rake or even with a roller so that each seed is in good contact with the soil.
- Sprinkle in fine rain, with the watering can fitted with its apple for a very small area, with the hose if a substantial area has been sown.
During the following four or five days, if the weather forecast does not announce any rain, it is necessary to water every day, always in light rain, to promote germination. Subsequently, weekly watering for a month is essential unless it rains very regularly and sufficiently. It suffices to wait for a month and a half to two months to see a multitude of country flowers bloom and to rejoice in this striking spectacle.
Maintain a flowery meadow
Very undemanding, the flowery meadow does not need great care. It is therefore suitable for all gardeners, including those who do not have a lot of time to devote to their natural space. At most, it is useful:
- To water in very dry weather or if, due to its quality, the soil does not retain freshness for long.
- To continue to hunt for weeds by dislodging them by hand.
- Remove faded flowers as they go in order to promote new flowering.
At the end of the season, when the meadow is no longer blooming, we can mow perennials after their rise to seeds so that they re-sow spontaneously or else pull up annual plants. In the latter case, it will be necessary to get down to preparing the ground again. It will thus be fully ready the following year to welcome a new seedling of flowered meadows.

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House Session The House met briefly prior to the inaugural ceremonies. The House recessed to convene on the West Front of the Capitol for the inauguration of President Obama. At the end of the ceremony, the House adjourned.
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- Jerry Costello U.S. Representative [D] Illinois
- Daniel P. Coughlin Chaplain U.S. House of Representatives
- Phil Hare U.S. Representative [D] Illinois
The House considered Native American water issues and support for Haiti.

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A few weeks ago, we highlighted some of the accomplishments the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has made over the past few years. I’m honored to have the opportunity to serve as the Acting Under Secretary for S&T, and I’d like to affirm my commitment to ensuring the organization continues pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
At S&T, so much of our work helps empower homeland security practitioners. Our role is to advance science and technological capabilities so these men and women can perform their important duties more safely and effectively. We succeed when we help them, whether it’s supporting wearable technology development, investing in cutting-edge community resilience capabilities, or discovering new methods for protecting our borders.
Building on my experience as a first responder, I’m proud of the role S&T played in supporting security efforts during the Presidential Inauguration Day, where we helped ensure the event proceeded without incident. Many of the technologies and tools we develop help public safety agencies prepare for, monitor, and respond during large events. For example, mass transit agencies use our video forensics tools to identify potential threats and suspicious behavior.
S&T also helps train and equip law enforcement at major events such as the Super Bowl. During last weekend’s big game, our Communications and Networking Engine provided datacasting technology that enables public safety to quickly share secure information. Datacasting uses the public television broadcast network to gather images of key venue locations through legacy fixed cameras and mobile devices. This improves situational awareness by giving responders more detailed real-time information and improving their ability to share accurate information with deployed units. S&T will continue to support these efforts moving forward through innovative technology development.
Looking at what’s to come in 2017, I’m excited for the upcoming opportunities to engage with S&T stakeholders. Many of our programs will be attending national conferences such as RSA, South by Southwest, and the International Wireless Communications Expo. If you’re planning to attend these events, stop by S&T’s booth to see what we’re currently working on. You can also check out our Upcoming Events for more details on ways to engage with us.
Finally, I’d like to express my sincere thanks to the S&T staff and stakeholders whose dedication has helped bring about some really impactful scientific advances. We can’t always disclose all of our work, but rest assured we are always working behind the scenes to support our nation’s homeland security practitioners. S&T is committed to ensuring their safety and equipping them with the tools and technology they need to be successful. I’m looking forward to all that we’ll accomplish together this year as we continue making progress on our Visionary Goals.


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Story making GamesTheme Making Games
There are 7 story making games for children.
Once a baby fell in love with a story, it will probably be reading it - or asking a mother or father to reread it until it can recall every part. Whilst it is interesting to see your baby developing a passion for reading, the repetition of a monotonous story can move your children to tears. What's more, your child's passion for reading a book can stir them.
Helps your kid build basic story-telling abilities and practice his or her own story. The five story games will inspire your little readers to think outside the box, learning new words and inspiring their fantasy through the craft. Fill a crate with local artifacts - such as games, utensils, food and clothes - and let your kid shoot through the crate, select three or four artifacts and make up a story or a laugh.
Avoid brand-name games and foods that can restrict your child's creativity. Rather than giving her a little mermaid figure, you should add a puppet that doesn't have a known story yet. Then, make your own story from the same items, and then discuss how your story was the same and different.
Once your baby has the knack of inventing tales for different items, ask him/her to invent a new quest for Winnie-the-Pooh, Dora the Explorer or another popular animated figure. Issues like "What if Snow White was living in your neighborhood" will make your baby think about an old personality in a new lime.
Re-write it "happily ever after": Snuggle up with your baby and enjoy reading a fairytale together. After you' re done, ask her about her favourite story - ask her to fix it. Notice the new action and ask her to alter other historical occurrences that she liked. Then remove the coloured pens, coloured pens or marker and ask your little one to paint her favourite characters from the altered game.
Select a wide range of garments from different members of your baby's household, then ask your baby to create a personality for each of them: an old overalls can be the property of a runners and a ball gown of a cute young princess. Once each garment has been given a personality, you' re encouraging your little ones to create a story that''s built on the personalities they've invented.
In order to make the show more enjoyable, she is invited to disguise herself as a figure and play some of the stories. After you have enjoyed a dinner with your baby, ask him or her to come up with a story based on the story of the dinner he or she has just eaten. Be it the pasta and meat balls is dinner for a strange host or the vegetables in your lettuce egg to live, this practice will make you think about daily foods in a whole new way.
Watch how your baby sees eating in history and help him to name unknown groceries and even look up the origin of the various delicatessen. Birthdays are a favorite topic in children's literature, so why shouldn't your baby write his or her own name? When your boyfriend or relative's birthdays are over, get together and write down how the pie looks and tastes, the dinner candle, the decoration, gifts for the special guests, and partys or favor.
You can help by telling her what she needs to know for the story, e.g. how to make cake, how to send out an invitation, etc. Everyone knows the story of Santa's dear red-nosed reindeers, but Rudolph's story doesn't have to be carved in stones. Let your prospective author select her favourite day, an appropriate icon, and make a story about it.
As soon as your kid has a story in her head, help him to put it on the page. She' ll like the opportunity to show off her own designs, so give her coloured pens, marker, pencils and other handicrafts to work with. Not only does starting to play these games with your prospective author stimulate her creative spirit, it also leads to more literature for the whole team.


Humans have a great ability to recognize objects in different environments irrespective of their variations. However, the same does not apply to machine learning models which are unable to generalize to images of objects from different domains. The generalization of these models to new data is constrained by the domain gap. Many factors such as image background, image resolution, color, camera perspective and variations in the objects are responsible for the domain gap between the training data (source domain) and testing data (target domain). Domain adaptation algorithms aim to overcome the domain gap between the source and target domains and learn robust models that can perform well across both the domains.
This thesis provides solutions for the standard problem of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) and the more generic problem of generalized domain adaptation (GDA). The contributions of this thesis are as follows. (1) Certain and Consistent Domain Adaptation model for closed-set unsupervised domain adaptation by aligning the features of the source and target domain using deep neural networks. (2) A multi-adversarial deep learning model for generalized domain adaptation. (3) A gating model that detects out-of-distribution samples for generalized domain adaptation.
The models were tested across multiple computer vision datasets for domain adaptation.
The dissertation concludes with a discussion on the proposed approaches and future directions for research in closed set and generalized domain adaptation.


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I was forced to stop running @ 55 due to heel bump. I turned to an elliptical. Now @ 65 heel completely healed, can I try running?
Hi, you really should go and see your phsyio or doctor to get advice on whether it is safe for you to start running again.
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ICYMI, Riverdale Season 4 is out today! Before you watch it—ready your tissues, because Riverdale just gave the most heartfelt tribute to Luke Perry.
I swear, sis! If you’re planning on watching Season 4 Episode 1 of Riverdale, get ready for the waterworks! Because ‘In Memoriam’ is an absolute tear-jerker. It will pull at your heart-strings so hard, you wouldn’t be able to hold back the tears, at all! We all knew this was coming, but still, Riverdale gave the most heartfelt tribute to Luke Perry. There are no words to describe how genuine this episode felt. You better watch it right now, because I’ll be posting spoilers all up in here, my heart needs to vent!
In Loving Memory of Luke Perry (1966-2019)
It was earlier this year on March 4, 2019, that Luke Perry passed on. He died at the age of 52 and lives on in his two children, fiancé, and ex-wife. Who all loved him dearly, along with fellow cast members and crew of Riverdale. He’s not remembered for being a celebrity, but because everyone who has ever had the pleasure of knowing him has not said a single bad thing about him. He is very dearly loved. And it shows in how people remember him:
this episode is a tribute to luke and a farewell to fred, a character that luke portrayed with so much heart and soul. i hope you appreciate tonight’s premiere as much as we do. we gave our hearts and souls ♥ #riverdale
— Camila Mendes (@CamilaMendes) October 10, 2019
Though tonight’s episode of #Riverdale was written with heavy hearts, we’re excited to finally share our tribute to the brilliant Luke Perry with the world. This one’s for you, Fred. #TheCW #Netflix pic.twitter.com/uumtd4t4z3
— Brian E. Paterson (@BrianEPaterson) October 9, 2019
tonight is the season premiere of riverdale season 4 and also our episode honoring our beloved Luke. Every single person who works on this show put their heart and soul into this episode. We miss you everyday Luke. Hope you guys love it as much as we do.
— Madelaine Petsch (@madelainepetsch) October 9, 2019
Thursday August 11, 2016 – Luke and I went in to spend some time with the #Riverdale writers room after our pilot was picked up. We wanted to show them love and appreciation for their hard work. He had such a big heart. We bonded immediately. He became such a dear friend to me… pic.twitter.com/NKBpsd2YG3
— Mädchen Amick (@madchenamick) October 10, 2019
Tonight, #riverdale season 4 premieres ❤ and it is the most important episode we’ve ever filmed. A tribute to our friend and father Luke Perry. Please tune in if you can 🙏🏻
— Lili Reinhart (@lilireinhart) October 9, 2019
Love and support from all the fans
Even fans of the show were simply awestruck at how beautifully done tonight’s episode was:
Truly heartbreaking 😢💔 all love to the cast and crew
— Fan Girl Erica (@FanGurlErica) October 10, 2019
— 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒆 (@spyshart) October 10, 2019
I’m really speechless I didn’t stop crying though the whole episode. you felt the love that the crew and cast had for Luke in this episode. it was beautiful well done and hit me right in the heart! Beautiful tribute! Rest easy, and fly Luke Perry! Always in our hearts #Riverdale pic.twitter.com/PI4w3dE3OY
— Lindsay 🦄 ~ 8 DAYS (@lindsaymck101) October 10, 2019
This is, by far, one of the best episodes Riverdale has ever produced. And if you’re a fan, you better not miss out on Riverdale’s tribute to the late Luke Perry. May his soul rest in peace.
Aren’t you just moved by how close the Riverdale cast and crew are? Did you cry at tonight’s Riverdale episode? We’d love to hear what you think! So share with us your thoughts in the comments down below! Or hit us up on our Facebook or Twitter @UDoUPh.


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When Bill Keller stepped down as New York Times executive editor to write columns, the big news was obviously Jill Abramson's promotion as the first female editor of the nation's leading paper, as well as the promotions and newsroom realignments that come with any new regime. But for those on "columnist row" on the 13th floor of the paper's midtown Renzo Piano-designed office tower, where the Op-Ed columnists toil and give us frequent contributions to our Five Best Columns, there was one big specific question: Where is everyone going to sit?
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If you replace the phrase “the international community” with “the Klingons” it often makes more sense. The Islamic State can only be defeated if the Klingons are resolute. America can’t do this alone — we need the Klingons. Why don’t the Klingons handle this one?
Here’s Obama at that press conference in Estonia:
. . . we know that if we are joined by the Klingons we can continue to shrink ISIL’s sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem. And the question is going to be making sure we’ve got the right strategy, but also making sure that we’ve got the international will to do it. This is something that is a continuation of a problem we’ve seen certainly since 9/11, but before. And it continues to metastasize in different ways.
And what we’ve got to do is make sure that we are organizing the Arab world, the Middle East, the Muslim world along with the Klingons to isolate this cancer, this particular brand of extremism that is, first and foremost, destructive to the Muslim world and the Arab world and North Africa, and the people who live there. They’re the ones who are most severely . . . [blah blah blah]
Now, I know what you’re going to say: “But the Klingons don’t exist!”
And my reply would be, “Neither does the international community!”
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Kato Works exhibited three new cranes at Conet, the largest of which was the SL-650R, a 65 tonne capacity truck crane. An interesting feature is the crane's jib, which is a three-piece hydraulically telescoped model that can be used to raise the maximum hook height from 44.5 m with the main boom to 58.6 m.
Also on display was the MR-350SL from Kato's city crane range. Like the SL-650R, this 35 tonne capacity unit features a three-stage fly-jib that can raise the maximum hook height from 33.4 to 47.3 m. Also on display was the 13 tonne MR-130 city crane.
All three cranes are designed for the Japanese market, but Kiyohiko Akagi, manager of Kato's overseas marketing department said, “We are ready to export if there is demand, but truck cranes like the SL-650R are only really popular in the US and Japan.”
This partly explains why the company has pulled back from the European market in recent years. Mr Akagi added, “We have sold a lot of cranes in Europe over the years, but we are not active at the moment because of the CE-mark requirement.” He continued, “I think this will change in a year or two.”
Another interesting launch was Tadano's 'concept' road/rail city crane. The machine features a set of retractable railway guide and drive wheels in addition to its normal road tyres, which allow it to mount and travel


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McToad Mows Tiny Island by Tom Angleberger and John Hendrix (Abrams Young Readers)
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"McToad Mows Tiny Island" by Tom Angleberger and John Hendrix is that rare beast, a book that uses a relatively simple premise to such brilliant effect that it ends up feeling wholly original and fresh.
McToad is the warty fellah in charge of mowing vast tracts of lawn on Big Island but every Thursday, Toad gets to trek over to Tiny Island - a postage-stamp-sized bit of land out in the middle of the sea. But how on earth does Toad get himself (and his sit-on lawnmower) over to this tiny island? It takes a lot of effort actually...
|Onto the train!|
|Time to head for the docks. Need to take to the air for this bit!|
McToad is also a pilot so he winches his mower off to the docks before boarding a ship. But that's not the end of McToad's journey! Off he sales, before a final bit of crane work and...
|"I'm sure I can stretch this out to an entire day if I go REALLY slowly!"|
See, we told you that island was tiny. Children will absolutely love following McToad's journey, with the bright bold illustrations and fabulously designed text showing McToad's breeze of a day unfolding.
Don't just keep this story for Thursdays, read it every day!
Charlotte's favourite bit: The fact that McToad STILL takes a break in the middle of mowing each half of the island.
Daddy's favourite bit: A brilliant journey for McToad, beautifully presented in this fresh-feeling and wholly original book.
(Kindly sent to us for review by Abrams Young Readers)
"McToad Mows Tiny Island"
Written by Tom Angleberger
Illustrated by John Hendrix
Published by Abrams Young Readers
Publication Date (Paperback): 1st September 2015

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Millions of AT&T (NYSE: T) customers may find themselves without a network to support their devices by Jan. 1. AT&T recently announced that it's shutting down its 2G network by the end of the year, leaving millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in need of potential upgrades.
As of two years ago, AT&T had 17 million machine-to-machine connections (think car-insurance dongles for tracking driving habits or package tracking from a shipping company that automatically sends you texts or emails) across 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. At the time, AT&T's executive director of M2M product management, Mobeen Kahn, said "a large number of those are on 2G." It's since taken steps to migrate those 2G users to its 3G and 4G networks, successfully switching over 6 million, but millions still remain.
T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) sees AT&T's decision to sunset its 2G network as a big opportunity to take a large share of the relatively nascent Internet of Things market. Last month, T-Mobile began offering AT&T IoT customers free SIM cards for their devices (to facilitate the switch to T-Mobile) and free 50 MB per device per month (a substantial amount for most IoT devices) through the end of the year. T-Mobile has pledged to support its own nationwide 2G network through 2020.
At a recent Deutsche Bank conference, T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter and CTO Neville Ray went over how the company plans to support its 2G IoT network through 2020.
The reason AT&T is shutting down its 2G network, which primarily supports Internet of Things devices, is because it needs to free up the wireless spectrum used by the legacy network. It plans to redeploy that spectrum to support its newest generation LTE network, lowering the amount of congestion that could potentially slow down data speeds for higher-value smartphone customers. That process is called refarming.
T-Mobile is currently refarming spectrum from its 3G networks -- both T-Mobile and MetroPCS -- to redeploy. At the Deutsche Bank conference, Carter said, "we have roughly 60% of our spectrum right now on LTE," adding, "we have a path to efficiently and effectively refarm the remaining spectrum."
But 5% of T-Mobile's spectrum will remain dedicated to its older network technology. "We are committed to keeping a very thin layer of legacy GSM out there for our M2M," Carter told the audience. (M2M stands for machine-to-machine communication, also known as Internet of Things. GSM refers to 2G.)
T-Mobile can afford to leave 5% of its spectrum dedicated to 2G for two reasons. First, it has more spectrum per subscriber than AT&T. Earlier this year, Carter said T-Mobile has about 14% more spectrum per subscriber than AT&T. After leaving 5% of its total spectrum for IoT customers, T-Mobile would still have more capacity per 4G subscriber than AT&T.
Perhaps more importantly, T-Mobile is quickly moving its customers to VoLTE -- voice over LTE -- meaning T-Mobile is moving voice calls from its old network to its LTE network, opening more spectrum for refarming. "We lead the industry in VoLTE," Carter said at the Deutsche Bank conference, "which is really important because until you get voice and data on 4G you can't refarm spectrum." In other words, T-Mobile has more of its 3G network spectrum that it can refarm before it would have to tap into its older 2G network.
The importance of IoT
AT&T is the leader in IoT connections. The wireless provider has about 29 million connected devices, the vast majority of which fall under its business solutions segment. Those connected devices include things like connected cars in addition to enterprise-specific machine-to-machine communication applications.
While AT&T is working to upgrade many of its 2G customers to 3G or 4G connections, the costs necessary to make some devices compatible with the modern networks is unreasonable for many and many IoT devices don't need a connection faster than what 2G can provide. That means AT&T will soon lose millions of connections. While they're relatively lower-value connections, it's relied heavily on connected devices to boost its net additions numbers over the last few years.
AT&T has relied on its connected device additions to offset the decline it's seeing in postpaid phone subscribers. T-Mobile CEO John Legere wasn't afraid to point that out last year when he made a blog post noting AT&T "thinks they can mask their flailing consumer wireless business with lots of cars and other low-value IOT connections." He also noted in that blog post that T-Mobile will be ready to disrupt the market "when we see these markets get ready for prime time."
The number of IoT connections is expected to triple from 2014 to 2020. The amount businesses spend on IoT-related services will more than double in that time, making it a billion-dollar industry. With T-Mobile's plans to support its 2G network through 2020, it looks like it's planning to capture a significant portion of that massive market growth at AT&T's expense.
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Lavold is a Swedish knitwear designer who combines her interest in archaeology of the Viking period with her delight in patterned, structured knitting to produce the 14 projects in this book, including jackets, cardigans, pullovers, caps, socks, and mittens. More than simply a pattern book, this work provides valuable insight into the mind and methods of a master designer as she analyzes Viking artifacts and adapts their essence to knitting. For each pattern, photographs and charts of knitted motifs are shown adjacent to line drawings and photos of the Viking designs that inspired them. This is a "high-end" knitting-pattern book of classic garments that will appeal to experienced knitters looking for projects at once challenging and fascinating. Highly recommended for large public libraries and academic textile collections.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Oh my! What a gorgeous book. Elsebeth has really done her homework. The hardest part about owning this book is deciding which project to start next. Read morePublished on Nov. 22 2003 by Jody Richards
I thought this book would be another pretty book about knitting. Was I surprised! Not only has the author done her homework as far as researching her subject, she has supplied... Read morePublished on Jan. 7 2003 by Amazon Customer
The patterns are beautiful with some unusual construction,including several interesting hats, pillows, and mittens in addition to gorgeous sweaters. Read morePublished on April 30 2002
This has been a most welcome addition to my library of knitting patterns. I suppose my knitting skills would be considered intermediate, and I've found the book to be very user... Read morePublished on Sept. 26 2001 by James trippe
When most people think of Nordic or Norwegian sweaters, they think of classic, multi-colored designs with snowflakes and reindeer. Read morePublished on March 31 2001 by Carol Peterson Hennekens
this is a fascinating book for anyone interested in Viking mythology and knitting.The patterns use intricate cables in a variety of yarn thicknesses and the instructions are clear... Read morePublished on March 19 2001
Viking Patterns for Knitting by Elsebeth Lavold is a book long overdue for those of us in love with Aran-style knitting emphasizing textured garments (knit, purl, cables, twisted... Read morePublished on Dec 14 2000 by jvmeadows


Coronavirus fiscal 'tsunami' takes dead aim at New York MTA
Last month, Chairman Patrick Foye likened the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s financial predicament to a four-alarm fire. On Wednesday, he called it a “once-in-a-hundred-years fiscal tsunami.”
Mixed metaphors aside, Foye’s message remains clear: The authority is in big trouble.
“An enfeebled MTA would stunt the regional recovery and create a depressing drag on job growth,” Foye said at Wednesday’s monthly board meeting.
Even with further COVID-19 rescue aid, which the U.S. Senate is debating and is hardly a given, the nation’s largest mass-transit agency is staring at massive red ink, including a projected $16 billion deficit through 2024, and a vast range of immediate uncertainties that could include more rating downgrades.
The MTA will exhaust the $3.9 billion it under the federal CARES Act at the end of the month. It has requested the same amount in the HEROES Act, which the U.S. Senate is considering after the House of Representatives approved it.
Transit systems nationwide are seeking up to $36 billion.
“If we don’t get federal help, we are so screwed, bottom line,” board member Kevin Law said. “This is life or death for us."
Little or no aid from Washington could prompt a rash of doomsday moves, including deficit borrowing, which could further jeopardize its standing on Wall Street. Other options include service cuts; reductions and/or delays in the 2020 to 2024 capital program; fare and toll increases beyond the routine biennial hikes; and layoffs.
The MTA has projected a coronavirus-related hit of $14.3 billion for this year and next, or 41.4% of its operating budget. That includes plummeting fare and toll revenue largely due to stay-at-home and social distancing measures to combat the pandemic and reduced demand because of the weak economy, plus the loss of subsidies such as dedicated taxes and additional costs from cleaning the system.
Chief Financial Officer Robert Foran said the MTA, even if it receives all of its requested $3.9 billion from Washington to cover its operating needs this year, it would still face a $6.6 billion revenue shortfall in 2021.
The authority, which operates New York City’s subways and buses, two commuter rail lines and several interborough bridges and tunnels, is one of the largest municipal issuers with $46.2 billion of debt, including special credits.
It has received multiple downgrades since March, most recently July 7 when S&P Global Ratings lowered its primary transportation revenue bond credit to BBB-plus from A-minus, citing its mass transit enterprise ratings criteria.
“The state of the MTA borders on the catastrophic,” said Rachael Fauss, research director for the advocacy group Reinvent Albany.
The MTA expects to issue $500 million of Series 2020B-S transportation revenue bond anticipation notes and $600 million of Series 2020-D transportation revenue bonds in August.
According to data on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's EMMA website, a block of Series 2016B transportation refunding bonds maturing in 2025 that originally priced at 128.185 cents on the dollar and a 1.73% yield, sold to a customer Wednesday night at a price of 109.523 cents and a 3.043% yield.
Foye would not elaborate how the MTA would impose cuts, such as expansion, state of good repair or accessibility. “All of them are unattractive and unpalatable, but we’ve got to consider all of these things," he said.
Last-resort deficit borrowing could come in the fall, Foran told reporters.
“If we do sell deficit financing, we’d have to pay for the deficit financing bonds,” he said. “Deficit financing just takes away from our capital program. It’s not a productive use of funds.”
The MTA also has various liquidity resources such as lines of credit, pay-as-you-go resources, the Other Post-Employment Benefits Trust, deferral of federal payroll taxes and the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility.
“However, these funds only provide a temporary funding ‘bridge’ to a permanent solution to the lost revenue and higher expenses, and these funds must be repaid or replaced,” Foran said.
Board members must vote on the $17 billion-plus operating budget in December. The MTA operates on a calendar year.
Congestion pricing for Manhattan’s central business district, which could provide $1.5 billion in capital funds annually, is on hold. The MTA and the federal government are stalled over an environmental review process.
“We’re still in limbo,” capital construction chief Janno Lieber said.
Also hovering is the memory of the dark days of the 1970s, when the city was broke, crime rampant and breakdowns and track fires marred subway travel.
“I think it’s clearly a five-alarmer, and my concern is that we don’t see the fire engines, nor do we see the plans on how to build them," board member Robert Linn said. “We don’t see a road map for survival.
“We see a continuing exit of terrific transit managers, which worries me tremendously," said Linn, a former New York City labor-relations commissioner. "We hear public discussions of org charts and once again hear criticism of the city’s homeless outreach efforts. Instead of grappling with the tough decisions, we see the same old battles between the governor and the mayor, the MTA and the city, the legislature and the city, the MTA and the board.”
Sally Librera, the MTA New York City Transit’s senior vice president of subways, is the latest departure. Her last day is Friday. Andy Byford resigned as NYC Transit president in January and is now London's transport commissioner.
Ridership reached 2.2 million on subways and buses Monday — up 60% since early June — as the city began Phase IV of its reopening. Still, that’s far below last year’s daily average of about 7 million.
The board will meet next month, skipping its usual August break. The date will depend on “action or inaction from Washington,” Foye said.


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A Single-chip Proportional to Absolute Temperature Sensor Using CMOS Technology
Abstract:Nowadays it is a trend for electronic circuit designers to integrate all system components on a single-chip. This paper proposed the design of a single-chip proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) sensor including a voltage reference circuit using CEDEC 0.18m CMOS Technology. It is a challenge to design asingle-chip wide range linear response temperature sensor for many applications. The channel widths between the compensation transistor and the reference transistor are critical to design the PTAT temperature sensor circuit. The designed temperature sensor shows excellent linearity between -100°C to 200° and the sensitivity is about 0.05mV/°C. The chip is designed to operate with a single voltage source of 1.6V.
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 A. Al, S. M. A. Motakabber, M. B. I. Reaz, Mohd Alauddin Mohd Ali Department of Electrical, Electronic & Systems Engineering Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Extend The Linier Region Response Of PTAT Temperature Sensors In One-Chip CMOS Technology.UKM Bangi Malaysia EPC 2010.
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09. December 2017 - 19:30 till 22:30
Monty Alexander - Living Arts Centre | Living Arts Centre | Saturday, 09. December 2017
This extraordinary concert event is a gala celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday and the Living Arts Centre’s 20th anniversary. It honours the tremendous contributions and ongoing legacy of two Canadian jazz icons, Oscar Peterson (who was a resident of Mississauga for many years) and Oliver Jones.


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The ESEF iXBRL mandate requires issuers to prepare their Annual Financial Report (AFR) in iXBRL format. ESMA has released the ESEF taxonomy using which issuers are required to choose the appropriate tag from the ESEF taxonomy and map such disclosures presented in the AFR. When the issuer does not find an appropriate tag in the ESEF taxonomy, they are required to create custom elements called ‘extensions’. In phase one of the mandate, companies are required to detail tag only the Primary Financial Statements. anchoring
What is Anchoring?
When an issuer creates an extension element, ESEF tagging guidelines require such extension to be ‘anchored’ to a narrower or broader element in the ESEF taxonomy. Below are some easy-to-understand examples that help to determine how to go about anchoring.
Anchoring to a broader or wider ESEF taxonomy element
The extension concept needs to be anchored to the closest concept available in the ESEF taxonomy. In some cases, the closest concept would be a broader tag available in the ESEF taxonomy. Following are some examples of tagging a concept to a ‘broader’ concept in the ESEF taxonomy and the different types of anchoring examples.
1. One on One Anchoring
Example: Income Statement of XYZ Company
One on One Anchoring- Broader Level
The extension concept for the line item ‘Crude oil and electricity revenue’ needs to be anchored to the broader ESEF concept ‘Revenue’ (IFRS-full_Revenue)
Example: Income Statement of ABC Company
One on One Anchoring- Disaggregations
The extensions concept for both the line items ‘Petroleum Revenue’ and ‘Petrochemicals Revenue’ needs to be anchored to a single broader ESEF concept ‘Revenue from the sale of petroleum and petrochemical products
3. Disaggregations with subtotal
Example: Statement of Financial Position of ABC Company
Sub-total values do not require anchoring.
The sub-total ‘Trade receivables, prepaid expenses, and other miscellaneous receivables from related parties is an extension element. The 2 components (child-items) of this line item are also extension elements ‘abc_TradeReceivablesFromRelatedPartiesAndPrepaidExpensesCurrent’ and ‘abc_RelatedPartyOtherReceivablesCurrent’. In this case, the extension child elements need to be anchored; however, the sub-total does not require anchoring.
Anchoring to narrower ESEF taxonomy elements (Combinations)
The concept of anchoring to a ‘narrower’ element in the ESEF taxonomy is required when disclosures are reported as a combination or summation items.
Example: Statement of Financial Position of XYZ Company
The extension concept for the line-item ‘Property, plant, equipment and Investment Property’ is a combination of two concepts in the ESEF taxonomy- ‘Property, plant, and equipment (IFRS-full_PropertyPlantAndEquipment) and ‘Investment Property’ (IFRS-full_InvestmentProperty), therefore the extension concept needs to be anchored the these two ESEF concepts.


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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has emphasized the need for the United States to maintain higher interest rates for an extended period to curb inflation in a statement following the financial institution’s comprehensive assessment of U.S. policies.
Additionally, the IMF urged Washington to adopt stricter fiscal measures to address the mounting federal debt.
Despite the U.S. economy demonstrating resilience in the face of tighter monetary and fiscal policies, the IMF noted that inflation has proved more persistent than initially anticipated.
The IMF’s evaluation, known as an “Article IV” review, included a growth forecast of 1.7 percent for the entirety of 2023, slightly higher than the organization’s previous estimate of 1.6 percent in April. On a quarter-to-quarter comparison, output was projected to decline by 1.2 percent in the fourth quarter.
The IMF anticipates that the federal funds rate will reach its peak this year at 5.4 percent, exceeding the nominal 5.25 percent rate, before gradually declining to 4.9 percent by 2024.
“With a large share of household and corporate debt contracted at relatively long duration and fixed rates, household consumption and corporate investment have proven less interest-sensitive than in past tightening cycles.”
The organization warned that, because of these factors, monetary policy may need to get even tighter than the current already restrictive levels.
“This creates a material risk that the Federal Reserve will have to raise the policy rate by significantly more than is currently expected to return inflation to 2 percent.”
During a May 26 press conference, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva stressed the urgent need for the U.S. government to address its deficits, particularly by implementing higher tax revenues.
“The sooner we implement this adjustment, the better,” she said. “It is important to note that the fiscal adjustment can be front-loaded, which would assist the Federal Reserve in its efforts to combat inflation.”
Georgieva expressed hope that Washington would find a timely resolution to the ongoing debt ceiling crisis, warning against the dire consequences of a catastrophic default that would further disrupt the global economy.
“The U.S. Treasury market serves as a crucial stabilizing force for the global financial system,” the IMF director said, highlighting the contraction many economies are currently experiencing. “If this anchor is disturbed, the world economy—the vessel that carries us all—will navigate uncertain and turbulent waters.”
She appealed to U.S. lawmakers, urging them to devise an alternative approach to managing debt that eliminates the need for annual debt ceiling brinkmanship.
“Could you please explore different avenues to address this issue?”


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Satō is left-handed, and has had a good sense and love of drawing since childhood. He graduated from Hokkaido Sapporo Nishi High School. While enrolled in Musashino Art University and studying in both the Department of Imaging Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sculpture, Satō decided he wanted to pursue a career as a manga artist and subsequently dropped out before graduating.
He worked as an assistant to both Nobuyuki Fukumoto and Tsutomu Takahashi, and made his professional debut in 1998 in Weekly Young Sunday with his work Congratulations, though his Promised Land, which was a special selection at the 1997 Afternoon Four Seasons Awards, was technically his debut. Two works, Umizaru and Say Hello to Black Jack have been adapted very faithfully as television dramas and films.
Satō won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award for his work Say Hello to Black Jack.