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Malefic Stardust Dragon (character)
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Shin Sutādasuto Doragon
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Malefic Stardust Dragon is a character version of the card, "Malefic Stardust Dragon". It appears in the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus. It is available to Duel in Free Turbo Duel Mode on the World Championship menu. It can be unlocked by summoning Evigishki Soul Ogre.
Over the Nexus
In "Over the Nexus" Malefic Stardust Dragon uses a Deck titled, "Transcendental Evil".

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New Sainsbury’s in North Swindon
A new Sainsbury’s Local convenience store will open in North Swindon tomorrow (Thursday).
It is located at Tadpole Garden Village, Maizey Road, and will be the first retailer to open at the Tadpole Local Centre.
The new Sainsbury’s will offer quality food and create local jobs, while car parking will also be provided.
There are a further four retail units to be occupied at the Tadpole Local Centre.
The opening of Sainsbury’s will complement the amenities on offer at the award-winning development, which includes play parks, primary schools, a secondary school, allotments, and public open space including a nature park.
Kieran Daya, Managing Director of Crest Nicholson Partnerships Strategic Land, said: “The opening of Sainsbury’s Local marks another important milestone for the Tadpole Garden Village community.
“Since we first started work at the development in 2013, we have been committed to building a sustainable community for both current and future residents through infrastructure, schools, well-designed homes, and retail.
“Having a landmark retailer like Sainsbury’s at the Local Centre, alongside the schools, parks and homes, is another added benefit for residents at the development and we look forward to attracting more retailers to Tadpole Garden Village in the near future.”
Patrick Dunne, Director of Property at Sainsbury’s, said: “This is our first convenience store to open in Swindon and we are very excited to bring a new Sainsbury’s Local to Tadpole Garden Village residents. We are very pleased that we will make shopping for everyday essentials convenient for so many in the area and look forward to opening our doors to customers.”


Agra: A police officer in Uttar Pradesh, Santosh Singh was attacked by some assailants outside Sadar Bazar Police station. He was singled out and attacked by miscreants for around five minutes.
Santosh Singh told that in his career of twenty-six years with Uttar Pradesh Police, this was the first time, he had witnessed something like this, a report of The Indian Express stated.
“It was the most inhuman form of violence. I am just lucky to be alive. I keep thinking about it and can’t sleep at night,” said the sub-inspector, while lying at a relative’s house in New Suraksha Vihar on Monday.
“If I hadn’t been wearing my two-wheeler helmet, which I had bought a few days ago, I would have been dead. The glass of the helmet broke and I sustained injuries on my lips, but my skull was saved,” Singh told, pointing at the red helmet next to him.
On Saturday evening, the mob came at the Sadar Bazar Police station to demand the release of five people, who were accused of slapping the DSP. “Around 10.30 pm, I was about to reach the Sadar Bazar station when around 100 men ran towards me. They said ‘Daroga ko pakdo’. I did not understand what had happened and they started pelting stones and bricks at me. I felt the impact all over my body and on my helmet. I fell on the ground and they set my bike on fire,” police officer stated.
Out of the five arrests, two are claimed to be Bajrang Dal’s activists. After their arrest, the mob was gathered at the police station. The FIR states that BJP MLA Udaybhan Singh had also visited the station demanding the release of the accused.
As Singh’s statement, when he got up, then his colleagues realised what was happening. “They rushed to my rescue. There were at least 100 bikes, cars and tempo vans outside the police station,” says Singh. “I can’t breathe properly because of the injuries. There still is a pain in my ribs and I have difficulty moving.”
“For the last two days, we were running around to get his medical check-up done. There has been no help from the government,”: Singh’s son, Abhishek, a third-year B. Com student. “Since the new government has come, a new kind of mob has emerged, which doesn’t fear anyone,” Abhishek added.


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These lemon coconut squares are sure to be pleasing to your family and friends.
What You Need
35 vanilla wafers, finely crushed (about 1-1/3 cups)
1 cup sugar, divided
1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
1 tsp. zest and 1/4 cup juice from 2 lemons, divided
2 Tbsp. flour
1/2 tsp. CALUMET Baking Powder
1/3 cup BAKER'S ANGEL FLAKE Coconut
Heat oven to 350°F.
Mix wafer crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar, butter and lemon zest until blended; press onto bottom of 8-inch square pan. Bake 8 min.
Beat eggs and remaining sugar in small bowl with whisk until well blended and thickened. Add lemon juice, flour and baking powder; mix well. Pour over crust; sprinkle with coconut.
Bake 25 to 30 min. or until center is set and top is lightly browned. Cool completely. Refrigerate several hours or until chilled before cutting to serve.

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Little Girl Absolutely Loses Her Sh*t When She Sees A Reindeer On TV (Video)
When I discovered Santa wasn’t real, I was honestly more heartbroken by the possibility that reindeers could also be a figment of our parents’ imaginations.
Luckily, such is not the case. They are real, and they’re awesome.
Little Emma will surely be comforted by this fact when she learns the cold, hard truth about Ol’ Saint Nick because she loves reindeer — Dancer, specifically.
Watch the little tyke geek out over a dancing reindeer that made an appearance on “The Ellen Degeneres Show.”
Emma cannot contain herself as she squeals and shimmies in delight at what she’s seen. Granted, this dancing reindeer was only a man in a costume — but that doesn’t matter to her.
She’s in love, and it shows.
We’re so glad Mom and Dad had the foresight to film the little nugget’s gleeful reaction to Santa’s furry helper — it’s heart-meltingly adorable.
The Christmas season may be over, but the spirit never dies.

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ARLINGTON, VA. — In a breakfast session to open the second day of the 96th annual Agricultural Outlook Forum, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue welcomed his counterparts from Argentina, Canada and Mexico for a group discussion.
For the first time, Argentina’s top agriculture representative took part in Mr. Perdue’s annual chat session. Luis Basterra is Argentina’s minister of agriculture, livestock, and fisheries.
Mr. Basterra talked about Argentina’s perspective on sustainability and the challenges of being an agricultural leader for the past few decades. He noted that global changes require global responses and made clear Argentina is ready to cooperate to provide safe food to everyone with a goal of creating economic opportunity for all producers.
In the coming years, the world will “need to provide 50% more food, which will require innovation,” he said.
Mr. Perdue implored Mr. Basterra to relate the story of the Argentinian health minister hesitant to use Bt cotton, a genetically modified pest-resistant variety.
“We provide seed for small farmers, and we had a lot of small farms beside a huge farm,” Mr. Basterra said.
The ones that used Bt cotton were in great health.
“The next year the health minister said, “Let’s use Bt cotton.”
The honorable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Canada’s minister of agriculture and agri-food since March 2019, noted the importance of sharing information and innovation for improvement.
“One in eight people in Canada have a job related to agriculture, and 50% of what we produce is exported,” Ms. Bibeau said. “Farmers are facing more risk in recent years: climate change, more drought, more floods. Climate is an important issue. Trade is also bringing new challenges. We can see more and more non-tariff barriers.”
Canada relies on the quality of its products and trade, she said.
“A coordinated approach when we talk about trade is so important for our farmers to have predictability,” she said. “To know when products arrive in port in another country, they will be analyzed on science-based rules we have decided on.”
Collaboration is important to support farmers, she said. To that end, Canada is committed to ratification of the United States-Mexica-Canada Agreement (U.S.M.C.A.) — the new NAFTA — very soon.
“It’s going through normal legislative procedures, it’s on a fast track, and I don’t see any issues arising,” she said.
Ms. Bibeau said finding ways to bring scientists from the private sector and government together into farmers’ fields was a priority, especially in light of the threat of African swine fever devastating China’s livestock.
“We’re lucky (A.S.F.) hasn’t reached the continent yet,” she said. “We’re putting in place measures to prevent it. If it arrived, there are ways to manage it as quickly as possible. Agreement with the U.S. on this is important for predictability for producers.”
Ms. Bibeau, the first woman minister of agriculture in Canada, said bringing more women into the sector was a goal for her.
“We see the challenges differently, and we see the solutions differently,” she said.
Víctor Villalobos, Ph.D., Mexico’s secretary of agriculture and rural development, joined Mr. Perdue’s panel and focused on sustainability.
“We’re gathered today to share innovation and synergy,” he said. “Agriculture has taken a huge environmental toll. We must study the consequence and the solutions. We must not repeat the grievous mistakes of before. We’re here to learn from the past and overcome the challenges of the coming future.”
Dr. Villalobos extolled the virtues of the Ag Five, which also includes Brazil.
“Ag Five is a synergy of five countries with the greatest ability to produce for a growing world,” he said. “We have great technology, territories of land, water and seacoast. We can count on each other’s resources. It’s not only a matter of producing food for a growing world, but to take into account sustainability. There are controlled and uncontrolled forces such as drought and pests. In order to face them, we must apply knowledge, innovation, government assistance and the help of the private sector.
“We’re proud Mexico is leading Ag Five efforts for microbial resistance. Let’s learn to do more with less.”
The fifth representative of the Ag Five, Tereza Cristina, Brazil’s minister of agriculture, livestock and supply, was unable to attend as scheduled due to “urgent business in her country,” Mr. Perdue said, noting she had participated in forum meetings via videoconference.

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Theatre of Operations
Troops on the move. Command car on far left. Tunis, Tunisia May 1943
(Photo Courtesy of Life Magazine)
This WC-57 belonged to the ATC (Air Transportation Command)
based at Muharraq, Bahrain, 1943. The caption reads:
Piled Coral Sand to Build Bahrain's Prehistoric Tumuli.
Thousands of such artificial mounds dot the depression
near air-conditioned quarters at Awali. Some of them are
probably 4,000 years old, but who built them is still a mystery."
(National Geographic Magazine)
This photo is from the website, " Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime
Story - Experiences of a B-17 Navagator". The photo was taken
in Iran in the Caucasus Mountains in March of 1944 of
members of the 27th Air Transport Group, 87th Squadron.
AMEPKNA - Russian translation for America.

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The answer is "maybe".
This is your processor: Intel® Core™ i5-2400S Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.30 GHz) Specifications
It uses socket LGA1155.
Now, the tough part. To upgrade a processor, the replacement processor must be socket, BIOS, and chipset compatible.
This means you must contact the manufacturer of your PC/Laptop or motherboard, and ask them which processors are compatible with their BIOS. Then, you can select from those processors.
Many manufacturers have a product support page which may tell you what processors and BIOS level is required.
Ok, is there any good news in all of this? Yes, your cpu is not soldered to the motherboard, which means you could not replace it.


NanoMedics Co Ltd operates within the Motor vehicles and car bodies sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares NanoMedics Co Ltd with three other
automobile manufacturers in Asia:
Kaison Green Energy Technology Co Ltd
sales of 957.37 million Taiwanese Dollars [US$32.40 million]
Cho Thavee PCL
(1.06 billion Thai Bahts [US$33.13 million]
of which 88%
was Contract revenues), and
based in Pakistan
(4.04 billion Pakistan Rupees [US$36.40 million]
During the year ended December of 2016, sales at
NanoMedics Co Ltd were 38.36 billion Korean Won (US$36.02 million).
increase of 112.1%
versus 2015, when the company's sales were 18.09 billion Korean Won.
This was the third consecutive year of growth at NanoMedics Co Ltd.


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Traveling around the Ecuadorian Amazon is, in fact, a remarkable experience. This unforgettable event may occur while you walk through the forest and meet a troop of Red Howler Monkeys moving above the canopy, or when you spot a pair of brilliantly colored Scarlet Macaws darting through the treetops. Not only well known for its fantastic diversity of flora and fauna, the Ecuadorian Amazon is also home to an incredible variety of fascinating inhabitants and cultures. During our voyage you will have the opportunity to meet and interact with many different communities that live along the shores of the Napo River Basin.
Electricity: 110 (220 v. special outlet in the enginesroom
Engines: Commins x 2 / 350 hp
Generators: Commins x 2 / 75 kva
Water: 10000 -liter water treatment plant
Safety: gps tracking by the ecuadorian navy, radio communication with separate battery pack, satellite phone, life jackets, flares and signals, fire extinguishers, sprinklers and smoke detectors in each cabin, automatic defibrillator on board.
Launch boats: two fiberglass ecologic canoes equipped with four-stroke low emission engines; constant radio communications with the main vessel. each canoe has a capacity of 30 passengers.
Crew: 10, including a cruise manager, english-speaking naturalist guides, 4 native guides, captain and crew members.
Accommodation: 10 standard suites (2 triples) and 4 deluxe suites (own jacuzzi at deluxe suites). all with air conditioning system, private balcony, ceiling to floor windows, hair dryer, safety box.
Suites features: Full sized beds, bathroom with shower, toilet, sink, cabinet, and a basket of toiletries, bathrobes. hot wáter available 24-hours.

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It's all about the birds this week for Trail Tuesday! I watched The Big Year a few days ago, so now I'm in total birding mode. It's an activity that is perfect for individuals, couples and the whole family. Plus, you have the added bonus of getting to explore some pretty amazing places. You'll be having such a good time that you probably won't even notice that you are getting a little bit of excercise, too.
Florida is one of the most productive birding states in the U.S., with a broad range of year-round resident species and tons of visiting migratory birds. Shorebirds, tropicals, wading birds and rare species like the Florida scrub-jay are all on the life list of birders. There are plenty of species to see, and plenty of places to see them!
One area in particular comes to mind – Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf Islands. There are seven sections of the Great Florida Birding Trail in the area, with different habitat types and species to be discovered. On Lemon Bay, visit the Cedar Point Environmental Park and keep an eye and ear out for bald eagles and migrating waterfowl in the winter months. Just outside of Punta Gorda, head over to the 65,000-acre Babcock/Webb Wildlife Management Area and go birding by car (there's plenty of good roads to drive) while you keep a look out for kingfishers, osprey and endangered Red-cockaded woodpeckers.
There are plenty of other incredible birding locations in the area. Visit the birding page on the Charlotte Harbor and Gulf Islands website for more information. Get out there and have fun!


The Mumbai Project: Parking a problem, 21 times over
The BMC's proposed 21 underground parking lots could lie unused like CR2 at Nariman Point if on-street parking is not banned or made expensive. Yet, they are unlikely to solve Mumbai’s parking woes. Neha Bhayana finds out. Talk to us...Check out the special on The Mumbai Projectindia Updated: Dec 14, 2007 21:14 IST
All cities struggle with lack of parking spaces. The problem is free parking. There will always be a shortage of anything that is free, and on-street parking is no exception. I think Mumbai should set the right price for parking on streets. - Dr Donald Shoup, Professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of ‘The High Cost of Free Parking’.
You gently steer your car onto a helix ramp and drive up floor after floor in dizzying circles till you reach a 17,000 square feet expanse with roomy slots for cars, and park. Another coiling ramp brings your car down when you want to go home. The twain never meet. With eight floors of parking space — 1.36 lakh sq ft in all — for 500 cars and 100 two-wheelers, CR2 at Nariman Point is a parking paradise, perfect for south Mumbai’s busy office hub.
Yet, three years after CR2 opened to the public, a majority of the space lies unoccupied, even during office hours. Why? Two simple reasons. Not many people want to drive up and down the not-so-gently curving inclines and slopes. More importantly, when it is still possible to park for Rs 5 or even free on the streets of Nariman Point, why pay Rs 15 per hour to park at CR2? Blame it on our ‘Costanza mentality’. In the popular American sitcom Seinfeld, George Costanza says: “Parking is like sex. Why should I pay for it? If I apply myself a little, I can have it for free!”
Till 10 years ago, the plot on which CR2 stands today was a parking lot with 130 slots. Realising that this was not enough, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, which owned the plot, handed it over to private developers to build a multi-storeyed parking lot-cum-shopping complex. They were hoping to clear the parked cars off the roads in Nariman Point.
But they forgot to make it difficult for people to park on the streets — tariffs were not raised and people were not fined for illegal parking.
Though Peninsula Land Limited, which constructed the parking lot, says 70 per cent of the space is occupied, the truth is there for all to see. The few cars parked there belong to shoppers and moviegoers who flock to Inox multiplex, which is part of the CR2 complex.
We could have learnt something from the British capital. London ensured that its citizens use its multi-storey car parks by charging half (£1 to £2 hourly) of what is charged at on-street pay-and-parks (£4 an hour). The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation did not show similar insight. Nor has it learned from the CR2 mistake. It is now all set to unveil a 30-storey car park at Breach Candy — it will be ready in six months — and is drawing up plans to construct underground parking lots at 21 sites across the city. “The BMC is replicating the CR2 mistake 21 times,” said transport expert Ashok Datar. “Without restrictions on parking on the streets, the underground parking lots are bound to fail.”
And that’s not all. The proposed two-level parking lots will have shopping plazas. The civic body will allow developers to use 30 per cent of the area by leasing out the space to shops. There will be shops at the minus one level and parking at minus two. Only in areas where underground commercial exploitation is not allowed — like under recreation grounds and playgrounds — the BMC will build fully-mechanised car parks with lifts to take cars down and park them in slots.
Experts say the shopping plazas spell disaster. “Shops will draw more cars, and whatever parking space is created will be used by shoppers, not officegoers,” said Bina Balakrishnan, a transport expert with the World Bank.
Additional Municipal Commissioner Manu Kumar Srivastava said the civic body will enforce higher tariffs for street parking to push people to park underground. Currently, you can use a BMC parking space - all are open lots on streets — by paying a mere Rs 5 an hour anywhere in the city.
In the West, parking space is priced as per the cost of the real estate in the area. Thus, while in Manhattan you have to pay approximately $2,22,000 (Rs 87.4 lakh) for a parking space, you will be able to afford a three-bedroom house with a pool in Houston, at the same price.
Experts say Mumbai’s parking tariff is among the lowest in the world. And we have not increased the charges in over 20 years. “We have incredibly low parking charges. It’s either Rs 5 or nothing,” said Balakrishnan. “It does not make sense to pay the same price for parking at Nariman Point, Sion and Dharavi.”
Balakrishnan, who is on the World Bank’s Mumbai Transformation Support Unit — advising the state government on the city’s transformation — said it had recommended that the parking rates be revised based on real estate value and demand six months ago. “After all, parking is putting private property on public property,” she said. So, if there’s high demand for parking at Colaba, it should cost more than parking at a residential area in Goregaon, which has less demand.
Another problem Mumbai needs to fix is the parking tariff structure. Here, the longer you park your car in a lot, the less you have to pay. Parking charges drop after the first three hours to Rs 3 per hour. This is the opposite of what happens in cities abroad. In the few streets where you can park in Manhattan, the rates go up every two hours. It’s $2 an hour for the first two hours, the next two cost $3 an hour, it shoots up to $4 an hour for the next two. “It discourages occupation of road space for extended periods,” explained Datar.
There’s another school of thought that suggests that the government should not invest too much in new parking lots. “If you build, they will come,” said Pratik Mhatre, who’s doing his doctorate in urban and regional science programme at the Texas A&M University. “Creating more space to park could send out wrong signals to the public,” he argued.
According to Mhatre, building parking lots is like building flyovers. “By investing in flyovers the government gives a policy signal that it prefers cars to buses or trains and the public will act accordingly,” said the student, who also writes a blog on urban planning.
The long-term solution is for the government to invest in mass transport systems like the metro and dedicated bus lanes. Simultaneously, it should implement disincentives for ownership and use of private cars. As in the case of London, which makes drivers pay up a congestion charge.
The Maharashtra government, however, is a long way from discouraging private transport. State transport secretary Ramnath Jha admitted this is because “there is no credible alternative” public transport available yet. “At this point, it would make life difficult for people,” he said. “People already face quite a lot of trouble traveling, and we cannot inconvenience them more.”
Neera Punj, convenor of Citispace, a non-government organisation, does not agree with Jha. “Singapore enforced strict parking and traffic regulations even as they were upgrading their public transport 15-20 years ago. People felt handicapped and grumbled, but eventually got used to it,” said the activist who has lived in Singapore for an extended period of time.
If Mumbai were to park all its vehicles in one parking lot, it would occupy 22 sq km, or a third of the island city. New parking spaces will open up 1 lakh slots for cars — hopelessly inadequate, as we’re adding 500 vehicles daily.
Fundamental ‘right to park’?
The deal: Powerful lobbies of rich car-owners have pulled off a coup — a constitutional amendment making the ‘right to park’ a fundamental right.
The dilemma: Space has to be provided for over 15 lakh cars.
In babuland: Heated exchange at a high-level meeting of ministers and civic officials, who are asked to step up work on underground parking lots.
The deal: Tata’s Rs. 1 lakh ‘people’s cars’ are a hit. Even the minister’s peon drives to work and asserts his ‘right to park’ at Mantralaya.
The dilemma: There are over 20 lakh cars. Underground parking space for 1 lakh only.
In babuland: More heated exchange at a high-level meeting. A transport expert speaks up, feebly: “Let’s put a cap on vehicles per family... hike parking tariffs... introduce congestion charge...” “Impossible,” screams a minister who owns seven cars. He can’t annoy voters till public transport is a good alternative in reality.
The decision: All maidans to be turned into car parks.
The deal: Cars are parked underground, over ground, in multi-storeys, on building terraces. Civic officials pass days at a court hearing cases filed due to breach of the right of park.
The dilemma: The city has a record 60,000 lakh cars. Roads are blocked with parked cars.
In babuland: Chappals and mikes fly at an assembly session. Later, a committee is set up to inquire how the ‘right to park’ became a fundamental right, another to see if floating car parks can be built off Nariman Point, Worli and Carter Road.
Thankfully, this is hypothetical. But these scenarios may not be far from reality in some years, if those in power don’t address our parking problem.
Let’s crunch some numbers. We have around 7.5 lakh registered vehicles plus another 2.5 lakh motor cars registered outside the city. If parking space of 20 square metres is given to each, we need roughly 20 square km of land. Add another 2 square km for the over 8 lakh two-wheelers at 2.6 square metre of space each. That makes it 22 square km in all.
This means a third of the island city (65 sq km), up to Mahim, would have to be used as a parking lot. With 500 new vehicles on our streets daily, we’d run out of this space too.
Is this enough?
Problem 1: On-street parking
Parking eats up precious road space and should be banned on arterial roads, junctions and near transport hubs.
Problem 2: Low parking charges
In New York, parking spaces are as much a part of the real estate boom as apartments. Mumbai’s civic parking tariff of Rs 5 per hour or nothing must be revised.
Problem 3: No plans to restrict parking
Major global cities use parking as a tool to restrict use of cars. There should be a cap on number of cars per family, congestion charge and other disincentives.
If we park all the cars along Mumbai’s roads:
* Mumbai officially has 2,045 km of road length.
* Cars have an average length of 5 metres.
* With over 7 lakh cars, we will need 3,500 km of roads.
* This does not take into account the taxis, auto-rickshaws and other vehicles parked regularly along city streets.
There is no such thing as ‘adequate parking’
The BMC currently has 89 parking lots with approximately 6,000 parking slots, or 9,000 if the cars are squeezed in. When the 21 underground parking lots open, the city will have over one lakh more parking spaces.
So will this solve Mumbai’s parking problem? Very unlikely.
The city has over 15.6 lakh registered vehicles and a huge number of floating vehicles. The Mumbai Environmental Social Network (MESN) in its survey found that one in every three vehicles plying on the streets is registered outside the city.
The number of vehicles in the city is currently rising at 9 per cent every year, even as the human population grows at two per cent annually. Not surprisingly, no city in the world has been able to provide “adequate” parking for its vehicles.
Across the world, governments have realised that parking is best managed by ensuring that parking space is restricted, not increased, and strictly regulated. Major cities are experimenting with different strategies to manage parking. Bangkok, for instance, made it mandatory for all new buildings to reserve one-third of the floors for parking, when the vehicle population hit the one million mark in 1990. So if it’s 12-storey building, the first four floors are exclusively for car parking. Bangkok has about 55 lakh registered cars (four times more than Mumbai), but it does not need to permit its citizens to park on roads.
The city of Portland has specified 0.7 to 1 parking space per 1,000 sq feet built-up area, as against the 4 in other US cities. Limited parking space has ensured that fewer vehicles are used.
Limiting total available parking space, high parking tariffs, offering preferential parking for desired travel modes like car pool, measures like high registration fees for cars and a cap on the number of cars per family are some popular strategies used by global cities.
It is what Balakrishnan calls demand management. “We need to use parking as a tool to restrict the use of private vehicles, and promote public transport,” she said. “The demand for use of road space has to also be controlled.”
In India, the reverse is happening. Additional parking space is being planned and parking remains unregulated. At any given point in time, more than two lakh cars are parked on Mumbai’s roads. And 70 per cent of these are parked in places where parking is prohibited, according to the MESN study.
What about security in the underground car parks?
A big concern regarding the underground parking lots is security. Mumbai already has three underground parking lots — under the Air India building, at Taj and the Hilton (the former Oberoi hotel). But all three were closed for lack of adequate security after the 1993 blasts at Air India building's basement parking.
How does the BMC plan to ensure safety at the 21 underground parking plazas?
The answer, believe it or not, is more shops. "If there are shops, there will be activity underground till late. This way people will feel safe," said Additional Municipal Commissioner Manu Srivastava. Developers will have to provide adequate security measures as per "European standards", he added. The BMC has not yet drawn up security guidelines for the parking plazas.
Charge global rates, Mumbai
The most realistic way for our city to address its parking problems — and earn lots of money — is to charge global rates: Mumbai: Rs 5 per hour for the first 3 hours, Rs 3 an hour after that at BMC-authorised parking lots. Manhattan: For on-street parking — $2 an hour for the first two hours, $3 an hour for the next two hours and $4 an hour for the next two. Private parking lots — Between $6 and $30 an hour.
The buck stops here
Manu Kumar Srivastava, Additional Municipal Commissioner
If shoppers’ cars fill up the parking spaces at the underground parking lots-cum-shopping plazas, won’t it defeat the purpose?
These are shops, not cinemas. Everybody will not decide to drive in to shop at the same time. People who park there may decide to pick up stuff because they are there. But that is incidental shopping, like in our subways. It will not cause traffic.
Why not leave shopping out of parking lots?
Instead, the space can be used to accommodate more cars. The BMC’s aim is not commercial exploitation. But wherever the rules allow it, we will. It will help us save money, which we can use for other projects.
21 underground parking lots. Will these be enough?
Development is all about changing scenarios and changing responses. We will construct these 21 parking lots now. Later, we will have to cater to the entire city and create more parking infrastructure as the demand increases.
Is more parking lots the answer to Mumbai’s parking issues?
We can’t wish away cars. But we will have to discourage on-street parking by levying heavy fees and by encouraging the use of public transport. On its part, the BMC is creating infrastructure for parking. The rest are policy issues. The state government has to enact laws to discourage the use of private cars.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
This paper contains an introduction to some of the results and observations we have accumulated from a series of studies on the task of assessing the probative value of inconclusive or probabilistic trial evidence. Some of these studies are formal or logical in nature and concern the manner in which the probative value of evidence should be assessed coherently. The other studies are empirical and behavioral in nature and concern the manner in which persons actually do assess the probative value of evidence. Our dual concern was voiced by Wigmore (1937, p. 8), who expressed interest in “…the reasons why a total mass of evidence does or should persuade us to a given conclusion, and why our conclusions would or should have been different or identical if some part of that total mass of evidence had been different.” Our formal and empirical studies have proceeded hand-inhand. Formal research helps to identify meaningful variables and measures for empirical research; empirical research, interesting in its own right, is also useful in testing the adequacy of the foundations for formal studies.
A major focus of our research has been upon inductive inference tasks, which Wigmore termed “catenated‘rdquo;; the modern terms for these tasks are “cascaded” or “hierarchical” (Wigmore, 1937, p. 13). Wigmore was the first to point out the fact that most inferential reasoning tasks are cascaded in nature. A cascaded inference task is composed of one or more reasoning stages interposed between evidence observable to the factfmder and the ultimate facts-in-issue.

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Help me give my students new high interest books for their library! They are in love with the Dork Diary books, Big Nate series, the Bones series and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series!
I have a lively bunch of students in my 5th-grade class this year. We are an ICT (Integrated Co-Teaching) classroom, which means there are general education students and a percentage of special needs students. My class has 26 students altogether.
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Our school is a Title I school in the South Bronx. Title I schools are schools with high percentages of low-income families. My students are full of creativity and have tons of energy!
Our library has seen better days! All of our high interest books go missing or get badly damaged throughout the year, due to over use! (Which is a great thing!) We would like to stock our library's shelves with more entertaining books for the kids to read and reread!! These series have been personally requested by the students in my class!
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Rutgers School of Health Professions has received a $4.2 million federal grant to train mental health practitioners as part of a new effort by the U.S. Department Health and Human Services to improve mental health services nationwide.
The University will use the grant to expedite the process of evidence-based research turning into practice, according to a press release. Rutgers’ Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling is creating a regional Mental Health Technology Transfer Center — 1 of 10 nationwide — to support this.
Kenneth Gill, chair of the department and the grant’s principal investigator, said there is a 17-year lag on average in implementing research into practice in health care fields, a delay that is usually even longer in mental health specifically.
“There are problems that are seen as unsolvable,” Gill said. “But we have ways to address them — such as strategies for reducing homelessness, chronic unemployment and unnecessary incarceration among people who are mentally ill — and they are not being used.”
Gill said the center will start in November with conferences, train-the-trainer training and online courses, and is expected to be fully operational in 2019. It will be located on the Rutgers School of Health Profession’s Piscataway campus.
The Rutgers center’s regional area of service includes New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where increases in depression, anxiety panic attacks and post-traumatic stress disorder have been reported following hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, according to Rutgers Today.
It will work with people from teachers and families to health care providers to determine development needs, and provide in-person and online training, technical assistance and resource dissemination, said Ann Murphy, program director of Rutgers School of Health Professionals and the grant project director.
It will also focus on the needs of the Hispanic population, creating English and Spanish online sites for information, materials and resources, she explained.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration established a national network of centers, which Rutgers will now be a part of.
This comes as part of a new approach that is attempting to make effective mental health disorder treatments, support services and evidence-based practices widely available to people with mental illness.
“If the research-based practices are better implemented, there will be better outcomes for people with serious mental illnesses,” Gill said.


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Pineapple is one of the most popular tropical fruits in the world. They are sweet, juice, and delicious. More importantly, they are very nutritious and healthy. For a person with Stage 5 Kidney Failure GFR 14 not on dialysis, is it ok to eat pineapple? Chat with our online doctor directly to get more tips on diet!
Pineapple is a great fruit choice for an individual with Stage 5 Kidney Failure gfr 14 not on dialysis, as it has benefits listed in the following section:
1. Packed with vitamins and minerals. It is loaded with vitamins and minerals including vitamin A and C, calcium, manganese, potassium, and phosphorus. It is also rich in fiber and calories but low in fat and cholesterol.
2. Improved digestion. Bromelain found in this fruit promotes good digestion, anti-inflammation, and keep the digestive track healthy.
3. Strengthen bones. This is because this fruit contains manganese, a trace mineral that the body needs to build bones and connective tissues.
So, talk with your dietitian to make a plan to include pineapple into your diet. Besides, we also list several guidelines on Stage 5 Kidney Failure non-dialysis diet in the below. Hope it helps!
a. Follow a diet low in protein (0.6-0.75 grams per kilogram body weight);
b. Eat enough calories to prevent weight loss and to help preserve the body's muscle stores;
c. Have a low-potassium diet (2,000-3,000 mg/day) if daily urine output is less than one liter (about 32 ounces), and potassium level exceeds 5.0.
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The third album release, 'Recoil' is now available from CD Baby, Dark Stereo and iTunes. It features eleven definitive new tracks in the depths of electro-industrial, EBM and synthpop. Listen to samples from the new album by accessing the MEDIA page.
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This is the first in a 5-part series of learning to manifest through visualization. Like learning to drive a car, it takes practice.
Visualization is using your imagination to create what you want. The Kybalion from Ancient Egypt writes that images held in the mind affect our physical Universe. Our thoughts have vibrational energy and by controlling those images and thoughts we can bring change to our lives. This video will demonstrate a relaxation technique set to music. Relaxation is key to visualization.
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Egg Tempera Painting by Koo Schadler
A comprehensive guide to painting in egg tempera for both the beginning and advanced egg tempera artist. Self published by the author; black and white, spiral bound, 170 pages. The book includes:
- A detailed description of how to make true gesso panels from scratch
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- Painting with Egg Tempera
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II: Particulars of My Palette
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V: Tempera Grassa
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IX: Egg Tempera Misconceptions
XII: The Transition from Oil to Tempera
XIII: Applying Cloth to a Panel
XIV: Applying Gold Leaf Lines over Tempera
XV: Basic Gilding
XVI: Impasto Paint and Egg Tempera
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XVIII: Material Sources and Suppliers
XIX: Recommended Reading
XX: Other Resources
XXI: Koo Schadler Workshops
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The just-food interview part one: FrieslandCampina CFO Kees Gielen
2013 was favourable for FrieslandCampina as the Dutch dairy giant posted good underlying profit growth and sales. However, the company booked a EUR200m goodwill adjustment to make up for losses suffered as a result of the ongoing economic crisis in Europe, which hit its bottom line. While pleased with some movement forward, CFO Kees Gielen could not help but feel slightly anxious about the upcoming financial year, which he discussed in an exclusive interview with just-food's Hannah Abdulla.
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The Auditor Office is part of the administrative branch of County government and interacts with the county board of commissioners, county departments, county residents, the vendors, local governments, state and federal agencies, school districts, and special districts. The County Auditor, an elected official, serves as a County Financial Officer, Property Tax Administrator, and Election Administrator. The Auditor is also a member, by statute, of the county board of equalization, the county canvassing committee, and sits on various other committees, councils, and boards, as directed by the board of commissioners. Some of the functions of this department include:
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After a great deal of political toing-and-froing over what would appear in the bill, the Italian Senate finally approved the conversion into law of the controversial “Legislative Decree No. 119 on urgent financial matters” by 147 votes to 104.
If it’s also approved by the Chamber of Deputies, the bill will reduce the tax on nicotine-containing products from €0.40 per ml to €0.08 per ml and on zero-nicotine products from €0.40 per ml to €0.04 per ml. It would also legalise online e-cig sales, and provide for a reduction to 5% of the previous tax debt owed by the vapour industry. The bill must complete its final stage and be adopted by 22nd December.
Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, health secretary Paul Blokhuis’s long-awaited National Prevention Agreement included a proposal to require neutral packaging for e-cigarettes from 2022. Blokhuis also wants to extend smoking bans to cover vaping. The anti-smoking measures put forward are considered overall to be stronger than those on fighting obesity and alcohol abuse.
The agreement, which has been sent to the House of Representatives for approval, was criticised by Philip Morris International (PMI) for “missing the opportunity” to recognise the role of alternatives such as heated-tobacco products in curbing adult smoking. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) described the proposed anti-smoking measures as “feasible” but not stringent enough.
These – along with details of legal changes, proposals and notices in 19 countries and at EU level – were among 73 stories published last month by ECigIntelligence to subscribers through our daily European Live Alerts.
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Sales taxes are one of the vital income sources for state and local governments. Lawmakers have worked to find ways of making sales taxes more unbiased for funding public services. This policy has provided relief for low-income taxpayers with two choices: broad-based exemptions and targeted sales tax credits.
Broad-Based Exemptions - are the most popular approach to progressive sales tax relief. It eliminates all sales taxes on certain retail items.
Targeted Sales Tax Credits - are an innovative option or choice to exemptions. Usually administered through the income tax, these credits are usually refundable.
Sales Tax Relief: The Solution
Sales tax exemptions and credits are both best and advanced options for low-income tax relief. It should be part of a more comprehensive strategy for tax fairness, including a progressive, graduated personal income tax and tax audit defense.


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There you go ,another fucking monkey business in law society and Canadian justice system ,insurance lawyer became judge in 2017 April and come and cross with insured in a motion ,what a wonderful monkey business this government has.
If you make insurance lawyer to a judge ,there is no fucking way of being independent-judge, conflict of interest is a big issue.
I am just asking what kind of brilliant brain appointed her as a judge ,are you fucking kidding me, she has ties with insurance companies ,it was obvious and I have been witnessed even in a single motion ,she was getting order from the insurance company,phone calls has been made during the motion,requests of this motion is violating Canadian constitution acts as well as privacy act.
Motion was violating and create conflict
a-)The Canadian Charter of Rights and freedoms
Look at the brain of the Canadian government appointed insurance lawyer as a judge and she was ready to give orders to violate laws and she was ready to humiliate self represent insured ,she was bias and made discrimination against insured.
Very nice to see this kind of bullshit from the government ,very nice to see how much corruption in Canadian justice system,that makes me right and proved one more time To write on this blog to give and show the citizens and the world; corruptions,laws,government ,the truth of the justice system ,bullshit society upper Canada ,justice of bullshit.
Canadian Citizens have no rights nor protected by law in Canada,world must know the king is naked.
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We spent two nights in early Feb 2014 at the Hamadryade. The Lodge is truly exceptional. The food was very special, the setting beautiful, the cabana was comfortable and spacious, and the dining and living room areas are brilliantly designed to combine a feeling of luxury with a sense of being on someone's front porch.
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- Hamadryade Lodge is a luxurious hotel located in the High Amazon region, near Puerto Misahualli. This ecosystem, even if it is still the Amazonian Rainforest, is very different that the one in Lower regions. We are at 500mts altitude with hills and small mountains. Therefore, the climate remains pleasant all year round (24°C in average), and the absence of swamps allows an easier access to the more remote zones of Primary Rainforest, and of course the most positive consequence, is that we do not suffer from the presence of mosquitoes and Malaria. ... more less
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Due to London's struggle with Covid-19, we are currently on a break from rehearsals. We'll be back in the bandroom as soon as we are able.
Keep safe, everyone!
Who are we?
London City Brass is a progressive, enthusiastic band who rehearse in the City of London on Wednesday evenings. We're based at St. Margaret Pattens church, Rood Lane, London EC3M 1HS
We’re not strictly a contesting band, but we are all registered as contesting players and have competed for the last two years in the French Open contest gaining 3rd (2018) and 2nd place (2019) in our section.
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Starting next school year, a dozen or more students enrolled in the Mobile County Junior ROTC program will participate in an internship program with the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department.
The partnership between the Mobile County Public School System and the city of Mobile was announced Wednesday, and officials heralded it as the first such program in the state.
"This opportunity will allow seniors to get real-time, real-world experience working, for the moment, with the administrative side of the fire department in the city of Mobile," said Lt. Col. (ret.) Robert Barrow, director of the school system's Army Instruction Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Program, or JROTC.
According to Barrow, starting in the 2015-2016 school year, students will spend 10 hours a week, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. each school day, with officials from MFRD to work in the field of public administration, learning the ins and outs of leadership within an emergency department.
Hopefully, that will inspire some of the students to pursue jobs with the department, or at the very least give them experience and training they wouldn't have otherwise, he said.
Keeping qualified individuals in their home city is a crucial goal of the program, Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson said.
"It's so important to stop the attrition of our best and brightest having to go somewhere else to find jobs," he said. "And this is just another pathway that we hope our young people can pursue."
Rear Adm. (ret.) Rich Landolt, the city's executive director of public safety, said the program was a priority fit for Fire-Rescue since that department can hire applicants as early as 18 years old, while the Mobile Police Department can only consider those 21 and up. He said the internship program will be open to young men and women, as long as they are passionate about participating.
"If they show a desire for the fire and rescue disciplines, they're welcome to be one of the interns," Landolt said.
There are more than 1,700 students enrolled in Mobile County's JROTC program, according to Barrow. And to be eligible to work with the MFRD, they must meet a variety of criteria, including being physically fit, certified in CPR, work well in a team, and able to work the 10 required hours each week, he said.
MFRD Asst. Chief Billy Pappas said the program will place students - 12 at first and eventually as many as 20 per school year - with captains, district chiefs and deputy chiefs depending on what division within the department they are visiting. That includes the training, EMS, public education, fire bureau inspection, homeland security and logistic divisions, he said.
"There's a whole lot of business and administrative aspects that these kids are going to learn," Pappas said.
He said interns will learn how the department deals with agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Agency and the state Department of Health, and could funnel students into the MFRD paramedic cadet program, where individuals one to two years out of high school attend paramedic classes at the University of South Alabama.
"To us it's a win-win," Pappas said.


System issues are causing delays at Surfside Beach pier as expected opening date nears
More issues have come up with the construction of the Surfside Beach pier, causing more delays and possibly pushing back its opening date, which is set for April.
Mayor Bob Hellyer announced that a security system will be installed for the pier during construction to save the town money. Initially, there were plans to add the system after construction was finished, but costs have skyrocketed since then.
The pier’s fire suppression system, which must be checked regularly, is also causing delays, according to a Facebook post. Hellyer didn’t disclose specifics about that problem.
These issues were first made public during Tuesday’s council meeting. Hellyer said the issues were just discovered earlier this week.
“It is unfortunate, but delays like these are problems that every construction project must deal with,” he said in the post.
It is not clear if these delays will push back the opening date, but Hellyer said he would keep residents updated on the pier’s progress.
Construction of the pier came to halt twice in October after two stop work orders were issued 10 days apart due to design conflicts and licensing oversights.
Both were lifted within a matter of days and didn’t affect the pier’s planned April opening.
Powerful winds from Hurricane Matthew in 2016 sheared off half of the pier’s 800-foot-long walkway and closed it indefinitely.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded $15 million to the town in 2021 to pay for the pier’s repairs and upgrades, but the costs have climbed to roughly $20 million. To help make up the difference, the town added parking meters at all beaches and converted one-hour parking along Surfside Drive from Hollywood to Pinewood drives to paid.


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Fate of disinfection by-products in groundwater during aquifer storage and recovery with reclaimed water
- Pavelic Paul, Nicholson Brenton C, Dillon Peter J, Barry Karen E
- CSIRO Land and Water, PMB 2, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia, Australian Water Quality Centre, PMB 3, Salisbury 5108, Australia
- Journal Of Contaminant Hydrology SCI(E) SCOPUS
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Knowledge on the behaviour of disinfection by-products (DBPs) during aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is limited even though this can be an important consideration where recovered waters are used for potable purposes. A reclaimed water ASR trial in an anoxic aquifer in South Australia has provided some of the first quantitative information at field-scale on the fate and transport of trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs). The results revealed that THM half-lives varied from <1 to 65 days, with persistence of chloroform being highest and bromoform lowest. HAA attenuation was rapid (<1 day). Rates of THM attenuation were shown to be highly dependent on the geochemical environment as evidenced by the 2–5 fold reduction in half-lives at the ASR well which became methanogenic during the storage phase of the trial, as compared to an observation well situated 4 m away, which remained nitrate-reducing. These findings agree with previous laboratory-based studies which also show persistence declining with increased bromination of THMs and reducing redox conditions.
1.Buszka, P.M., Brock, R.D., Hooper, R.P., 1994. Hydrogeology and Selected Water-Quality Aspects of the Hueco Bolson Aquifer at the Hueco Bolson Recharge Project Area, El Paso, Texas. US Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 94-4092. .
3.Predicting Chlorine Residuals and Formation of TTHMs in Drinking Water(1998) Clark, R. M. et al. Journal of Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental Engineering cited 16 times
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- Advocacy – changing/impacting policy
- Example: urging elected officials to pass the [Insert name here] Act
- Education – learning skills, information, etc.
- Example: Having an event on campus where you talk about housing and present information about poverty.
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- Example: The shanty town event is a way to gain awareness for the housing issues around the world.
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- You don’t have to be a politician or live in Washington, D.C., to be involved in changing policies – you can make an impact wherever you are!
- You have the opportunity to influence others to make a change; it’s tough to be heard but you can be heard.
- You’re passionate about what you believe in and don’t give up. Get others concerned about the issues too. Together you can get your elected official’s attention; they are there to serve and listen to you so don’t be afraid to speak up.
Why isn’t education enough?
- Giving people information about an issue is helpful, but it doesn’t cause an act of actual change.
- The people who represent us are there to make changes that collectively benefit constituents. When we educate the public, we should offer an advocacy outlet so people can take their knowledge and use it to contact their elected officials to make change happen.
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For fans of rich and complex historical novels like Girl with a Pearl Earring or Code Name Verity, New York Times bestselling author Laura Malone Elliott delivers the stunning tale of real-life Renaissance woman Ginevra de' Benci, captured forever in Leonardo’s first portrait—a painting that broke convention and established the master as a force of artistic honesty.
Though rich in beauty, wit, and talent, Ginevra is trapped in an arranged marriage, expected to limit her creativity to household duties. When charismatic Venetian ambassador Bernardo Bembo chooses the teenage poetess as his Platonic muse, he commissions Ginevra’s portrait by a young Leonardo da Vinci. Posing for the brilliant painter helps Ginevra find her own artistic voice and inspires a captivating intimacy between them. But the pair is soon caught up in a deadly battle between the powerful Medici family and its rivals.


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On Saturday, Israeli police fatally shot a Palestinian who was unarmed. The incident threatens to incite tensions in the middle of a pandemic and the prospect of Israeli annexation.
The Washington Post said, “The victim was identified as Iyad Elhalak, 32, who lived in the mostly Arab neighborhood of Wadi Joz in East Jerusalem. His family described Elhakak to reporters as autistic and said he was in his way a school for students with disabilities in the Old City, where he was both a student and employee.”
The Israeli police contended that the man was carrying a pistol. However, the victim’s family denied the claim and said he would not have been a threat.
The Justice Ministry has launched an investigation into the shooting.
It comes at a time when emotions are already flaring over Israel’s unilateral annexation plans under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Last month Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas declared that it is repealing the long-standing security arrangement with Israel over fears of annexation.
Adnan Ghaith, the Palestinian Authority’s shadow governor said, “What happened in Minneapolis is happening every day here in our streets and cities and villages.”
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Chicago, IL – December 18, 2019 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Apple (AAPL - Free Report) , Spotify (SPOT - Free Report) , Netflix (NFLX - Free Report) , Disney (DIS - Free Report) and Comcast (CMCSA - Free Report) .
Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:
Apple (AAPL - Free Report) Beats Market in 2019, Can It Maintain Momentum in 2020?
Applehas been one of the top-performing technology stocks in 2019 so far, thanks to its Services business momentum and wearables growth despite sluggish iPhone sales.
The Services business, which includes revenues from cloud services, App Store, Apple Music, AppleCare and Apple Pay, has become its new cash cow. The company had more than 450 million paid subscribers across its Services portfolio at the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019.
Apple’s Services business in 2020 is expected to benefit from a robust App Store, which continues to draw the attention of prominent developers globally.
Robust App Store sales coupled with solid adoption of Apple Pay and Apple Music are expected to help Apple double its 2016 Services revenues by 2020.
Further, according to a Bloomberg report, Apple is planning to offer a bundle that will comprise Apple News+, Apple TV+ and Apple Music to expand the subscriber base.
Apple Pay & Apple Music — Key Drivers
The growing popularity of Apple Pay is a key catalyst. At the end of the fourth quarter, Apple Pay was available in 49 markets and had more than 6,000 users.
Notably, Apple Pay’s transaction volumes more than doubled year over year (3 billion in the reported quarter).
Additionally, the Apple Card is expected to gain strong traction based on partnerships with major apps and retailers like Uber, Walgreens and T-Mobile.
Apple Music has also gained solid traction in the music streaming market, currently dominated by Spotify, which has 248 million monthly active users, including both paid subscribers and those who avail the service for free.
However, Apple reportedly has more than 60 million paid subscribers and doesn’t offer a free version of Apple Music.
Further, Apple Music’s availability on Google Play and Amazon Echo devices is expected to expand the iPhone maker’s footprint in the music streaming space. Additionally, the company is gaining from its tie-up with Verizon.
Expanding Services Offerings to Aid Prospects
Apple is also striving hard to maintain the momentum by launching new services like Apple News+, Apple Arcade and Apple TV+.
Notably, per CNBC, Apple News+ signed 200K subscribers within 48 hours of its launch in March, this year. Since then, the company has expanded the reach of Apple News+ to readers in Australia and the U.K.
The service, which offers popular publications including the Times of London, Hello Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The LA Times, among others, charges $9.99 a month. Notably, for every subscriber of News+, Apple generates 50% of revenues.
Moreover, in September, the company launched Apple Arcade, its game subscription service. Priced at $4.99 a month, the service comes with a free trial and offers unlimited access to a catalog of more than 100 new and exclusive games.
Per Verge, the company is adding a subscription option of $49.99 per year along with its existing $4.99 monthly subscription option for Apple Arcade.
Apple TV+: A Major Contender in Streaming Space
Apple TV+ is expected to be a major driver for Apple, despite significant competition in the streaming space, currently dominated by Netflix. Disney’s entry with Disney+ and Comcast’s upcoming Peacock service are expected to intensify competition further.
Nevertheless, at $4.99 per month, Apple TV+ has undercut the pricing of every other streaming service provider. The company’s focus on expanding its original content portfolio, as indicated by the recent pick-up in hiring, is likely to be a major growth driver.
Moreover, the nomination of The Morning Show for multiple Golden Globe awards reflect Apple TV+’s content strength.
According to a CNBC report, Apple TV+ is expected to become a $9-billion-per-year business with 136 million paid subscribers by 2025, assuming that one in every 10 Apple users will pay for the service, as estimated by Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty.
Apple Tops Wearables Tech Space
Apple’s wearables market domination is expected to continue in 2020 owing to the strong adoption of AirPods and Apple Watch. The inclusion of health features like ECG and fall detection in the Apple Watch Series 4 had been a game changer.
The solid adoption of Apple Watch Series 5 is now helping the iPhone maker strengthen its presence in the personal health monitor space. Notably, the watch is based on watchOS 6, which comes with additional healthcare and fitness features like Cycle Tracking, the Noise app and Activity Trends.
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Thanks Jennifer for such an informative slide show , Charles you are absolutely correct 3D printing is most common among children toys and there will come a time in near future when children will just be playing with 3 D Printed toys and those whi can afford will buy 3D printers themselves to print toys for there children .
I could imagine big families buying one of these printers to make shoes for their kids -- gym shoes, dress shoes, sandals, soccer, baseball and football cleats. It's a big upfront investment, but if it makes good shoes, it might be worth it.
I agree, Nadine. 3D printing seems to be at it's best in the creation of toys. When 3D printing starts to reach homes, I could see countless parents using it to make action figures for their kids. This also makes me wonder if Mattel has thought about creating a 3D printing package for consumers to make their own Barbie dolls.
Nice slide show, Jenn. My personal favorite at the show were the M&Ms imprinted with DN Rocks! 1M PVs! that translates into: one million page views, which we received in April. Can't believe that got all that on a tiny M&M.
Custom-designed running shoes that fit your own feet and are made of the right kind of plastic sounds like a great idea to me. And that's one of the best points about low-end consumer 3D printing, is its ability to make custom-designed stuff. The comfiest shoes I ever had fit like a glove, were made out of a lightweight rubber/plastic of some kind, and felt like they weren't there.
Cool slideshow, Jenn, especially some of the 3D printed stuff...I can't imagine wearing 3D printed running shoes one day, but who knows...it could happen! If they can make a nose and other body parts work, why not shoes?
Engineers at Fuel Cell Energy have found a way to take advantage of a side reaction, unique to their carbonate fuel cell that has nothing to do with energy production, as a potential, cost-effective solution to capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants.
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Here's what's in this show: Dime No. 2: Pop Elements
Apples In Stereo "Rainfall"
Bob Schneider "Flowerparts"
Sweet "Love Is Like Oxygen"
The Orange Peels "Circling The Sun"
Harry Nilsson "Mother Nature's Son"
Malajube "La Monogamie"
Sanders Bohlke "Rockets"
The Blue Meanies "Pop Sensibility"
Tom Petty "Girl on LSD"
Richard Cheese "Add It Up"
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U.S. Carries Out Strikes Against Rebels In Yemen
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The United States Navy says its ships returned fire at targets in Yemen. Navy destroyers, small but powerful warships, are in the nearby Red Sea. They launched missiles at radar stations, we're told, which the U.S. says were used to target the Navy. NPR national security editor Phil Ewing is in our studios He's following this story. Phil, good morning.
PHIL EWING, BYLINE: Good morning.
INSKEEP: Who was shooting at the Navy?
EWING: We don't know exactly who was shooting. These shots came from what the U.S. government says are rebel-controlled or Houthi controlled areas of Yemen. But precisely who exactly pulled the trigger, we don't yet know. There are advanced anti-ship weapons that could have come from a regional power like Iran. Iran may be responsible. It may be involved, and there were several incidents that took place. One involved a ship being operated by the United Arab Emirates, which was destroyed and then there were two other attacks from Yemen against an American destroyer the USS Mason before the Navy decided to return fire.
INSKEEP: The UAE had a naval vessel that was destroyed by these anti-ship missiles?
EWING: That's right. It's leasing a catamaran that was operating in these waters. We don't know exactly what it was doing, but it may have been delivering supplies to Yemen. And it was hit by one of these anti-ship missiles and burned to the waterline it took a great deal of damage. No one was killed, but several of the crewmembers were hurt.
INSKEEP: So we have to underline this. We're dealing with a situation where there's a chaotic civil war, where there's lots of rebel groups and other groups, and you imagine them with Kalashnikovs or handheld rocket launchers. But these are sophisticated weapons they've gotten from somewhere?
EWING: That's correct.
INSKEEP: And even though you don't know who fired the weapons, who controlled the ground where the weapons seemed to have been fired from?
EWING: The U.S. says these radar stations were in territory controlled by this anti-government force, the Houthis, which has been fighting against the internationally recognized government since 2015. The U.S., the Saudis, the other Gulf states are supporting that government against this Houthi rebel force. And in the civil war that's taking place on land in Yemen, the U.S. has been providing assistance and support for the Saudi airstrikes that have been taking place there. They've been widely criticized in international circles for being indiscriminate. But so far before today, the U.S. has not intervened directly as in expended its own ordinance in Yemen.
INSKEEP: So the firing was from Houthi-controlled areas, and the Houthis are on the opposite side of this conflict from the United States. You mentioned radar stations. I guess they're important because that's how you target other ships with these anti-ship weapons. So what did the U.S. do to them?
EWING: It shot them with Tomahawk cruise missiles from another destroyer the USS Nitze. And in a statement this morning, the Navy said, quote, "these limited self-defense strikes were conducted to protect our personnel, our ships and our freedom of navigation in this important maritime passage way." This is taking place near a strait that connects the Red Sea in the Gulf of Aden called the Bab-el-Mandeb, the gate of tears. And it's where a lot of oil and other commerce passes back and forth as it goes up the Red Sea to the Suez Canal or the other way toward the ports in Eastern Africa and the Middle East.
INSKEEP: Did any of the missile shots that destroyed this UAE ship get anywhere close to American ships?
EWING: No, they did not. The USS Mason which was the target in two of these attacks responded with some defensive systems, but we don't know exactly yet what that involved, whether it used decoys or countermeasures or even launched missiles of its own. There have been some press reports about this, but no official confirmation that may have destroyed those attacking weapons.
INSKEEP: How much does this deepen U.S. involvement in Yemen's civil war?
EWING: It definitely changes the calculus for the White House because so far, it has tried to keep an arm's-length approach to this Yemeni conflict. But now there are these American warships expanding their ordinance in Yemen, and it will force the White House to reassess how close it wants to get to the ongoing conflict there.
INSKEEP: Strictly speaking we're at war. U.S. military forces are firing and being fired upon.
EWING: Correct. The Navy says this was a limited action, a self-defensive action. We'll see whether or not they keep that up, but right now the world is watching to see what comes next.
INSKEEP: Phil, thanks.
EWING: Thank you.
INSKEEP: That's NPR's national security editor Phil Ewing on this day that the U.S. Navy says it fired shots into Yemen. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Huelva company Atlantic Copper has been recognized with the seal Copper Mark, a new worldwide accreditation that guarantees responsible copper production and the industry’s contribution to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is the first mining-metallurgical company in the EU to obtain this recognition.
This accreditation, also obtained by two mining centers of the Freeport-McMoRan group, Cerro Verde (Peru) and El Abra (Chile), “demonstrates the multinational’s commitment to sustainability and the commitment of the North American company to extend this seal to other companies. subsidiaries, “the company said in a statement.
Copper Mark, which was initially developed by the International Copper Association (ICA) and input from external stakeholders, “has become an independent entity that establishes a rigorous global compliance system based on ESG principles with a comprehensive set of environmental, social and governance criteria “, he adds in his company note. “This is the first and only system developed specifically for the copper industry, which allows each company to demonstrate to its customers, suppliers, investors, end manufacturers and other stakeholders a responsible production process aligned with the SDGs.”
In total, more than 30 criteria have been independently evaluated by an expert advisor, among which, in addition to those already mentioned, the human rights, labor and working conditions of employees stand out.
Javier Nameplate, CEO of Atlantic Copper, has shown his satisfaction with the recognition as “Copper Mark is the result of an ambitious strategy inspired by Freeport values. Innovation focused on sustainable efficiency is in the DNA of the company and from here I thank the entire Atlantic Copper team for their daily commitment to producing copper for a better world in a responsible manner. Furthermore, this seal demonstrates the contribution of the copper industry to sustainable development and is a recognition of the firm commitment of the company. with regard to the implementation of the SDGs and the principles of ICMM (International Council on Mining and Metals) “.
Since its approval in 2015, Atlantic Copper has reaffirmed its commitment to a more sustainable future by aligning itself with the SDGs, which aims to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of people around the world. Thus, five years later, “the company has already managed to implement the objectives of the United Nations in all its areas of activity, becoming an example and benchmark of industrial sustainability”, explains the company.
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Atlantic Copper is a Huelva company, the largest copper producer in Spain, which directly employs more than 1,000 people and is committed to the sustainability of its processes. Its shareholder is the North American company Freeport-McMoRan, one of the main natural resources groups in the United States. Freeport-McMoRan is the world’s second largest copper producer, top molybdenum producer and a major gold producer.
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How does one meet a staircase? My first response is negligently. Staircases incite an immediacy to respond that must tap into some basic human desire to rise or perhaps to conquer. We move forward, lacking knowledge of the history of the thing before us, comforted by its repetition of elements. One, two, three. Each stair dissolves into another. The body meets this architecture and usually complies. We pierce rooms and hold, but stairways, like doorways, are only to be passed through, without pause, and forgotten. At least this is true most of the time.
A few years ago in New York, I wandered through the spines of books at a library sale. Among the de-acquisitioned, I came across The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design by John Templer. I was immediately drawn to the book, intrigued by its isolation of an architectural structure that someone would take the time to acknowledge with such in-depth research and study. I wondered about the author and his history. Was there a brush with a staircase in his life that he wanted to symbolically mend? Published in March of 1995, the book offers what now, 17 years later, seems like dated statistics, but at the time was hailed as “the first theoretical, historical, and scientific analysis of one of the most basic and universal building elements: the stair.” While highlighting structural failures that lead to falls and accidents, Templer also includes beautiful diagrams of traffic flows, illustrating the ways the design of a staircase can lead its users to proceed. I love this book for its methodical breakdown of stairs and its commitment to isolating stair risks and hopefully fixing them. Even with all of this analysis in mind, the thing about a set of stairs that feels most potent is the way it leads us, prompts us and reminds us that (potentially) we are all susceptible to a fall.
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CARSON, Calif. – Chivas USA goalkeeper Dan Kennedy, recently tabbed as captain by new head coach José Luis "Chelís" Sánchez Solá, remains sidelined with a dislocated right pinky and missed his third preseason scrimmage on Tuesday.
According to the club, Kennedy's hand injury is not serious and the veteran has progressed well. He is expected to return to the pitch soon following a two-week absence. Netminders Tim Melia and Patrick McLain were in goal Tuesday as Chivas USA played to a 1-1 draw against the visiting Chicago Fire.
Sánchez Solá shrugged off Kennedy's injury, hinting at a sort of displeasure with how long it takes MLS players to recover. The coach has not been in town for long, but has already noticed a difference from his days in Mexico's Primera División.
"It's a whole different type of medicine they use here," he explained. "I would start to get angry but I don't want to get angry. The recovery of players here is entirely different in this league."
Kennedy was in good spirits, smiling and waving at fans as he walked to the team bus outside the gate. The 30-year-old is coming off consecutive 32-start, 100-save seasons and, following a brief time of uncertainty, appears to be one of Sánchez Solá's favorites.
"It's something we need to change here, but we'll do that little by little," Chelís said of the recovery process.