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Ireland is a country who famous with its conservative rule and the most one who maintained with its organised Christianity...in a sudden shock for the world's followers to the news of Ireland government hit them recently said that... a new a young, openly gay, half-Indian originality came as (prime minister),what meant as a sign of Ireland’s move towards the secularism. A country where organised Christianity was once exceptionally well entrenched is now, it seems,that it abandoning the beliefs, practices and taboos mandated by that religion with unusual speed.
That is certainly part of the story, but the picture is more complicated than that. In the Irish republic, the overwhelming majority of citizens still describe themselves as Roman Catholic, though the percentage is slipping fast. In the census taken last year, 78% identified with that faith, a drop of six percentage points since 2011. Over the same five years, the number of Irish people professing no religion jumped by 74% to reach 468,000, nearly a tenth of the population. Religions followed mainly by newcomers showed remarkable growth: the Muslim population rose nearly 30% to 63,000, and Orthodox Christians (mostly from Romania and ex-Soviet lands) number 65,000, an increase of 38%.
To state the obvious, the standing of Ireland’s Catholic church has been devastated by revelations of clerical child abuse and in particular, of shabby collusion between church and state authorities in covering up such practices. In recent years, attention has focused on the dreadful suffering that occurred in religiously run establishments such as industrial schools for boys and “Magdalene laundries”, where so-called “fallen women” were obliged to work in prison-like conditions.
One consequence is that the institutional prestige of the church and its associated bodies has declined much faster than has faith itself. Vocations to the priesthood have fallen to a trickle, and the social power wielded by religious orders is a fading memory. As a result, many pastoral jobs once done by priests are now carried out by married deacons, a lower rank of ecclesiastical office. In Dublin in particular, vast churches built to accommodate a burgeoning flock in the 1950 s now stand empty. But the culture of Catholicism remains robust, helped by the fact that the church retains its sway over elementary education. In 2015, religious rites were still the popular form of wedding, accounting for 66% of unions against 28% for civil ceremonies. Some 57% of nuptials were Catholic. In many schools, elaborate and expensive first-communion ceremonies in the Catholic church are an important rite of passage for almost all youngsters.
But in the referendum campaign in 2015 on same-sex marriage, which culminated in a “yes” vote of 62% to 38%, it was noticeable that the church itself raised only a muffled voice in opposition to the change, sensing that the country was in no mood to hear moral lectures from the pulpit. Most of the “no” campaigning was done by lay social-conservative lobbies, such as the Iona Institute. Many politicians and public figures who were practising Catholics came out for a “yes” vote. Given the relatively cautious tone of the “no” campaign, it was remarkable (and troubling to social liberals) that opponents of the proposal still numbered nearly 40%.
In some ways, the religious scene in Ireland is an extreme form of a phenomenon that is familiar across Europe. For historical reasons, organised Christianity still enjoys considerable resources, infrastructure and legal heft, out of proportion to the respect it commands among ordinary people; and the church, sensing public scepticism, is gradually learning to use those privileges somewhat cautiously, although in Ireland it took a lamentably long time to absorb this lesson.
That permanent tension (between historic power and secularism reality) makes for some hard public-policy arguments, the outcome of which is never easy to predict. In recent weeks, there was uproar over a decision by the government to transfer a new maternity hospital to a campus of medical facilities belonging to a religious order, the Sisters of Charity, previously associated with abusive institutions. A respected obstetrician resigned from the hospital board in protest and 100,000 people quickly signed an online petition against the decision, made by one of Mr Varadkar’s cabinet colleagues. The religious order duly announced it was withdrawing from all involvement with the campus.
Also in recent days, there was a debate in the Irish parliament on a proposal to secularise state-funded education, ending devotional teaching and insisting on an open admissions policy for all schools. But the bill was opposed by the country’s two main parties, including Mr Varadkar’s centre-right Fine Gael. Their argument was that the bill would compromise the religious freedom laid down by the constitution. In particular, it was asserted, the measure would stop minority religions maintaining their own schools. A small but robust minority of Irish secularists, including the lobby group Atheist Ireland, retorts that the current emphasis on devotional education infringes the rights of many non-religious people, as well as small religious groups like the Ahmadi Muslims. On this point Mr Varadkar may be at odds with some of his party colleagues; he has shown openness to proposals to remove devotional classes from the curriculum, while others in Fine Gael resist that idea.
The fortunes of organised Irish Christianity are likely to ebb and flow for years to come. The long-term trend is towards secularism, in other words a reduction in religion’s institutional power and in its ability to dictate people’s personal lives. But even that is not the whole story. Ireland has always had a homely, popular religion that depended only partially on the sanction of priests: a devotion to pilgrimage routes and holy landscapes; a fondness for popular books about angels; a feeling that life’s biggest moments should have some sacred dimension, however it might be expressed. Such things are hard to measure, but anecdotal evidence suggests in the land of saints and scholars, this kind of semi-private spirituality is alive and well.

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Moonraker is the third novel by British author Ian Fleming, based on the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, first published by Jonathan Cape on April 7, 1955. The novel's name was used in 1979 for the eleventh official film in the EON Productions Bond franchise and the fourth to star Roger Moore as James Bond. However, the story of the film was significantly modified so as to take advantage of the late 1970s 'Space Craze'. Consequently the film tells a very different story, and was subsequently novelised by Christopher Wood.

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New Delhi not satisfied with action taken by Islamabad to unravel conspiracy conceived on its soil
Ahead of a possible meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari here on Thursday, India has said the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the Samjhauta Express blast are not comparable and New Delhi is still not satisfied with the action taken by Islamabad to unravel the conspiracy conceived on its soil.
“We have shown that what happened in Mumbai had connections in Pakistan with not just non-state actors but also the official hierarchy. We have managed to show what the problem was,” official sources said here.
“We have also shown willingness as Indian state to get to the bottom of this. We will go wherever the evidence leads us to.” The officials, speaking to the media ahead of two crucial Indo-Pak engagements in a fortnight — one likely between Dr. Singh and Mr. Zardari on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit and the other between the two Foreign Ministers in Islamabad early next month — expressed disappointment at the slow pace of trials in Pakistan of those arrested for the Mumbai attacks as well as Islamabad’s failure to prosecute Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed.
“They keep switching judges, they keep finding a reason. The people in jail are using mobile phones and are still running their networks. They [Pakistan government] can say what they like. We know and they know where the truth lies,” said the sources.
They took umbrage at the suggestion that the Samjhauta blast in India, which killed many Pakistani citizens, and the Mumbai attacks were comparable. Nor did they subscribe to Pakistan’s suggestion that it was also a victim of terrorism. “They would love to do that. There is a serious difference in how the Indian state reacts and how the Pakistani state fails to react. Frankly, if you have the will to prosecute, the evidence is there. I can’t answer for the Pakistani legal system but I find it incredible when people say there are two sides to the Mumbai attack,” said one of the sources.
While expressing annoyance at Islamabad’s handling the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks in terms of arraigning the masterminds, the sources did not subscribe to the notion that web uploads and SMS messages from Pakistan led to tensions, assault on and mass exodus of people from the northeast living in some south Indian cities. The answer lay, they said, in tightening cyberspace monitoring and vigil.
“Some stuff, about a quarter probably, was uploaded in Pakistan. This is not a state-to-state issue. This is in a domain where there is no sovereignty. We need to understand that we must do what we can under the law if they [the provocateurs] really cross the line,” said the sources.
But it is not as if the authorities are in the dark or helpless about the people who circulated grisly images, many of them morphed.
“We know some of the people. Also, we are trying to evolve a system because some of the images began trending a week before the exodus took place. At the same time, there are no 100 per cent answers to this,” said the sources.

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Julius Peppers gets 10 snaps as three starters sit out Packers' preseason opener
Nashville, Tenn. — Coach Mike McCarthy pledged at midweek to show the Seattle Seahawks, the Green Bay Packers' opponent in the regular-season opener, next to nothing during the exhibition season.
One way to do that was take uniforms away from Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson and Eddie Lacy, which McCarthy surprisingly did Saturday night in the Packers' 20-16 loss to the Tennessee Titans at LP Field.
McCarthy did deign to put defensive newcomer Julius Peppers on the rain-slickened turf for 10 snaps. Those 10 snaps were one of the points of interest on a stormy night in Tennessee.
A crowd estimated at between 20,000 and 25,000 was on hand. Heavy rain fell for the entire first quarter before it stopped in the second quarter and then returned for a portion of the third quarter.
"You remember games like that when you were a kid," McCarthy said. "It was fun to play in that tonight.
"To play in this environment was an incredible experience for us. We are from Green Bay, Wisconsin."
The Packers fumbled five times, losing one, and dropped four or five passes. Rookie Davante Adams fumbled twice on punt returns after having received little time doing it in practice.
"There's fundamental, technical things he needs to improve on," McCarthy said. "You never go into any season with just one person at any position. You can never be deep enough."
Peppers started at right outside linebacker in the 3-4 base defense. Five of his snaps came there.
He also logged five snaps at left end in the 4-2 nickel defense.
"It was just a matter of getting him going," an executive in personnel for an NFL team said. "You're not really going to see much from him now. This is the warm-up to the warm-up."
On Peppers' first play, veteran tight end Craig Stevens slammed into the 34-year-old with determination and controlled him as the running back ran by for a gain of 4. Peppers gave Stevens a piece of his mind after the play.
A few snaps later, Stevens confronted Peppers again in a run-block situation. After gaining a stalemate, Stevens found himself thrown to the ground by Peppers.
"I saw that," another NFL personnel man said. "(Peppers) looked tough against the run early. Star players don't like the way Stevens plays. He's a finisher."
The Titans scored on a 13-yard run by Shonn Greene that proved to be Peppers' final snap.
On the play, Peppers moved up the field from right outside linebacker and was sealed wide by tackle Michael Roos. Next to Peppers, defensive end Mike Daniels charged inside.
After slipping underneath Peppers, Greene easily outran inside linebacker Brad Jones to the end zone.
"It's so hard to tell," one scout said. "You don't know what the footing was like. You can't tell much in weather like that."
Greene also had a rush for 3 yards on the Titans' second play from scrimmage, in which Peppers appeared to be in position to make the tackle in the backfield but either stumbled or hesitated.
"I was told by one of our personnel guys that used to be with Peppers that he is just a freak of nature," one scout said. "That his body type may be like he's five years younger. But we won't see that in the preseason."
In all, the Titans rushed five times, passed three times and had two busted plays with Peppers in the lineup.
On the second pass attempt by Jake Locker, Greene went directly at Peppers and hit him somewhere near the thigh area. Waiting behind Greene to double-team Peppers was right tackle Michael Oher.
Is chip-blocking by a running back going to be a frequent tactic against Peppers?
"No question," one scout said. "He's so talented. Teams will have to look for that guy. It'll dictate where you go with the ball.
"But you have 52 (Clay Matthews), too. And you can't double them both."
Peppers offered nothing as a pass rusher, not that anything was expected on a wet night in early August.
"He's such a premier athlete," one scout said. "He'll survive because of that."
At midweek, McCarthy was up front about what the Seahawks could expect to ascertain from the Packers' four exhibition games.
"Philosophically, some people just go about it and show whatever," McCarthy said. "Most people don't show what they're going to show against Seattle."
Early in practices this summer, McCarthy has led the offense from Ray Nitschke Field and into the Don Hutson Center, where fans and reporters aren't able to watch. The offense then has worked inside for about 15 minutes.
"What we plan on doing for Seattle is nothing we've been practicing on outside," McCarthy added. "Frankly, we probably won't show it in the first four weeks of preseason."
McCarthy had never withheld Rodgers from an exhibition opener before Saturday night. Lacy and Nelson also watched from the sidelines in sweats.
"Good thing I'm watching Tennessee," one scout said. "You'd be a little disappointed. But those three guys are all spectacular players. They'll only need a few series. They can get some next week and more in the third game."
McCarthy said he hadn't done a good job in the past giving playing time to the fourth quarterback and wanted to rectify the situation this summer with Chase Rettig, a rookie free agent from Boston College. He mopped up in the final three series.
"I feel like Aaron's had an excellent camp...a phenomenal spring," McCarthy said. "He would have played one series tonight, so it was really about getting Chase to the work in the whole fourth quarter.
"We made it a point that our young players had the whole fourth quarter."
Meanwhile, running back James Starks made the most of the start by carrying six times for 49 yards in an eight-play, 64-yard touchdown drive to open the game.
"Starks isn't what you want as a starter, but he's a good role player," said one scout. "They've got Lacy and (DuJuan) Harris. That's a couple guys in the stable."
Under McCarthy, the Packers fell to 2-7 in exhibition openers, including five defeats in a row. The Titans improved to 5-0 against McCarthy in the summer game.
McCarthy is 15-18 overall in exhibition games.


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A three-day Nrityanchal Dance Festival will begin at Jatiya Natyashala and Nandan Manch of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy from April 27.
“The Nrityanhal Dance Festival will be performed at 7 pm every day. Renowned Indian dance master Lila Shamson will inaugurate the programme as the chief guest while Bangladesh choreographer Mostafa Monwar will be present as special guest,” Director of Nrityanchal artiste Shibli Mohammed told journalists at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) at Segunbagicha in the capital.
He said around 250 artistes, including 25 students of different city schools, will perform in the programme.
Replying to a query of journalist, Sibli said a total of Taka 15 lakh will require to organize the dance festival.
Director of Nrityanchal Shamim Ara Nipa and coordinator Muhammad Jahangir, among others, were also present at the press conference.


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Data apps power innovation and big data decision making
- A healthcare analytics platform that offers predictive models for patient readmission rates, early detection of medical conditions, and personalized treatment plans
- A financial analytics tool that offers anti-money laundering monitoring, fraud detection algorithms, real-time market analysis, and other risk assessments.
- A retail analytics platform that provides real-time sales and inventory data, demand forecasting, and customer segmentation.
These applications exist amongst every industry and can take on many shapes and sizes, from in-product dashboards to next-best actions, to chat bots and machine-learning recommendation engines. However the look and feel, building efficient and scalable data applications requires strategic alignment across the business. With any new venture comes opportunities and challenges that require thorough research, planning, and the right technologies in place to achieve long-term product viability and success.
Today, we see customer building data applications for near-real-time (NRT) or real-time insights to business critical (and often revenue-generating) ventures, including:
- log analysis
- cyber threat detection
- fraud detection
- supply chain optimization
- machine-generated data
- clickstream data
- customer 360
Challenges with building data apps
While the prospects of data applications are enticing, there are a number of challenges to face. These data applications need to be optimized for speed and scale, and flexible enough to meet the ever-changing demands of today’s enterprises. Some challenges to highlight are:
Legacy systems create challenges when building data applications due to their outdated technology and lack of integration with modern software and platforms. These systems often have limited or no APIs, making it difficult to extract data and incorporate it into newer applications. Additionally, legacy systems may not support real-time data processing and lack the flexibility required to adapt to evolving business needs, hindering the performance and usability of data applications. As a result, developers often face complexities and inefficiencies when trying to build and maintain robust data-driven applications within such environments.
Build vs Buy
When building data applications, organizations face the “build vs. buy” challenge, where they must decide whether to develop the application in-house or purchase a third-party solution. Building the application in-house allows for customization and control but demands significant development resources, expertise, and time. On the other hand, buying a pre-built solution offers faster deployment and reduced development effort but might limit flexibility and require ongoing vendor support and licensing costs. Striking the right balance between customization and time-to-market is crucial when making this decision.
Scalability and high concurrency
Scalability and high concurrency challenges arise as businesses experience increased data volume and user demand. Ensuring that the application can handle a growing number of users and data inputs while maintaining optimal performance becomes critical. Proper database design, efficient big data processing, and load balancing techniques are essential to handle high concurrency and prevent performance bottlenecks. Scaling infrastructure and resources dynamically to meet demand is also crucial in addressing the challenges of scalability and high concurrency effectively.
Integration challenges emerge when building data applications due to the need to seamlessly connect with various data sources, APIs, and existing systems. Ensuring smooth data flow and compatibility between different technologies can be complex, especially when dealing with legacy systems or disparate data formats. Developers must navigate big data silos, data mapping, data transformation, and potential data conflicts to achieve a cohesive and comprehensive integration that delivers accurate and up-to-date insights to users within the embedded application.
Surfacing data within third-party systems increases the risk of unauthorized access and data breaches if not adequately protected. Developers must implement robust authentication and authorization mechanisms, encryption protocols, and data access controls to safeguard sensitive information. Regular security audits, updates, and vulnerability assessments are essential to mitigate potential risks and ensure the highest level of data protection within the embedded data application.
Seamless experience / user adoption
Designing intuitive user interfaces with clear data visualization and interactive features ensures users can easily access and interpret the data. Providing comprehensive user training and support during the adoption phase fosters user confidence and competence in utilizing the application effectively. By focusing on an intuitive design and comprehensive training, businesses can enhance user satisfaction, drive user adoption, and maximize the value derived from the embedded data application.
Data applications bridge internal and external use cases
In a world of increasing competition and disruption, organizations are nearly required to build novel solutions to increase worker productivity and diversify business models. Data applications are steadfast approaches to both internal and external avenues.
Internally, In-product analytics drives operational efficiency within the organization. As data products become standardized, the business can streamline its internal processes, ensuring consistent and reliable delivery of insights to end users. This efficiency drives cost savings and optimized resource allocation so that teams can continue to focus on improvement and innovation across the business.
Externally, we exist in a fast-paced, ever-changing landscape. The ability to transform data analytics into marketable products is a game changer. It elevates businesses above competitors by offering tailored solutions, unlocking new revenue streams, and building unwavering customer loyalty. Rather than simply providing raw data or reports, businesses can deliver actionable solutions and tools that address specific pain points, deliver measurable results, and boost user adoption and retention.
Architecting a data application
Luckily for developers, cloud-native tech is playing a pivotal role in democratizing data application building for engineering teams. By providing scalable and easily manageable infrastructure, cloud-native tools eliminate the complexities associated with traditional OLTP setups. Regardless of the tools at your disposal, data apps at large are founded on the below principles.
There are several requirements to consider when researching, planning, and developing a data application:
- Live data streams
- Also known as real-time data streams, these enable data applications to process and analyze data as it arrives. These tools are becoming increasingly popular and less cost prohibitive with the proliferation of cloud based streaming providers.
- Modern data stack
- The modern data stack is set of technologies and tools used to manage and analyze data in today’s data-driven businesses. It encompasses data orchestration and transformation with a data pipeline (ETL or ELT), data storage (data warehouse or data lake), and an analytics tool (business intelligence and/or data visualization tool)
- Allows the application to efficiently serve many users at once, ensuring everyone gets their personalized data insights without interfering with others. This reduces costs, simplifies application management, and promotes scalability, making it easier to accommodate a growing user base, increasing data volume, and to provide a consistent and standardized experience across all tenants.
- Fine-grained access control
- Fine-grained access control requires the implementation of a robust authentication and authorization system to identify users and assign specific role-based access or permissions. Fine-grained data tagging is essential to associate each data row with attributes that define allowed user access. Efficient data filtering mechanisms must be in place to restrict access during data retrieval, and secure data storage and communication protocols are necessary to protect sensitive information.
- Through various APIs (data APIs, SQL APIs) developers can access and manipulate data from various sources without needing to understand the underlying complexities of the data storage or processing systems. This simplifies data integration, accelerates development timelines, and fosters interoperability, enabling developers to focus on building the core features and functionalities of the data application.
- Robust data visualization
- Data visualizations shape the end user experience just as much as the upstream tools that fuel it. They aggregate data across datasets and facilitate better data exploration, identification of trends, patterns, and outliers. Whether custom built or fueled by business intelligence tools, this is a vital component for data-driven decision-making that enhances the overall application value.
Choosing the right tech stack
Navigating the tech stack selection is pivotal for creating successful data applications.
Open lakehouse approach
The open data lakehouse overcomes the limitations of legacy lakes, because it’s built with the understanding that center of gravity does not mean a single source of truth. It works with your other data sources in an open, scalable manner – creating a single, open system to access and govern the data in and around your lake.
Related reading: Modern data lake: Definition, benefits, and architecture
System must handle vast amounts of big data, from terabytes to exabytes, without compromising performance. Offers customers full control over data storage, management, and consumption to allow for optimization of their analytics environment. Scalable data applications enable seamless expansion and adaptability, ensuring they can meet the increasing demands of users and evolving business requirements.
Prioritize efficient handling of big data and complex computations. Look for robust data integration capabilities and seamless connections with various sources, and leverage in-memory processing and caching to reduce retrieval times. System should be able to provide a performant user experience no matter the load or concurrency.
Focus on cloud-based solutions to pay only for actual resource usage, utilizing serverless architectures and auto-scaling to efficiently scale resources as needed. Choose cost-effective big data storage options, compress data when possible, and implement caching to reduce retrieval costs. Emphasize data cleaning and transformation to minimize storage requirements. Regularly monitor resource usage and performance to identify areas for further cost optimization and avoid unnecessary expenses.
Based on our conversations across customers, below is an example reference architecture for a Starburst powered data application.
Starburst-powered data applications
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Named one of the top 15 hottest AI startups in Europe in 2020, 7bridges is an AI-powered global supply chain platform that provides complete visibility into end-to-end operations all within one platform.
All applications were connected to the main relational database – PostgreSQL. While the platform was functional, slow query execution, timeouts, and data accessibility issues created dissatisfaction among clients.
7Bridges deployed Starburst Galaxy to overcome these data challenges. Reports that took >45 minutes now execute in minutes or less. Non-technical business users can now easily discover and interact with data on their own, reducing dependency on data engineering teams and accelerating time to insight across the business. With Starburst at the forefront of their lakehouse strategy, 7bridges optimized their infrastructure costs, improved data accessibility, sped up query execution, and greatly enhanced the overall client experience.
“We chose Galaxy because of the flexibility it offers to connect to so many different types of tools, data formats, and data sources we may need in the future. From a R&D perspective, it’s also extremely valuable to be able to spin clusters up and down and split clusters up in a quick and easy way,” shares Simon Thelin, Lead Data Engineer at 7Bridges.
Related reading: Learn more about 7bridges move to Starburst Galaxy
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A leading cyber security company provides products to customers that surface log-in anomalies and additional insights to mitigate cyberthreats.
A leading cyber security company provides products to customers that surface log-in anomalies and additional insights to mitigate cyberthreats. With ElasticSearch and EMR, company ran into consistent query failure and were only able to query log data for up to 30 days. Each EMR environment required daily tuning, stealing valuable team members to focus on operations instead of feature development. These limitations were diminishing product value and prevented them from market expansion and upsell opportunities.
Today, this company leverages Starburst Galaxy as an embedded query engine which enables their customers to expand their log data queries up to 90 days and unlocks new use cases within their existing customer base while offloading the management of Trino to Starburst Galaxy. With this expansion and new markets (9 total), this company believes they have an opportunity to IPO in the next 12-18 months.
Data apps continue to shape the landscape of tomorrow’s insights
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With arms ready to work and full of letters of care and concern, 10 members of the Montauk Rugby Football Club took a road trip to the Rockaways to provide physical labor and emotional support to victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Administrators and faculty in the East Hampton School District and at surrounding schools have begun reviewing existing safety measures following the shooting deaths at a school in Connecticut last week.
The town’s local waterfront revitalization plan, crafted over a number of years and approved by New York State, and other sections of the town code, as well as trustee regulations, govern what may or may not be done on shorelines.
Volunteers such as Brian Lydon of East Hampton are struggling to continue their efforts in the Rockaways. “I am simply exhausted beyond the beyond . . . yet tomorrow there will be many waiting for hope and sustenance.”
The future of East Hampton Town’s individual hamlets can best be addressed by the residents appointed to the citizens advisory committees for the each of them, Councilwoman Theresa Quigley suggested at a board meeting on Tuesday.
A draft report may lead to a deer-management plan — the first of its kind in the state — to find short-term as well as long-term and compassionate solutions to a problem that many say has reached “an emergency level.”


A mixed-integer LP model for the reconfiguration of radial electric distribution systems considering distributed generation
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The problem of reconfiguration of distribution systems considering the presence of distributed generation is modeled as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problem in this paper. The demands of the electric distribution system are modeled through linear approximations in terms of real and imaginary parts of the voltage, taking into account typical operating conditions of the electric distribution system. The use of an MILP formulation has the following benefits: (a) a robust mathematical model that is equivalent to the mixed-integer non-linear programming model; (b) an efficient computational behavior with exiting MILP solvers; and (c) guarantees convergence to optimality using classical optimization techniques. Results from one test system and two real systems show the excellent performance of the proposed methodology compared with conventional methods. © 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Apart from Google Pixel phones, OnePlus is known to be the brand that releases the latest Android OS and security updates faster than any other brands. Samsung, this year, also joined the bandwagon and will be lending three years of software support for its devices from 2019. OnePlus really changed the game with the launch of the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro smartphone. Especially the OnePlus7 Pro, as it had a gorgeous AMOLED panel with a high refresh rate at 90Hz. The OnePlus 7 series really brought the high refresh rate display into the commercial market.
Before that only gaming phones used to sport high refresh rate displays. Over the years, the device has received one major OS update in the form of Android 10. And the phone is all set to receive the Android 11 update, which will be the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro’s second major OS update. In this post, we will keep you updated on all the information about the Android 11 update for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro. With that being said, let us get straight into the article itself:
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OnePlus brought in the OnePlus 7 device along with the OnePlus 7 Pro back in 2019. The phone comes with a waterdrop notch 6.41-inch display that comes with a 90Hz refresh rate AMOLED panel. The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset which is coupled with 6-12GB of RAM. OnePlus 7 comes with an onboard storage capacity of 128/256GB. There is no external card slot for memory expansion.
The phone comes with an Android 9 Pie and OxygenOS 9 on top. Talking about the cameras, it sports a dual-camera setup with a 48MP primary lens and a 5MP depth sensor. OnePlus 7 is capable of recording 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240fps, 720p@480fps. For selfies, there is a 16MP camera that can record up to 1080p@30fps. There are stereo speakers. It is juiced by a 3700 mAh battery which supports 20W fast charging. The fingerprint scanner is placed under the display, which is an optical scanner.
OnePlus 7 Pro
Talking about the device that stole the limelight from every other smartphone released in 2019, the OnePlus 7 Pro is powered by a still-capable Snapdragon 855 processor which is coupled with 6-12GB of RAM. It offers 128/256GB of onboard storage option and does not come with a dedicated microSD card slot. The phone sports the FLUID AMOLED 90HZ refresh rate display which sizes at 6.67-inches. The panel is a QuadHD display and comes with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection.
It has a triple camera setup at the back with a 48MP primary lens, 8MP telephoto, and a 16MP ultrawide lens. The phone is capable 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60/240fps, and 720p@480fps. There is a motorized pop-up camera with a 16MP sensor, that gives the device an all-screen design. There is this immersive dual stereo speaker setup. The fingerprint scanner is placed inside the display. The phone comes with a 4000 mAh battery which supports Fast Charging 30W.
Android 11 Update Tracker
Here, we will keep it up to date with all the information about the Android 11 OxygenOS 11 update for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro smartphone. Note that all the latest information will be put in this section. So, it is advised that you keep checking back often to know about the latest developments of the Android 11 OxygenOS 11 update for the duo.
Update 4 (December 11)
An OnePlus staff member while responding to a user query regarding the Android 11 update for the OnePlus 7 and 7T series, has stated that the process of migrating users from OxygenOS 10 Android 10 to OxygenOS 11 Android 11 will take some more time. This would eventually delay the next Open Beta update for the devices in question. Here is the complete statement:
We know many of you are asking about the next Open Beta build, and we want to address those concerns. As we grow near the release of the OxygenOS 11 release, our focus for the Open Beta software branch has shifted entirely to bringing you the latest flavor of Android. This means the next Open Beta build will be slightly delayed according to our maintenance schedule, but it will already be based on Android 11.
We expect to have exciting news for you in the upcoming weeks, please bear with us a bit longer.
Update 3 (December 1)
As per a staff member in the OnePlus community member, the OnePlus 7 and 7T series will get the Canvas and insight AOD modes with the upcoming OxygenOS 11 update based on Android 11. Here is what the staff member said:
Are using OnePlus 7 or 7T Series? No worries, we are trying our best to bring Canvas AOD & Insight AOD to more OnePlus series, please stay tuned! You can send us your suggestions and ideas by using the Feedback tool in Community app. We appreciate your support in creating a user-driven experience.
Update 2 (November 2)
OnePlus Chinese forums have now confirmed that the next public beta builds for the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro would be based on Android 11. This seems like OnePlus is all set to introduce the Android 11 OxygenOS 11 update for the duo in December.
Update 1 (October 15)
As per the latest report by Android Authority, the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro are set to receive the Android 11 update in December.
So there you have it from my side in this post. Note that this is a dedicated OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro Android 11 OxygenOS 11 update tracker. All the latest information will be put up in this post once they go live. Note that the device is all set to receive the Android 11 OxygenOS 11 stable update in December 2020. So, keep a check on this post often to keep your phone up to date with the latest OS.
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Should cannabis be legalised coursework
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1. Project Description
The author for this project made smart device to monitor his room. This interactive device will let him know if anything happens in his house. This device can send the room status to his smart phone through cloud – Thingspeak.
For more information about thingspeak, please refer to the following link; https://thingspeak.com/.
- Arduino UNO
- Arduino Ethernet shield
- Ultrasonic distance sensor (You can use a PIR sensor, if you want to. I don’t have one so used distance sensor)
- DHT11, temperature and relative humidity sensor
- Gas sensor (MQ-2)
- OLED display (optional)
- Servo motor (This is optional, I used this to mount the distance sensor and screen the room while rotating)
- Jumper wires
3. Steps and Source Code
- Materials required
- Hardware circuit
- Thingspeak Channel
- Arduino Sketch and Libraries
Users can find the detailed implement guideline and source code on the author’s website.
For more information, please refer to the following link; http://www.instructables.com/id/Monitor-Your-Room-From-Anywhere-in-the-World/.


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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Day 236 and Fanboy
Fanaticism is rampant! I can't say I'm not okkay with it because I have my own movies, tv shows, books, and entertainments that sometimes overrun my life. If I'm going to be obvious about it, I might as well wear it on my sleeve, or in this case around my neck.
It's true. I'm a pokemon fan. I stopped right about when the Sapphire and Ruby installments came out, but that doesn't lessen my enthusiasm. This could easily have been either knit or crocheted. I decided to crochet today for the sake of speed. Truly the only thing this scarf required was a color scheme and an applique. The ball might be round, but the iconic image in any shape is easy to spot. There are plenty of other icons that could be done just about as simply.
One circle is the pokeball button, but what of three black circles? Mickey? What about a white scarf with a red or pink bow? Would you instantly recognize the muted colors of the amazingly long scarf of Dr. Who?

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Friday, September 18, 2009
Where the singles are? How do they collect these facts?
Seems all the single men are on the east coast and the single ladies on the East Coast. No wonder they are singles. Someone should start a Date Airline and make big bucks.
Have a great Weekend everyone :)
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The emerging pattern here then is that when individuals are properly incentivized, you can have things like rapid increases in productivity and bursts of creativity that come through a new technology and other things like that.
Unchanged Yes If the benefits for revolution are higher, revolution appeals more to the poor and thus the rich again have more incentive to redistribute to avoid revolution Based on the analysis above, it is not hard to conclude that the threat of revolution constantly incentivizes the rich to democratize.
This type of slow, grinding failure leaves many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America with living standards far, far below those Why some nations fail the West. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: All the same, its central government is unable or unwilling to exert control over probably half the country, which is dominated by left-wing guerrillas, most famously the FARC, and, increasingly, right-wing paramilitaries.
Globalization for example, or trade with less developed economies such as China are reducing labor costs, but in the process are destroying a lot of jobs and these gains that accrue to companies or some subset of consumers are not necessarily automatically spreading to the rest of society.
New technologies and globalization providing huge opportunities for increasing our productivity, increasing our ability to produce goods economically and increase the variety of goods that we produce for our consumers but these opportunities are also creating very unequal gains.
They had many revolutions led by people that built their destiny for the better throughout history. The track tells the tale: Each society functions with a set of economic and political rules created and enforced by the state and the citizens collectively.
The example we sort of talk about in the early chapters of the book is South versus North Korea, where a fairly homogeneous nation is suddenly broken into two at the 38th parallel because of the deal between China, Russia, and the United States. And inhe received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to economists under 40, judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.
Their argument is that order without inclusive institutions may enable an economy to escape poverty, but will not permit the full ascent to modern prosperity. The main beneficiaries of this system are President Islam Karimov and his cronies, who control the production and sale of the cotton.
In the absence of these global institutions, that has to be done voluntarily with different countries selfishly coming together, finding a common ground between the United States, China and India, as well as Europe. Look at it this way.
Hitting these alternative technologies is going to be a much more complex, not undoable but certainly a much more complex challenge that will require a lot of thoughtful, rather than an easy response. It got rid of slavery, and franchised African Americans, then dealt with the issues of monopolization of business and their political influences, then during Civil Rights extended opportunities more broadly within society, both to Blacks and earlier to women also an ongoing process to women.
Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest.
The seeds of of their destruction are sown deep within their political institutions.
Agriculture is organized via collective farms. Right, so I mean…if I could go back one second or one step, what I would say is that we certainly did not intend to and hopefully we did not, write a morality play. Not only has North Korea failed to grow economically — while South Korea has grown rapidly — but its people have literally failed to flourish.
In the s, tiny Britain was undergoing a railway mania in which more than 6, miles of track were built, while only one railway ran in vast continental Russia. What if South Korea fell under the communism after the war etc.
European Colonialism on Africa and South Asia On several instances in African and South Why some nations fail countries, the extractive institutions that underpinned the poverty of the nations were imposed by the same force that fueled the European growth, which is European commercial and colonial expansion.
Understanding Prosperity and Poverty: As Sachs describes, the evidence suggests that economic development is a multidimensional dynamic process, in which political, institutional, technological, cultural, and geographic factors all play a role. The road to Calca is paved, while the one to Acomayo is in terrible disrepair.
It explains why Spain, despite the same access to the Atlantic Trade fell behind England in economic development. Why Palestine is less developed is simply because inclusive economic institutions were not able to develop there, due to the colonial occupation and regional political machination.
First of all, the definition of extractive and inclusive institution is vague in a way that cannot be utilized in policymaking. You contrast that to the United States, especially in the northeast United States, you see very vibrant economic scene where people, regardless of which walk of life they come in, are able to jump in.
The Contingent Path of History Certain historical events play a critical role for a nation to shape the political and economical institutions.Daron Acemoglu is Elizabeth and James Killian professor of economics at MIT and co-author of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.
View Comments. “Why Nations Fail is a wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.” —The New York Times (Chrystia Freeland) "Why Nations Failis a truly awesome book.
Acemoglu and Robinson tackle one of the most important problems in the social sciences—a question that has bedeviled leading thinkers for /5().
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?
Simply, no.4/5. For anyone remotely interested in these issues Why Nations Fail is a must-read. Acemoğlu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank, the one a professor of economics at MIT, the other a professor of political science at Harvard. Descriptive Why Nations Fail takes an in depth look into why some countries flourish and become rich powerful nations while other countries are left in or reduced to poverty.
Throughout this book review I will discuss major arguments and theories used by the authors and how they directly impact international development, keeping in mind that. Apr 01, · Co-authored by the M.I.T. economist Daron Acemoglu and the Harvard political scientist James A.
Robinson, “Why Nations Fail” argues that the key differentiator between countries is “institutions.” Nations thrive when they develop “inclusive” political and economic institutions, and they fail when those institutions become “extractive” and concentrate power and opportunity in the hands of .Download

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DDGS values are $5/MT lower this week amid pressure from weaker soymeal and corn futures and despite a pullback in ethanol output. This week’s weak futures performance has pared back DDGS values, but end-user demand remains active as buyers use the break to book product. The ethanol industry was thought to have been exiting the spring maintenance shutdown season two weeks ago, but the recent dip in output, according to the EIA data, suggests there is still work being done. That will continue to keep spot DDGS supplies tight and support values amid weaker outside markets.
The FOB ethanol plant DDGS/cash corn price ratio rose to 1.12 this week, up from 1.06 last week and above the three-year average of 1.06. The DDGS/Kansas City soymeal ratio also rose this week and hit 0.57, up from last week’s value of 0.56 and still above the five-year average of 0.50.
Barge rates continue to work their way lower and keep export offers competitive. Barge CIF NOLA offers are down $15/MT for May – July positions while FOB NOLA offers are down $22 for spot shipment compared to last week and are $18-20/MT lower for June and July. Container rates, however, are slightly higher with offers for 40-foot containers to Southeast Asia up $2/MT at $388/MT.


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Strumming Up Excitement: A Preview of the Dallas International Guitar Show 2024
As the spring breeze gently sweeps through the vibrant city of Dallas, Texas, it brings along with it the unmistakable hum of anticipation. Guitar enthusiasts from around the globe are eagerly counting down the days to the much-awaited event of the year: The International Dallas Guitar Show 2024. Scheduled to take place from May 3rd to May 5th, this three-day extravaganza promises to be a celebration of all things guitar, captivating both seasoned musicians and curious newcomers alike.
Unveiling the Essence:
For decades, the International Dallas Guitar Show has stood as a beacon of excellence in the realm of guitar exhibitions. Renowned for its unparalleled showcase of exquisite instruments, groundbreaking innovations, and electrifying performances, the event continues to enchant attendees year after year. As we gear up for the 2024 edition, expectations soar high, promising an experience that transcends the ordinary and delves deep into the heart of musical craftsmanship.
A Symphony of Strings:
At the heart of the Dallas Guitar Show lies its impressive array of guitars, spanning every make, model, and genre imaginable. From vintage classics that whisper tales of bygone eras to cutting-edge creations that redefine the boundaries of sound, each instrument tells a unique story, waiting to be explored. Whether you're drawn to the warm tones of an acoustic masterpiece or the fiery allure of an electric legend, there's something to captivate every discerning ear.
Beyond the Instrument:
Yet, the Dallas Guitar Show is more than just a marketplace for guitars; it's a vibrant tapestry woven with the threads of passion, creativity, and camaraderie. Amidst the bustling halls and echoing chords, attendees find themselves immersed in a community united by a shared love for music. Here, conversations flow freely, friendships are forged, and inspiration knows no bounds, as artists and enthusiasts alike come together to celebrate their shared devotion to the craft.
A Harmonious Fusion:
One of the hallmarks of the International Dallas Guitar Show is its diverse lineup of events and activities, designed to cater to every musical taste and inclination. From live performances by Eric Steckel, Rocky Athas, Monte Montgomery, Buddy Whittington, Jimmy Wallace, Matt Schofield, Sonny Landreth, Greg Koch, George Lynch, Jared James Nichols, and more!
There's no shortage of opportunities to learn, connect, and be inspired. Whether you're a seasoned virtuoso or a curious novice, there's always something new to discover, making each day of the show a journey of exploration and enlightenment.
As the countdown to the International Dallas Guitar Show 2024 draws to a close, excitement reaches a fever pitch, promising an unforgettable experience for all who attend. Whether you're a seasoned musician, a dedicated collector, or simply someone with a love for all things guitar, this is an event not to be missed. So mark your calendars, tune your strings, and get ready to embark on a musical adventure like no other. The stage is set, the spotlight beckons – let the show begin!

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“We ‘flogged’ the 2019 MacBook Pro 15-inch 8-core to see if would drop below the 2.3GHz base frequency,” Rob Morgan writes for Bare Feats. “Would we see ‘thermal down throttling?'”
The hardware: 2019 MacBook Pro 2.3GHz 8-core Intel i9, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz, 16GB of 2400MHz DDR4 memory, Radeon Pro 560X GPU (4GB GDDR5 memory)
Note: Intel Power Gadget was used to monitor core frequency during testing.
“It could be argued that as long as you remain above the base frequency (or 2.3GHz in this case), your 2019 MacBook Pro is not experiencing thermal down throttling,” Morgan writes. “Though we have yet to benchmark the 2.4GHz 8-core version of the 2019 MacBook Pro, it seems that the nature of Apple’s high-end laptops is susceptibility to thermal down throttling when pushed to the limit.”
Read more and see the benchmarks in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Of note, Andrew O’Hara last week wrote for AppleInsider, “The heat piping is the same, the fan speeds are the same, the fan design is the same. The processor has the same TDP, and is the same die size as the 2018 six-core model. But, whatever Apple has done is working. The 2018 six-core machine is still an amazingly powerful machine, even if thermal conditions inside the case pull it back from what it could be. That limitation doesn’t seem to exist in the new eight-core machine.”
Thermal throttling and performance testing the eight-core 2019 MacBook Pro – May 27, 2019
Teardown: Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro and its revised butterfly keyboard – May 24, 2019
Apple again changes MacBook butterfly keyboard after user complaints continue – May 21, 2019
Apple extends Keyboard Service Program to all MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models with butterfly keyboard – May 21, 2019
Apple refreshes MacBook Pro with updated butterfly keyboard – May 21, 2019
Apple introduces first 8-core MacBook Pro, the fastest Mac notebook ever – May 21, 2019


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Kastela, old stone house for sale, 180.000 €, ID: 3594
- 240 m²
- 50 m
- Sea view
Spacious old stone house for complete renovation in the center of a small fishing village.
The house has three floors. On the ground floor is a one bedroom apartment and a large wine cellar.
The first floor is reached by an internal old stone staircase, and consists of three bedrooms, bathroom, hallway, pantry and a small balcony.
On the second floor are again three rooms, bathroom, kitchen and balcony with partial sea view.
Just across the house there is a garage and two other small storage rooms (for renovation), as well as a small garden.
Total size of this part is 83 m2. This part is sold separately, for 40.000 EUR.
The whole property would be ideal for opening a hostel or bed & breakfast, after renovation. Or just a really big family house.
The owner also has a building permit for the reconstruction of the property.
More about Kastela
The town of Kastela is situated in the Bay of Kastela, on the coast and stretches over the length of 17 kilometers. The town is specific because it is developed around 7 small settlements (Kastel Stafilic, Kastel Novi, Kastel Stari, Kastel Luksic, Kastel Kambelovac, Kastel Gomilica and Kastel Sucurac) or around castles. Each village has its own castle, particularity merged into character of this part of Mediterranean.
There is a newly built ACY Marina capable to accommodate big number of private and charter boats.
Kastela has excellent traffic infrastructure /international airport Split, a railway station, and access to Split - Zagreb highway/. Both Split and Trogir are only 20 minutes' drive.
Except for the sea and sun and its cultural and historic monuments, Kastela also offer many concerts, fishermen's feast and various sport/recreational activities. Many festivities take place at night at summer terraces, narrow streets, taverns and restaurants where local specialties are served.
Every year from July 1 - August 31 the "Kastela Cultural Summer" takes place. Events are held by the sea at the historic centres and castles. The highlight of the summer season is "Evenings of Dalmatian Songs" with traditional a cappella singing, known as Klape singing. Kastela with its cultural, natural and climate particularities was always interesting to visitors.
There are opportunities to buy property in Kastela area and these are mostly traditional stone houses and apartments tucked away in narrow streets hundreds of years old and full of character. Kastela's old villages are partly covered by the world heritage protection.
When buying Croatian property and especially real estate in Kastela it's important to ensure the title to the property is clear. However, this situation has ensured that there are many investment and refurbishment opportunities in Kastela real estate.
Property in Kastela is a great investment, very affordable but with growing value. It is a different market than other tourist property in Croatia.


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Reviewing the Resumes: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Voting Section
America should be appalled at the overwhelmingly politicized backgrounds of Eric Holder's hires in the Department of Justice Voting Section. (This is the second in a series of articles about the Civil Rights Division’s hiring practices since President Obama took office. Read the first article here.)
August 9, 2011 - 12:00 am
Not only did Shore contribute $1,000 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, her resume is a lengthy story of a leftist activist. Shore also worked for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a group dedicated to “environmental justice” and aiding illegal aliens. Naturally, while at MALDEF, she vigorously campaigned for comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens and characterized the citizenship verification program as an attempt to “disenfranchise” not only Hispanics, but also blacks. She also fought against Georgia’s photo identification requirement for voters, something states passing such laws should realize.
Florida recently submitted for DOJ approval a new law which limits the amount of time that ACORN-style groups can hold voter registration forms they harvest. The civil rights industry mobilized in opposition. Jesse Jackson held a rally in Tampa, railing against “Jim Crow.” To Jackson, moving the hours of early voting and requiring timely turnover of voter registration equals Jim Crow. After some early conversations with Shore at DOJ, and upon learning more about her background, Florida wisely yanked the submission and sought out a neutral federal judge for approval.
“By asking a court to rule on certain aspects of the bill, we are assured of a neutral evaluation based on the facts,” said Secretary of State Kurt Browning.
But the DOJ Voting Section has more “poster children” demonstrating why states should go straight to federal court.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange should be wary. If he submits Alabama’s redistricting plans to DOJ, they will be reviewed by Daniel Freeman. Freeman’s resume shows he worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union and interned for the ACLU. Rounding out his ideological bona fides, he helped Islamic terrorists held in Guantanamo while working for Human Rights First, a George Soros-funded group. Indeed, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee named him the Pro-Bono Attorney of the Year. He was the chair of the Yale Law School Democrats and a member of the Yale College Democrats while an undergraduate.
The Most Transparent Administration in History conspicuously redacted some of Freeman’s activities while at Yale. Freeman brings the perfect partisan pedigree combined with the requisite ideological fervor to Eric Holder’s Voting Section. Alabama would be better off submitting important election changes straight to a federal judge who won’t have the same sort of background as Freeman.
Unfortunately, Alabama won’t be the only state where Freeman will be reviewing redistricting changes. Alaska Attorney General John Burns should also consider sending Alaska election law changes straight to federal court to bypass Freeman. Joining Freeman to review any Alaska submission will be Jaye Sitton. Sitton is a donor to Democratic candidates and the resume she submitted to DOJ boldly proclaims she was a volunteer for “Barack Obama’s Campaign for Change.” She is also a member of GAYLAW and the Intersex Society of North America — whatever that is.


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Propolis, or bee-glue, is a waxy substance produced from tree resin and sap collected by bees. The word propolis derives from the Greek pro, meaning “in front of”, and polis, meaning “community or city”. Combined with beeswax and salivary secretions, it is used as a cement-like sealant to repair and maintain beehives, and reduce the occurrence of microorganisms inside the hive to protect the bees from infections.Propolis is typically derived from alder, beech, birch, poplar, willow, and pine. Its makeup and color will vary based on the types of trees and flowers in an area, but most commonly it is dark brown. At and above room temperature Propolis is sticky, but it hardens and becomes brittle at lower temperatures. Propolis was used medicinally by ancient cultures, including the Greeks, Assyrians and Egyptians. Traditionally it was used topically to support a healthy inflammatory response.* Bees use propolis to embalm invaders in the hive that they are not able to remove from the hive, and historically humans have used it to embalm mummies.
What is Propolis Used For?
Modern herbalists have used Propolis to support a variety of health concerns, and it is a common ingredient in natural oral care products and cosmetics.* Studies have supported its topical use, as well as its use as an oral rinse and to support the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory system.* Today it also is used to support healthy immune system functions and soothe mucosal tissues.*
Traditional Health Benefits of Propolis
Additional Information on this Herb
Plant resins, beeswax, terpenes, phenolic compounds and flavonoids, pollen, caffeic acid derivatives
Bee Harvested Tree Resin
Gebaraa, E. C., Pustiglioni, A. N., de Lima, L. A., and Mayer, M. P. Propolis extract as an adjuvant to periodontal treatment. Oral Health Prev.Dent. 2003;1(1):29-35. Steinberg, D., Kaine, G., and Gedalia, I. Antibacterial effect of propolis and honey on oral bacteria. Am.J.Dent. 1996;9(6):236-239.
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The CTA No. 14 Jeffery Express bus picks up commuters at 71st and Jeffrey. The route will be part of a bus rapid transit experiment to improve service on the South Side. (E. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune)
It seems impossible to accurately predict what will happen in 2012, but at least we can anticipate. Here are some of the topics Tribune reporters expect to be news next year, including Chicago's hosting of the G-8/NATO meetings in May; a trial in the killings of actress Jennifer Hudson's relatives; and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's going to prison.
PoliticsCongressional scramble in new districts
For the first time in a dozen years, Illinoisans will go to the polls in 2012 to vote for president without any other statewide races on the ballot. In addition, candidates for Congress will run in newly drawn districts, many seeking office in areas where they're not well known. With the state's primary moving back to March 20, it's possible that Illinois could be in play to help decide a GOP challenger to home state President Barack Obama if the Republican contest remains fluid. But without a statewide draw on the ticket and with voters casting ballots in unfamiliar districts, primary turnout could be very low.
— Rick Pearson
TransportationBus test, plus hikes for tollway, Metra
The CTA is scheduled to launch Chicago's first test of a bus rapid transit system featuring bus-only lanes and technology that gives buses green traffic signals on a 16-mile stretch of the No. 14 Jeffery Express route between the South Side and the Loop. But the CTA's immediate challenge will be reaching an agreement with its labor unions on $80 million in savings to avert fare hikes and service cuts by summer.
Some 1.4 million daily drivers on the Illinois tollway will see big increases in tolls starting Jan. 1. Basic I-Pass rates will jump 87.5 percent — 40-cent tolls will rise to 75 cents, for example — and cash tolls will double. Motorists will start seeing $609 million worth of construction, including rehab work on the central Tri-State Tollway (Interstate 294) and resurfacing on part of the Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88). The tollway will begin work on the I-294/I-57 interchange. On Feb. 1, Metra riders will see fares increase an average of 25 percent, the biggest jump in Metra's history. Pace says it's holding the line on suburban bus fares and hopes to add more bus-on-shoulder express service on the Stevenson Expressway (I-55).
— Richard Wronski, Jon Hilkevitch
City governmentPolice, fire contracts and pensions loom
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's second calendar year in charge will be packed. In May, Chicago hosts the G-8 and NATO summits, a test of the city's ability to handle major events under an international spotlight. In the spring, the new mayor will have to go back to Springfield to get recalcitrant lawmakers to overhaul the city's pension system. Midyear, Emanuel's negotiating prowess will be put to the test when police and fire contracts expire.
— Kristen Mack, Jeremy Gorner
County governmentPreckwinkle's social justice agenda
With the budget stabilized, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle wants to delve into her true passion: social justice. She's likely to be out front calling for fewer inmates at Cook County Jail and fewer teens at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. She wants to invest public money into rehabilitation and treatment programs, group homes and electronic monitoring to save taxpayers in the long run and give defendants a shot at becoming productive members of society. Preckwinkle also will look to consolidate county functions into an office of tax administration, which would be a one-stop destination for property owners. In addition, a new CEO for the county's Health and Hospitals System, Dr. Ramanathan Raju, begins work in earnest.
— Erika Slife
State governmentMore money woes despite tax hike
Gov. Pat Quinn and lawmakers may have raised the income tax this year, but the state's money problems run so deep they'll continue to grapple with the issue in 2012. Issues will play out against the backdrop of a new political map drawn by Democrats to increase their control of the General Assembly. That could mean a tougher time for advocates of gambling expansion that Quinn so far has blocked. The problem of runaway government employee pension costs also looms, an issue that could be further complicated by union negotiations, with the current deal expiring July 1.
— Monique Garcia
West suburbsNew building? New boundaries?


Mahendra Singh Dhoni is spending his time off the field after completion of 2022 season of the Indian Premier League. MS Dhoni is soon going to turn 41 years old on 7th July this year. Despite being 40 years old , MS Dhoni is one of fittest cricketers in the world. He is still very quick between the Wickets.
MS Dhoni is currently undergoing a knee treatment from a local Ayurvedic vaidya in Ranchi. Dhoni recently complained of pain in both of his knees. Captain cool is receiving treatment from the local practitioner named Vandan Singh. He charges just Rs 40 for the treatment from his patients.
Vandan Singh is a famous vaidya from a village in Ranchi which is almost 70 km away from the house of Dhoni. Vandan Singh has been treating patients for the last three decades. He advises patients to consume milk with various herbs mixed in them. Parents of MS Dhoni also received treatment from the same practitioner.
Vandhan Singh said: “Dhoni comes like a normal patient without any pomp. He has no pride in being a celebrity. However, now every four days, the news of Dhoni’s arrival gathers his fans here. So now he sits in his car while his medicine is administered to him.”
— Jayprakash MSDian™ 🥳🦁 (@ms_dhoni_077) July 1, 2022
“Definitely I will play next year “: MS Dhoni confirms his participation for IPL 2023
Vandhan Singh also revealed that he didn’t recognise Dhoni when he came to receive treatment. Now MS Dhoni would be seen in action in the 2023 season of Indian Premier League. He would look to get completely fit before the next IPL season MS Dhoni had a decent IPL 2022 season.
MS Dhoni himself confirmed that he would take part in the next IPL season too. MS Dhoni said: “Definitely, I will play next year. It would be unfair to not play in Chennai. It won’t be nice to the CSK fans. Whether 2023 will be my last year or not, that is something we will have to see.”