My car is C180 AMG. it started jerking, i watched it for awhile, went to change the plugs, but it still continued, then my mechanic said the airflow meter was bad, we changed it but it still jerks so i disconnected the airflow meter and the car drives well now but i am scared i do not still now what the real problem is and the danger of driving without the airflow meter. please help. thank you.
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The Surfrider Foundation released its annual Clean Water Report Friday, detailing the measures the organization has taken to improve water quality in San Diego County and quell sewage contamination of local shorelines.
The report gives an update on the organization's Blue Water Task Force as well as analysis of water quality case studies in Depoe Bay, Oregon; Oahu, Hawaii; Palm Beach County, Florida; and San Diego.
The Blue Water Task Force, Surfrider's volunteer water testing group, has increased its number of water tests by at least 12 percent each of the past seven years, according to the report. Task force volunteers conducted 6,826 water quality tests across the country in 2018.
Last year, the Surfrider San Diego chapter's Blue Water Task Force focused primarily on ending sewage runoff into the Tijuana River, which subsequently flows into the Pacific Ocean and affects the county's beaches and coastline.
According to the report, sewage contamination caused closures of Imperial Beach's shoreline for roughly half of each year from 2015 to 2017.
In 2018, Surfrider San Diego established Blue Water Task Force testing labs in Imperial Beach, Coronado and at the chapter's office west of Mira Mesa to improve local water testing efforts. According to the report, the organization's volunteers collect and test water samples each Thursday along the shoreline from Imperial Beach to Pacific Beach.
``In areas like San Diego, California, where communities are impacted year-round by cross-border water pollution ... Surfrider's work to protect clean water is more critical than ever,'' said Mara Dias, the organization's water quality manager. ``Our chapters are tackling regional water quality issues by testing for pollution, building ocean friendly solutions, and informing the public where it's safe to surf, swim and play in the ocean."
Surfrider San Diego filed a lawsuit against the U.S. section of the International Boundary and Water Commission last year, alleging that the body has repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act and put the health and safety of local residents in jeopardy by improperly managing the pollution from the Tijuana River.
The cities of Imperial Beach and Chula Vista and the Port of San Diego have joined Surfrider's lawsuit, while the city of San Diego and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra have filed a similar suit against the IBWC. The latter suit is expected to go to trial in April 2020.


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Recently, IR micro-spectroscopy has been used to develop two-dimensional functional group images of polymer samples. A two-dimensional computer-restored step-scan was performed on the sample in order to obtain a compositional map. A 250 × 250 μm aperture was used in 250-μm steps in the x and y directions with the aid of a computer-controlled moving stage.
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Utilization of GIS in Tourism BY Raymondville Abstract Currently, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is becoming to be known as one of those most valuable analytical tools for managing, displaying large volumes of data and decision making that pertinent to regional planning activities or local Infrastructure constructions (Giles, 2003). Nevertheless, compared with the success GIS technology gained in other fields, the utilization of GIS applications in tourism field is small and with slow growth.
From an engineer’s perspective, adoption of GIS technology brings benefits to the sustainable tourism in numbers of ways, including election making under the context of huge volume of Information, estimation of travel time, monitoring the traffic situation, and also evaluating the planning phase as well. From a different angle, successful GIS establishment can efficiently assist tourists to achieve satisfaction and affectively make local economic promotion.
Introduction GIS technology refers to “a geographic information system integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information” (SERIES official website). This remarkable imputer-based set of tools enables people are used for collecting, storing, retrieving, mapping, analyzing, transforming and displaying spatial and non-spatial data from geographic world for a particular set of purposes that varies for each discipline (Gabbier. 2005).
GIS in Tourism The generic capableness of GIS Indicate that this technology has tremendous potential in tourism in the visualization term, but its applications are limited in tourism field due to lack of general database of those visitors. For instance, GIS is unable to Illustrate the origin and destination of visitors. What is more, it cannot predict the resists’ expenditure patterns, motivation of travel, transportation selection, etc. In order to pursue a further investigation, Bearer and Elliot-White categorized functionalities of GIS.
The table 1 demonstrated below is the generic capabilities of a GIS (Batter and Elliot-White, 1999). Table 1 capabilities of a GIS Functional capabilities of a GIS GIS Basic Questions Tourism Applications Data entry , Storage and manipulation Location What is at? Tourism Resource Inventories Map production Condition Where Is it? Identify most suitable locations for Database Integration and management Trend What has changed? Measure ours impacts Data queries and searches Routing Which is the best route?
Visitor management/flows Spatial analysis Pattern What is the pattern Analyze Assess potential impacts of tourism development Decision support Source: Bearer and Elliot-White 1999, p. 159 Both GIS and tourism are sharing the common boundaries and disciplines such as the geography of particular area, urban development, environmental analysis and traffic study. This characteristic determines the usage of GIS provides information to land managers or stockholders to analyze the risks and opportunities associated the growing tourism industry.
For example, whether the increasing visitors in a particular land would put local biodiversity and water source to risk or create enormous number of Job opportunities? The following table indicates common tourism-related issues and GIS application (Elliott-White, 1999). Table 2 Common tourism-related issues and GIS application Problem GIS Application Benchmark/database Systematic inventory of tourism resources Environmental management Facilitating monitoring of specific indicators Conflicts Mapping recreational conflicts; recreation-wildlife; user conflict Tourism behavior Wilderness perceptions
Carrying capacity Identify suitable locations for tourism/ recreation development Prediction Simulating and modeling spatial outcomes of proposed tourism development Data integration Integrating socio-economic and environmental datasets within a given spatial unit Development control and direction Decision support systems Source: Bearer and Elliot-White 1999, p. 162 These two tables from Bearer and Elliot-White apparently reveal the benefits by utilizing GIS technology through tourism field.
These advantages include improving land management with accurate data and spatial attributes, easing the conflicts, hanging the information over time and decision making. Mapping Different
It allows the combination of tourists attributes such as objective types, categories of hotels and stations names and the postcodes; or the near nesses, distance, object locations with a designated rectangular map area Avionic, 2008). Such spatial feature information can be respectively presented by different layers ND then be amalgamated and finally becomes a digital map. It enables mapped can analyze layers separately when using this map. In these cases, the map contributes to simplify planning and management in tourism due to it specifies detailed components of the particular area.
Figure 1 presented below is the example of layers for tourism industry what clearly shows people the constitution of a digital map Tourism using GIS in China An outstanding example from China that has been mature in this GIS tourism field is Hough city, what is located in the south east part in China. Hough city has a omelet digital-framed categorical platform with multiple applications in numerous aspects such as land monitoring, real estate managing, traffic monitoring, etc.
Figure 2 below shows the general interface of the digital platform. Categorical tourism system is one of the subset under the entire digital system and it operates on two main elements: spatial and attribute data. Visitors can access this program using their phones and computer or those particular devices provided by hotels, and enter their starting point and destination and coordinate an optimal route for their trip.
This program also has implicit geographical references like lace’s name, address, postcode, and road name and road number on it. Moreover, there are evaluations and comments given by former visitors showing up since visitors select the restaurants or hotels on the map. With this categorical tourism map, the numbers of visitors of Hough City gained an obvious increase. Visitors appreciated the convenience this technology has brought to them in optimizing the tourism planning.
And because of this program, the traffic burden is mitigated during the peak period of tourism. Sustainability of GIS Tourism Unregulated tourism is generally regarded as an environmental unfriendly activity u to an excessive intensity and it consuming nonrenewable resources (Passbook, 2008). Depends on the seasonality of tourism, the negative elements influence natural, cultural, social and economic environment involve emission from transportation, erosion by building roads connecting landmarks, damages of local natural biodiversity.
However, with GIS technology, engineers and experts can analyze the land then come up with better strategically management planning, and gradually minimize the negative impact brought by unregulated tourism. Conclusion As tourism is constituted by numerous complex activities, and all involved in terms of trial, cultural, social and economic environmental demands, thus a powerful tool is really necessary for its sustainability.
GIS technology is proven to be one of the successful results for land management and decision making so far. The GIS has visual presentation of tourism data Avionic, 2008). Apart of this, from an engineer’s perspective, the spatial and non-spatial data contained by digital map dramatically contribute to effectively managing the land, easing the conflicts and risk, promoting the sustainability of tourism. Hereby, GIS technology utilization need to be proposed and extended in tourism field.


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|Named Person:||Walter Simms|
|Document Type:||Visual material|
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Michael Furno; Daniel F Doyle; Grady Hardeman; Craig Cukrowski; Keith Wilson; Revolution Earth Productions.; Beatsmiths (Musical group)
|ISBN:||0964616890 9780964616899 0964616815 9780964616813|
|Notes:||Originally released of the 2003 documentary film.
Special Features: Extra Points features two music videos; "Shorty Stories; Behind the Scenes with the Crew."
|Credits:||Director of photography, Craig Cukrowski ; editor, Michael Furno ; sound editor, Keith Wilson ; music, The Beatsmiths.|
|Performer(s):||Narrator: Grady J. Hardeman.|
|Event notes:||Filmed on location at Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA from August through November of 2002.|
|Description:||1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.|
|Responsibility:||Revolution Earth presents a Michael Furno/Daniel F. Doyle film ; producer, Michael Furno ; written and directed by Michael Furno and Daniel F. Doyle.|


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High quality protein sources, including, real chicken and beef, supports small dogs higher metabolism. This bite sized kibble and original recipe provides 100% complete and balanced nutrition that small dogs need to help them live long and healthy lives.
Whole grain corn, corn gluten meal, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, beef fat naturally preserved with mixed-tocopherols, poultry by-product meal, whole grain wheat, chicken, beef, poultry and pork digest, ground rice, salt, calcium carbonate, potassium chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, choline chloride, mono and dicalcium phosphate, MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, calcium iodate, sodium selenite], VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Vitamin B-12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Vitamin D-3 supplement, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), menadione sodium bisulfite complex (Vitamin K), folic acid (Vitamin B-9), biotin (Vitamin B-7)], Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 2, garlic oil. K-4120
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Purina Dog Chow Little Bites with Real Chicken and Beef is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for maintenance of adult dogs.
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When switching to Purina Dog Chow from another food, please allow 7–10 days for the transition.
Gradually add more Purina Dog Chow and less of the previous food to your pet's dish each day until the changeover is complete.
This gradual transition will help avoid dietary upsets.
Provide adequate fresh water in a clean container daily. For your pet’s health, see your veterinarian regularly.
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*Amounts are recommended for an average adult dog with normal activity. Remember food intake requirements vary depending on age, activity and environment, and should be adjusted accordingly. The daily feeding amount can be divided into 2-3 smaller servings throughout the day.
I have two 2yo mini dachshunds and a 13yo Pomeranian who all eat the Purina Dog Chow Small Dog formula and they love it. They are all healthy and vital and the smaller kibble is just perfect for them.
i have all little dogs,and they love to eat.its hard to find food tyhat they can eat but this dog food hit the spot.their tummy
Had my little dog on other foods didn't care for them got the coupon to get a free bag of the small he really likes this food. It is the food he will eat until he needs the senior food.
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I recently got a Jack Russell Terrier, his name is Nubbin. He is missing a foot but he runs like the wind. I needed something for this energetic dog but he would not eat dry food. I fed him Purina Bella and mixed in the Little Bites everyday, twice a day, until I got him switched to the dry dog food. He loves it! I love the value and the nutrition. Thanks Purina!
I have tried many different brands and types of food for my 5 dogs. Two weigh around 45 pounds and the others weigh around 20. I started getting this for my small dogs but soon found out that my bigger dogs love it too. This is great for me, now I buy one kind of dry dog food for everyone. Thanks
I have worked as a veterinarian technition for 30 years and in a time when many many new products were hitting the market with all kinds of claims I stayed with Purina and advised clients to do so. Never had any problems with food.

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Several nutritious, but rarely used, pet food ingredients originated in pre-colonial Mexico.
Superpremium pet foods increasingly incorporate novel ingredients that have a nutritious reputation in human foods. Some of these purported superfoods originated in Mexico, where superpremium pet food is growing in popularity and taking market share from traditional premium foods.
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Slauson Super mall is the best shopping center in Los Angeles, California. It is one of the top 10 swap meet store in CA known for providing goods to meet every household needs.
Americans Believe Real Estate is Best Long-Term Investment Mortgage Masters Group Starwood Property Trust (STWD, $23.07) is a mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT), sporting. more valuable as the trees continue to mature. That’s a great long-term investment thesis. But.
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SM Supermalls, owned by SM Prime Holdings, is a chain of shopping malls in the Philippines that, as of November 2018, has 72 malls located across the country and about two dozen more scheduled to be open. It also has 7 malls in China, including SM Tianjin which is the second largest in the world in terms of gross leasable area (GLA).
“Generally [the central souq] was where everyone used to be before proper shopping malls existed. “It’s Abu Dhabi’s first regional super mall and it’s going to have everything that you need,’ said.
Full Answer. A shopping mall is considered a regional mall if it contains two anchor stores, typically large department stores, and if its shoppers come from a 20-mile radius. In the United States, there are about 350 "super-regional" malls that are even larger, serving shoppers within a 100-mile radius and featuring a minimum of five anchor stores.
His Houston Galleria shopping mall is the envy of retailers throughout the world, sucking in an incredible $200 million in gross retail sales each year. His 311.
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Brass Decor Wall Hanging Shankar Bhagwan Murti Shiva Statue Puja Idol with Diyas and Bells Antique Bronze Color Height 12 Inch Visit the Kartique Store
- Dimension : Length – 12 Inch | Width -4 Inch | 12 Inch || Weight 2.5Kg
- Diyas made of brass are permanent fixtures in homes and temples. A diya placed in temples and used to bless worshipers is referred to as an aarti. Install this diya at your home temple for performing Puja and Aarti in the Hindu way. Brass metal used in the making of this sculpture makes your home decor more vibrant. Even when unlit, the Handmade Indian Brass Oil Lamp is a gorgeous addition to the decor of any room.
- This brass oil lamp has very beautiful look and it could be hanging any where between walls. It has a long chain which help it to hanging anywhere. This chain has long enough which is very helpful to hanging it any where inside room. This chain made by brass material so do not worry about its quality.
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- This brass wall hanging lamp has royal look and it looks elegant when it hanging between walls. This brass oil lamp has a long chain which is helpful to hang it between walls so make your home decor more beautiful with brass oil lamp.


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About Holiday Inn Express Beijing Huacai
Holiday Inn Express Beijing Guangshun is favourably located in the business district of Wangjing Chaoyang, by the Wangjing Science and Technology Park and surrounded by multi-national corporations. Go shopping 5 minutes from the Guangshun Holiday Inn Express. Ask at the tour desk when planning trips and events. Play a game of golf nearby and enjoy Western food outlets within a 10-minute walk. Tasty Chinese and international dishes await the guest at the Guangshun restaurant. Then reflect over a productive day of work or sightseeing with a relaxing drink at the cocktail bar.
No cancellations or refunds.
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The Kumasi branch of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation has become the latest casualty as the Electricity Corporation of Ghana continues with its mass disconnection exercise to recover unpaid bills.
The National Broadcaster owes the power company GHC 329,000.
The Baba Yara sports stadium and other key state institutions in the garden city have all been affected in the ongoing exercise.
Starr News’ reporter Isaac Bediako Justice reports that the Kumasi Cultural Center, the University of Education campus, the Konongo and Owuram mines have all been disconnected.
The Ashanti Regional Public Relations Manager of the ECG, Erasmus Kyere Baidoo, in an earlier interview told Starr News theatres and emergency wards in affected hospitals will, however, be excluded.
“We have started disconnection in full swing. All the district offices are involved. We have printed a docket from our database and they are volumes and we’ll give them block by block to our teams to make sure all those who refuse to pay we disconnect them".
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A few of our favorite artists put together a special FREE streaming playlist just for you on SoundCloud!!! This is the perfect playlist while you are opening your Valentines or during your Valentines party.
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- Be My Baby – Lisa Loeb
- You’ve Got Me – Sara Lovell
- Love Your Neighbor – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Loving & Kind – Aaron Nigel Smith
- Te Amo – Cathy & Marcy with Sonia De Los Santos
- Lovestruck Unicorn – Recess Monkey
- Valentine (I Don’t Want To Be Yours) – Justin Roberts
We wanted to thank Sugar Mountain PR for putting this list together and sharing it with us and you. They have other themed playlists if you look around on their SoundCloud page. We’ll be sure you remind you as well as each holiday approaches.


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To complete this look the hair would look hot worn up. Accessories such as diamond studded earrings and a matching rhinestone bracelet would be excellent. This particular type of dress it is very easy to over accessorize. With the sequin details and the beaded bust-line a necklace isn’t needed. Make up is a key element, a smokey eye would be very dramatic and go well with the dress. A nude lip is optional to keep the look from being too over the top. Silver peep toe pumps would be great to finish the overall look.


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Accurate estimation of the stable boundary layer (SBL) height and its evolution through the night is very important for better understanding of nighttime mixing processes, and application in numerical weather prediction and air quality models. The boundary layer (BL), including SBL, is defined as the atmospheric layer adjacent to the Earth's surface that interacts with the surface via turbulent processes. The top of this layer h is therefore a level where turbulence quantities drop to a minimum value. Because profiles of turbulence quantities are often unavailable, it is desirable to be able to express h in terms of mean variables. In this study we use profiles of mean wind speed U and the streamwise velocity variance (the largest component of the TKE) computed from Doppler lidar scan data to determine h. Analysis of data from two nocturnal BL field campaigns over the U.S. Great Plains has indicated that h is closely associated with the height of the low- level jet (LLJ) maximum. However, for certain profiles this technique may be difficult to implement. In this study we investigate 10-min wind profiles calculated from lidar vertical-slice scans with an improved method to estimate h and its relation with the BL height determined from the variance profiles. The improved method, which finds the peak negative value of the second derivative (curvature) of U(z), does a superior job of identifying the top of the BL. We also tried using this technique with lidar aerosol backscatter data to find the afternoon unstable BL height. Analysis of lidar vertical staring scans in late afternoon shows that minimum value of second derivative in aerosol backscatter profile can be a measure of BL mixing height.
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A bowl active site on the lanthanide intermetallic electride, composed of four surface la cations and one subsurface si atom, plays the key role in efficient catalysis of N2–to–NH3 conversion by breaking the scaling relations through specific electrostatic interactions. this bowl active site thus presents a design concept of highly efficient heterogeneous catalyst for N2–to–NH3 conversion. Credit: Chinese Journal of Catalysis
The N2-to-NH3 conversion is a fundamental chemical process to supply nitrogen for modern industry and agriculture. Enormous efforts have been made since the invention of Haber-Bosch process, but it is still a challenging task to deliver N2-to-NH3 conversion at mild conditions.
A general issue arises from the scaling relations, which impose an apparent contradiction between the capabilities of a catalyst to activate N2 and to release NH3. This results in a volcano curve of the catalytic activity for the N2-to-NH3 conversion, and thus poses a limit on the catalytic performance by the optimal catalyst design.
This is the Sabatier principle for the catalyst design, which states that the adsorption of a relevant intermediate on the optimal catalyst should be neither too strong nor too weak. In other words, the optimal catalyst should be a compromise. Therefore, it is appealing to identify and elucidate the catalytic processes that are not dictated by the scaling relations, in order to design highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts beyond the compromise.
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Hai Xiao at Tsinghua University, China investigated the thermocatalytic mechanisms for N2-to-NH3 conversion on the intermetallic electride LaRuSi by first-principles calculations. They find that a bowl active site, composed of surface La cations and negatively charged subsurface Si atom originated from the electride nature, is key to the efficient catalysis of N2-to-NH3 conversion.
The electrostatic and orbital interactions between this bowl active site and reaction intermediates greatly enhance the N2 activation that results in negatively charged N2 for facile cleavage of NN bond, while destabilize the adsorptions of NHx (x = 1, 2, 3) species that contain positively charged H atoms, which facilitates the desorption of the final NH3 product. It is this particular bowl active site composed of f-block La cations and electride Si anion that breaks the scaling relations for highly efficient N2-to-NH3 conversion.
By comparison with other intermetallic electride catalysts isostructural to LaRuSi, they explicitly confirm the breaking of scaling relations between the adsorptions of NHx species and that of N. The adaptive electrostatic interactions exerted by the bowl active site play the key role in breaking the scaling relations for N2-to-NH3 conversion.
They also identify the possible presence of similar bowl active sites in other types of highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts. Thus, they propose this bowl active site with adaptive electrostatic interactions as a design concept, which sheds novel insights on the design of highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts for the N2–to–NH3 conversion, as well as other catalytic reactions that are dictated by the scaling relations.
The results were published in Chinese Journal of Catalysis.
Further information: Ya-Fei Jiang et al, Breaking the scaling relations for efficient N2-to-NH3 conversion by a bowl active site design: Insight from LaRuSi and isostructural electrides, Chinese Journal of Catalysis (2022). DOI: 10.1016/S1872-2067(22)64129-9
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Cubapla is used in the treatment of complicated bone fractures, different types of anemia, intestinal malabsorption syndrome, postmenopausal osteoporosis and deficiencies related to cachexia. It is also very effective in the treatment of severe burns, dental inflammation and parasite-induced ailments. Cubapla also prevents uterine growth.
* It is an ideal food source to eliminate various clinical and surgical effects caused by the deficiency of different nutrients in the human body.
* Cubapla is a protein, amino acid and mineral concentrate with high nutritional value and no side effects.
* It has stimulating effect that provides wound healing, hair growth and revitalization of skin color.
* Cubapla is effective against aging.
* It can be used in any postoperative recovery process.
* Cubapla has supportive effect on patients recovering from Covid-19 in Cuba. Clinical studies on this subject are ongoing.
* Recommended for athletes and professions that require heavy physical exertion.
* Cubapla can be used by both men and women, at any age and even during pregnancy.
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It should be taken one capsule, twice a day after meals with water or juice.
Cubapla is used as an adjuvant therapy in patients with deficiency states. The use of the product does not replace the prescribed treatments for every pathology.
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Canada likely will not achieve its 2020 emissions reduction target with the suite of policies and programs currently being implemented.
This is the main conclusion of the 2011 analysis by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) of the latest Government of Canada Kyoto Implementation Plan, published on June 2, 2011 pursuant to the 2007 Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act (KPIA).
Under the Act, NRTEE must carry out an independent assessment of the government's annual plans within 60 days of their publication.
The NRTEE analysis says Environment Canada's integrated modelling in the latest KITA Plan provides an improved basis for estimating emissions and emissions reductions attributable to federal programs and policies. As well, the 2011 Plan shows improved transparency in the data and methodologies presented.
However, using the KPIA integrated modelling forecasts as well as the government's 2020 forecast the NTREE analysis concludes Canada will likely not achieve its Kyoto target through domestic emissions reductions.
Furthermore, it concludes some emission reduction estimates publicly stated for individual certain measures do not provide sufficient justification for the reference case assumptions used in the estimates.
The analysis suggests these assumptions significantly overestimate projected emissions reductions for some individual measures and there are marked inconsistencies between the integrated modelling and the measure-by-measure estimates in the Plan.
All in all, the package of climate policies the federal government has adopted will likely have only half the emission reduction impacts claimed when each policy was introduced, the analysis suggests.
While some differences should be expected, says NTREE, the size of the discrepancy between the integrated modelling and the measure-by-measure projections is a matter of concern.
NRTEE believes there is value in broadening the process of evaluation to include longer-term assessments.
'Over the longer term, similar kinds of transparent processes for comparing expected and actual emissions reduction from government programs and policies can help Canada track its progress as it seeks to achieve its 2020 emissions reductions target,' says the report.
Figure 3 below shows the KPIA integrated modelling forecasts as well as the government's 2020 forecasts.
Within the Kyoto period, it highlights projected emissions with and without federal programs and policies. The difference between these two trajectories is the projected emissions reductions attributable to federal policies.
As the integrated modelling in the Plan indicates, Canada will likely not achieve its Kyoto target through domestic emissions reductions. The figure also highlights the government's longer-term forecasts, both excluding government policy, and including both federal and provincial measures.
Commenting on the NTREE report in a Calgary Herald article, Clare Demerse, director of climate change at the Pembina Institute, noted 'While the report does make note of some improvements to transparency since last year, there's clearly still a long way to go.'
'Sadly, the bottom line from this report is that Canada's current climate policies are far too weak to reach our national target for cutting greenhouse gas pollution. That's not a new message, but it's a critically important one,' she added.
The NRTEE analysis makes the following recommendations:
1. To improve the consistency between the integrated modelling estimates and measure-by-measure estimates of emissions reductions, the NRTEE recommends that consistent, reliable, and substantiated assumptions be used to define the reference case across all estimates.
In particular, if the reference case assumption is that none of the mitigating actions would have occurred in the absence of the policy, the Plan should present sufficient evidence to substantiate this assumption.
This recommendation applies in particular for the ecoENERGY for Renewable Power, ecoENERGY for Buildings and Houses, ecoENERGY for Industry, and Pulp and Paper Green Transformation programs.
2. To acquire additional evidence regarding the effectiveness of policies and programs, the NRTEE recommends the government implement additional ex-post (after the fact) policy evaluations.
Studies like the analysis implemented by Natural Resources Canada to explore the actual emissions reductions realized from the ecoENERGY Retrofit Initiative can provide valuable insights as to how the policy has performed historically.
3. To help Canada continue to be accountable to its emissions reductions objectives, the NRTEE recommends the government continue to broaden its public process for evaluating its climate policies over the long term. The government should continue to publish updated forecasts as it implements new policies and programs and moves toward long-term emissions reductions.
4. To move forward with a coordinated Canadian climate strategy, the NRTEE recommends that consideration be given to how federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal policies can be better coordinated to complement and reinforce current and future efforts.
The Conservative Government has consistently maintained that Canada would not meet its Kyoto targets, arguing that an international climate change agreement that includes commitments by all the world's major greenhouse gas emitters is the only way to achieve real reductions in global emissions.
The NTREE analysis is available here
Conference sessions at GLOBE 2012 taking place March 14-16, 2012 in Vancouver will explore North America's climate and carbon emission policies and initiatives, and will showcase examples of organizations that are succeeding in business, despite the existing uncertainties in the policy landscape.


We’re entering peak summertime heat, and air conditioning units are being used to their fullest potential. Ensuring that the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system in your building is clean and functioning at peak performance is crucial. Proper maintenance of an HVAC system is the most effective way to decrease costs, protect the health of the building’s occupants, and increase the system’s lifespan.
HVAC systems are complex and, many times, need a qualified technician to perform heavy maintenance and repairs. The following information covers the general and seasonal maintenance requirements for homeowners, commercial property owners, and healthcare facilities. Industry standards suggest that HVAC maintenance be performed by a professional twice per year to keep it operating effectively and efficiently.
A well-maintained HVAC system is much more affordable to operate than a neglected and overused system. Maintenance should be preventative to address issues before they happen or while they’re still small enough to be dealt with swiftly and affordably. Typically, preventative maintenance will include:
According to the Department of Energy, heating and cooling costs make up about 40% of the average commercial building’s energy budget. Sometimes, the most cost-effective approach might be to upgrade the entire system. There are guidelines put in place by organizations like Energy Star to help you decide if the time is right. You may need to upgrade if:
Every HVAC unit is expected to fight rising temperatures in the summer, keep things comfortable in the winter while withstanding the freezing conditions, prevent mold growth in spring and fall, and help combat allergies for the people inside your buildings. That’s a lot to ask of any system. Connecting with an HVAC certified specialist for inspection and recommended upkeep is a lot like getting a car’s oil changed—it keeps everything running just the way it should. October and May are when most general repair requests come in. June through August see the most AC repair calls, and November and December see the most heating repair calls. Staying proactive keeps you ahead of a busy technician’s schedule.
When seasons change, ensure the thermostat is functioning correctly and programmed appropriately to keep energy costs within budget. Upgrading to a smart, energy-efficient thermostat may be the best choice for your property. Many models allow you to adjust the settings remotely, keeping energy bills reasonable while the property is empty. For businesses and commercial properties, smart thermostats also provide more control over your buildings and offer customization to meet each tenant’s different needs.
Hospitals and healthcare facilities require a more stringent process, such as more refined temperature and humidity controls to protect delicate machinery, high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters, and negative air pressure rooms and system isolation. Filter changes also mean making sure that HEPA filtration is in the unit. It is essential to monitor air pressure, indoor air quality (which can have different needs in different areas of the facility), airflow rates, and air exchange rates in critical areas. The standard for a hospital is 14-16 air changes per hour.
Coordinating maintenance and repair in a healthcare setting also relies on increased involvement in planning and timing of service to prevent disruptions to 24/7 patient care and protect patient health. Most healthcare facilities require HVAC maintenance, cleaning, and repairs to be performed at night. In some areas, work may only be scheduled when the weather is cooler. Typically, air handling units can only be shut down for maintenance for an average of 4 hours before the temperature begins to change within the envelope of a building.
Reputable restoration firms follow national standards for inspecting units across the board, as set by the National Air Duct Cleaners Association (NADCA). In health care, units are inspected annually. Cleaning and filtration inspection should be performed quarterly. Different cleaning intervals are recommended for different units, although most hospitals follow NADCA’s standards for patient health.
A majority of the maintenance for a healthcare facility follows residential and commercial guidelines. Key differences and common practices include:
These are just a handful of routine HVAC maintenance actions that will extend the life of your heating and cooling system to help eliminate or cut down on expensive repairs in the future. Staying on top of cleaning, energy efficiency, upgrades, and seasonal needs are ways to promote health and comfort for building occupants all year round. Contact a qualified HVAC firm like ATI to have a technician perform general maintenance and help diagnose any potential issues.
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Water, a precious resource
We cannot continue to take water for granted. Low river flows in summer are now becoming the norm rather than the exception and winter rains often fail to replenish the aquifers on which the rivers of South Wiltshire depend. As a result the quality of our rivers is in decline with slimy, brown algae coating the river-beds and disrupting the life-cycles of aquatic animals. Low flows also make rivers more vulnerable to pollution.
Rainfall is often enough to keep the grass green so that the threat to the health of our rivers can pass unnoticed; so long as the water comes out of our taps with no restrictions we will continue to watse it. each household uses up to 80 galls. of water a day or more.
To supply the increasing demands of our water-hungry society and the growth in house bulding means ever more abstraction. We all need to reduce water use and help maintain water quality by watching what we put down the drain.


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This book is the story of fifth grade teacher, Patty. She's not happy with where she's at in her life and thinks that if she gains control of her weight issues that everything else will quietly fall into place in her world. There are a lot of underlying issues in this book: bullying, shallowness, family, romance, and love. But at the heart of all of it, lies Patty's own issues with herself. She doesn't like herself much and that is what is truly hurting all those aspects of her life that she thinks will be fixed by her latest weight loss goals.
There are three main characters which revolve around Patty's life...
1. Her twin sister, Priscilla
Born only minutes apart, Patty and Priscilla are miles apart in appearance. Patty was born lively and healthy, but Priscilla was only 2 lbs when she was born. She's always on the verge of being sick, but Patty sees her as skinny and beautiful. They live together in the rambling Victorian that their mother left them which is a huge money pit. Patty wants to sell, but Priscilla refuses. Priscilla acts as Patty's conscience through a lot of the book. She tries to keep Patty on track with her diet and tries to let Patty know when she's being unreasonable about things. They don't have a happy relationship throughout the second half of the book and that indicative of how bad Patty's behavior descends.
2. Fellow 5th grade teacher, Nick
This guy is the perfect guy. He's a first-year teacher and also the high school basketball coach. He seems like a nice really good looking guy who sees Patty as the catch that she really is, but as you delve deeper and deeper into the book, you get the idea that all isn't as it seems.
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Patty Perreault is a fifth grade elementary school teacher from James Bay, Michigan, who has dealt with the daily struggles of being overweight since childhood. She now teaches at the very same elementary school, where painful playground memories of being taunted with the cruel nickname Fatty Patty has not been forgotten.
With a new school year starting, Patty is determined to lose weight so that she could finally win the coveted Bay County Teacher of the Year contest that has eluded her for the past four years. Her mantra is: "Brand new school year, brand new body, brand new Patty!" Patty's fraternal twin sister Priscilla is there for her with moral support, but she only adds to Patty's low self-esteem as she was the one born as the thin delicate beauty.
Patty meets Sam Curtis, a beefy overweight accountant, while swimming laps at the community pool. A friendship develops between them, but Sam is interested in more than just a friendship, while Patty can't seem to get past the issue of his weight to let the relationship blossom beyond a friendship. And then there is Nick, Patty's co-worker who she considers the "perfect man."
Will Patty deny herself the chance at a meaningful relationship because of outward appearances? Or will she discover that the only important thing that matters most is the inner beauty of a person?Read more ›
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A new leader in domestic MPV vehicle market
SAIC Maxus will soon introduce its G10, a long-awaited MPV model that uses global technological resources. The new model, which made its debut at the Guangzhou Auto Show in 2013, is a widely anticipated commercial vehicle in 2014.
SAIC Maxus changes its role in the car industry
The commercial vehicle market regained its momentum, in 2013, with sales up 6.4 percent from the previous year, and with sales of light commercial vehicles registered a bigger growth rate than for 2012, and remarkable growth for both old and new brands. And, new brands, as represented by Maxus, breathed some new life into the sector and brought consumers more choices.
Special road show for MPV G10
The SAIC Motor Maxus, a subsidiary of SAIC Motor Commercial Vehicle Co Ltd, rolled out its MPVG10 commercial vehicle at the Auto Guangzhou show, on Nov 21, along with its V80 family of vehicles, including a 2014 deluxe model, 2014 logistics model, 2014 special purpose model, and Maxus business vehicle, with the Maxus V80 series attracting a lot of attention.
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Mafia Wars gets an exclusive first look at Dr. Dre's first new music in a decade.
A music video for Kush from his Detox album, due early next year, hits Zynga's online game today. Also as part of the new Hustlin' with Dre partnership between the famed musician/producer, players can watch a video message from Dr. Dre and collect Dre-inspired virtual goods such as headphones, a vintage car and weapons. Real-world prizes include autographed Beats By Dre headphones and a signed copy of the Detox CD.
This summer Mafia Wars, which has about 19 million monthly players of its game that involves building a criminal empire, previously worked with rapper Snoop Dogg to blow up a 4-ton armored truck in the Nevada desert to commemorate the game reaching 10 million visitors in two weeks.
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The paradox about failure is that we learn more from failure than we learn from success.
Self-criticism is frequently a significant psychological barrier to success, as it undermines self-confidence, lowers motivation, and can lead to embarrassment, guilt, shame, anger, or sadness. The result of these unrecognized feelings is often seen in the person’s behavior, resulting in overtraining, poor communication, self-defeating attitudes, or behaviors that impair performance.
Nevertheless, teaching high-performers how to be less self-critical is often an enormous challenge. After all, high-performers have achieved a great deal by being hard on themselves. The thought that a gentler attitude to oneself can improve performance is counterintuitive at best, and yet, study after study has demonstrated the powerful, performance-enhancing effects that “being kind to yourself” can yield. All psychologists have witnessed an inordinate amount of cases of elite performers who have become unable to perform in their chosen realm due to overwhelming thoughts and emotions.
How can we help the athlete, executive, or student and empower them to return to the task at hand when they are being bombarded by anxiety, harsh thoughts, and psychologically defeated and/or severely debilitated by their own minds?
As an adjunct to mindfulness for the performance, explicit training in the practice of compassion training and distress tolerance is often required to get these high-functioning individuals back to their baseline and out of the acute suffering that can occur with extreme performance anxiety. Moreover, self-criticism is not just about performance anxiety — the state of immobilization and emotional pain that can sometimes entrap individuals is not only painful and immobilizing, but can also sometimes take over their personal lives and wellbeing, leading to anxiety disorders and extreme mood disorders. From this perspective, dealing with self-criticism can sometimes be career-changing and life-sustaining.
Compassion is an intrinsic aspect of mindfulness but it rarely gets addressed directly in a performance situation. Nevertheless, we implicitly ask performers to accept the anxiety and simply focus on the challenge at hand. When faced with harsh self-criticism, self-doubt, or fear, we ask them to focus back on the competition. Yet, we know that some are not able to shift their focus away from the negative emotions and therefore, their performance suffers.
When harsh thoughts emerge, the individual experiences cognitive fusion (when the person acts as though their thoughts are literally true) or experiential avoidance (the attempt to avoid or escape events that are relevant to the individual, such as practices or competitions).
Distress tolerance is defined as a person’s ability to withstand negative emotional states. How performers handle debilitative emotions is predictive of performance success.
Some elements of Distress Tolerance that can be trained with Compassion Focused Therapy include:
- Accepting emotional distress.
- Tolerating negative emotion
- Accepting negative emotions without avoidance
- Mitigating the amount of attention absorbed by the negative emotions
“Acceptance and understanding of the performer’s internal suffering may be the key for them to be freed up to engage authentically and fully in the moment to moment experience for best performance and best quality of internal life experience” (Baltzell, A., 2016).

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Tony Adamo has been described as a beatnik who arrived sixty years late, but if you ask him, he’s just a raconteur who describes his environment in a unique manner. Adamo celebrates urban life and the jazz masters who have influenced generations with hip monologues recited over the intense rhythms laid down by his New York Crew, headed by drummer Mike Clark.
We'll start tonight's program with a 12 minute feature on Adamo! Also in the mix: Tower of Power, MC Solaar, Gregory Porter, Robert Glasper, Miles Davis, Joe Cuba, Brand New Heavies, and Nicola Conte!
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CAST: Rashida Jones, Bill Murray, Marlon Wayans, Jessica Henwick, Jenny Slate, Barbara Bain
RUNNING TIME: 97 mins
BASICALLY…: A young New York mother (Jones) finds her life thrown into doubt when she meets up with her playboy father (Murray)…
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When Bill Murray lost the Best Actor Oscar in 2003 to Sean Penn, many thought that Murray – who had been nominated for his career-best turn in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation – had been far more deserving of the accolade, for his tender, soulful, and characteristically funny turn as a washed-up actor alone in Japan.
The truth is, while Murray was undeniably great in the film, the former SNL cast member simply got lucky when he teamed with Coppola for her most acclaimed film to date. Since then, the actor – who famously has no agent – has mainly found himself in a number of projects with varying success, from St. Vincent to the Garfield movies, and of course countless appearances in Wes Anderson movies, few of which have been up to the standards set by both Coppola’s film and Murray’s lead performance in it.
Can a simple reunion of actor and filmmaker give Murray that much-needed push (we’re not counting that Netflix Christmas special they made together in 2015)? Well, while On The Rocks isn’t perhaps as refined a film as Lost in Translation, it’s a sweet and endearing film that plays well to the strengths of both Murray and Coppola, the latter of whom apparently based it on her own relationship with her father, veteran filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.
Murray fills that particular role, which is very much a supporting part; the proper lead is Rashida Jones as Laura, a New York stay-at-home mother who’s somewhat overworked by her parental responsibilities, something which her caring husband Dean (Marlon Wayans) can’t help with as he’s constantly away on business. Approaching her birthday, she confides in her difficult relationship with her father Felix (Murray), a playboy of indeterminate wealth whose casual misogyny and laid-back dress style are from a completely different era; however, when she talks to him about small oddities like finding a co-worker’s wash kit in her husband’s luggage, Felix becomes convinced that Dean is having an affair, and persuades Laura to accompany him as he tails Dean’s suspicious activity.
The first film to be entirely produced under an exclusive movie deal between Apple and distributor A24 (the film will be added to Apple TV+ later this month), Coppola’s film explores the dynamic of Laura’s seemingly perfect life on the verge of breaking down, and how her weariness tends to stem from her own relationship with her father. The two aren’t estranged, necessarily, but they’re not that close either; Laura still resents his adultery from when she was growing up, and of course she doesn’t take kindly to his outdated views on women, but they’re still a unit nonetheless and respect each other enough to at least want to go out and have a couple of drinks together (a cute running gag involves her inability to whistle, while he’s at it like a songbird). It’s hard to say how much Coppola has taken from her own experiences, but there is a clear understanding of the father-daughter dynamic that only someone with experience could duplicate, and she manages to give the central relationship here a fair amount of both snark and sincerity that makes the pairing fun in its own strange way.
It should go without saying that Murray practically steals the entire movie, with his deadpan charm glistening all the way through the streets of New York (a funny scene even sees him sweet-talk his way out of a confrontation with the cops) and even as far as Mexico for one extended sequence, although this is Rashida Jones’s show and the actress is a formidable talent who easily holds her own against the comic legend. The two of them have a nice chemistry that shows the characters’ uneasy but formidable relationship blossoming in unexpectedly heartfelt and charismatic situations, from pursuing a moving vehicle to having a meaningful conversation about past mistakes. Coppola’s script presents her two leads as people who mean well, but their respective insecurities make things far more difficult for themselves as well as the people closest to them, although Coppola doesn’t go too far in making them truly unlikeable. They are simply two souls bound together for all eternity, no matter what their differences may be, and the performances from both Murray and Jones reflect their desire to cling onto whatever they have left in their somewhat empty lives.
It is a meandering film, which some people might be a little impervious towards if they want something more solid in terms of structure, and some of the conclusions land with a sudden indifference, but there is clear charm on display in On The Rocks, whether it’s Coppola’s blissfully breezy script and direction, or a couple of highly watchable turns from two very different but equally gifted actors. It probably won’t win as many people over as Coppola and Murray’s last big-screen collaboration did, but there is something to still behold when you sympathise with characters who receive a Thermomix as a birthday present (on a personal note, I found that scene to be highly amusing because, believe it or not, a close relative of mine recently received the exact same gift – and, even crazier, the exact same model – in virtually the exact same fashion, so to see it play out in a major production such as this gave me unexpected giggles for minutes).
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On The Rocks sees writer-director Sofia Coppola reteam with her Lost in Translation star Bill Murray for a mellow and sweet comedy-drama that puts the talents of each of them to good use, with their respective charms – along with proper lead Rashida Jones – making up for its slightly meandering structure, which nonetheless makes for a breezy and soothing watch.


A man twice convicted of killing a woman and eight children at a birthday sleepover in Cleveland's deadliest house fire was sentenced Friday to 35 years in prison.
Antun Lewis, 30, had asked the judge for mercy and expressed condolences to the families of the victims, some of whom he knew. He said someone committed the crime "but it's a lie that person was me."
Lewis was deemed ineligible for the death penalty because of a mental disability. His attorneys presented evidence he has an IQ of 70 or less.
The fire killed 33-year-old Medeia Carter, four of her children and four other youngsters attending a birthday sleepover party on May 21, 2005.
Carter's mother, Evelyn Martin, also spoke at the hearing, recounting the aftermath of the blaze.
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"I had to stand there and watch them bring them out one by one," Martin said.
She recalled seeing several of her grandchildren zipped in body bags at the medical examiner's office and seeing skin falling off one of her grandsons, who later died.
"I hope you live long enough so all the skin falls off your damned body," she told Lewis at sentencing.
Authorities said Lewis, upset over a drug debt, doused the three-story building's first floor with gasoline.
Lewis said he was at home, several blocks away, when the fire started. He and his attorneys have claimed there was no drug debt and he has twice passed polygraph tests that show he is telling the truth.
A jury convicted Lewis of arson at his first trial in 2011, but the judge overturned the verdict over concerns about the reliability of jailhouse informants who testified against him.
The 6th U.S. District Court of Appeals upheld the judge's ruling in February 2012 and ordered that Lewis be given a new trial.
The appellate judges pointed out that one witness had a 30-year criminal record with a sixth-grade education, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder and had spent half his life between state hospitals and prisons. That witness also gave numerous inconsistent and contradictory statements about the night of the fire to investigators and at trial, and phone records showed some of them were completely inaccurate, the judges said.
Prosecutors used some of the witnesses during the second trial, in December 2013, and a jury returned another guilty verdict. Lewis testified in his own defense at the second trial.


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Tory MPs who backed the third place finisher in the contest to replace Boris Johnson want to ruin the South West Norfolk MP’s bid for leader. They are understood to be attempting to launch a “stop Liz Truss” campaign and are urging their local members to support Rishi Sunak.
During the parliamentary stages of the leadership race, Ms Mordaunt was the subject of a number of negative attacks from those backing Ms Truss.
She was accused of underperforming in a number of roles and misleading voters about her views on transgender rights.
Despite the smear attempts, the Portsmouth North MP finished second in every round of the MP vote of the Tory leadership contest bar the last one.
Ms Truss beat her by just eight votes in order to progress to fight it out with Mr Sunak to become Prime Minister.
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Another Tory who backed Ms Mordaunt in the last round of voting admitted their concern about Ms Truss as Prime Minister to Express.co.uk.
They said: “We can’t have Liz Truss at the dispatch box opposite Starmer.
“She would make him actually look human.”
The plot among supporters of Ms Mordaunt comes after the trade minister also took her own opportunity to swipe at her critics in the House of Commons yesterday.
She took aim at her ministerial boss by joking she was “amazed” to be back at the Commons despatch box given her “reported work ethic”.
International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan – who is backing Ms Truss for leader – had criticised Ms Mordaunt during the contest, saying: “There have been a number of times when she hasn’t been available, which would have been useful, and other ministers have picked up the pieces.”
Responding to a question in Parliament, stood right next to Ms Trevelyan, Ms Mordaunt said yesterday: “I am sort of amazed to find myself here this morning given my reported work ethic. But I am here.”
She aimed a further dig at the Secretary of State after Labour criticised the Department for International Trade for a “truly shameless attempt” to “dodge any form of scrutiny” over the UK-Australia free trade agreement.
Ms Mordaunt, in her reply, said: “For my own part, every single time the International Trade Committee or other body of this House has asked me go before it, I have.
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Prize motivation: “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education” Kailash Satyarthi born 11 January 1954) is an Indian Children’s rights advocate and an activist against child labour He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (lit. Save the Childhood Movement) in 1980 and has acted to protect the rights of more than 83,000 children from 144 countries. It is largely because of Satyarthi’s work and activism that the International Labour Organization adopted on the worst forms of child labour, which is now a principal guideline for governments around the world.
His work is recognized through various national and international honours and awards including the Nobel Peace Prize of 2014, which he shared with Malala Yousafzai, a female education activist from Pakistan
Originally named Kailash Sharma, Satyarthi was born on 11 January 1954 in the Vidisha district of central Indian state Madhya Pradesh, India
He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School, and completed his degree in electrical engineering at Samarat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha and a post-graduate degree in high-voltage engineering. He then joined a college in Bhopal as a lecturer for a few years.
In 1980, he gave up his career as a teacher and became secretary general for the Bondel Labour Liberation Fornt ; he also founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Mission) that year. He has also been involved with the Global March Against Child Labour and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE), which are worldwide coalitions of NGOs, teachers and trades unionists. He has also served as the President of the Global Campaign for Education, from its inception in 1999 to 2011, having been one of its four founders alongside ActionAid , Oxfam and Education International.
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In addition, he established Good Weave International (formerly known as Rugmark) as the first voluntary labelling, monitoring and certification system of rugs manufactured without the use of child-labour in South Asia.This latter organisation operated a ampaign in Europe and the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the intent of raising consumer awareness of the issues relating to the accountability of global corporations with regard to socially responsible consumerism and trade. Satyarthi has highlighted child labor as a human rights issue as well as a welfare matter and charitable cause. He has argued that it perpetuates poverty, unemployment illiteracy , population growth, and other social problems, and his claims have been supported by several studies. He has also had a role in linking the movement against child labour with efforts for achieving “Education for All”. He has been a member of a UNESCO body established to examine this and has been on the board of the Fast Track Initiative (now known as the Global Partnership for education Satyarthi serves on the board and committee of several international organisations including the Centure for Victims of Torture (USA), the International Labor Rights Fund (USA), and the International Cocoa Foundation. He is now reportedly working on bringing child labour and slavery into the post-2015 development agenda for the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals
Satyarthi, along with Pakistani activist Mala Yousafzai , was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”. Satyarthi is the fifth Nobrl Prize Winner for India and only the second Indian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize after Mother Teresa 1979.
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In a demonstration of humanitarianism in part of the publishing industry, book retail network Aerio launched the website Books Against the Storm. recovery efforts: Houston Humane Society, Houston.
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Those Who Remained by Barnabás Tóth is one of the ten shortlisted films in Best International Film category.
The other nine shortlisted films are the Czech Republic’s “The Painted Bird”; Estonia’s “Truth and Justice”; France’s “Les Misérables”; North Macedonia’s “Honeyland”; Poland’s “Corpus Christi”; Russia’s “Beanpole”; Senegal’s “Atlantics”; South Korea’s “Parasite” and Spain’s “Pain and Glory.”
Having survived the camps, 42-year old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor in Budapest. 16-year-old Klara lives reluctantly with her great-aunt, holding on to hope that her father and mother will return. She meets Aldo, and soon the two of them find something in each other that has long been absent in their lives. As they grow closer and closer, the joy in both of their lives slowly returns. But as the Soviet Empire rises to power in Hungary, their pure and loving father-daughter relationship is misunderstood and frowned upon. A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.
Those Who Remained was supported by the Hungarian Media Patronage Programme of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) and Duna Médiaszolgáltató.
The five nominated films will be announced on 13 January, while the winner will be celebrated on Oscar night on 9 February.


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LONDON Aug 14: The World Cup 2019 final overthrow incident involving England’s Ben Stokes and New Zealand’s Martin Guptill, which took the match to a Super Over, will be reviewed in September 2019, the MCC World Cricket committee (WCC) decided during a meeting on Monday.
The decision was taken by the WCC panel including the likes of former cricketers Shane Warne and Kumar Sangakkara after the overthrow call caused a massive uproar in the world media and cricket fraternity.
On-field umpire Kumar Dharmasena had also admitted to the error in judgement, days after the controversy broke out.
“The WCC discussed Law 19.8 in relation to overthrows, in the context of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Final. WCC felt that the Law was clear but the matter will be reviewed by the Laws sub-committee in September 2019,” the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) said in a statement.
The WCC during the meet also welcomed the introduction of replacements for players suffering from concussion and ICC’s recent announcement of further trials into the automated calling of No balls.
According to the MCC release, “the committee also suggested that ball-tracking software should be used to help on-field umpires judge No balls over waist height and wides over the batsman’s head.
Such calls often prove to be difficult for umpires but would be relatively straightforward for technology to assist with.”
Among other major discussions, which took place during the meet, the WCC expressed its support in seeing the return of touring sides to Pakistan.
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Following your dream and helping to inspire people are core to our philosophy here at Lifetime.
So imagine our excitement last week as we watched Sir Ben Ainslie help inspire Oracle Team USA to one of the greatest comebacks in sporting history.
His sporting success story encapsulates everything we stand for.
The four-time Olympic champion helped his team recover from an 8-1 deficit to record a remarkable 9-8 success over Emirates Team New Zealand in the 34th America’s Cup in San Francisco Bay.
The 36-year-old told BBC Radio 5 Live: “We never stopped believing we could improve and get back into the competition.
“It got harder and harder for us, but ultimately we hung on in there and won that deciding race, so the team did an incredible job.
“We just grew and grew and in the end we were too strong for the Kiwis.
“I grew up down in Falmouth in Cornwall. We had an America’s Cup team down there in 1987 and I remember as a kid watching them training and preparing and thinking about maybe one day being involved with the America’s Cup.
“To be part of a winning America’s Cup team is for me personally part of a lifelong dream.”
Ainslie also paid tribute to his friend Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson, who died in the same San Francisco harbour in May.
The two men grew up and learned their sailing together and it was Simpson who crept into Ainslie’s thoughts as he celebrated a stunning moment in his sensational career..
Ainslie said: ‘I looked up to the stars after it all settled down at the end and thought of Bart. In some ways this was for him. He loved sailing and he loved the America’s Cup. He would have been so excited about this series.”
Team USA faced an uphill task from the start after being docked two penalty points, meaning they were 8-1 down last week despite having won three races.
Ainslie was drafted in as tactician, in place of John Kostecki, from the warm-up crew as his team looked to get back in the contest and was one of the catalysts of the turnaround which stunned the Kiwis.
“It was a pretty big shift,” the Briton said on BBC One. “It was a big call for the management to make, but I gelled really well with Jimmy Spithill, the skipper of the team, we got stuck into the challenge and we turned things around.
“It’s quite unbelievable to think where we were 10 days ago, to come back from that.”
New Zealand prime minister John Key summed up the mood of his country in defeat by simply tweeting: “Bugger.”
As our very own Simon Durkan stated last week: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”


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Your environment not only determines your health, but it also determines who you are – quiet literally – at the level of gene expression. Continue reading
This summer, with heating bills expected to rise 20% from last year, many people will turn to wood heating in an attempt to save money; however, wood burning poses serious health concerns.
The American Lung Association has expressed concern about wood heating, especially for people with asthma and other pulmonary diseases. Continue reading
The Indoor Health and Productivity report, a National Science and Technology Council Project, shows that indoor environments affect productivity in schools and workplaces.
Improving the indoor environment will not only decrease energy costs and healthcare costs, but also improve health, performance, and attendance.
Here are some key findings from the report:
- Research suggests that low ventilation rates and less daylight can adversely affect student performance.
At least one state has stepped up to defend consumers from false marketing claims that ozone generators are safe, effective air purifiers. In reality, ozone is a lung irritant, especially harmful to allergy and asthma sufferers. California is the first state in the nation to ban ozone generators.
The Air Resources Board of the California Environmental Protection Agency states:
Not all air-cleaning devices are appropriate for home use — some can be harmful to human health. The ARB recommends that ozone generators, air cleaners that intentionally produce ozone, not be used in the home. Ozone is a gas that can cause health problems, including respiratory tract irritation and breathing difficulty.
Most people recognize wheezing as a possible sign of childhood asthma, but there are other signs that may not be so obvious.
According to the American Lung Association, common symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, rapid breathing, chest tightness, frequent coughing, and frequent respiratory infections.
A persistent nighttime cough is a common sign of asthma, as asthma usually gets worse at night. Any child with recurrent coughing or respiratory infections should be evaluated for asthma. Continue reading
“We are very proud to be able to support the performance efforts of the USOC in Beijing,” says Frank Hammes, President of IQAir. “The USOC is always looking for new and innovative ways to assist their athletes. This project will be the first time ultra high efficiency air cleaning is used on a large scale to provide performance enhancement at an athletic event.” Continue reading
If you get frequent headaches at work, it could be something in the air. Research shows that laser printers and copying machines contaminate indoor air with various pollutants.
Last year, the journal Environmental Science & Technology reported that some laser printers emit as many pollutants as a burning cigarette! When these small particles are inhaled, they can damage the lungs and lead to respiratory disease over time. Continue reading
If you’ve ever been to Los Angeles, you may wonder how the air there could get any dirtier. Well, it has… In Orange County, CA, wildfire smoke has caused fine particulate pollution to reach levels that are up to 100 times higher than those on the smoggiest days. This is a serious health threat that can cause respiratory and cardiovascular problems.
If you live near a wildfire, you should stay indoors and keep windows closed. However, even these precautions won’t keep the smoke out. The tiny particles in smoke pollution are small enough to make their way through cracks and gaps in buildings. Continue reading
With the 2008 Summer Olympics less than a month away, millions of eyes study the sky over Beijing. China has taken drastic measures to clean up the air in Beijing. Many polluting factories are being shut down for the Olympic Games, and restrictions are being placed on driving. Drivers are banned from driving every other day, based on whether their license plate number is odd or even.
Still, many scientists expect Beijing’s poor air quality to cause problems for athletes and spectators alike. It’s no surprise that air pollution damages the lungs and can cause respiratory diseases like asthma, but in the past few years, researchers have discovered that poor air quality can also cause cardiovascular disease and trigger heart attacks. Continue reading
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) causes cancer, warns the National Cancer Institute. Often called second-hand smoke, ETS also causes developmental defects, heart disease, and respiratory diseases like asthma.
Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, and many of them are known carcinogens. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that ETS causes 3,000 lung cancer deaths per year in non-smokers. Continue reading
This summer my baby sister (who is 18 months old) started taking swimming lessons at an indoor swimming pool. I think that all children should take swimming lessons – you never know when they’ll need those skills, and swimming is great exercise – but parents also need to be aware of the health risks associated with indoor pools. Chlorine byproducts contaminate the air above indoor swimming pools and have been linked to lung damage, asthma, and cancer. Indoor pools also increase humidity, which can lead to mold growth. Continue reading
Most house dust mites have it made. They lounge around in your bed all day, getting fat off your dead skin and reproducing like little dust bunnies. Of course, these microscopic arachnids also go to the bathroom in your bed. Yes, that’s certainly a disgusting thought, but you need to know about this. You see, it’s the fecal matter from dust mites that causes allergies and asthma among sensitive people. Continue reading

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Electrical pulse helps memory boosting and also enhances learning skills with the help of brain stimulation method, according to recent studies.
Certain portion of the brain is potentially able to improve the memory functioning, if electrical stimulation is applied, say recently published two researches. The studies indicate that there would be potentially implantable neural stimulation technique in near future that could help boost memory of the person.
The research is further exploring the methods of brain stimulation to let it underway everything such as depression treatment and playing games. A few of the studies uses non-invasive method for brain stimulation known as Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). It is the method in which electrical activity is induced in certain portion of the brain.
One of these recent two researches led by Mayo Clinic researchers has explored 22 matters directed for reading word list and electrical simulation targeted on one of the four brain areas. However, another research performed at the University of Pennsylvania studied the electrical stimulation targeted in the similar area of brain.
A leading author of the study, Michael Kahana, professor from the University of Pennsylvania said in a statement that, “By developing patient-specific, personalized, machine-learning models we could program our stimulator to deliver pulses only when memory was predicted to fail, giving this technology the best chance of restoring memory function.”