An intruder at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam was shot and killed by base security forces on Wednesday night after stabbing a Defense Department civilian security forces while attempting to escape arrest, base officials announced.
The unidentified suspect had led Guam Police Department officers on a high-speed chase on Wednesday when his vehicle crashed into a security barrier at Andersen AFB, a 36th Wing public affairs official said in a Facebook post.
The then suspect fled on foot into a nearby clutch of jungle, prompting the 36th Security Forces Squadron to initiate a base lockdown amid a search of the area.
Upon his discovery, the suspect “responded aggressively and stabbed a Department of Defense civilian security forces member,” according to officials. “The suspect was subsequently shot by the officer in self-defense.”
The suspect was subsequently transported to a civilian hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“While apprehending a suspect, our defenders were compelled to use lethal force for their own defense, resulting in the death of the suspect,” 36th Wing commander Brig. General Gentry Boswell said in a statement on Thursday morning. “We value the importance of every life and are thankful for the courage our Defenders display in the safe conduct of their duties protecting our personnel and families.”
The Air Force Office of Special Investigation, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Andersen AFB security forces, and Guam PD are currently investigating the incident.


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NA Q-hour: The preliminary survey of the Lhamoizingkha-Sarpang highway is expected to complete by mid next year for construction to begin by 2016, works and human settlement minister, Dorji Choden said at the national assembly (NA) yesterday.
Two experts from the Asian Development Bank are currently in the field to do the survey, she said. On completion of the preliminary survey only, the budget estimation could be made, lyonpo said at the question hour.
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A decrease of Nu 300M from last year due to the recently ban on cars and furniture
Excise: The government of India (GoI) yesterday announced a total excise duty refund of Nu 1.756B to Bhutan for the year 2013.
Excise duty is an inland tax imposed only on a commodity consumed within a country. If the commodity is exported, the excise duty is waived off.
This year, the excise duty refund decreased by more than Nu 300M. [... Read More]
A late bloomer, like Bhutan, this Baltic state has made leaps and bounds in ICT
Governance: Sitting in a cafe in Thimphu at his WiFi connected laptop, Ivar Tallo can file his taxes, register a new company, check how his son is performing at school, or even vote in both the European Union and local parliamentary elections, among several other online public services available to Estonian citizens.
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The gloomy weather over Jazam, Thimphu reflected the sense of loss as the government of Denmark officially marked the end of a 35-year long assistance in Bhutan’s development journey.
As one of the oldest development partners and the biggest bilateral donor after India, the fruit of the cooperation is today evident across all sectors. Based on a shared value of promoting the welfare of the people, Danish assistance has made a huge difference to the lives [... Read More]
A set of recommendations made to enhance 36 different areas of cooperation
SAARC: For Bhutan, most of the recommendations on the 36 different areas of cooperation, stated in the Kathmandu Declaration of the 18th SAARC summit are already in place.
Foreign minister, Rinzin Dorji, however, said at a press conference yesterday that it was just a matter of re-emphasis and attention, which was not there for the past few years.
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To allow time to rectify discrepancies that have crept into Dzongkha version
Assembly: After deliberating on the enterprise registration bill, 2014, for two days, the national assembly (NA), resolved to defer the bill to the fifth session yesterday.
Before the house began deliberations, economic affairs minister, Norbu Wangchuk, proposed that the bill be deferred to rectify the translation of the Dzongkha version.
The economic affairs ministry, lyonpo said, had worked hard to draft the bill, by [... Read More]
The four-day Mongar tshechu began on November 27 with monks performing Peling Tercham, Phakcham, Shingjay Pho Mo, Zhanag, Durdha, Gin-gtsholing, Sangay Lingpai cham.
Yesterday, Shinge yab yum, Damtse Nuel layma, Peling Gingsum, Zhanag Ngacham and Shawa Sha khi and dances were performed.
Parliament: The two houses of Parliament on Thursday endorsed the Office of Attorney General Bill and the Bill will go to a joint sitting. The controversial clause that requires that attorney general (AG) be accountable to the prime minister remains.
In 2012, when the OAG refused to prosecute those involved in the Gyalpoizhing land case, the then opposition party, People’s Democratic Party, said that the particular clause was problematic. The attorney general is appointed [... Read More]
Despite an acute water shortage, good management practice enables a bumper crop
Tuber: Pam is the potato-growing capital of Trashigang. This time of the year in Pam, farmers are preparing fields for potatoes, their main cash crop. Even as there is acute shortage of water, the people of Pam have worked out an ingenious way out. Potatoes will grow, and in abundance it will.
No land in Pam will now be left fallow.
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Local people visits Dhana goempa
Religion: The images of Lord Buddha and Guru Rinpoche on a cliff above Dhana goempa in Wangduephodrang confuse visitors at first and then amaze them.
The two images, a bit blurred, appear as if it was painted, but the goempa lam claims that they appeared naturally.
Lam Drayang Jamtsho said the Guru’s image appeared first on the cliff before he was born. “The Buddha’s figure appeared later on the right side of the cliff,” he [... Read More]

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NFL Predictions: A Look at Every NFL Game This Season
Thursday, Oct. 13th-
Denver Broncos at San Diego Chargers:
The best chance to catch the Broncos off guard for a loss would be on a short week. But not on this Thursday night, as the Broncos defense forces Rivers into four turnovers, and the Chargers fail to score a point. It is a off night for the Broncos offense, but when your defense is that dominant, it simply doesn’t matter.
The Pick: Broncos 13 Chargers 0
Sunday, Oct. 16th-
San Francisco 49ers at Buffalo Bills:
The Bills have seemed to have gotten into a rhythm the past few weeks, and the train keeps rolling with the Niners coming to town. Colin Kaepernick is sacked 4 times on the day, and Tyrod Taylor continues his really impressive play.
The Pick: Bills 27 49ers 20
Philadelphia Eagles at Washington Redskins:
The NFC East is really wide open, with no team possessing a .500 record. The Skins are certainly the better team on this day, as struggles continue for the Eagles lowly secondary. The Eagles are really just lucky they weren’t in Philadelphia on this day, as they certainly would have been booed off the field after a performance like this. The only Eagles touchdown came late in the fourth quarter on a pass by Carson Wentz that was nearly intercepted, was tipped in the air and luckily caught by Jordan Matthews and ran in for a long score.
The Pick: Redskins 28 Eagles 10
Cleveland Browns at Tennessee Titans:
The Titans look to build on their win a week ago, but RGIII has different plans. After nearly upsetting a Patriots, the Browns took the strong performance and channeled it forward towards the Titans. Griffin ends up throwing for two scores, and rushing for another as Mariota can’t match him.
The Pick: Browns 27 Titans 17
Baltimore Ravens at New York Giants:
The Giants get their offense clicking immediately against the Ravens, as Manning connects with Odell Beckham Jr. for three first half touchdowns. The Giants suddenly have life in the NFC East race.
The Pick: Giants 35 Ravens 27
Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints:
The Saints Superdome advantage is back. Brees has his best game of the season to date, throwing for 4 TD’s against the young Panthers secondary. The Panthers keep it close, but can’t quite get it done down in NOLA.
The Pick: Saints 35 Panthers 31
Jacksonville Jaguars at Chicago Bears:
The Jags stellar play continues in the Windy City. Blake Bortles has really start to come into his own this season, and the Jaguars appear to be legitimate threats to win the AFC South.
The Pick: Jaguars 27 Bears 17
Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Lions:
These are two teams that have been fairly up and down to this point in the year. The Lions offense has played pretty well to this point, and it continues again against a tough Rams D. Since Jim Bob Cooter took over as offensive coordinator for the Lions last season, Stafford has been a top-10 quarterback in the NFL. Another 3 TD’s and turnover free game help the Lions get another win.
The Pick: Lions 24 Rams 20
Pittsburgh Steelers at Miami Dolphins:
The Steelers have been perfect to this point in the year, however today things stall out a bit. Antonio Brown has to exit in the first quarter with an ankle injury, and while Bell has a nice day, the Dolphins find away to take the ball away from Roethlisberger three times; two INT’s and a fumble. Because of this the Steelers are handed their first loss of the season.
The Pick: Dolphins 20 Steelers 17
Cincinnati Bengals at New England Patriots:
What was expected in Cleveland begins in New England a week later—the Tom Brady assault tour. Brady is nearly perfect as he completes 83% of his passes for 377 yards and four TD’s on this day, and the Patriots end the Bengals win streak in an impressive fashion.
The Pick: Patriots 42 Bengals 16
Kansas City Chiefs at Oakland Raiders:
The AFC West showdown between the two teams pegged to dethrone the Broncos is a defensive struggle. Neither QB can get anything going, as each are sacked four times and essentially running for their lives all day. At the end of the day, the home team pulls out a W on a 58-yard Janikowski FG as time expires.
The Pick: Raiders 17 Chiefs 14
Atlanta Falcons at Seattle Seahawks:
Russell Wilson continues to ascend into the elite class of quarterback. Jimmy Graham makes his return from injury and catches three passes on the opening drive—the last being a 22 yard touchdown catch. Things continue to click on offense for the Seahawks all day, but the defense doesn’t hold up as well as we are used to seeing. Things go back and forth until midway through the third quarter.
The Pick: Seahawks 38 Falcons 30
Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers:
The Cowboys come into Lambeau with a simple game plan. Keep the ball out of Aaron Rodgers hands, and Ezekiel Elliott helps the Cowboys execute this plan to a T. The rook rushes for 238 yards, and three touchdowns, and Rodgers does not have enough possessions to keep up handing the Packers their first loss of the season and Dak Prescott’s signature win thus far in his career.
The Pick: Cowboys 28 Packers 21
Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans:
Tom Savage gets the start in place of the injured Osweiler, and things go basically the same as they have for most of the year—they can’t move the ball. Meanwhile Andrew Luck is starting to make a case for his first MVP, as he tosses for four TD’s and no picks in this one.
The Pick: Colts 31 Texans 10
Monday, Oct. 17th-
New York Jets at Arizona Cardinals:
The Jets got off to a hot start, but a brutal schedule has seen them drop two and a row, and a trip to the desert doesn’t make it much easier. However, Carson Palmer takes a licking from Mo Wilkerson on the first drive of the game and has to leave the game with a concussion. Advantage–Jets
The Pick: Jets 20 Cardinals 17
New York Jets: 4-2
Miami Dolphins: 3-3
Buffalo Bills: 3-3
New England Patriots: 3-3
Pittsburgh Steelers: 5-1
Baltimore Ravens: 3-3
Cincinnati Bengals: 3-3
Cleveland Browns: 2-4
Jacksonville Jaguars: 4-1
Indianapolis Colts: 4-2
Houston Texans: 2-4
Tennessee Titans: 1-5
Denver Broncos: 5-1
Oakland Raiders: 3-3
Kansas City Chiefs: 2-3
San Diego Chargers: 0-6
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Dallas Cowboys: 3-3
New York Giants: 3-3
Washington Redskins: 3-3
Philadelphia Eagles: 1-4
Green Bay Packers: 4-1
Detroit Lions: 4-2
Minnesota Vikings: 3-2
Chicago Bears: 1-5
New Orleans Saints: 4-1
Carolina Panthers: 4-2
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 2-3
Atlanta Falcons: 1-5
Seattle Seahawks: 5-0
Arizona Cardinals: 4-2
Los Angeles Rams: 2-4
San Francisco 49ers: 1-5
Next: Week 7


Running multiple tests at once could improve test execution time a lot (if raw system performance is not a bottleneck) while saving lots of infrastructure overhead because everything can run on one machine.
Sure, a team of testers can handle extensive test projects faster and better than a single person. But some things that may seem simple at first actually can become much more difficult when working in a team.
QF-Test natively supports testing websites with Chrome, Firefox, Edge, some others and even good old Internet Explorer. But there are plenty of other, lesser-known browsers that you might still want to run your tests with, such as Chromium, Brave, Iron, Vivaldi and Yandex.
The TestRunListener interface can be used to execute additional actions before or after the execution of each node or in the case of any exception / error. This actions can (for example) be used for testdocumentation or error analysis. In the following some TestRunListeners are introduced (Jython server scripts).
It is relatively easy to take a screenshot of the complete picture with the help of QF-Test. For example, to create a screenshot of the current desktop, only the procedure logScreenshot must be called. (The following blog article explains how to insert a procedure call.)
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Receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 2 (ROR2) has been identified as a highly relevant tumor-associated antigen in a variety of cancer indications of high unmet medical need, including renal cell carcinoma and osteosarcoma, making it an attractive target for targeted cancer therapy. Here, we describe the de novo discovery of fully human ROR2-specific antibodies and potent antibody drug conjugates (ADCs) derived thereof by combining antibody discovery from immune libraries of human immunoglobulin transgenic animals using the Transpo-mAb mammalian cell-based IgG display platform with functional screening for internalizing antibodies using a secondary ADC assay. The discovery strategy entailed immunization of transgenic mice with the cancer antigen ROR2, harboring transgenic IgH and IgL chain gene loci with limited number of fully human V, D, and J gene segments. This was followed by recovering antibody repertoires from the immunized animals, expressing and screening them as full-length human IgG libraries by transposon-mediated display in progenitor B lymphocytes ("Transpo-mAb Display") for ROR2 binding. Individual cellular "Transpo-mAb" clones isolated by single cell sorting and capable of expressing membrane-bound as well as secreted human IgG were directly screened during antibody discovery, not only for high affinity binding to human ROR2, but also functionally as ADCs using a cytotoxicity assay with a secondary anti-human IgG-toxin-conjugate. Using this strategy, we identified and validated 12 fully human, monoclonal anti-human ROR2 antibodies with nanomolar affinities that are highly potent as ADCs and could be promising candidates for the therapy of human cancer. The screening for functional and internalizing antibodies during the early phase of antibody discovery demonstrates the utility of the mammalian cell-based Transpo-mAb Display platform to select for functional binders and as a powerful tool to improve the efficiency for the development of therapeutically relevant ADCs.
Keywords: ROR2; antibody discovery; antibody drug conjugate (ADC); functional screen; human IgG transgenic mice; human immune library; mammalian IgG cell display; transposition.

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Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy today expressed displeasure at the Centre for not implementing recommendations of Swaminathan Committee on farm productivity and remunerative prices and funds for micro irrigation.
Speaking at a program here on the farm sector, Pocharam said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not keeping election promise on the issue. He demanded that the Centre increase allocation of funds for micro irrigation to boost agrarian economy and help improve the lot of farmers. He stressed on the need for increase in agriculture productivity to get better benefits to farmers.
The minister also said farmers should flourish with benefits for their produce but they are not getting better prices. This year the agriculture produce is expected to be around 272 million tons. Farm yield in India is only 3.7 tons per hectare, which was very low compared to China and Japan, he said. Srinivas Reddy exhorted the Krishi Vignan Kendras and Agriculture varsities to put in efforts for more farm yield to witness a significant increase in productivity. (NSS)


There are numerous benefits of crane hire. When you rent one, you will often find that the experience is much smoother than you might have expected. Indeed, your construction programme can even be improved by only hiring a crane when you need one rather than having one on-site all the time. In this way, crane hire can make you focus on the lifting jobs you need to complete and plan accordingly. Read on to find out how crane hire can be so advantageous in the construction sector these days.
When you hire a crane, you will also hire a crane operator who is well-versed in the equipment he or she will be lifting with. In turn, this will make your site a safer place for all concerned, not just those in the immediate vicinity of the lifting area. After all, cranes can be dangerous for all concerned if they are operated by unqualified personnel.
Buying cranes is an expensive business. You really need a dozen or so projects in the pipeline that will all have significant lifting requirements for it to become cost-effective to buy one. On the other hand, crane hire companies offer an economy of scale because you only fork out on the crane time you actually need.
All parts of Australia are covered by crane hire companies these days. All you have to do is book in advance to be guaranteed a crane when you need it. Whether this means several months or just a day of lifting with a mobile crane, hire companies will offer the flexibility construction firms need today.
Not sure of how you should prepare construction materials to be craned? Uncertain how the wind and other environmental factors may impact on your lifting schedule? These are common considerations for site foremen and something that can push back deadlines if you are inexperienced. With an experienced crane hire operator at your disposal, however, all of these questions can be answered, helping you to stay on track.
There are various standards that apply to cranes and hoists in Australia. Thankfully, you don't need to know about inside and out when you hire a crane. All of the necessary accreditations can be met in full by your chosen crane contractor. Furthermore, you won't need to send your own staff for new training as and when the various industry standards alter down the line.Share
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If you are looking to build a new home, you may not have considered the different types of heavy construction equipment you may need to complete the job. This site aims to provide you with a comprehensive guide to the different types of heavy construction equipment on the market. We will also be providing you with guidance which will make hiring and using the equipment super easy. Although this blog isn't written by experts, every article has been researched using lots of different sources so you can sure you are getting some great advice! Come back soon for our latest updates.


Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate is a decision that will impact congressional races this fall. Of that we are certain.
But, where might Ryan on the national ticket grow into a major issue? Based on demographic data, history and the candidates running, below are five races in which the Ryan ripple effect is worth watching in the fall.
* Montana Senate race: The GOP nominee, Rep. Denny Rehberg, voted against Ryan’s budget in the House not once but twice. It’s not hard to see why. Montana has a substantial elderly population, and Ryan’s proposal to revamp Medicare into a voucher system is grounds for a Democratic attack. Ryan’s proposal only affects those currently under 55. But national polling shows an aversion to changing Medicare at all. Pair that with Democratic attempts to cast Ryan and his supporters as enemies of seniors, and you have a potentially potent political weapon.
Exit polling in 2008 showed that voters over 65 years old represented 18 percent of the state’s electorate, a couple of ticks higher than the 16 percent national figure. Arizona Sen. John McCain won Montana seniors by four points, which was just half of his advantage nationwide among seniors.
On Saturday, Rehberg praised Ryan, but also offered a reminder that he hasn’t always agreed with the House Budget Committee chairman. The jury is still out on whether Democrats can leverage the Ryan VP pick as an effective way to tie Rehberg to the Wisconsin Republican, but the task is easier than it was on Friday.
* New York 27th District race: Now-Democratic Rep. Kathy Hochul unexpectedly won a three-way special election in 2011 in part because the issue of Medicare (and the Ryan plan) was a focal point of the campaign. Now, Hochul faces a tough reelection race in a Buffalo-area district in which a majority of voters preferred McCain in the 2008 presidential race.
One of the reasons Hochul won in 2011 was that her opponent, Republican Jane Corwin, was slow to respond to Democratic attacks tying her to a plan to “end Medicare.” Corwin even acknowledged during the campaign’s 11th hour that her response should have been quicker. She supported the Ryan plan, but did a poor job of explaining it and didn’t anticipate the issue would drown out other matters.
This cycle, Hochul faces Chris Collins, a Republican who has refused to take a position on the Ryan budget. He has pivoted to an attack tying Hochul to the Medicare Advantage cuts in President Obama’s health care law. Hochul has said she opposes the the cuts to Medicare Advantage, even as she supports the law more broadly.
The selection of Ryan as Romney’s running mate puts an issue Hochul deftly navigated in 2011 back into the spotlight. The Buffalo News piece (headlined “Collins is mum on Ryan budget”) was a front page story. Collins’s non-response could be an effective tactic, or it could end up leaving voters dissatisfied with him not taking a position.
* Florida Senate race: In April, Rep. Connie Mack IV, the likely Republican nominee against Sen. Bill Nelson (D), called the Ryan budget “a joke, doesn’t balance the budget for years.” His spokesman later said that Mack was calling the vote process, not the budget proposal itself, a joke. He added that Mack, who missed the spring vote, would have voted for the measure.
But the muddled response is ripe for Democrats to raise the issue again and ask where Mack stands. With Ryan on the GOP’s national ticket, and Florida retaining its status a highly-prized swing state at the presidential level, Romney’s campaign will be making a full court press in the fall, which means ample opportunity for Democrats to raise the issue down the ballot. Romney says he will run on his own budget, not Ryan’s. But that won’t stop Democrats from linking the two.
Seniors made up over a third of the 2010 electorate in Florida, according to exit poll data. As in Montana, arguments against Ryan could swing some senior voters over to the Democratic side, even though Ryan’s proposed policy does not affect them.
* Nevada Senate race: GOP Sen. Dean Heller is in a unique position: He voted for the Ryan budget in the House and Senate last year, but voted against it in the Senate this year. (Heller was appointed to fill the seat of Sen. John Ensign last year.)
Heller’s record on the matter could receive more scrutiny with Ryan on the national ticket. Democrats will be able highlight the discrepancy between his House vote and his Senate record. Seniors made up over 20 percent of the Nevada electorate in 2010, according to exit poll data, meaning that Heller must navigate the issue carefully with an influential portion of the electorate.
* North Dakota Senate race : While North Dakota is an increasingly red state, it’s not one that shuns government involvement. So an effort to reshape a long-standing entitlement isn’t going to play as well here as it would somewhere else. For Democrats, Rep. Rick Berg’s (R) votes in favor of the Ryan will fuel arguments that Berg’s views are out of step with the state.
Republicans have been wagering that their repeated attempts to tie Democratic nominee Heidi Heitkamp to the federal health care law will pay dividends, but that attack is more about tying her to Obama (who isn’t terribly popular in the state) than it is about connecting her to a government program. If Democrats can shift the focus from that story line to one about Ryan and Berg, then they will have dampened a potentially bruising line of attack.


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Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has taken on the cast of the tenth installment of the Fast and Furious film series, franchise star Vin Diesel announced on Sunday. Diesel announced the cast of Larson on Instagram.
“Yeah, yes, yes … you see that angel over his shoulder breaking me, you say, ‘This is Captain Marvel.’ There is obviously love and laughter in this picture. But what you don’t see is the character that will be introduced to you in ‘Fast 10.’
“You have no idea how timeless and amazing it will be in our mythology.” In addition to her beauty, her intellect … her Oscar, haha, is this deep soul that will add something you might not expect but want. Welcome to FAMILY Brie, “the action star wrote about the photo with Larson.
Filmmaker Justin Lin is directing Fast and Furious 10, which is scheduled for release next May.
Diesel returns as Dom Toretto along with series stars Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Sung Kang and Charlize Theron, who plays the negative Cyphera from The Fate of the Furious.
Jason Momoa and Daniela Melchior also perform in the project, announced earlier this year.
Fast and Furious 10 will be the penultimate work for the current cast; the eleventh film, also directed by Lin, is set to be the last Fast Saga film.

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Our hope is to get him into counseling and make sure the issues are addressed as best as they can be."The boy was 5 years old at the time and is suffering from nightmares, anxiety, depression and social withdrawal as a result of the assault, the lawsuit states."(His mother) is incredibly frustrated with the fact that something that was preventable was allowed to occur," Andreozzi said.
"They told me if I went with them they would look after me and help me find a husband," Khartoun said. Do you want to be killed the way the military kill people in Myanmar? The UN and aid agencies said labour and sex trafficking in refugee camps have gotten worse with the recent influx of more than 620,000 Rohingya.Instead, she was locked up for three weeks and sold to a Bangladeshi man, who she said, raped her and sexually abused her for 12 days. The military unleashed a campaign of mass murder, rape and arson against the persecuted community after army bases came under attack from Rohingya fighters.Olivia Headon of the International Organisation for Migration said urgent action was required to keep women and girls safe in Bangladesh's refugee camps.was discovered by a camp counselor sexually abusing a special needs male camper in the woods during a camp outing," the lawsuit alleges, adding it's believed the counselor notified Camp Spirit's director, who in turn apparently notified Richardson of the abuse."It is believed that neither Richardson nor (the director) reported B.'s conduct to the authorities, in violation of Pennsylvania's law regarding the mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse," the suit states."At no point did the York YMCA inform other campers, their parents, or anyone outside the York YMCA that B. sexually abusing the 5-year-old under a wooden play structure during a camp outing, the suit alleges.posed a severe risk of harm to other children," according to the lawsuit. It claims Martin was "utterly unfit" to supervise children and did not have a Pennsylvania child-abuse clearance because she was at the time under investigation "for a crime involving her own child."Martin, 21, of Springettsbury Township, was charged Jan. She told police she didn't know she was pregnant and gave birth at home in April 2015, but panicked because her newborn daughter wasn't breathing, court documents state.For the next six months, the day-care center operated with a provisional license, she said.
The day-care center remains in compliance and is fully certified, according to Gillis."Since last January, we've been on site there four times to ensure they are remaining in compliance," she said.
cause of the York YMCA's actions and omissions, and breach of the duties of reasonable care, (the boy) was sexually abused," the lawsuit states.
The assault allegedly happened last summer at the YMCA's Camp Spirit, a longtime day camp for children ages 5 to 15 that was advertised as a safe place for children to build "self-esteem, develop communications skills and create lasting friendships," the lawsuit states.
"No charges have been filed as of yet, but it remains (an open) investigation."Impact unknown: Attorney Ben Andreozzi represents the boy and his mother."Like many sexual assault survivors, we won't appreciate the gravity of (the boy's) injuries until he becomes older," Andreozzi said.
"This is something that can follow (victims) throughout their lives.
The mother of a York County boy has sued the YMCA of York, alleging staff members failed to protect him from being sexually assaulted by an older boy with a history of abusing young children.


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Yuri Ahn selects her Valentine’s Day gift list- and reveals some secrets on what women want. Take inspiration from it freely- and you’re other half won’t be disappointed.
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Larger laptops are typically big, weighty machines, pushing into the territory of mobile workstations. Dynabook, however, is announcing the Tecra X50, a “thin and light” 15.6-inch notebook that delivers big-screen convenience without the weight.
Dyanbook, which carries on the legacy of Toshiba’s PC division, already offers X-series laptops in 12-, 13-, and 14-inch models. But Dynabook’s ToughBody magnesium alloy chassis weighs in at just 3.13 pounds, far less than, say, the 15-inch Microsoft Surface Book 2 (4.2 pounds) or the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 (3.75 pounds).
To be fair, both of the latter machines aspire to powerful mobile computing platforms, if not outright workstations. The Dynabook X50’s aspirations are more modest: Rather than lead the way into Intel’s 10th-gen Core generation, the X50 uses an 8th-gen Whiskey Lake chip with vPro, and no discrete GPU.
On the other hand, the X50 is one of the few to include an Intel Optane SSD, as well as a power-sipping Sharp IGZO LCD display, which helps contribute to a 17-hour rated battery life—significantly more than the more common 8 to 12 hours. There’s a whopping 32GB of memory, too, and a full terabyte of SSD storage. It can even connect to three external 4K displays via the included pair of Thunderbolt ports, though you’ll need a dock and perhaps daisy-chaining them to do it.
It’s probably fair to say that while the Dynabook Tecra X50 may not measure up in sheer power, it tries to compete in convenience. The notebook uses a Modern Standby connection to maintain a low-power connection at all times, downloading email and patches in the background. The chassis itself was engineered to MIL-STD-810G drop, temperature, humidity, and dust standards. Dynabook also built in a sliding privacy shutter over its HD webcam, which doubles as a Windows Hello login mechanism. A secondary biometric login device is built into the Synaptics touchpad. A pair of Thunderbolt 3 ports gives you data and display connectivity, as well as charging. It does not come with any USB adapters or a pen, however.
The Tecra X50 will be priced at $1,544 and up, Dynabook said.
Dynabook Tecra X50 basic specs:
- Display: 15.6-inch (1920×1080) Sharp IGZO LCD touchscreen
- Processor: Intel Core 1.9GHz i7-8665U (“Whiskey Lake”)
- Graphics: Intel UHD 620
- Memory: 32GB DDR4
- Storage: 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
- Ports: 2 USB-C 3.1 (Thunderbolt 3, DisplayPort, USB charging, DC in); 1 USB 3.0 with charging; 1 HDMI, 1 microSD, 3.5mm jack
- Camera: HD, with privacy slider
- Battery: 48Wh
- Wireless: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 (802.11ac + Bluetooth 5)
- Operating system: Windows 10 Pro
- Dimensions: 714.1 x 9.8 x 0.69 inches (17.6 mm)
- Weight: 3.13 pounds
- Color: Aluminum
- Additional features: Fingerprint reader, smartcard reader
Updated on Sept. 18 with updated pricing.


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EICR (Electrical Inspection Condition Report)
A periodic inspection report is a legal requirement to be carried out at least once every 5 years on electrical systems within domestic premises, commercial properties and on industrial establishments to determine whether the installations are in a satisfactory or un-satisfactory condition.
A test that simulates power failure or when normal electrical illumination fails, but still provides sufficient illumination in the event of an evacuation. This test is carried out annually but recommended to be carried out six monthly at intervals of 3 hour and 1 hour to determine if the lights are functional, non-functional or if they last the time specified.
A series of tests carried out on all fire alarm accessories and devices to make sure they are fully functioning in the event of a fire under energized and de-energized conditions and each zone of the building is free from faults.
PAT (Portable Appliance Testing)
The process of carrying out a series of visual inspections and electrical tests on 110v, 230v and 415v appliances to establish if they are safe and suitable for use. If an appliance doesn’t conform, it is rectified to a suitable condition or fitted with a failed PAT sticker and taken out of service till it’s safe to use.

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Global EMEA Prestressed Concrete (PC) Wire and Strand Market: Overview
Prestressed concrete (PC) wire and PC strands are primarily used in construction of various components of a building, such as pier, segmental blocks, and foundation, to provide stability to the structure. The high tensile strength of prestressed concrete (PC) wire and PC strands is the main reason behind increasing demand in the construction industry.
An upcoming Transparency Market Research report on the EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market promises to cover all essential details that could help bolster growth in the future. The report covers key trends, challenges, geographical distribution, and the competitive landscape of the EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market
Global EMEA Prestressed Concrete (PC) Wire and Strand Market: Notable Developments
Some of the notable developments in the EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market are;
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Corrosion is one of the common problems of prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand. However researchers are focusing on improvement of its corrosion resistance property with the help of different doping technique. This is expected to offer several opportunities to the EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market.
Global EMEA Prestressed Concrete (PC) Wire and Strand Market: Key Growth Dynamics
The global EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market is expected to rise at a significant pace during the forecast period. This is mainly due to the rise in infrastructural activities across the globe.
Apart from this, substantial increase in adoption of precast structure in bridges construction is another factor expected to drive growth of the EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market.
Rise in offsite construction activities is expected to boost the EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market growth over the next few years. Offsite construction refers to planning, assembly and fabrication of parts of building at a site different than the main site. This helps save time and reduce material wastage as the process can be carried out irrespective of the weather conditions.
However, crimp in the growth of the construction industry in China is contributing to the slowdown owing to weak global trade. There is a significant decline in the demand for steel in China. As steel is a vital raw material used in the manufacturing of PC strands and wires. This is expected to dampen prospect of EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market.
Nevertheless, rise in the construction of skyscrapers in several region is projected to soar demand of EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market in the near future.
Global EMEA Prestressed Concrete (PC) Wire and Strand Market: Regional Outlook
Asia Pacific is expected to hold maximum share in the EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand market during the forecast period. This is due to the significant increase in building and construction industry in the region. Steady rise in industrialization and urbanization is another factor expected to swell demand for EMEA prestressed concrete (PC) wire and strand in the region during the forecast period.
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Women’s Rights Journalist Julie Bindel Vows to Sue Council That Cancelled Event Over Trans Views
A journalist is suing Nottingham Council after the town’s councillors cancelled her talk at a library because of her views on transgender rights.
Julie Bindel has said that Nottingham Council “don’t realise what they have done” and “have started a fight I doubt they can win.”
On Saturday, Bindel had been invited by the Nottingham Women for Change group to Aspley Library to give a talk on the increasing threat of male domestic violence and rape.
Bindel is the co-founder of Justice For Women, an organisation that supports and advocates for women “who have fought back against or killed violent men.” She has also written and spoken extensively on what she calls the “tyranny of trans extremism.”
‘We Took the Decision to Cancel the Booking’
Nottingham Council posted a statement by Council Deputy Leader Adele Williams and Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhoods, Safety, and Inclusion Neghat Khan, cancelling the event.
It said that this was “due to the speaker’s views on transgender rights being at odds with aspects of the council’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Strategy.”
“This was a private booking at Aspley Library by the ‘Nottingham Women for Change’ group and all ticket sales and marketing of the event had been undertaken independently with no input from the council,” they wrote.
“While it was known that the event was going to be from a feminist perspective, no information around the speaker’s views on transgender rights was brought to the Library Service’s attention,” they added.
“Once we became aware of this, we took the decision to cancel the booking. Nottingham is an inclusive city and as a council we support our LGBT community and have committed to supporting trans rights as human rights through Stonewall. We did not want the use of one of our library buildings for this event, taking place during Pride month, to be seen as implicit support for views held by the speaker which fly in the face of our position on transgender rights,” said the councillors.
Bindel subsequently refuted the charges that she was “bigoted and transphobic” in an op-ed for the Mail on Sunday titled “Why I’m suing the council that tried to bully me into silence.”
“On behalf of every woman who is being told to shut up and stay quiet, during the worst misogynist backlash I have witnessed in my lifetime, I’m taking the council to court,” she said.
She added that “they have discriminated against my basic rights as a woman and as a lesbian. They have erased my freedom of speech and they have grossly libelled me. For this, they are going to be made to pay.”
‘To Abandon the Talk Was Unthinkable’
Bindel said the event was held outside in the car park, but a small group of trans activist protesters shouted abuse at her.
The LGBT charity Stonewall has received increasing scrutiny for its lucrative diversity programmes, controversial advice to organisations, and alleged influence on public policy.
Bindel added that anyone who states the “obvious fact that women don’t have penises is automatically a bigot in Stonewall’s eyes.”
“Nottingham city councillors don’t realise what they have done. By illegally banning me from giving a talk at one of their libraries, they have started a fight I doubt they can win,” she wrote.
“To abandon the talk was unthinkable. Every ticket had sold, which meant there were dozens of women eager to learn how they could get involved in campaigning to end rape and domestic abuse,” she added.
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Ketchup fans, we feel you. There’s indeed a time and a place for that classic condiments. But this isn’t it — at least not right now. On this morning’s brand-new episode of The Kitchen, the cast shared a duo of hot-dog makeovers just in time for summer, which is (hopefully) on its way. While Jeff Mauro opted for a tried-and-true hot-dog base and dressed-up toppings, Geoffrey Zakarian went so far as to swap out the traditional dog in favor of a hearty Polish kielbasa. Read on below to see how they do it.
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Sure, you may consider yourself a grill master for flipping a few burgers this summer, or even learning how to achieve those sought-after crisscross grill marks on your steak. But have you ever grilled for more than a day straight? In New York City this week, a team of two die-hard grillers took on that very mission in the hopes of not only breaking the Guinness World Record for a team marathon barbecue at The Finest Grillathon, but also setting a new one.
Hosted by Ball Park Park’s Finest, with Food Network’s own Tyler Florence on hand, the event started late last night, on Tuesday, when Susie Bulloch, from Utah, and Drew Battistelli, from Tennessee, first took to their grilling stations to kick off their marathon cookout. They set off to grill for a whopping 38 hours, in downtown Manhattan’s Gansevoort Square, which will mean that they’ve firmly surpassed the old record of 30 hours. On the menu are, of course, what else but Ball Park Park’s Finest frankfurters, along with other hearty grilled favorites. From juicy pork shoulder to tender beef, there was no shortage of classic and creative takes on beloved summertime fare.
Let’s just come out and say it: Sometimes it feels good to be bad. And sometimes, chopped onions and a modestly portioned square of cheese leave a lot to be desired. Plus, a cookout is no time to be well-behaved. Next time you’re grilling, throw caution to the wind by piling your burgers and hot dogs high with these extravagant toppings. (Think cheddar + smoky bacon + crisp onion rings — all heaped on top of one patty with reckless abandon.)
The simplest way to take a burger to new heights…
… is to top it with fries. Better yet, make them curly fries loaded with cheese. These Cheesy Fries (pictured at top) are the ultimate burger companion, but instead of serving them on the side, Food Network Kitchen piles them on top of juicy beef burgers, along with the classics, lettuce and ketchup. There’s no need to go any further than that; these crisp spuds doused in beer-cheese sauce are more than enough to sink your teeth into.
New York may be the greatest food city in the world. Yet, no matter how many high-end steakhouses, sushi bars and tony trattorias move in, the Big Apple is still a hot dog town at heart. The love affair started in the mid-19th century, when German immigrants began proffering sausages on Bowery street corners. Now the official food of baseball games and summer cookouts, the hot dog has become a national obsession. Though street carts abound, enterprising chefs and entrepreneurs are also in on the hot dog game, selling everything from fancy Kobe beef franks to old reliable ballpark dogs with mustard and onions. Here’s where to sink your teeth into the city’s best frankfurters.
Check out the full gallery for all 10 great hot dogs.
If your eyes were bigger than your stomach when you bought that economy-size bag of burger or hot dog buns, odds are you didn’t even make a dent, no matter how much of a blowout your backyard barbecue was. Now the fate of that not-so-empty bag is undoubtedly hovering dangerously near your trashcan. Have no fear. Instead of wasting buns simply because you’re out of hot dogs and hamburgers, rest assured that there are plenty of other ways you can put them to good use.
Transform Buns Into Breading
You better bet that leftover burger and hot dog buns can be transformed into crispy breadcrumbs. After drying the buns out in the microwave or oven and pulsing them into crumbs in a food processor, use them as breading for Food Network Kitchen’s crispy Breaded Chicken Cutlets.
Grilling season officially kicks off next weekend, and we’re here to make sure your Memorial Day cookout is better than ever. Start with one of the simplest things you could possibly throw on the grill: hot dogs. There are probably a million possible hot dog combinations. First you’ve got your bun options: honey wheat, potato, bolillo, baguette. Then you’ve got your options for sauce, cheese, veggies and other toppings. Finally, you’ve got your choices for the dog itself: veggie, chicken, Ball Park Frank, organic grass-fed beef … and sausages, oh, the sausages! Actually, all hot dogs are sausages, but we tend to put the spicier variety in its own category.
Summer party spreads like picnics and potlucks are an excellent opportunity to put your creative snacking skills to use and experiment with inventing new and exciting hot dog combinations, or host a summer soiree with a preloaded DIY hot dog bar to get your guests’ juices flowing.
Check out the full gallery for all 12 unexpected hot dog toppings.
Ketchup, mustard, maybe some relish and sweet, saucy onions. These classic toppings surely get the job done when it comes to making an everyday hot dog, but for a next-level cookout, try dressing up your favorite franks with nontraditional fixings. On this morning’s episode of The Kitchen, Katie, Marcela and Jeff introduced their creative takes on hot dogs with their West Virginia-Style Hot Dog, Mexican-Style Hot Dog and Depression Dog with peppers, respectively. This summer, follow the co-hosts’ leads by experimenting with unexpected toppings; just stick with your favorite ingredients and try to choose flavors that you know complement one another. Check out a few of Food Network’s favorite ways to build a better dog below, then browse Food Network Magazine’s roundup of 50 All-Purpose Condiments complete with must-see ideas for adding finishing touches to your grilled greats.
While Jeff’s Depression Dog from The Kitchen may have been deliciously simple, his Chicago-Style Hot Dog with Homemade Relish (pictured above) is perhaps the ultimate in hot dog indulgence. He starts with beef franks and tops them with white onions and yellow mustard, plus homemade pickles and golden-brown french fries flavored with celery seed. Jeff recommends building the dogs, then letting them steam for a few minutes before serving.
Trying to make something bigger — not to say better — than the next guy is almost as American as hot dogs. So there may be little quite so American as the gargantuan frankfurter served up Friday at the Miami-Dade County Fair with the goal of grabbing the Guinness record for the world’s largest commercially available hot dog.
The humongous wiener tipped the scales at 125.5 pounds, including the huge bun and heaping portions of ketchup, mustard, relish and sliced onions, according to the Miami Herald. Devoid of bun and condiments — “naked,” as the newspaper put it — the dawg weighed 51 pounds.
Created by Juicy’s Outlaw Grill, whose founder already holds the Guinness World Record for the largest commercially available hamburger, the ultra-large link was cooked for three hours on a 100-foot-long, 20-foot-tall, 27-ton mobile grill. (You can see the giant dog, which has yet to be certified by Guinness, cooking on the grill here.)
This summer, Food Network’s Grilling Central is packed with recipes for the entire family’s taste buds, boasting the best in burgers, dogs, chicken and more all season long. But with so many recipes, where do you start? Each weekend, FN Dish is giving you a complete menu that is stress-free, and this weekend’s spread features dressed-up hot dogs.
Ketchup and mustard may be two of the most traditional hot dog condiments, but you can surely dress up the everyday dog with deliciously creative twists on toppings. Like burgers and grilled chicken, hot dogs are blank canvases that can showcase seemingly any flavors you like or ingredients you have on hand. Try thinking of ingredient combinations you know work well together and using your favorite meals as inspiration to develop a next-level hot dog, like the ones featured below.
Showcasing the timeless pair of chili and cheese, Food Network Magazine‘s top-rated Chipotle Chili Cheese Dogs (pictured above) are full of bold, smoky flavors. The star element of this dog is the bold chili, featuring crispy sauteed bacon, cumin, meaty pinto beans and tomatoes. Once it’s thick and rich, spoon the chili atop snappy grilled hot dogs, then finish with shredded pepper Jack cheese, cool sour cream and scallions. Since this recipe calls for footlong hot dogs instead of ballpark-style dogs, it’s best to use hoagie rolls for buns. These hefty loaves will support the size of the hot dog and the weight of the chili; plus, they boast heftier dough than traditional hot dog buns.
I must confess: I’ve never been much of a hot dog person. At a tailgate or poolside, I’ll happily indulge. But when scouring the Internet for new recipes, franks are not usually on my radar. At least, that used to be the case.
There has been a lot of buzz around hot dogs during the last couple years, and the momentum hasn’t stopped. Not just for game day anymore, the popular American finger food has become trendy and edgy, pushing past traditional ketchup and mustard to embrace new and bolder toppings. Hot dogs are popping up on menus worldwide and taking over magazine spreads; the question is whether they’re worth the hype. I may have been a skeptic before, but after making Brooklyn’s Corniest Hot Dog, I am a firm believer. Corn and caramelized onions are a match made in heaven. Add bacon, and now we’re really cooking. Needless to say, this recipe was a winner.

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Guy Masterson is now a Fringe regular whom some festival-goers may have seen in his brilliant one-man show Animal Farm a few years ago. He returns this year with a very different program of poetry and stories from World War I to commemorate the centenary of the final year of that enormous conflict.
Masterson is dressed in black, alone on a bare stage throughout. He acts out sections of stories but there is little of the frenetic racing across the stage that we have seen from him in past productions. This is all about the artists and their work.
He researched more than 1000 poems when constructing Anthem for a Doomed Youth. There is work by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and Erich Maria Remarque, as one would expect
But also there are little known poets Paul Granier and Tom Kettle; and scraps from other writers who are virtually anonymous by virtue of their bodies having been blown unrecognisable.
One poem is about the monotony of cracking lice one by one, by hand. Another has the soldier talking to a rat which has jumped over his hand; it’s a promiscuous rat, this – one which will be gnashing at corpses on the German side before long. And Granier’s The Andante, in particular, contains glorious subtle imagery.
There are stories that link the works. I never knew that Remarque’s sister was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 in revenge for her brother’s pacifist work, and his left-wing leanings no doubt. The bill for the execution was sent to his surviving sister.
Many of the works emphasise the dehumanising effect of war, reducing men to “the indifference of wild creatures”. But there is also a lengthy enactment of an amusing conversation between a Fritz and a Tommy during the famous Christmas Day truce between the two sides – soldiers with machine guns separated by only forty metres of No Man’s Land.
Masterson is a terrific performer. This show confirms how poetry comes alive when it is performed, and how a judicious and sparse use of linking material can shed further light on the works, without detracting from the genius on show.
Guy Masterson is presenting Anthem for a Doomed Youth at the Bakehouse Theatre until March 3. Read more InDaily Fringe reviews and stories here.
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Cape Canaveral.- Other space telescope from NASA it was disconnected and suspended scientific observations.
Less than a week after the Hubble Telescope went offline, the Observatory Chandra X-ray did the same. The POT he said on Friday Chandra it was automatically placed in "safe mode", possibly due to problems with the gyroscope.
Both orbital telescopes are old and are on extended missions. Hubble is 28 years old and Chandra 19. Flight controllers at NASA work to resume the operations of both
NASA said it is a coincidence that both telescopes went "to sleep" a week apart. An astronomer working with Chandra, Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said on Twitter on Friday that "Chandra decided that if Hubble could take a vacation, she wanted his."
Launched by space shuttles in the 1990s, Hubble and Chandra are part of NASA's Great Observatories series. The others are the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, also launched in the nineties, but which eventually failed and was destroyed, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003 and still in operation. Each one observes the cosmos in different wavelengths.


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Recently, I felt the sun on my skin, I mean; I actually felt it, not just physically but, with my heart and mind. I felt the warmth, the rays, and the glow, it felt amazing and I loved it.
You may be asking yourself “how can that be?" And that certainly is a good question, not hard to see that the statement above seems a bit confusing and far-fetched But, I know no other way to express it other than this way.
For me, for so long, I mentally, emotionally and sometimes physically avoided it. To me a spring or even a winter’s sun shiny day meant I might have to face the light relentlessly. It also meant lying when others would declare "what a beautiful day” and I would say “it sure is,” while I was sinking in the depths of despair.
In my mind the sun represented happiness, love, peace and freedom, and I had none, because that is what being in a clinical depression is like for me, it is sadness, hate, a war within and a prisoner of my mind. Anything that I thought symbolized warmth or goodness I just couldn't seem to relate too. Especially, the sun with its bright disposition, I was the enemy, I was the dark cloud.
Give me rain, haze, cloudy skies and thunderstorms those were my comfort zones, the perfect weather to not seem like a recluse and isolate comfortably.
So, going back to my recent experience, it was simply "serenity under the sun," that is what I'll call it and it meant something entirely different to me this time. It meant recovery, I was healing.


Penguin: A Story of Survival
Emperor penguins raise their chicks in the depths of the most brutal winter on our planet. If it wasn't for the remarkably deep, complex bonds they form, the birds wouldn't stand a chance.
About the photographer
Stefan Christmann is a nature photographer and filmmaker from Germany. He was part of the team that planned and filmed the emperor penguins episode for BBC's Dynasties.
His unique images of Antarctica and of the emperor penguin colony of Atka Bay have been published in National Geographic and BBC Wildlife Magazine, as well as in many other publications worldwide. They also won the NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio Award in 2019.
With the poetry of his pictures and his emotional stories, Christmann wants to reveal the special beauty of the polar regions and support their much-needed protection.
About the book
A book eight years in the making: when Stefan Christmann first wintered in Antarctica in 2012, he fell in love with the neighbours of his research base: the 10,000 emperor penguins of Atka Bay.
In personal narrations from two over-winterings, Christmann tells stories from the everyday life of the animals: of life and survival, of birth, love and companionship at the end of the world.
Penguin: A Story of Survival portrays Antarctica’s most iconic bird, which can neither fly nor run, but still manages to create a home in one of the most hostile habitats on Earth.
To view the images as a slideshow, click on the arrows in the top right hand corner of the photos below.
An emperor penguin couple's unique song is their musical key to finding each other amongst thousands of other birds in the colony. When they return from foraging in the open ocean, they will call out for their mate upon arrival. On very cold days, their warm breath will paint this characteristic melody into the air like the scores of a musical notation.
An Uncertain Farewell:
After the female has laid her egg and successfully passed it on to the male, it is time for her to leave the colony. She desperately needs to feed and refuel her depleted energy reserves. During the early stages of egg-laying, many females will start their long hike to the ocean all by themselves. While their journey will be lonely and cold, at least they know that they have a head start into the breeding cycle.
One behaviour of emperor penguins which is not fully understood up to this day are "playdates" for the chicks, which are arranged by the parents. Usually two adults, with chicks on their feet, will stand right in front of each other and constantly lift their brood pouches. The chicks usually start interacting with each other, calling and reaching for their peers on the other side. The parents will sometimes stand so close to each other that their chests touch and they can rest against each other. This behaviour led Stefan to come up with the godparent theory that is also explained in the book.
The strategy of huddling is a behaviour that has to be learned by the young penguin chicks early on in their lives. It is one of the cutest things I have ever seen. Despite their parents being extremely calm and organized while huddling, the young ones try to take shortcuts into the warm centre by crowd-surfing over their peers. Sooner or later, however, they will understand that everybody gets to be in the warm centre, even if those waiting in line.
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The huddle is the emperor penguins' secret weapon against the cold and their ultimate survival strategy. Working as a giant incubator, the birds will stand close to each other with their heads tucked between the shoulders of the birds in front of them. Sharing their dissipated body heat, temperature can reach up to +37°C in the centre of the huddle.
Even when the penguins are huddling and conserving their energy on a cold Antarctic winter day, there is always the odd one out who is already warm enough. Many times, these individuals broke away from the colony and welcomed us as we carefully approached from afar. We always considered them to be our welcoming committee.
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Emperor penguins are designed for many things, but when it comes to mating it becomes quite obvious that balancing is not their strong suit. When the male steps onto the back of the female just before copulation, he struggles to find a safe stance; resembling someone taking their very first surfing lesson.
Emperor penguins don't build any nests and hence must carefully balance the fragile egg on the backs of their feet. Finally, they will put their brood pouch over it, in order to keep it warm and shielded from the elements. With every step they take, they rotate the egg on their feet a tiny bit, to evenly warm it from all sides.
Late March to early April is the time when the emperor penguins return from the open ocean and make their way back to their breeding grounds. The newly-formed sea ice is covered with pressure ridges at that time, which resembles an obstacle parcourse for the returning birds. Until they reach the southern part of the bay, they have to travel around 10 kilometres.
Emperor penguins normally breed on the sea ice, but its increasing destabilization over the past decades oftentimes forces them to finish their annual moult on the more stable ice shelf. When it is time for them to return to the ocean, they must take risky leaps from steep ice cliffs. While this looks spectacular, in reality, it is a behaviour that should not exist.
Trapped on the Ice Shelf
Just like adult emperor penguins, emperor chicks have to undergo their moult at the end of the breeding cycle. In their case, this change of plumage is of even greater existential importance; without their black and white penguin tuxedo, they would not be able to swim in the ocean. If the sea ice breaks open too early, they must climb onto the stable ice shelf and hope that they can finish their moult before they eventually starve.
Each breeding cycle, emperor penguins lay a single egg per breeding pair and they focus all their efforts on hatching it. Rarely captured on camera, the female lays her egg. She cleverly positions her feet to ensure that she can immediately pick up the warm, steaming egg as soon as it drops onto the frozen, rock-solid sea ice.
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Located on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, Nairobi is one of the largest and most vibrant cities in East Africa. The town is one of contrasts, having relics of its colonial past side-by-side with the features of a successful independent country, as well as lush nature preserves amid a highly developed urban area. Many believe that humanity originated near Nairobi, and after thousands of years the area remains important to the human race. Thus whether your films focus on history, science, nature, or modern society, there is no better place to make them than Nairobi. The following five spots offer valuable snapshots of the city, each depicting a different aspect of its history, geography, and culture. Visit them all and there will be nothing missing from your Nairobi video project.
No video produced in Nairobi is complete without a visit to the Nairobi National Museum. A repository of the country's history, geography, and culture, the Museum gives you a full description of all that Kenya has to offer. Whether you seek shots of live snakes, stuffed birds, rare minerals, or traditional Kenyan cultural artifacts, you're sure to find it at the museum.
A sharp contrast from the bustling downtown just 7 kilometers away, Nairobi National Park gives you the opportunity to film the country's beautiful, diverse wildlife. Make sure to visit its famous rhino sanctuary, home to 50 of these severely endangered animals. Along the way, get some shots of the park's gazelles, lions, warthogs, cheetahs, and hundreds of bird species.
This former home of coffee planter and author Karen Blixen provides a window into the country's colonial history. Film yourself with the museum's coffee plants, facilities, agricultural college, and memorabilia for a more complete connection to the country's past.
As a hub for business leaders, diplomats, and international exhibitions, the KICC embodies Kenya's status as a modern, influential country. Filming here will show a glimpse of Nairobi's present and future as a center of business, politics, and global culture.
The contrast between urban modernity and beautiful, undisturbed nature is always present in Nairboi. What better way to capture it than by filming at the Ngong Hills, where the edge of the city meets Kenya's lush rural landscape.
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Make your food plots even more attractive to area deer with Mossy Oak BioLogic's Deer Radish. A great deer attractant by itself or mixed in with other seed blends, Deer Radish adds a highly nutritious forage connected to a long, sweet nutrient-packed root that deer love to your food plot. Highly attractive to deer, this radish also produces compounds that discourage weeds and nematodes in your plot and penetrates deep to break up hard pan soils. Two pound bag plants up to a 1/4 acre.
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MoU signed between Gujarat and America’s Delaware to become sister state in the presence of CM
Sister State MoU were signed between Gujarat and America’s Delaware State today during the meeting of Delegation of the Delaware State of America and Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Vijay Rupani. Gujarat has made sister state MoU for the first time with the state of America, which will strengthen the relation between India- America and Gujarat. The MoU between Gujarat and Delaware were signed by the Gujarat Chief Minister and the Secretary of State for Delaware.
Mr. Rupani expressed is his desire to strengthen the relationship between the two states in the field of services, investments and Investment by Delaware Investors in Gift IFSC. The Delaware delegation warmly welcomed the Chief Minister’s proposal and agreed for mutual cooperation in these areas.
The Delaware delegation expressed keenness to collaborate with Gujarat in the field of BioSciences. While the state of Delaware has made progress in various sectors such as Ease of Doing Business, Financial Services, Corporate Services, Livestock and Dairy Activities, Port Services, while Gujarat is also leading state of India in such sectors.
The Delaware delegation on behalf of Governor invited Gujarat CM to visit Delaware in near future.
The Delaware delegation that visited Gujarat included the Secretary of State, Secretary of Agriculture, Deputy Secretary of State, and other senior officials of American state.
During the MoU Chief Secretary Dr. J. N. Singh, Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister K. Kailashnathan, Additional Chief Secretary of Finance Mr. Arvind Agrawal, Principal Secretary to the CM Mr. M. K. Das, MD iNDEXTb and other officials were remained present.
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Northern Music “Baddest Boy” popularly known as Teflon Flexx ushers his fans and music lovers into 2020 with another masterpiece christened “Madina” featuring Dj Wobete.
The hottest tune is produced by Tema-based award winning sound engineer MOG. The official video to the song is ready and will be released in the coming days.
Teflon Flexx showcased his incredible potentials in 2019 with his smash hit single “Eskeleble” featuring awarding winning dou Dope Nation and “Oreo” with the Maccasio and Fadi Lan. He also performed at the S-Concert and Tema Music Festival headlined by the “Highest” Sarkodie.
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Sustainable agriculture requires identification and development of scientific methods that have an important role in optimizing water use, employment and income, community health, and non-oil exports. Significant economical and therapeutic value, market demand and high processing level of medical plants have caused the daily increasing growth of these plants around the world. Considering the climatic and geographical conditions in Iran, the development of these crops, especially in arid areas and semi-arid has doubled. Therefore, in the present study, climatic, topographic and socioeconomic criteria were selected as effective measures in the cultivation of Rosa Damascena and were weighed using the network analysis process and then the ArcGIS was used to digitize and combine the layers. After the formation of the regional spatial database, descriptive information of the maps was added, weighted overlapping in the GIS environment, and finally zoning the areas susceptible to cultivating Rosa Damascena. The results showed that three factors including annual rainfall, altitude, and mean annual temperature had maximum impact and slope parameter had the least impact on the quality and quantity of Rosa Damascena. Moreover, the zoning map showed that 38 percent of northern parts, 15.6 percent of central pats and 11 percent of western parts of the province, have the most suitable sites for Rosa Damascena cultivation.
Alavizadeh S. A., Monazzam A. and Hosseinzadeh Kermani M. (2013). Possibility study of areas with potential cultivation of saffron in Kashmar plain using GIS. Saffron Agr. Tech., 1(1), 71-95 [In Persian].
Asgari M., Mashayekhan, A. and Ariapour, A. (2018). Indicator species for rangeland management by ANP-DEMATEL Method (Case Study: Nahavand Rangeland). J. Range. Sci., 8(3), 285-295.
Ashrafi A., Mikaniki J. and Dehghani M. (2013). Agro-ecological zoning and
evaluation of ecological potencies of south Khorasan for jujube plantation. Geogr. Plan. Space, 3(7), 67- 86 [In Persian].
Ashrafi V., Mirshekari B., Dashti Sh., Khalilvand E. and Farzaneh S. (2017). Locating ornamental and medicinal saffron cultivation based on AHP in GIS environment in Ardabil Province. J. Ornam. Plant., 8(3), 155- 169.
Mishra A., Deep Sh. and Choudhary A. (2015). Identification of suitable sites for organic farming using AHP & GIS. Egypt. J. Remote Sens. Space Sci., 18(2), 181-193.
Nemati Lafmajani Z., Tabaei S. R., Lebaschi M. and Daneshkhah M. (2012). Path analysis of rosa damascene mill performance under different conditions. Iran. J. Med. Arom. Plant., 27(4), 84- 100 [In Persian].
Piri I., Moosavi M., Taheri A., Alipur H., Shojaei S. and Mousavi A. (2018). The spatial assessment of suitable areas for medicinal species of Astragalus (Astragalus hypsogeton Bunge) using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information (GIS). Egypt. J. Remote Sens. Space Sci., In press.
Razmjoo M., Shahbazi F., Jafarzadeh A. and Moghadam M. (2016). Site speciation of susceptible strata for Damask rose cultivation (Case study: Sarab Medicinal and Industrial Plants Seed Production Station). Know. Water Soil, 26(1), 197-212 [In Persian].
Saaty T. L. (1980). The analytical hierarchy process: planning, priority setting, resource allocation. New York (NY): McGraw-Hill International Book Co.
Saaty T. L. (1999). Fundamentals of analytical network process. Proceeding of ISAHP 1999, Kobe, Japan.
Shojaei S., Alipur H., Hatefi A., Hashemi Nasab N. and Khosravi H. (2018). Locating Astragalus hypsogeton Bunge appropriate site using AHP and GIS. Spat. Inform. Res., 26(2), 223-231.
Tosan M., Alizadeh A., Ansari H. and Moghadam P. (2015). Evaluation of yield and identifying potential regions for Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) cultivation in Khorasan Razavi province according to temperature parameters. Saffron Agr. Tech., 3(1), 1- 12 [In Persian].
Vogeler I., Zabihi H., Ahmad A., Norsaid M., Golmohammadi M., Golein B. and Nilashi M. (2015). Land suitability procedure for sustainable citrus planning using the application of the analytical network process approach and GIS. Comput. Elect. Agri., 117(7), 114-126.

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DVD Review: The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Don’t be put off by its long childlike title, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete is actually an extremely dark and serious film. The film stars 14-year-old Skylan Brooks as Mister, a boy living in an inner city housing project with his drug addict mother Gloria (Jennifer Hudson). Mister reluctantly befriends Pete (Ethan Dizon) another a younger kid from the projects who is left alone after his mother is arrested. After Gloria is arrested for prostitution, Mister and Pete must learn to fend for themselves, while also avoiding child protective services. The film boasts a wonderful performance from its young stars as well as Jennifer Hudson, who is nearly unrecognizable as Gloria. While Tillerman’s film is ultimately quite bleak, it features just enough hope and a small bit of comedy to keep it from getting overly heavy.
Commentary: Director George Tillerman Jr., Actors Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon
The three discuss many things including the films’ long title, casting the kids, and Jennifer Hudson’s fantastic performance.
Fifteen minutes of deleted scenes viewable with an optional commentary from George Tillman Jr.
Rehearsal to scene comparison
Mister catches Gloria shooting heroin. This feature compares recorded rehearsal footage of star Skylan Brooks with actual scenes from the film. The rehearsal footage exemplifies Brooks’ talent, whilst showing the process of crafting a film.
Bootcamp: Skateboard Instruction Video
This short feature shows footage of Skylan Brooks practicing for his skateboarding scenes. At just under two minutes, this feature fails to add anything to the disc, unlike the rehearsal footage that preceded it.
Bootcamp: Drug Counselor Character Research
Another short “Bootcamp” feature shows how George Tillman Jr. thought that it was important for the films’ young stars to learn about drug use and drug addiction before shooting the film. The bit also shows Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon talking with people who have struggled with addiction. While it is still short, the feature is actually quite interesting.


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2020 is in the rear view mirror and I believe I heard a world wide collective sigh of relief at midnight on the 31st of December! We finally made it. And what better way to start the new year than with a new exhibit and award!
I'd like to thank the Collective Visions Gallery in Bremerton, WA and juror Michael D'Alessandro for selecting "Through the Haze" as the 1st place choice in the
photography/digital art category in the 14th Annual CVG Show. It's an honor to be chosen amongst such talent. Thank you again!
"Through the Haze" was captured at Lake Crescent on the Olympic peninsula on a foggy and smoke filled morning during the record setting wildfires that burned through the western United States in 2020. It was captured using an Alpa TC with 35mm lens and a Leaf Aptus-II 12R digital back.
For more information visit www.cvgshow.com
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CEDAR RAPIDS — United States Senate President Pro Tempore Chuck Grassley may use the moment tonight while he’s escorting President Donald Trump into the House of Representatives chamber to deliver a message, but it won’t be about the annual State of the Union address.
“I think I will have a chance to whisper in his ear, but it wouldn’t be about what he should say tonight because it’d be too late for that,” the Iowa Republican said Wednesday. “But I would be encouraging a free-trade agreement with the United Kingdom.”
He won’t be the only Iowans whispering in the president’s ear, Grassley added. For the second time, Sen. Joni Ernst, vice chairwoman of the Senate Republican caucus, will be part of the president’s escort when he delivers the State of the Union address at 8 p.m.
Grassley expects the president to use the speech to highlight “remarkable progress” the country has made in the past three years.
“By nearly every metric, our nation is better off than it was before,” he said. “Unemployment is lower. Economic growth is higher. Wages are rising, especially for blue-collar workers versus the management staff. And our armed forces have been strengthened.
“Overall, I think as I’ve read polls, there’s seems to be a strong sense of optimism across our country, probably greater than we’ve seen in many years,” Grassley said.
There’s also unfinished business and Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, hopes the president’s agenda includes the bipartisan bill he has been pushing to lower prescription drug prices.
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“And then something that we’ve been talking about for three years — we ought to get to work on infrastructure, like our roads, bridges, waterways, broadband,” he added.
Grassley would like to hear an appeal for bipartisanship and national unity “after our divisive impeachment process.”
“While the country wants us to focus on issues that affect their daily lives, Washington has instead focused on the bitter battle of impeachment,” he said. “I think Trump will be right to call on Congress to move past the national nightmare of impeachment, and encourage Congress get back to the people’s work. There’s a lot left to be done this year.”
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I don’t have any way to scientifically prove this, but I’m willing to bet that most people, if asked to close their eyes and picture a Nomos watch, will imagine a Tangente of some kind in their head. Nomos has been around long enough to create a whole bunch of beautiful watches, and some that are not the Tangente have become icons (or close to it) in their own right. Every model family has its ardent supporters, from the Zurich world timers to the funky and colorful Tetras, you can find watch enthusiasts who are obsessive about each and every Nomos watch. But the Tangente remains the halo piece, the signature. It’s the one that you can most easily see all the things that make Nomos special within it. The Bauhaus influenced design, the playful use of color and shape, and, above all, a very specific type of casual elegance.
Perhaps understandably, Nomos has iterated almost endlessly on the Tangente over the years. I’m sure someone is keeping track of the many variants, case sizes, dial colors, and so forth, but that task is well beyond my own capabilities at this point. Suffice it to say, they’ve made a lot of Tangentes. And the new one, which they’ve dubbed the Neomatik Blue Gold, is a very nice looking one indeed, if not immediately easy to understand based on name alone. That’s OK. I might not have an encyclopedic knowledge of every Tangente ever released, but I’m a professional watch person, and you better believe I’m up to speed on the new one.
The “Neomatik” part of this is probably fairly self explanatory by now. It refers to the latest generation of automatic Nomos movements (this watch is powered by the DUW 3001) which are made in-house and notable for their remarkable thinness. When Nomos first came on the scene, their watches were powered by simple hand wound calibers that allowed for their cases to be remarkably slender, and that barely there feeling on the wrist has become a brand trademark. It was critically important that their automatic movements, once they began developing them, allowed them to continue to make watches with largely the same impression on the wrist. The DUW 3001 is only 3.2mm tall, which allows the case of this particular Tangente to come in at just 6.9mm for the larger Neomatik 39 Blue Gold (the smaller variant is 6.7mm tall, and 35mm across). It’s worth pointing out here for the enthusiasts who criticize Nomos for going “big” with watches that come in close to 40mm and sometimes above that this Tangente, like the very first one, is available in that classic 35mm size, which I personally think is perfect for most people when it comes to this particular case.
OK, let’s talk about “Blue Gold.” The designation here is for the dial, which is quite obviously a very deep shade of blue. It has a sunburst finish which Nomos claims shimmers and has a luster that is similar to a precious metal, and comes from a galvanization process that involves coating the base layer of the dial with a thin layer of gold. Not having seen this watch in person yet, it’s hard to know if the impact is dramatically different from a dial created through a more traditional process. But regardless, the color looks great, and this represents yet another take on the classic Tangente format. The traditional silvered dials are quite understated, but one can imagine that an almost electric blue that reflects light in a manner reminiscent of gold will leave a very different impression.
Other details on the Blue Gold pieces are fairly typical of the Tangente and Nomos in general. We get the same typography that has come to define the product line, and of course the classic Tangente case lines are unchanged. It’s a simple, circular case with straight, spindly, downturned lugs. Nomos frequently refers to the Tangente as a dress watch, and it’s certainly a watch that you can wear with a suit, but I think the sharp angles of the lugs contrasted with the perfect circle of the case actually make for a great casual design. There’s something playful about it, the architectural nature of the lugs in particular that I think goes a long way to making the Tangente work so well in so many different environments, and in so many different variations.
The Nomos Tangente Blue Gold is available to order right now on the Nomos website. The smaller 35mm version starts at $3,070, and the larger Neomatik 39 (which actually measures 38.5mm – kind of confusing) starts at $3,390. Nomos