New delhi: Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, one of India’s most charismatic leaders who led the nation through several crises while holding together a tenuous coalition with his inclusive politics and superlative oratory, died on Thursday. He was 93. Vajpayee, a bachelor, is survived by his adopted daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya. He will be cremated on Friday in New Delhi.
“It was Atalji’s exemplary leadership that set the foundations for prosperous and inclusive India in the 21st century,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, leading the nation in mourning the demise of the nationalist stalwart whose popularity cut across party lines.
“He travelled across the length and breadth of India to spread the BJP’s message, which led to the BJP becoming a strong force in our national polity and in several states,” he added.
Vajpayee’s death was announced by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital where he was admitted on June 11 with a variety of ailments. “It is with profound grief that we inform about the sad demise of Former Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee, at 5.05 pm,” the AIIMS said in a statement. It said his condition was stable for the last nine weeks, but “unfortunately, his condition deteriorated over the last 36 hours and he was put on life support systems.”
Time Line 1924: Born in Gwalior, India 1942: Arrested during the Quit India Movement 1951: Joins Bharatiya Jana Sangh 1957: Elected as LS member (1st term) 1968: Becomes BJS national chief 1975: Jailed during the Emergency 1977: Becomes foreign minister in the Janata Party govt 1980: Restarts BJS as BJP; becomes its first president 1998: Second term as PM begins. Govt lasts 13 months, Pokhran nuclear tests conducted 1999: Launches the Delhi-Lahore Bus service, Launches Operation Vijay to clear Kargil, Third term as PM begins 2001: Launches Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan 2004: BJP loses parliamentary elections 2005: Retires from politics 2009: Suffers a stroke 2014: 90th birthday observed as Good Governance Day. 2015: Awarded the Bharat Ratna
As it became clear that the end was near, a host of politicians and well-wishers began gathering at AIIMS since morning. A pall of gloom descended at the BJP headquarters as soon the news of Vajpayee’s demise broke. Modi said Vajpayee’s passing is a “personal and irreplaceable” loss for him and that his futuristic policies across various sectors touched the lives of each and every citizen of India.
“It was due to the perseverance and struggles of Atal Ji that the BJP was built brick by brick,” Modi said in a tweet.
The last rites of Mr Vajpayee will take place at 4 pm on Friday at Rashtriya Smriti Sthal in New Delhi, BJP chief Amit Shah said.
A seven-day state mourning was announced by the government as a mark of respect to Vajpayee.
Vajpayee, who joined the Rastriya Swamsevak Sangha (RSS) in 1947 rose through ranks to become a stalwart of the BJP and was the first non-Congress prime minister to complete a full term in office.
In the evening, Vajpayee’s body was taken to his residence at Krishna Menon marg in New Delhi where host of leaders cutting across party lines and people from different walks of life paid their last respects.
Seen as a moderate face of BJP, Vajpayee’s first became Prime Minister in 1996, leading a shaky coalition whose members were suspicious of the BJP’s right-wing politics. It lasted for 13 days and collapsed after losing a vote of no-confidence.
His second stint as Prime Minister was in 1998 when the National Democratic Alliance again came to power but that lasted for just 13 months.
Finally, the NDA with Vajpayee as PM returned to power in 1999 and was voted out in 2004.
A lifelong bachelor, Vajpayee was first elected to Lok Sabha in 1957 from Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh in India’s second general elections. His maiden speech in Parliament so impressed his peers and colleagues that the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru introduced Vajpayee to a visiting foreign dignitary thus: “This young man one day will become the country’s prime minister.”
He remained a member of Parliament for 47 years elected 10 times to the Lok Sabha and twice to Rajya Sabha.


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I received some seeds as birthday present, the seller included a bonus packet of rose seeds. There’s no indication if they’ve been stratified. If I stratify them now, it will be July when they’re ready to plant. In this region (I’m ~50 miles north of Portland, Oregon)it might be mild or very hot. I’ve read that rose seed won’t sprout if it’s too hot – how well do rose seeds keep? Will they still be viable next Spring, or should i take a chance on the weather and start them now?
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After the rose seeds have soaked overnight, rinse them in a strainer and place them into the blender with at least a cup of plain purified water (making sure all seeds are covered), and turn it on for a few minutes. It usually doesn't chop up the seeds, but rather, it will clean off the pulp remaining from the rose hip, which would otherwise mold if left on the rose seed. You may see a few seeds chopped up, but those usually aren't viable anyway. Flush the rose seeds again through a strainer using fresh purified water.
I have four beautiful rose bushes that are my pride & joy! I spend every day tending them & just enjoying them in general. My issue, however, is that there are ALOT of cats in my neighborhood that find my flower beds a perfect litter box! I have tried everything, that I know of, to keep those pests out! I've gotten to the point that I'm about to bury razor wire under the mulch! Nothing that I try deterrs them & their owners won't keep them inside! PLEASE HELP!! ANY ideas are appreciated!
Remember that light changes as the angle of the sun shifts throughout the season. If you live in the upper half of the U.S., choose a site that will offer full sun year-round. The more sun you have, the more flowers your plants will produce. In the lower half of the U.S., choose spots with a little bit of afternoon shade. This protects blossoms from the scorching sun and helps your flowers last longer.
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A time limit on holding a learner or restricted driver's licence is being considered among proposed changes to licensing rules.
The change would mean that for the first time novice drivers must graduate to the next licence stage within five years.
Drivers who do not progress within the time limit would need to resit their theory or practical test.
Transport Agency road safety director Ernst Zollner said the proposed limit aimed to encourage novice drivers and motorcyclists to progress within a reasonable time.
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"The restrictions that apply to learner and restricted licences are there to ensure that novice drivers gain experience and skills under low-risk conditions," he said.
"Drivers who stay at one licence stage indefinitely aren't demonstrating that they've gained the skills and competence to drive safely, and many offences for breaching licence conditions are committed by drivers who have held a learner or restricted licence for an extended time."
Other changes proposed include strengthening evidence of identity requirements, and allowing some licence transactions to be done online or at kiosks. All first applications would still need to be made in person.
Recent changes include raising the minimum licensing age from 15 to 16, a zero alcohol limit for under-20s, and harder practical tests for restricted and full licences.
Champion motorsport driver Greg Murphy has spoken out about the need for changes to licensing, and called for compulsory professional training for all drivers.
He told the Herald drivers' level of skill was "just terrible".


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Lee Valley Lions re-sign former Haringey duo
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Lee Valley Lions continue to add to their roster with the re-signing’s of Ross Sin-Hidge and Ollie Glover for the 2017/18 season.
Sin-Hidge and Glover both return to the green and blue for a third term, after both joining the side from the now defunct Haringey Racers midway through the 2015/16 season.
Forward Sin-Hidge only iced five times as a Lion to finish that season, but then went on to be the team’s second highest points scorer, notching 18 points from 17 league games last term and now looking forward to the season and the new challenges.
The 26-year-old said: “I’m excited to get back on the ice with the Lions this season.
“Last season was my first full season with the team are a great bunch of guys.
“The new league presents a fresh and needed challenge that will force us to step up and continue to build on last years improvements.”
Nottingham-born utility man Glover also returns to the line-up and is keen to take on new challenges this coming season.
The 29-year-old said: “I am really looking forward to the new season and very happy to be signing for the Lions again.
“The new league structure will make things very exciting this year.”
Coach George Alley added: “Both players have bought in to what the team is about.
“Neither are local to the club but both guys really bought in to the dressing room atmosphere and it showed in their improved performances this season.
“Ross’ performances really stood out, at the turn of the year he really hit a purple patch and made a massive contribution to our results in the second half of the season.
“He’s one of a few roller players who are transitioning in ice hockey and I hope the way they play the game will add a new dimension to how we take the club forward.
“Ollie was one of the most committed players throughout the year, he only missed one league game and played latter stages of the season with a stress fractured leg.”
Alley also admitted those guys will be important for the league transition.
“In what will be a tough and demanding season on the team, having guys that will be there regardless is important to keeping the team together, and re-building it in the seasons ahead.”
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They thought it was going to be easy, but it turned out tough. Rivers United.
But by the skin of their teeth Rivers United escaped to victory in their second leg match against Burkina Faso’s Etoile Filante.
The 2-0 win tells just a little of the story. They defied the odds of desertion by their ardent fans and struck when most did not expect.
After missing two penalty kicks 15 minutes to regulation time, it was thought that it was finished for Rivers United as a penalty kick shootout was looming as aggregate scorelines over two legs still stood at 0-0.
Sad memories of their last season’s encounter with Tanzania’s Young Africans started flooding.
The stadium started getting empty. They, the unexpected happened.
With just a minute left, Alex Oyowah scored. Nine minutes into added time, Oyowah made it a brace as he converted from the spot to give Rivers United a 2-0 win.

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Not many merchant bankers today disappear, and when they do, it is seldom because they are thought to have been eaten by cannibals. For a century, Benjamin Boyd’s greatest claim to fame was his mysterious disappearance at Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, in 1851. For a decade before that, however, Ben Boyd carved an erratic, distinctive path through colonial society and through the New South Wales economy. Today, he is remembered through a collection of ruins and buildings south of Eden on the New South Wales border, all that remains of his private town, Boydtown.
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BRUNSWICK - Joanna Maddox looked out over her audience at College of Coastal Georgia Thursday and announced, "I's Harriet Tubman.''
She performed her one-woman portrayal of Tubman for an audience of students and guests as part of a Black History Week observance at the college. Prior to the Civil War, Tubman, who had escaped slavery in the South, led others to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Her audience sat hushed as she told Tubman's story.
"I was just a child, 6 years old, when I was snatched from my mama's arms,'' she said.
Her seamless portrayal had a lot of movement and Maddox prepared by stretching her body and then her vocal cords with a quiet "Go Down Moses,'' outside a stage door at that Stembler Theatre.
"She's my personal hero,'' Maddox said as she put on makeup. "I just find her amazing for her courage and her selflessness. She was free but risked her life to go back and save others."
Maddox said she does her show all over the country and is especially in demand during Black History Month.
"I may do 300 shows a year,'' she said.
She started modestly as a storyteller back in her hometown of Bainbridge in Georgia's southwest corner, making up tales for her three sons at home and then visiting their school and telling her stories there.
She had acted out Tubman's story about 10 years when someone suggested she could be Rosa Parks.
"God gave me Harriet and Harriet gave me another career,'' she said.
She added Parks first and now does a total of 11 characters, among them Bessie Coleman, the first black American to earn an international pilot's license, Ella Fitzgerald, Marian Anderson and Wilma Rudolph.
She sings during her Tubman portrayal. As she sang "Follow the Drinking Gourd'' the audience snapped their fingers in time with her. The drinking gourd was a reference to the "Big Dipper" constellation that escaping slaves could follow north to freedom.
She also does Whitney Houston in her tribute to divas, but she acknowledges there is no copying of Houston's voice.
"Nobody's as good as Whitney. I do Joanna's version of Whitney,'' she said.
She is also in a PBS story called "More Than a Month" that says African-American History shouldn't be crammed into a single, short month. It is available on morethanamonth.com.
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23 year old Dublin singer songwriter Craig Gallagher has been developing his live skills on the Dublin pub scene. In 2015 Craig has been touring across Ireland, UK & Europe with fellow Dubliner Gavin James on his sold out tours.
Craig has started 2016 with the release of his debut EP “Home” which entered the iTunes chart at No.1 on released earlier this month and on the same day his first headline show in Whelans upstairs sold out within two hours, the show has now been upgraded to Whelans main room this Saturday, 20 February and is on route for a sell out! Additional Irish & European dates are being added please see below for details.
His lead single “Without you” is hitting Irish radio this week!
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EY Azerbaijan struck partnership with government agencies to support innovations and sustainability
Baku, 11 December 2018
EY becomes the first global financial services firm to support a nationwide Innovations Contest in Azerbaijan initiated by a number of government agencies. The contest, held every year, serves to promote innovations and sustainable development in the country.
In a ceremony in the capital, Baku, EY Azerbaijan signed a memorandum with the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technology, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the State Agency for Public Services and Social Innovations and the National Academy of Sciences. As part of the agreement, EY Azerbaijan will now support the organisers of the annual Innovations Contest.
Ilgar Veliyev, Country Managing Partner for EY Azerbaijan said: “As a company representing the private sector, we recognise our responsibility to support the country in its attempts to follow the global sustainable development agenda. This contest is an excellent opportunity to encourage genuine innovation and support aspiring start-up entrepreneurs and innovators. By joining this initiative, we are setting an example for other major players in the private sector to assist the government in achieving its sustainability goals”.
EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction advisory, financial advisory and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.
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EY pledged its commitment to the development of Azerbaijan and the wider region by establishing its office in Baku 24 years ago. Over this period, we have turned into the leading professional services firm in the region. For nearly a quarter of a century, we have successfully assisted both local and international companies, as well as government agencies, to meet the challenges of the global economy.


Sontay partners with BSS
Sontay has announced a new partnership with top HVAC equipment distributor BSS as a key element in the re-launch of its Havelock Controls business. Through this deal, BSS will supply its contracting customer base with the full range of Sontay HVAC control and measurement products nationwide under the Havelock Controls brand.
“The partnership with Sontay is a very important feature of the re-launch of our Havelock Controls business. Operating from a dedicated sales office facility, Havelock’s national sales and technical support is accessible to all BSS industrial and commercial customers and provides support to the full network of BSS branches” says Tom Wilson of BSS. “A comprehensive stock profile of Sontay product is available on a 24 hour basis from the Havelock office based in Leicester”.
“The synergies between the two companies in terms of a commitment to high standards of quality, performance and excellent service make this a natural alliance” says Stuart McSorley, Director for Sontay. “The professionalism, sales and marketing efforts of the Havelock support team, combined with their excellent technical knowledge of HVAC product application will make for a long and prestigious partnership between the two companies.”


Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2022
Towards low vegetation identification: A new method for tree crown segmentation from LiDAR data based on a symmetrical structure detection algorithm (SSD)Huo, Langning; Lindberg, Eva; Holmgren, Johan
AbstractObtaining low vegetation data is important in order to quantify the structural characteristics of a forest. Dense three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning data can provide information on the vertical profile of a forest. However, most studies have focused on the dominant and subdominant layers of the forest, while few studies have tried to delineate the low vegetation. To address this issue, we propose a framework for individual tree crown (ITC) segmentation from laser data that focuses on both overstory and understory trees. The framework includes 1) a new algorithm (SSD) for 3D ITC segmentation of dominant trees, by detecting the symmetrical structure of the trees, and 2) removing points of dominant trees and mean shift clustering of the low vegetation. The framework was tested on a boreal forest in Sweden and the performance was compared 1) between plots with different stem density levels, vertical complexities, and tree species composition, and 2) using airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data, and merged ALS and TLS data (ALS + TLS data). The proposed framework achieved detection rates of 0.87 (ALS + TLS), 0.86 (TLS), and 0.76 (ALS) when validated with field inventory data (of trees with a diameter at breast height >= 4 cm). When validating the estimated number of understory trees by visual interpretation, the framework achieved 19%, 21%, and 39% root-mean-square error values with ALS + TLS, TLS, and ALS data, respectively. These results show that the SSD algorithm can successfully separate laser points of overstory and understory trees, ensuring the detection and segmentation of low vegetation in forest. The proposed framework can be used with both ALS and TLS data, and achieve ITC segmentation for forests with various structural attributes. The results also illustrate the potential of using ALS data to delineate low vegetation.
KeywordsIndividual-tree segmentation; Airborne laser scanning; Terrestrial laser scanning; Symmetrical structure; Crown base height; Low vegetation
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BAKERSFIELD, CA — On Saturday, March 25, CityServe International officially launched CityServe Costa Rica in Carrillo Canton. In partnership with the Mission in Action Foundation, CityServe Costa Rica has hit the ground running with a robust plan to resource a network of local churches to help impoverished communities. CityServe Costa Rica opened with 8 containers of goods-in-kind from the U.S. worth over $1 million, and 36 church PODs (Point of Distribution), with plans to onboard an additional 200 PODs throughout Costa Rica over the next year and a half.
To celebrate this launch, a special grand opening was held at the Community Center in Carrillo Canton with church and community leaders and a special video message from Karl Hargestam, Vice President of CityServe Affiliates. Immediately following the celebration, new POD leaders traveled to the HUB to pick up their first load of goods-in-kind consisting of clothing and household necessities.
“Mission in Action Foundation works hand-in-hand with churches, organizations and volunteers,” said Arnold Preston, Executive Director of CityServe Costa Rica. “With the launch of CityServe Costa Rica, we can expand our work to train and empower local churches to help people in need. We believe in putting our faith, hope and love in action because love is more than just words.”
CityServe International was given birth out of the idea that local churches provide the best way to reach communities in need with unwavering compassion. They train, equip, and mobilize local churches to live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their respective communities. CityServe networks are now in 15 states and in more than 5 countries. CityServe Costa Rica will be the organization’s first presence in Central America.
“We were blessed to find a strategic partner that already has built so much trust throughout Costa Rica, and we were equally blessed to be connected with dozens of churches throughout the country who are eager to shower this nation with help and hope,” said CityServe co-founder Dave Donaldson. “I know that no matter what challenges we encounter in each neighborhood we serve, the love of Jesus will be evident, no hurting individual will be left behind, and miracles will abound. This is an exciting moment for all of us at CityServe.”
Thanks to the support of local churches in the US, CityServe has already helped coordinate emergency relief in nations facing turmoil or natural disasters over the years, in places like Turkey, Syria, and Ukraine. In Eastern Europe, they have assembled a vast network of more than 6,000 churches that help transport mothers and children out of conflict zones, provide generators in towns without electricity, in addition to providing emergency medical supplies, food, and water.
CityServe is a collaborative network of churches and community leaders who help those in need live better lives. CityServe empowers the local church to fulfill its purpose to overcome despair and transform lives by resourcing them with tangible goods and capacity building. CityServe brings the church to the table to address community challenges by offering long-lasting relationships that lead to transformation and has been designated a “Community of Faith and Opportunity” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Emmerdale scooped up the National Television Award for Serial Drama for the fourth year in a row tonight (January 28) and, even better for the soap, the cast members got to speak to Digital Spy at the glitzy event.
Danny Miller, who plays Aaron Dingle, is currently off our screens, so when he walked along the red carpet we couldn't help but ask him about his absence and what we can expect when the fan-favourite character returns.
"I'm on annual leave," he explained, "I just had a bit of time off, spent time with family. I'll be back, don't worry, I'll be back fairly soon.
"[Aaron's] gone to see Debbie and he's gone to see Zak so hopefully a bit of family life might bring him back around and help him be the person he wants to be again, which is not down and in the dumps about Robert and getting on with his life, as we all should."
When asked how he would feel about having a new love interest, Danny said: "Soaps are one of those things that needs to move on, so [a new love interest] is inevitable.
"It'll be great, it gives us a chance to tell stories with different characters and relationships."
The actor also said that he is missing Robert actor Ryan Hawley but would never admit that out loud. Oops.
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(03/24/14) - Construction crews have begun knocking down the former North Middle School in Saginaw.
Saginaw Schools sold the building to Covenant HealthCare, after closing it in 2013 to save money.
A Covenant spokeswoman says the land, where North Middle School sits, will be a green space.
The Castle Museum has a mini exhibit of the school. Visitors can pick up a brick as a keepsake.
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Sales of books and Bureau of General Services–Queer Division merchandise will also benefit the launching of the Bureau.
The BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES—QUEER DIVISION is a queer bookstore and event space opening soon in New York City. We aim to foster a community invested in the values of mindfulness, intellectual curiosity, justice, compassion, and playfulness. The Bureau seeks to excite and educate a self-confident, sex-positive, and supportive queer community by offering books, publications, and art and by hosting reading groups, authors’ talks, and performances. The BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES—QUEER DIVISION will provide local and visiting queers and friends with an open and inclusive space for dialogue and socializing.
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The brain is divided into areas, each of which processes specific information. If a certain type of information is missing – such as sounds – the brain reorganises itself... but not at random!
We have various areas in the brain which are intended to process specific types of sensory information. For example, visual information is managed at the back of the brain; voices are processed in a lateral region behind the ear, and so on. But what about people who are blind or deaf from birth? Is the cerebral area that is supposed to handle the missing information left inactive and redundant?
Plasticity: when the brain adapts
‘No, because the brain adapts to sensory deprivation by reorganising itself,’ says Professor Olivier Collignon, FNRS researcher and associate professor at two UCL institutes, IPSY and IoNS (1). ‘It's what’s known as “crossmodal” plasticity, a process thought to compensate for sensory deprivation. When a brain area does not receive the information it is supposed to receive, it becomes “colonised” by other types of information. The brain area that is deprived of its particular sensory information then starts to process information coming from other senses.’
Professor Collignon and his colleagues at the University of Trento in Italy have investigated the cerebral plasticity of people with profound deafness. For six years, using fMRI and magnetoencephalographic imaging, they studied and compared the brain activity of the profoundly deaf and hearing people. Their findings were published in the prestigious American journal PNAS (2).
Faces in place of voices
In particular, the researchers found that this reorganisation of the brain is far from random. ‘We’ve demonstrated that facial recognition, which involves a particular type of visual information, activates the brain area normally used for voice recognition,’ explains Professor Collignon. This is hardly surprising, as these two systems are used to work together. After all, we pick up a lot of information from a face – a person’s identity, age, sex, emotions, and so on – which are usually consistent with that person’s tone of voice. And when we talk to someone, especially in a noisy setting, we read their lips without even realising it.
‘There is therefore a natural “highway” between the cerebral area for voices and the area for faces,’ continues Professor Collignon. ‘It’s a bit like the E40 motorway linking Brussels and Liège. Suppose Liège (standing for voice recognition) is emptied of all its inhabitants (i.e. voices). Not only will people from Brussels (i.e. faces) continue to drive on the E40, but in addition, some of them will go and live in Liège, thus keeping the area active!’
Research implications and prospects
The findings of this study open up some interesting prospects. ‘From the point of view of fundamental research, we can confirm that the brain's architecture is not immutable: the brain is organised according to our experiences. At the same time, this adaptability obeys certain functional principles. It is not the case that any kind of information will colonise any region of the brain. There are certain rules – natural links between the areas of the brain that affect cerebral plasticity.’
This discovery could also have clinical applications. What happens when the profoundly deaf gain hearing after a cochlear implant, for example? Is introducing auditory information into an area now used for the processing of faces likely to cause interference, or, on the contrary, promote the new capacity to hear? ‘That’s the big question! The cochlear implant doesn’t work every time and at present it's hard to predict the patients for whom this technique will be a success or a failure. This variability may be related to “crossmodal” plasticity. The next step in our research is therefore to find out the extent to which this plasticity can be an asset and/or an obstacle to the introduction of auditory information into the brain of a given patient.’
(1) The Institute for Psychological Research (IPSY) and the Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS) (2) S. Benetti et al., ‘Functional selectivity for face processing in the temporal voice area of early deaf individuals’ in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, May 2017.
2001 Master’s in psychology, University of Liège (ULg)
2004 Master’s in cognitive sciences, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
2006 PhD in psychology, specialising in neuroscience, UCL
2006-10 FNRS postdoctorate, Neuropsychology and Cognition Research Center, University of Montreal (Canada)
2007-11 Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Montreal
2010-12 Researcher, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center, Montreal
Since 2012 Head of the Crossmodal Perception and Plasticity Lab Research Group and assistant professor at the Center for Mind and Brain Science (CIMeC) of the University of Trento (Italy)
2014 National scientific qualification (university school teaching qualification) in Italy
Since 2016 FNRS associate researcher and associate professor, UCL
Professor Collignon’s research is mainly funded by the FNRS, an ERC-Starting grant (MADVIS) and UCL. The study of cerebral plasticity in the deaf was entirely funded by CIMeC at the University of Trento.

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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — During an emergency meeting on Tuesday, the Brevard County School Board voted to keep its mask mandate, despite warnings the policy violates state law.
However, the policy was modified to allow the superintendent to opt out of the mandate when community COVID-19 cases drop to 50 cases per 100,000 over a seven-day period.
As of last Friday, the state Department of Health reported 126 cases per 100,000 population.
In a letter to the state school board, the state education commissioner said: “I find there is probable cause that the Brevard County School Board acted contrary to the law by requiring students to wear a mask or face covering unless certain exceptions apply, such as a medical certification.”
A Florida Department of Health emergency rule requires an option to opt out at the sole discretion of parents.


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- The extremely arid desert climate is the best preserver of murals.
- Egina Oasis in the low reaches of Heihe River is extremely arid, Heihe River is the only source of water.
- But because of its extreme arid torrid climate, hypsography low-lying, gale and frequent wind and other unique physica1 geography characteristics, its nature ecological environment are extremely bad and frail.
- In Tarim river basin, the climate is extremely arid and the ecologic environment is fragile.
- Arid and extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as steppes.
- As an extremely arid desert oasis, Heihe River is the only source of water in Ejin Oasis.


I have been following some of the threads about the M91s with a "G" stamp. I have one and would like to share some pictures. This M91, has some pieces of metal, where the barrel bands and trigger guard are located. I haven't checked the few M91s that I have and do not know if this is normal.
The other M91, has a S2 stamp. Comments are welcome about both M91s. Both rifles have matching receivers and matching bolts.
Would appear that your 1916 was part of the "Balkan" imported batch. The shims under the barrel bands seems to be common in this batch. Have a number of them like that. The crest on the chamber is partially ground off too. Don't recall if the circle B was Serbian or Romanian thought it was one of those two. So much information lately I can't hardly keep it straight. The second one, the 1905 is interesting. I have never seen the Finn SA stamped on the receiver like that. Others may have but I have not. S2? New one on me too. Maybe the "S" is Sako refurb mark? Haven't a clue never saw that either. Thanks for sharing and can't wait to hear what others have to offer.
Interesting "G" marking on that Izhevsk barrel. I've not seen anything like it before, and have nothing to offer on that. However, I have a rifle that also bears the S2 stamp. It looks like yours is in a slightly different font. I was told that it is Czech in origin, though I haven't found any sources confirming that. Thanks for sharing.
That is great information. That is one of the reason I started collecting Mosin Nagant rifles. These firearms have accumulated a lot of history throughout the years that they were in service. Czechoslovakia! Hope that one of the members can provide more information. This particular Tula has two SA stamps, receiver and barrel.
I have two M91s that are of Balkan origin, one does have the wedge on the rear sight and a small pinecone, but need to find the time to study these two rifles more.
I started collecting firearms with the M1 Garands, ended with two HRA, IHC, Springfield and WRA WIN-13, six M1 carbines. Then decided to start with the Mosin Nagant firearms and other military types.
Have only a few Mosin Nagants, these are the M91s, I am still hoping to find a non Balkan Izhevsk for this group.
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1915 New England Westinghouse
Real nice bunch of M91s. I like them all. Have a NEW #652522 that like yours is hard to read the script. Others are roll marked very nicely. Of course I really like your 1916 Remington. They are all very nice. Thanks for more pics. Regards, John.


Village People at Melbourne Zoo Twilights
By Alana Mazurke
Sometimes on a night where you expect nothing but gain everything from an event can almost feel like it never happened at all. At the Village people last Friday night I didn’t know whether I was laughing at the idea of being there or at the fact. Mostly I was laughing because, like every other punter there, I was having the best time. I can always tell a show is going well when you see at least four or five men in close proximity swinging their hips like there’s no tomorrow. To my surprise, majority of punters knew every song and not just the chorus, i’m talking word for word. Perhaps that’s my age talking or just my close mindedness on the fact I thought Village People only had “that song” but nonetheless I learnt a lot about the knowledge of the Melbourne music scene that night.
The night was costume changes, choreographed dancing, choreographed banter, leather and lycra and muscles all wrapped into a number of flamboyant pop tunes that got better and better. The set list was brilliant, ensuring there was a solid hit every two or three songs. Bringing disco back to life, the six members known as Eric (biker), Felipe (Indian), Jim (cowboy), Ray (cop), Bill (builder) and Alex (soldier) nailed every song, every move and notably lead singer Ray has actually got one hell of a voice on him. Without fail we heard the singles ‘Go West’, ‘Can’t Stop The Music’, ‘Macho Man’ and ‘In The Navy’.
Fans were also treated to a brand new single from the group with production help from notorious KC and The Sunshine Band and it was actually quite a solid disco tune. I’m keen to see how it goes when it gets released this year aka I cant wait to dance to it again. Maybe it was the beer talking but I like the almost sold out crowd at the Melbourne Zoo Twilight festival had one of the most enjoyable nights I’ve had at a gig in a long time. No one cared how you or anyone else was dancing and everyone was doing just that. The group also performed over the weekend at the Golden Plains festival which i’m sure held the same reception. In the only way i’m sure the group would ever round out a show, the boys finished their performance with the perfectly timed crowd pleaser and cause for interaction hit single ‘YMCA’. I can thankfully say the night was a big hit for everyone that went along regardless if you knew only one hit or every song written.
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The south suburban village of Tinley Park have asked retailers to close starting Monday afternoon and implemented a curfew for a second straight day as the village prepares for the possibility of unrest.
Following looting and disturbances that occurred in the city of Chicago and several suburbs Sunday, the village issued a 9 p.m. curfew that was lifted at 6 a.m. Monday morning.
On Monday afternoon, the village requested that retail establishments close starting at 3 p.m. Monday through 6 a.m. Tuesday due to "current threat information."
In a statement, Tinley Park leaders added that an increased law enforcement presence will be in the area Monday evening.
"The Village is working with our neighboring communities and public safety agencies to share information and collaborate on plans to keep the region safe," the statement added.
A curfew was also set to begin at 8 p.m. Monday night and last through 6 a.m. Tuesday.


After her father died when she was five, her mother worked hard as a nurse to raise her and her siblings. So the little girl wanted to make her mother proud by doing well. She would go on to pursue a career in law before becoming Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. Yesterday, Ms Indranee Rajah, who is also
"Take each day one step at a time. And one day, you will get to where you want to be."


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KTMs 2012 690 Duke isnt just an evolution of the hard core Duke - it's a complete revolution: an all-new bike - 90% new in fact, with just 10% of its components shared with its predecessor.
KTM claim an impressive 70bhp for its 690cc single and combined with a refreshing light weight of 150kg results in a potent and engaging bike to ride. The new styling, comfort and ergonomics positions it in the same market place as the Kawasaki ER6 or Ducati Monster, but despite being a single in a world of twins it offers a superior or comparable power to weight ratio to its rivals.


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The West Virginia University wrestling team welcomes Fairmont State to the WVU Coliseum on Monday, Dec. 19, at 7 p.m. ET.
Monday’s dual has been declared a Dollar Night, with tickets and select concessions available for only $1 each. It’s also a Weekday Happy Hour, where fans can get half-price beverages from 6-7 p.m.
“We try to approach every dual the same,” fifth-year coach Tim Flynn said. “Whether it’s Fairmont or Missouri or whoever, we try to go out and compete in a way we know how to and that we know is going to be successful in March.”
WVU (3-1) and FSU (10-10) face off for the 29th time in history and first since 1977 on Monday. The following year snapped a 21-year stretch that saw the pair battle in 28 duals, including seven seasons in which they squared off twice. West Virginia opened the series on a 17-dual winning streak until Fairmont State escaped with a 19-15 victory in 1968. The Mountaineers currently hold a 20-8 advantage in the series.
FSU eventually shut down its wrestling program after the 1982-83 season, before adding it back in 2019 as a member of Mountain East Conference (MEC). The Falcons are led by first-year head coach Gennaro Bonaventura, who comes from being the head assistant at Waynesburg University.
In the polls, WVU earned three votes in the latest NWCA Division I Wrestling Coaches Poll. The squad also remains at No. 22 in FloWrestling’s tournament rankings, while six members of the team remain steady in the publication’s individual rankings – No. 6 Killian Cardinale (125), No. 21 Sam Hillegas (149), No. 5 Peyton Hall (165), honorable mentions Anthony Carman (184) and Austin Cooley (197) and No. 21 Michael Wolfgram (HWT).
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Chike Aguh, principal of strategy and product integration at McChrystal Group; Diana Farrell, founding president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase Institute; and Alexandra Fuenmayor Starr…
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Investing more in human capital is the region’s best hope to escape the middle-income trap.
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Editor’s note: Ask Nat is a bi-weekly advice column by Natalie Rand, a seasoned senior who’s seen it all. If you need advice on any burning issues in your life, you can anonymously submit your questions here.
Am I doing things right? I’m an 18-year-old enby who’ll be applying to the architecture major in the spring. I have friends, a boyfriend I love, am on okay terms with my family, am doing decently in school, and am getting better in terms of mental health thanks to therapy/meds, but I don’t feel like I’m doing enough.
I’m taking the steps to help my mental health, but therapy and meds can only work so quickly, and while I can handle everything, it feels like the past 5 years of my life have been a constant exertion of energy into just getting by like the average person. These are issues that everyone deals with to some degree, but life has never felt “good” for a long period of time like I hear it can be for others … Maybe I’m not positive enough because my life is objectively good … Maybe this feeling is something everyone deals with. Maybe this is depression talking. Maybe the idea of being completely happy, content, and at peace is a myth.
Anyway, I don’t want to coast day to day. I want to live my life right. What would I do to do that?
Above Average Anxiety
First of all, I want to commend you for staying strong and doing everything you can to stay mentally healthy, and I’m also really sorry to hear you’ve been struggling despite your efforts. Depression’s a b----.
Secondly, as someone who’s had their fair share of depressive struggles, I want to say that I relate to you so much on wondering if things ever get better. When we’ve worked so hard to get to a place mentally and situationally that’s not totally awful and then still find ourselves thinking, ‘Wait, is this it then?’ all of our efforts can start to feel hopeless.
I’d love to give you some positive reassurance about how you should just have hope because life gets better, but honestly, it doesn’t — at least, not by itself. Rather, you have to take action yourself to make your own life better. In my experience, there are two main (non-pharmaceutical) ways to go about that: change the situation you’re in or change the way you feel about it.
One way to change the situation can be to add something positive to your own life. You could try going on weekly bike rides, hanging out with a friend you haven’t seen in a while, or even adopting a cat — anything fulfilling enough to be a reason you get up in the morning.
You can also take away the negatives in your life, or else try to fix them. Maybe your life would be a lot easier if you were taking 12 credits instead of 18, or if you were to enforce boundaries with a toxic friend, or if you were to curb your TikTok addiction.
However, I get the impression from your letter that you’ve already been doing everything you can to change your life for the better. At this point, it seems like doing anything else to fix things might end up being more exhausting for you than rewarding. In this case, I offer you the alternative route to happiness: changing your outlook.
Because here’s the uncomfortable truth, Above: Sometimes, no matter what we do, life just sucks. It’s a part of the human condition, and part of living in a capitalist society full of social injustice in the middle of a pandemic and climate crisis, but I digress. Even more cruelly, as you pointed out in your letter, sometimes life really does suck more for us than it does for other people.
But if there’s nothing we can reasonably do to make our lives suck less, we can at least make ourselves feel a little less sucky in response to life sucking. This idea, that we can try to reduce our suffering — if not fix our circumstances themselves — has been more eloquently described as “radical acceptance.”
Radical acceptance is one of the basic principles of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). DBT is one of the most common therapy modalities and was (fun fact) actually invented by Dr. Marsha Linehan, a former psychology professor at UW. To honor the Husky spirit, I’m going to summarize Linehan’s methods for radical acceptance from her “DBT Skills Training Manual” into three steps that I like to call the triple A method: acknowledge, assess, and appreciate.
First, acknowledge that the bad thing exists. Observe whether or not you might be trying to deny your reality, and remind yourself that you can’t — everything in history has led up to this bad thing being in your life, and at least in this very moment, there’s nothing you can do to change it.
Secondly, let all the feelings flow through you and consciously assess them. For example, it may help to say to yourself, “Man, I’m stressed out because I have way too much friggin’ schoolwork and that’s sh----.” Feel the feelings in your physical body as well: does it tighten your throat? Hurt your chest? Observing our emotions this way not only helps us to feel more validated in them, but also allows us to feel more in control.
Now that you’ve recognized and grieved the bad, your third step is to shift your attention toward the good and find some joy instead: what are some positive things you can appreciate in your life? I want you to write down a list of five things you’re grateful for. It could be as deep and meaningful as having supportive friends you can depend on or something as simple as the food from your favorite place on the Ave.
The last piece of advice I want to leave you with is that happiness isn't something that a so-called "perfect life" can guarantee. Many of us have been sold into thinking that if we were to just reach this goal or have that thing, everything would naturally work out and life would be amazing (again, I blame capitalism for this). Sometimes this is true, but many other times, when we finally do get these things, our thinking patterns stay the same and lead us to just find other things to be unhappy about instead. Therefore, we ourselves are the final deciding factor in our own happiness by choosing to accept the bad in our lives and be grateful for the good.
I hope all of this was somewhat helpful to you, Above — I know that “just accept that life sucks” might not exactly be the advice you want to hear, but from one struggling person to another, I really encourage you to at least try this mindset out for a bit and see where it takes you. Best of luck on your mental health journey and with applying to your major — stay safe out there.
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Bannerman is a project conceived in the basement bedroom of a Western Springs flat in 2005. It features the tunes of Richard Setford, whose work is diversely affecting, slightly unhinged, fragile and quietly dramatic. The Bannerman world is a place of imagination and cinematic ambition. Think wind swept battlefields, detached murderers, nostalgic lovers, natural disasters and the shadow of time. All these themes and images are at play on his new album Dearly Departed.
Gathered around Richie are a group of musicians devoted both to their craft and with bringing the Bannerman imagination to life in a live context. He is joined by Cole Goodley - (drums), Cass Mitchell (bass/vocals/percussion), Finn Scholes (trumpet/keys) Tam Scholes (guitar) and Siobhanne Thompson (violin/vocals/percussion).


How much does a typical ‘room over garage’ extension cost in the UK? In this article and video I’m taking a look back at this extension from around 2010. A detailed look at the costs, what was involved and whether it was good value.
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Bay area thrashers NEGATIVE SIXXX are carrying on the region’s legacy with their latest track, “Thrive,” an uncompromising advocation for survival through adversity.
“To thrive is something we all need to do,” says drummer Mark Miller. “That alone is our motivation.”
Born in the watering holes of Oakland, CA, NEGATIVE SIXXX offers no-holds-barred metal, and “Thrive,” the first single from their upcoming sophomore release, shows the band at its best, perfectly blending heaviness and melody.
For its accompanying video, the band collectively created a simple concept, then turned the idea over to director Dave Perga. “Dave took the simple idea and warped and twisted it into something special,” says guitarist Chris Van De Ven. “I believe the only way to move forward in this industry is to come out swinging, and we really did with this song and video.”
As friends and local scene veterans, vocalist Sid Frankosky and guitarists Chris Van De Ven and Rick Chaves often put down a few beers together and talked about starting a new band, but it wasn’t until seeing drummer Brian Sohler that they knew they had found the element they were looking for to create what would become NEGATIVE SIXXX. Add bassist Rawn Wadley, fast forward a few months, and this band’s live maiden voyage was opening a sold-out show for Flynn and Phil Demmel’s classic thrash band Vio-lence.
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A new resource from the National Archives – Milestone Documents – provides access to primary sources that highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history and government. These documents are some of the most-viewed and sought-out documents in the holdings of the National Archives.
Milestone Documents includes primary sources such as:
- the Lee Resolution of 1776 that first proposed independence for the American colonies
- George Washington’s first inaugural speech
- the patent for the cotton gin
- the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery
- the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson
- the G.I. Bill
- the official flight transcript of John Glenn’s spaceflight during the first manned space orbit of the earth by an American
- the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- and many more!
You and your students can access the documents through an interactive timeline at the top of the page. Or you can skip down the page to find the historical era you are currently teaching or learning about.
Each milestone document in this list has its own page including historical context and background information, a transcript, links to high-resolution images and additional pages in the National Archives Catalog, and a link to teaching resources for the document on DocsTeach, the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives.
Access all of the Milestone Documents at www.archives.gov/milestone-documents! How could you use this list for teaching and learning?

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Phil Kidd, 32, stands outside of his shop, Youngstown Nation, in downtown Youngstown on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. The community crusader sells t-shirts, posters and mugs that say things like "Defend Youngstown." (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer)
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The Mahoning Valley, which seemed to have gone without an identity for the past few decades, now has an identity and a plan to become viable once again. Energy, technology, and manufacturing will put Youngstown back on the track to success.
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cloning membrane protein with 2 tags - (Apr/04/2006 )
I want to clone the membrane protein with 2 tags (one in the middle of the protein and other on C terminus) for visualization.
How can I do this in simple way?
for c terminus, a PCR is ok.
but both tagging may be done in closely one step. First PCR of the first fragment. Fwd primer is classical and reverse primers contains a unique restiction site, the flag, and the annealing part.
Seond part of the gene is done by : fwd primer holds the unique restriction site inserted by the FLAG-rev primer and the reverse primer contains the second flag...
i've attached the picture
Thanks a lot. It looks pretty good.


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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
Kofi Annan, the United Nations envoy to Syria, gave a pessimistic assessment yesterday, warning that the country was on the brink of civil war and that the UN observer mission "is the only remaining chance to stabilize the country."
Mr. Annan said that the observer mission, deployed to Syria as part of his peace plan, has managed to tamp down, but not end, the violence.
"There is a profound concern that the country could otherwise descend into full civil war and the implications of that are frightening," Annan told reporters yesterday, according to the Associated Press. A Syrian military truck was targeted with a bomb today when a convoy carrying observers, including the head of the mission, was less than 350 feet away.
Although government troops are still present in cities and towns, they are there in smaller numbers, he said. Hervé Ladsous, the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations, said that the use of heavy weapons and major assaults has decreased but a "quieter crackdown [is] under way, including mass arrests," The New York Times reports. The observers have been able to operate fairly freely, a diplomat who heard the assessment told the NYT.
"The basic conclusion among the envoys was that although the implementation of the plan was clearly flawed, there was no real alternative. Mr. Annan stressed that himself," the Times reports. UN Middle East Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said yesterday that, across the region, he sees "a dance of death at the brink of the abyss of war," according to BBC.
Col. Riad al-Assad, one of the rebel leaders, warned that he would resume attacks against the government because it has not honored the cease-fire, according to the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, AP reports.
Annan acknowledged yesterday that his peace plan might still fail, and he has no alternative course of action if it does, according to the The Wall Street Journal. The international community still has no interest in intervention. "I'm waiting for some suggestions as to what else we do," he said. "If there are better ideas, I will be the first to jump on it."
For now, the UN seems to be clinging to the hope that putting more observers on the ground will continue to whittle away at the violence. Only 60 of the 300 observers authorized by the UN Security Council have been deployed so far, according to WSJ. The Syrian National Council, the main coalition of opposition groups, has called for a mission with as many as 3,000 monitors.
Gen. Robert Mood, the head of the mission, said last week that even 10,000 observers "couldn't end the killing if the parties wanted to continue fighting."
The Journal reports that although both the government and the opposition have broken the cease-fire almost every day since it began a month ago, the death toll has slowed. Annan has pinned most of the responsibility for the violence on the government, although he also directed some blame at opposition groups.

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Tiffany’s TV Reviews, Previews & Interviews for Bleeding Cool
In case you didn’t know, I have the pleasure of covering various TV shows for Bleeding Cool. Check out my most recent TV reviews, previews, opinion pieces, and interviews below!
Bookmark this page to see what new shows I’m covering and catch my latest articles.
Sometimes, I’ll even live tweet episodes from BC’s Twitter handle: @BleedingCool. So be sure to follow along…
- The Masked Singer: Looking Back on Season 3, Thoughts on Season 4by Tiffany Tchobanian on June 4, 2020 at 1:05 pm
With the masks off and our winner revealed, we take a look back on the third season of FOX’s The Masked Singer and a look ahead to season 4.
- The Masked Singer Season 3 Review: Strike Three and Rhino’s Outby Tiffany Tchobanian on May 15, 2020 at 1:35 pm
The Masked Singer’s four contestants delivered powerhouse performances and demonstrated their vocal prowess. See the Top 3 finalists!
- The Masked Singer Season 3 Quarter Finals Review: Near Purrfectionby Tiffany Tchobanian on May 11, 2020 at 3:35 pm
Frog, Kitty, Turtle, Night Angel, and Rhino delivered rousing performances on The Masked Singer Season 3 Quarter Finals. Here’s our review.
- The Masked Singer Season 3 Review: In Space, No One Can Hear You Loseby Tiffany Tchobanian on May 6, 2020 at 4:35 pm
As The Masked Singer inches closer to the grand finale, here’s a detailed recap of the clues and performances that still have us guessing.
- The Masked Singer Season 3 Final Face-Offs Proved Quite Appealingby Tiffany Tchobanian on April 28, 2020 at 2:05 pm
FOX’s The Masked Singer selected our Top Six contestants after sending two celebs home in the Face-Offs. Here’s our take on how it went down.

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Part I - Dry Flies
One of the most confusing things for me to understand when I began to FF
was how to mend line. This concept was totally new to me since I had been a
spin fisher prior to taking up FF. There is no need to mend line when spin
fishing. For the record let me define line mending as the intentional
positioning of the line (usually with an upstream or downstream curve),
either during or after the cast, with the intent of creating a *realistic*
presentation of the fly.
Adding to the confusion were the written descriptions of line mending when
dry fly fishing versus streamer fishing. As advanced FFs know, you could be
told to mend line one way when dry fly fishing and in the opposite
direction when fishing a streamer. For the first few seasons, I didn't mend
line at all, being content to just try to get the fly in to the target area
any way I could.
When *dry* fly fishing we mend line to maximize the drag free float. This
would be easy if the surface currents were all uniform, since the fly line,
leader and fly would float at the same uniform speed no matter how we cast.
The problem is that the surface currents are rarely uniform. When you make
a straight line cast across differential currents, the currents immediately
grab the fly line causing the fly to float either faster or slower than the
surface current the fly is on. If the current between you and the fly is
faster than the where the fly is, the fly will be pulled downstream. If the
current between you and the fly is slower, the fly will be held back.
Hopefully everyone knows that you mend upstream to compensate for a faster
current tongue, and conversely downstream to compensate for a slower
current tongue (as when casting *across* the slack water behind a boulder).
Perhaps you are at that stage where you would like to try some line mending
or have just started to mend line. The most difficult decision to make, and
the most confusing concept when learning to mend, is where to place the
mend, and how large a mend to place in the line. I started by just
experimenting and tossing mends into the line where I thought they should
be. Sometimes they worked and sometimes they didn't, but by trial and error
I became better at it. That is how most of us learned. I think I have a
better method which came to me later as I was teaching someone else how to
mend line....Let the river tell you how to mend.
I tell beginners to try to read the stream and make their mends where they
think they should go. Then after they have fished that lie, make several
straight casts without mending to the same area. Don't watch the fly.
Instead observe the fly line and leader as the mismatched currents force
curves into the line. The flyline will show you where the differential
currents are, and the direction and depth of the curve shows you the
differential velocity between the various currents. Now try to mend the
line so that it is a direct opposite of the displaced fly line. Make a
"mirror image" mend. Those are the fishing mends you should have made in
the first place
This teaching method is much easier than repeatedly guessing what mends to
make by reading the water. I think you will find that this method will help
you to learn the proper mends faster. It will help you to become better at
reading the currents, since you are practicing and correcting just after
you have tried to read the currents on your own.
This method has two other benefits. First, you will be making the practice
mends after drag has displaced the fly line and leader. Therefore, the
leader to the fly will usually be fairly straight and poor mending
technique will show up as a big movement in the fly when placing the mend.
If your mends move the leader too much, it will cause the fly to move. That
defeats the purpose of the mend, which is to let the fly float drag free.
So as you practice, try to feed some line into your mends so that you
minimize the fly movement.
Secondly, it will help you to appreciate the more subtle differential
currents that cannot be corrected by mending per se. These are the currents
that lead to micro drag and you will see them as subtle displacements or
curves that form in your leader as the fly floats downstream. These curves
will form despite the placement of the correct mends. The micro drag or
invisible drag can be prevented by learning slack line casts. The slack
line casts also provide the benefit of protecting the fly against movement
caused by the act of mending described in the paragraph above.
Part II - Wet Flies
The concepts of line mending for nymphs and streamers are more complex than
for dry fly fishing. In dry fly fishing, we are controlling line on a two
dimensional surface. In wet fly mending we are dealing in three dimensions
and that complicates the mends we must perform.
The first concept to understand is that there are several and sometimes
conflicting things that we are trying to do with wet fly mending. Most of
the early books I read concentrated on only one technique and that was to
fish a streamer so as to present it's silouette broadside to the fish. They
said to cast down or down and across and to mend the line downsteam so as
to make the flyline and streamer swing across the current and present a
side view of the streamer to the fish holding below. That was the only type
of mending I did for many years when fishing streamers. Then I got to
thinking. If I mend in this fashion I am limited in the depth at which my
fly swims. I tried varying the depth of the fly by weighting the fly,
adding split shot to the leader, or using a sinking line.
Expand your thinking about mending. Is there a way to mend so as to make
the fly sink? Yes. We must use the same mends as when we dry fly fish for a
drag free float. With a dry fly, our goal is remove the tension of the
leader from the fly. If we perform those mends with a streamer, we can
allow the fly to sink to a prescribed level before we start to swim it
across stream. Depending on the amount of the mend that we use, we can vary
the level of the fly and fish the streamer at several different levels.
I learned the above lesson while casting toward the stream bank one day.
Instead of the usual shallow water which gradually deepens away from the
shore, this bank dropped down into a deep pool. With the usual down and
across cast and the downstream mend the fly landed next to the bank and
quickly swam away toward the middle of the stream. I realized that I was
presenting the fly too high in the water column, well out of the visual
zone of the fish. So on the next cast I mended the line upstream on the
faster water I had to cast over. This kept my wooly bugger *drag free* and
sinking next to the bank. Then I stopped mending to allow the fly to swim
down and across but at a deeper level and I was rewarded with a 16"
This concept should not be foreign to most of you. If you nymph, you do it
with every cast. Aren't you trying to get your nymph to sink and float drag
free. To get deep, fish your streamers and wet flies in the same way.
Here's a trick which uses the above technique plus a second mend to fish a
difficult situation. We all know that in fast water, fish like to hold in
depressions or next to boulders in the hydraulic cushion. Favorite spots
for the purposes of this discussion are directly in front of the boulder or
just to either side. What we want to do is to swim the fly sideways in
front of the trout and at his level. We want it to look like a bait fish is
trying to sneak around in front of the boulder. Have you ever tried to do
this in fast water? The usual down and across presentation zips by the
boulder at mach speed, well above the level of the fish.
Instead, try to get directly above the boulder if you can, or slightly to
one side. Cast your fly upstream and either raise your rod to take in the
slack if the cast was directly upstream, or do upstream mends if you casted
slightly across and up. You want the fly to sink to the bottom. Lower the
rod as the fly and line goes by or feed line into the float as the line
goes by. When you estimate that the fly is 4-5 feet above the fish, mend
the line across the current, toward the boulder/depression. That will put a
bow in the line which will make the fly swim across the stream in front of
the fish. You can release some line into the drift to slow down the
swimming of the fly, to keep it deeper, and to drift it more downstream
toward the boulder. Conversly, take in some line to swim the fly faster, at
a higher level, and to make it swing more upstream. If the fly still
doesn't get to the bottom, then you have to add more weight or cast further
upstream to allow more time for the fly to sink.
The two things that we want to do with mends are to control the swim or
action of the fly (speed it up or slow it down), and to control the level
of the fly in the water column. To get the fly to sink we want to mend such
that the *float* is drag free, and we want to feed line into the float if
necessary. To swing or swim the fly we want to mend generally across the
faster current so that it catches the line making the fly swing and we can
also take in line from the drift. Thirdly, we can determine when the fly
will swing by when we place the swing mend and we can determine the
direction of the swing by the direction of the mend.
Controlling the fly with wet fly mends is more difficult that with a dry
fly because you can't always see the fly. You must get a *feel* for where
the fly is and what it is doing. One way to do this is to practice in
shallow water where you can see the fly and see what your mends do to the
fly's drift and action. If you have rivers with very clear water, try
practicing these mends with the fly drifting even deeper.
I hope that above has been of some help.
Copyright 1996 by Henry Kanemoto.
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What is altitude sickness?
Altitude sickness — also known as acutemountain sickness (AMS), is a pathological effect of high altitude on humans, caused by acute exposure to low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude. AMS commonly occurs above 2,400 metres (8,000 ft). (by wikipedia)
Who is most likely to be affected by high altitude sickness?
It is hard to determine who will be affected by altitude sickness, as there are no specific factors that correlate with a susceptibility to altitude sickness. However, most people can ascend to 2,400 metres (8,000 ft) without difficulty.
Altitude sickness is considered as the biggest health risk for travelling to Tibet. Tibet is a land with average elevation above 4,000m.
Symptoms of Altitude Sickness
Shortness of breath
Loss of appetite
People with serious heart desease shouldn’t travel to Tibet.
Those with less serious heart problems need to consult a doctor before starting your trip.
People with high or low blood pressure need to consult a doctor before traveling.
How to avoid altitude sickness in Tibet?
Before coming to Tibet:
1. You need to get as healthy as possible, do exercise, have good sleep, eat healthy food, avoid consuming alcohol.
2. Try to avoid catching cold before you travel to Tibet.
3. It is recommended to take sky train instead of flight as your body will have more time to get adjusted to high altitude on the way to Tibet. Besides, you can enjoy some beautiful scenery!
While in Tibet:
1. .Don’t be get too excited when you arrive to Tibet: do not run, jump, hike or do exercise during the first two days.
2. Have a good rest: good sleep is important.
3. Do not consume any alcohol drinks in the first two days in Tibet.
4. Prepare enough water and energetic snacks, for example chocolate or nuts. Eat light, high-carbohydrate meals for more energy.
5. It is recommended not take shower in the first two days in Lhasa as it is easy to catch a cold
6. Drink a lot of water to decrease the risk of dehydratation.
7. Drink plenty of water while traveling in Tibet.
8. It is recommended to prepare high altitude sickness medicine such as Hongjingtian 红景天. Please consult your doctor before taking medication.
9. Inform your guide immediately if you do not feel well.
If you have symptoms of altitude sickness:
1. Inform your guide immediately if you do not feel well.
2. Do no go to a higher altitude.
3. Take prescribed medication and breathe oxygen
4. If it doesn’t get better, go to hospital or evacuate immediately to safe altitude.
Check out our 8 days Tibet tour:
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– Small groups (limited to 12 people)
– Best prices
– Not a shopping tour
– Authentic Tibetan local custom experiences
– Hospitable local Tibetan guides
Lhasa – Gyantse –Shigatse – Everest Base
8 days tour in Tibet including visiting of Lhasa, the highest city in the world, the highest monastery in the world as well as overnight at Everest Base Camp! Make your dream come true!
Welcome to Lhasa, capital of Tibet located at the height of 3650 meters!
Sera Monastery, founded in 1419, is one of the ‘great three’ university monasteries of Tibet, to witness the “Monk Debates” on the teachings of Buddha and the philosophy of Buddhism.
The Jokhang temple was constructed by King Songtsän Gampo probably in 642. The famous Buddhist Master Atisha taught here in the 11th century and it has been considered the most important temple in Lhasa ever since, remaining a key centre of Buddhist pilgrimage for centuries.
The Barkhor is an area of narrow streets and a public square located around Jokhang Temple, and was the most popular devotional circuit for pilgrims and locals. Now the area is famous for its multitude of market stalls, selling everything from devotional goods to silk cloth to trinkets and jewelry. There are also many restaurants selling both native and international cuisine!
The huge Tashilhunpo Monastery, founded in 1447 by Gendun Drup, the First Dalai Lama. It is the traditional seat of the Panchen Lamas. In the 2nd week of the 5th lunar month (around June/July), Tashilhunpo Monastery is the scene of a 3-day festival and a huge thangka is displayed.
Old Tingri town: Places like Tingri will give you a true sense of what the real people of this area endure, with smiles on their faces, every day. This place will change you.
Gyatsola Pass at 5,220m., which is the highest enroute pass.
Mt. Everest Base Camp (5200 meters!) and Himalayan peaks.
Rongbuk Monastery which is the highest monastery in Tibet, for breath-taking views of Mt. Everest
Day 1: Lhasa
Take an early flight MU2335 to Lhasa.
Pick up from Lhasa airport, transfer to hotel, have a rest and get adjucted to high altitude. Stay in 3-Star Hotel (Yak Hotel or New Mandala Hotel)
Day 2: Lhasa
After you take lunch and then head to Jokhang temple which was founded by the 33rd great king of Tibet in the 7th century, in order to promote the Buddhist religion. Inside you can see the statue of Buddha Sakyamuni at the age of twelve, perhaps the single most venerated object in Tibet Buddhism.
Around the temple Barkhor street where you can do kora (circling the Barkhor street) with pilgrims and locals and buy the souvenirs. Dinner in a local Tibetan family will be arranged.
Viist Sera monastery in the afternoon.
Day 3: Lhasa
Today’s tour will first bring you to the Potala Palace, the winter palace of the Dalai Lama. It has been used since the 7th Century by the 33rd great king of Tibet. The most valuable collection are the gilded burial stupas of past Dalai Lamas and meditation Cave of the 33rd great king of Tibet. Free time in the afternoon (we also offer 2 free activities for your choice)
Day 4: Lhasa to Gyantse by road (253 KM), Gyantse to Shigatse (86 KM)
Today, we have to drive from Lhasa to Gyantse. On the way, passing over the Gampala pass (4790 m),you will have a glimpse of Yamdrok-tso (4400m) .The Lake is surrounded by many snow-capped mountain and in the distance you have spectacular views of Holy Mount Nyenchen Khangsar, (7191m) the highest mountain near Lhasa .Gyantse was historically known as the Tibet’s third largest city (after Lhasa and Shigatse). In Gyantse, we will visit the famous Pelkor Monastery and Gyantse Kumbum. After one and a half hour’s driving, we arrive in Shigatse, which is the second largest city in Tibet. Stay overnight in Shigatse (Zangba hotel or Manasarova hotel)
Day 5: Shigatse to Rongbuk monastery (400 KM) – EBC
We’ll leave Shigatse after getting your Alien’s travel permit, and then drive to Lhatse, it is a small town where you can take lunch. After that, you will drive to Shegar and if the weather is clear enough then on the way down to shegar you will view the Mt, Everest in the distance. After 4 to 6 hours’ drive we will pass one of the highest Pass in Tibet (pang la pass height 5050m) from that’s pass you will view the whole five highest pick in the world. Drive 2 more hours until we reach EBC. (Overnight at Rongbuk tent guesthouse, dorm beds 4-6 people sharing)
Day 6 Mt.Everest base camp – to Shigatse (400 KM)
Have a full view the magnificent Mt. Everest standing like a snow-capped pyramid in front of you at Rongpuk, which is the vantage point for watching Mt. Everest. Then you may trek to Base camp 4/km one way or go to EBC by local bus. After base camp, you can visit Rongphu Monastery which is the highest monastery in the world (5000m) and belongs to Nyingma sect. After that drive back to Shigatse
Day 7: Shigatse to Lhasa by road
In Shigatse, we’ll visit Tashilhunpo Monastery, the seat of Tibet’s second highest incarnation, the Panchen Lama. After that we will go back to back to Lhasa on the friendship Highway. Stay at Lhasa (Yak Hotel or New Mandala Hotel). The whole distance is almost 280km and it takes 6 hours along the Yarlung Tsangpo River / Bhamaputra River (the Longest and largest river in Tibet).
Drive from Lhasa to airport
Dates of departure and price:
December: 17th, 23rd, 24th, 26th
January: 1st, 5th, 14th, 21st, 26th
February: 8th, 16th
Price: 5800 rmb / person
April: 1st, 3rd, 7th, 13th, 17th, 20th, 23rd, 27th, 30th
May: 2nd, 4th, 7th, 11th, 16th, 20th, 23rd, 27th, 29th, 31st
June: 3rd, 6th, 10th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 20th, 23rd
Price: 6400 rmb / person
June: 27th, 29th
July: 2, 6, 8, 11, 14, 18, 21, 25, 29
August: 1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 18, 22,
Price: 7300 rmb / person
August: 26, 30
September: 2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30
Price: 6800 rmb / person
Including: Tibetan permit, transport in Tibet, English speaking Tibetan tour guide, traffic accident insurance, all entrance fees as per itineary, oxygen supply, 1 dinner in local Tibetan family, accomodation in the three stars hotel with breakfast (double occupancy; single suppplement – 1000) and hostel at the base camp.
Not including: flight/train to and from Lhasa, lunches and dinners (except for 1 dinner in local Tibetan family), breakfast at Rongbuk monastery, your personal expenses, tips to guide and driver, invoice
Documents for Tibetan permit:
2) Scanned copy of passport in color
3) Scanned copy of visa in color
4) Scanned copy of entry stamp in color
5) a) Scanned copy of work permit in color (with work visa)
b) Scanned copy of university enrollement in color (student visa)
PLEASE NOTE: The schedule may be adjusted due to weather conditions or unforeseeable events. If Tibet closes its border and no permit can be issued, full refund will be provided.
How to book:
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2) BOOK YOUR SEAT by transferring 1000 RMB deposit (100% of price needs to be paid 10 days before the trip)
3) Receive confirmation by email
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Cicadas on pizza? This restaurant went there, and then went viral
After you get past the "goo and the crunch," it's pretty good.
At least that's what a member of the tasting panel for Dayton's The Pizza Bandit had to say about the eatery's recent cicada-pizza experiment.
The Ohio restaurant was recently featured on CNN and MSNBC for its insect offering, with Chef James Burton putting his culinary skills to work Sunday incorporating the bugs into a Thai-themed pizza. In addition to the cicadas, it was topped with miso hoisin sriracha sauce, mango, mushroom, cabbage, green onion, cilantro, mozzarella, provolone and spicy Thai sauce.
The restaurant wrote on its Facebook page: "From a distance this pie looks delightful but once you get closer you realize those are no raisins..."
During a tasting livestream, Burton blanched the insects, which he said gave off an unpleasant smell. Next, he sautéed them in chili powder and sesame oil. Finally, he used the wings to decorate the crust.
But you won't be able to give this a try. The cicada pizza is not available for purchase, even for those willing to bring their own cicadas. The Pizza Bandit isn't sure it would be legal to offer the buggy pie, according to its Facebook post.
The idea for this once-in-17-years experiment has been in the works for a while, Burton said on the livestream. A Pizza Bandit regular handpicked the cicadas off the trees in a heavily populated area before bringing them to the chef.
The verdict? Weird food aficionados may be pleasantly surprised, but those who can't handle weird textures or who are allergic to seafood should not try this at home.
Brood X cicada guts on your car?:Here's how to clean it and prevent more problems
Blue-eyed cicadas:They're rare, but not worth $1,000

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Custom Millwork for Heron Haberdashery
We recently had an exciting opportunity to build custom millwork and fixtures for Heron Haberdashery, a beautiful men's clothing store in Corona Del Mar.
Primary materials for this project were Mozambique and Walnut. We fabricated all of the woodwork you see pictured, including a really interesting "cloud" ceiling piece.
This project was designed by Gensler, a design firm we've been a fan of for years. It was an honor to build a Gensler design, and to help bring their vision to life. A big thank you to our client, General Contractor LM Quality Builders, Inc.
Next time you visit Corona Del Mar, be sure to stop by Heron Haberdashery!


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Solstad/Rem merger completedCompany News // December 9, 2016
The merger between Rem Offshore and Solship Invest 1 AS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Solstad Offshore, was completed on 9 December.
In a statement, the companies said the deal "contributes to the much needed consolidation" of the offshore support vessel (OSV) industry. It creates a modern, high-end fleet of 61 vessels including 26 construction support vessels, 16 anchor handlers and 19 PSVs and will enable cost synergies to be realised, they said.
“Since the announcement of the merger the OSV market has continued to be weak, strengthening the rationale for creating larger and more robust entities,” said Lars Peder Solstad, CEO of Solstad Offshore.
The merger was approved by the shareholders in REM, Solship Invest and Solstad Offshore on 10 October 2016.
With the registration of the merger, the resolution to elect Inger-Marie Sperre as a new member of the Board of Directors of Solstad Offshore has been effected. The Board of Directors of Solstad Offshore now consists of: Terje Vareberg (chairman), Toril Eidesvik, Anders Onarheim, Ellen Solstad, Frank O Reite and Inger-Marie Sperre. Mr Reite is Aker ASA’s chief financial officer. Ellen Solstad is a member of the Solstad family who, through her related companies, holds shares in Solstad Offshore.


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FingerprintDive into the research topics of 'The effect of NaFeEDTA on sensory perception and long term acceptance of instant noodles by Vietnamese school children'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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