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Over the past two decades, the incidence of oral cancer has dramatically increased in many countries,1, 2 and the high prevalence has made it one of the most common malignancies in the world.3 Oral cancer has one of the lowest five-year survival rates among the major cancers: the five-year survival rate at the fourth stage of oral cancer is less than 20%, compared with 80% for localized lesions.4 This indicates that early detection followed by efficient treatment is one of the best ways to reduce mortality from this disease. However, accurate demarcation of early-stage neoplasia is difficult by visual inspection alone.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Clinicians can usually identify white oral leukoplakia, red oral erythroplakia, and erythroleukoplakia visually, but they cannot know which specific lesion site contains dysplastic or malignant cells. Thus, demarcation of the tumor borders via simple inspection or other common diagnostic procedures often remains unsatisfactory.
To date, biopsy remains the most reliable method for diagnosing oral cancer. However, it has limited application in detecting early-stage oral neoplastic tissue. Oral premalignant lesions such as leukoplakia, erythroplakia, and erythroleukoplakia are not homogeneous; that is, some parts of the lesion may show only hyperkeratosis and acanthosis, whereas other parts may show epithelial dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, or invasive carcinoma. Thus, one lesion may need multiple biopsies to avoid misdiagnosis of the most severe part of the lesion. However, biopsy is an invasive procedure and is not suitable for wide-area screening at the early stage of malignancy because the induced pain and inconvenience may seriously affect the patient's quality of life. Moreover, a plausible biopsy from an improper locus can lead to a false prognosis. Thus, determining the biopsy loci is always a dilemma and highly dependent on the clinician's experience.
In the search for a noninvasive alternative, researchers have employed modern optoelectronics techniques with light-induced fluorescence for oral cancer detection. Two types of fluorescence indicators have been reported to be valuable: autofluorescence 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) fluorescence.6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Previous studies have shown autofluorescence to reduce with oral malignancy;5, 9, 10, 19, 20 however, this change is not easy to discriminate by visual inspection. A study applied classification algorithms to compare various contrast features extracted from multispectral optical images and found that the ratio of red-to-green fluorescence intensity in a 405-nm excited autofluorescence image maximized the image contrast for the differentiation of neoplastic and non-neoplastic tissue.8, 10 In another study by the same authors, a computer program was developed to delineate the dysplastic area on the autofluorescence image over the white light image to increase the ability to identify the region.21 In contrast, although 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) induced PpIX fluorescence has been reported to be able to overcome the limitations of autofluorescence in the differentiation between dysplasia and cancer,17, 22 the lack of comparison studies to evaluate the validity of the various image processing algorithms means that standard contrast enhancement methods are unavailable. We believe that efficient image processing methods independent of different filtering techniques can improve the insufficiencies accompanying image acquisition so that ALA-induced PpIX fluorescence imaging can be clinically applied to oral cancer detection.
Protoporphyrin IX fluorescence induced by the application of ALA is one of the most promising methods for identifying oral malignancies. However, in contrast to its high sensitivity (95 to 100%), the low specificity (50 to 60%) hinders its clinical application.19, 23 To increase the specificity of this method, various researchers have proposed that the intensity ratio may be a better indicator of malignancy than PpIX intensity alone. Scott 16 and Betz 19 used the red-to-green fluorescence intensity ratio and employed a commercial software package, whereas Zheng 23 used the red-to-blue intensity ratio with a self-developed program for contrast-enhanced fluorescence image processing. Although their results show increased specificity by this approach, there is no consensus on the intensity ratio to be used, and the foundation of these methods was not clearly explained, hence rendering their reproducibility limited. In addition, these current methods only increase the fluorescence contrast in situ by mapping the original pixel values into rescaled pseudo-colors; however, determination of the location of the detected abnormal margin should refer to the corresponding white light image. This is usually a difficult task for an observer, because the positions of these two images are not exactly the same if the camera and patient are not immobilized in their relative position.
This study had two goals: first, to identify the optimal PpIX fluorescence contrast features from those categorized in previous reports and second, to fuse the detected fluorescence region with the corresponding white light image using image processing techniques for ease of identification. Thus, this method could be integrated with previously developed-fluorescence spectroscopy methods22 to improve its clinical feasibility for oral cancer detection via wide-area inspection.
Instrumentation and Image Acquisition
An optical endoscopic system was set up for fluorescence image acquisition. The configuration of the fluorescence imaging system is shown in Fig. 1. A violet laser diode (NDHV310ACA, 30 mW, 410 nm; Nichia Co., Japan) was used as the light excitation source, which was guided into a quartz fiber bundle with a diffuse lens at the distal end. If the laser reflection is too strong, it will not only overwhelm the fluorescence but will also saturate the CCD camera, and so, a long pass filter (cutoff wavelength = 420 nm) was mounted on the camera to reduce laser reflection. The digital images, red-green-blue (RGB) bmp files with the resolution of 960 × 720 pixels, 8-bit per color channel, were captured using a color CCD camera (Sony DFW-SX900) and transferred to a notebook PC through the IEEE 1394 port for further analysis. The fundamentals of the design have been described in detail elsewhere.11
ALA was prepared according to a previous study22 and was topically applied at a dose of 0.05 mL/cm2 to the oral mucosa of human subjects. A pair of images was captured every half an hour from the initiation of ALA application for two hours. For each measurement, a fluorescence image was first captured under diode laser illumination and then a white-light image was acquired using a normal white-light source; this order was followed to reduce the chance that the absolute fluorescence intensity began to decrease after reaching saturation when the duration of image acquisition was prolonged. The white light image was used as the background for demarcation of the detected fluorescence so that the position could be clearly revealed. Image acquisition was performed in a dark room to avoid any interference from other light sources.
Basis and Development of the Image Processing Method
The basis for using ALA-induced PpIX fluorescence strength as an indicator of malignancy is that PpIX conversion is decreased in malignant tissue due to reduced ferrochelatase activity; therefore, on applying ALA (an exogenous tumor-localized fluorescent agent) to the oral mucosa, cancer cells accumulate PpIX faster than normal tissue.20 The PpIX absorption wavelength in the human mouth is between 325 and 650 nm, and the dominant peak is at around 410 nm. Thus, if PpIX is irradiated using a diode laser with a wavelength of 410 nm, red fluorescence occurs. The fluorescence intensity in the malignant tissue reaches a maximum between 1 and 2 h after ALA application.6, 17, 22, 24 Numerous studies have shown that violet laser excitation induces both autofluorescence and ALA-induced fluorescence.15, 16, 18, 19, 20 The wavelength of the former is in the green-to-red range, whereas that of the latter falls mainly in the red band. Although both types of fluorescence are seen in healthy and malignant tissue, autofluorescence tends to decrease and PpIX fluorescence tends to increase in malignant tissue.19, 20
In comparison with other techniques,16, 23 in which RGB mosaic filters have been used to separate the color bands of the fluorescence image, this approach directly uses the pixel values from each color channel of the RGB images to derive the contrast features. The inherent RGB color model of the Sony camera system is leveraged to directly decompose the fluorescence images along the wavelength bands indicated in Fig. 2. The wavelength range of ALA-induced fluorescence after 410-nm illumination is 600 to 750 nm, and so, falls almost completely in the red band. The dominant peak of autofluorescence is at around 530 nm (480 to 550 nm) in the green band, while the specular and diffuse reflectance of the 410-nm violet laser falls in the blue band. This direct correspondence between the RGB wavelength sensitivity ranges and the three types of light emission (PpIX fluorescence, autofluorescence, and laser reflectance) provides a straightforward approach to measure the relative intensities.
Mathematical model of PpIX fluorescence images
To explore the contrast features, a mathematical model of the PpIX fluorescence images was built according to the corresponding optical physics of the RGB channels described above. Let R(x,y), G(x,y), and B(x,y) represent the three primary images as functions of a pixel location (x,y) in the RGB model. Using the illumination–reflectance model, an image can be expressed by Eqs. 1, 2, 3, where the functions of i(x, y, λ),r(x, y, λ),f(x, y, λ), and CCD(λ)denote the illumination, reflectance, fluorescence, and inherent RGB color transformation of the CCD camera, respectively.
Eq. 1[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} R{\rm (}x,y{\rm)} = \int {\left[ {i(x,y,\lambda)r(x,y,\lambda) + f(x,y,\lambda){\rm }} \right]} {\rm }CCD_{\rm R} ({\rm }\lambda {\rm)}d\lambda, \end{equation}\end{document}
Eq. 2[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} G(x,y) = \int {\left[ {i(x,y,\lambda)r(x,y,\lambda) + f(x,y,\lambda){\rm }} \right]} {\rm }CCD_{\rm G} ({\rm }\lambda {\rm)}d\lambda {\rm,} \end{equation}\end{document}
Eq. 3[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} B(x,y) = \int {\left[ {i(x,y,\lambda)r(x,y,\lambda) + f(x,y,\lambda){\rm }} \right]} {\rm }CCD_{\rm B} ({\rm }\lambda {\rm)}d\lambda. \end{equation}\end{document}
As the violet laser was the only light source, the blue illumination should mainly contribute to the blue image, the PpIX fluorescence falls in the red band and the autofluorescence lies in the green band. Based on this argument, the three equations can be reduced to
Eq. 4[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} R{\rm (}x,y{\rm)} = \int {f_{PpIX} (x,y,\lambda)CCD_{\rm R} ({\rm }\lambda {\rm)}d\lambda = F_R }, \end{equation}\end{document}
Eq. 5[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} G(x,y) = \int {f_{auto} (x,y,\lambda)CCD_{\rm G} ({\rm }\lambda {\rm)}d\lambda = F_G }, \end{equation}\end{document}
Eq. 6[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} B(x,y) = \int {\left[ {i(x,y,\lambda)r(x,y,\lambda){\rm }} \right]} {\rm }CCD_{\rm B} ({\rm }\lambda {\rm)}d\lambda = I_B {\rm.} \end{equation}\end{document}
Based on these analyses, the image processing algorithms to detect oral malignancy were developed.
Extraction of contrast features
Three contrast features commonly used to enhance the PpIX fluorescence were compared in order to find the optimum method. The theory and derivation of each of the methods are described below.
The first feature is the reflectance difference (S) between the red image (R) and the other images (G or B). This can be conducted by the binary morphological image processing technique, as
Eq. 7[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} S = \left\{ S| \bigcup {\rm pixel} \in S_R \cap Not(S_G \cap S_B)\right \}, \end{equation}\end{document}
The second is the red-to-blue (R/B) ratio image, which can be defined as
Eq. 8[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} {R / B} = \frac{{\int {f_{PpIX} (x,y,\lambda)CCD_R (\lambda)d\lambda } }}{{\int {i(x,y,\lambda)r(x,y,\lambda)CCD_B (\lambda)d\lambda } }} = \frac{{F_R }}{{I_B }}. \end{equation}\end{document}
The third is the red-to-green (R/G) ratio image, which can be defined as
Eq. 9[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{equation} {R / G} = {\rm }\frac{{\int {f_{PpIX} (x,y,\lambda)CCD_R (\lambda)d\lambda } }}{{\int {f_{auto} (x,y,\lambda)CCD_G (\lambda)d\lambda } }} = \frac{{F_R }}{{F_G }}. \end{equation}\end{document}
The ratio values were also classified into three levels by the following classification process.
Classification algorithm and image processing
A moment-preserving algorithm25 was used to classify the strength of each feature image into three levels. This algorithm automatically and objectively determines the intensity threshold value(s) within an image histogram that maximize(s) the variability between the resulting pixel classes; thus, it separates the image into clusters of like intensities. The one-threshold algorithm was modified into two thresholds to classify each primary image into three clusters. In the algorithm, the between-class variance [TeX:] $\sigma _B^2$ was calculated as thresholds k 1 and k 2 were varied
Eq. 10[TeX:] \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}\begin{document}\begin{eqnarray} {\bm \sigma} _B^2 (k_1,k_2) &=& w_0({\bm \mu} _0 - {\bm \mu}_ T)^2 + w_1({\bm \mu}_ 1 - {\bm \mu}_ T)^2\nonumber\\ && +\, w_2({\bm \mu}_ 2 - {\bm \mu}_ T)^2, \end{eqnarray}\end{document}
The clustering results were then pseudo-color-encoded to reveal the three relative intensity levels within an image. The pseudo-color of green was assigned to the regions with the highest level and then superimposed on the corresponding white-light image to make them easy to identify. As the fluorescence and white light images were captured in sequence, the positions of the two images could differ slightly due to patient movement. To account for this, image registration was conducted using a rigid transformation with two manually-selected reference points.
To fill the originally-detected foggy pattern of the detected region such that the region was able to be quantitatively compared with the manual demarcation, image morphological processing26 of "opening" followed by "closing" operations was conducted using a diamond-shape structural element with a size of 5 × 5.
Clinical Testing Method
Five clinical cases, a normal volunteer and four patients, were then studied to evaluate the validity of the proposed methods. The normal case was used as the control. The neoplastic regions in the patients were histopathologically confirmed. The procedure of clinical examination includes initial evaluation, which was carried out by visual inspection, to determine the region covering red oral lesions with some degree of epithelial dysplasia. Following that, further verification was performed using 1% toluidine blue vital stain to stain the dysplastic and cancer cells. Finally, according to the indication by toluidine blue vital staining, the most severe part (deep-blue-stained area containing either dysplastic or cancerous cells) of the oral lesion was then selected from which to take a biopsy. The appropriate size of the biopsy specimen was about 1.0 × 0.5 × 0.8 cm (length × width × depth).
The Jaccard index (JI) was used to quantify the degree of the consistency between two regions. The JI is defined as the ratio of the intersection of two regions by the union of them. If the two regions completely overlap, the JI value is equal to 100%.
An example image taken from the right buccal mucosa of a biopsy confirmed dysplasia case is given in Fig. 3. Classification of the RGB images of the fluorescence image shown in Fig. 3b is given in Fig. 4, where the three intensity levels from high to low are shown as black, pink, and white, respectively. Table 1 shows the quantitative evaluation of the mismatch in the reflection pattern between the three primaries. Both the qualitative and quantitative results reveal that the red image contains the greatest regional differences as compared with the other images across the three levels. As revealed in Fig. 4, this discrepancy can be mainly attributed to the black regions in the red image, which not only cover the teeth but also spread over the buccal mucosa and the tongue. In contrast, the black regions occur only around the teeth in the green and blue images. In addition, the lesser pink distribution in the green image, as shown in Fig. 4b, indicates that the decrease in autofluorescence weakens the overall intensity strength in the green image as compared with that in the blue image shown in Fig. 4c. Such regional differences in the classified patterns between the red and the other primary images show the location in which the strongest PpIX fluorescence occurs and thus reveal the malignant soft-tissue regions.
Table 1
JI values from the fluorescence images.
|Primary image pair
|Red versus Green
|Red versus Blue
|Green versus Blue
Comparison of Contrast Features
According to the above analysis of the different classification results of the RGB primary images, the three contrast features, i.e., S, R/B, and R/G, were derived and their performance was compared.
Following rigorous comparison, the R/B ratio images were found to be invalid in terms of enhancement of the contrast between neoplastic and non-neoplastic tissue in all cases. The example shown in Fig. 5 demonstrates sparsely-dispersed black dots in the R/B ratio image in contrast to the dense black dots concentrated in the dysplastic regions in the S and R/G images. The low contrast in the R/B ratio was further confirmed by the long-tailed pattern of the histogram of the R/B ratio images (Fig. 6), indicating small amounts of pixels belonging to the third level. In comparison, the histogram of the R/G values shows a clear clustered pattern. Both results demonstrate the inability to use R/B as a contrast feature to extract the neoplastic regions.
After weeding out the R/B feature, the contrast features of the reflectance difference (S) and the R/G ratio were further compared to inspect the detected locations in terms of the originally-detected foggy patterns spatially registered with the corresponding white light image. Figure 7 demonstrates the results of the negative control case with a fully normal image and the case with neoplastic regions. In the control case, the green dots are few in number and are randomly scattered on the healthy mucosa in the R/G image, whereas denser dots are spread not only on the mucosa but also on the white glove in the S image. In the neoplastic case, even though both methods detected neoplasia, the feature S tended to result in false detection at the two white cotton swabs, where strong reflection occurs. Table 2 lists the differences in the green dot density between the three regions.
Table 2
Dot densities measured in the three regions labeled in Fig. 6.
Consistency in Detection
The consistency in the detected location is demonstrated in Figs. 8a, 8b. These two images were taken from the same region of the same patient by rotating the camera about 30 degrees counter-clockwise, and the distribution of detection shown as green dots on both images still remains localized in the same malignant region – the right buccal mucosa.
Comparison with Expert Delineation
Through comparative study, the R/G ratio was selected as the optimal contrast enhancement method. To verify its reliability, detection using the R/G ratio image was further compared with the results obtained by clinical examination in four neoplastic cases. This was accomplished by overlapping the detected regions and the manual delineation by an experienced dentist according to the clinical examination, as shown in Fig. 9. The degree of correspondence between them was quantitatively evaluated by the JI, as indicated in the caption of Fig. 9.
In order to identify the grade of severity of the pathology, the pseudo-color of a pixel is defined as an exponential function of its R/G value. As the original fused images (Fig. 7) only revealed the detected area, the grade of severity was unclear in such images. Therefore, the color of the detected area was scaled into the color range according to the absolute value of R/G in the final registered image to provide more information for diagnosis. As the value increased, the color tended to be more reddish, as demonstrated in Fig. 9. It can be seen that cases 1 and 2, with fibrosis only, revealed a green color and cases 3 and 4, with dysplasia, turned to yellow, and their most severe parts (deep yellow) fell inside the manually delineated areas. The results shown in Fig. 9 indicate that the neoplastic sites detected by this method accorded with the clinical diagnosis.
Optoelectronics techniques with light-induced fluorescence have been proposed as noninvasive alternatives to conventional biopsy to detect oral cancer in the early stages of malignancy. Spectroscopic studies have reported that ALA induced-PpIX fluorescence is a promising method to improve the detection of premalignant lesions on oral fibrotic mucosa that cannot be found by autofluorescence.17, 22 In comparison to the small field covered by a spectrofluorometer, fluorescence imaging provides a much broader area for inspection. However, unlike autofluorescence, for which the optimal contrast mechanism has been carefully verified by Roblyer,21 the contrast enhancement methods for PpIX fluorescence imaging are diverse and lacks verification. Given the absence of an adequate image processing method among current techniques, we attempted to compare common contrast features by their optical properties related to the changes in fluorescence intensity associated with premalignancy and to develop a reliable image processing method to improve PpIX fluorescence imaging systems for oral cancer detection.
The reflection patterns of the RGB primaries of the fluorescence images were first analyzed under the assumption that differences between them can be used as features to differentiate malignancy. According to arguments regarding the three spectral responses dominating in different RGB channels, as summarized in Eqs. 4, 5, 6, this assumption can be supported by the following findings in the classified patterns of the RGB primaries of a fluorescence image. First, the broader black distribution in the segmentation of R(x,y) is mainly contributed to by PpIX fluorescence. Second, the malignancy-related decrease in autofluorescence indicated by a reduced contrast in G(x,y) was in agreement with other studies.5, 9, 10 In addition, this difference was not observed in the same analysis of the corresponding white light image in our pilot study.27
After verification of this assumption, three contrast features, the RGB reflectance difference, the R/B ratio, and the R/G ratio, were derived based on the optic characteristics drawn from the analysis. A comparative study of five clinical cases suggested that the R/G ratio provides the greatest image contrast between oral dysplastic and nondysplastic tissue. The advantage of the R/G ratio over the reflectance difference S can be explained by inspecting the illumination–reflectance model of Eqs. 1, 2, 3 and the wavelength sensitivity ranges of the camera system shown in Fig. 2. In the control case, in which PpIX fluorescence is absent, the red intensity, R(x,y), is mainly contributed to by the laser reflectance. In the neoplastic case, with white cotton swabs where strong laser reflection occurs, R(x,y) is equally contributed to by the laser reflectance and the fluorescence. In such a case, the classification of R(x,y) does not reflect the strength of fluorescence alone. Thus, the feature S, based on extracting the distributional difference in R(x,y) from the other images, is prone to error detection. In contrast, false classification can be avoided in the R/G ratio in both cases because the factor of laser reflectance is canceled out through normalization. Therefore, the ratio image of R/G results in more accurate detection without the interference of illumination.
The reason for the superiority of the R/G contrast features over the R/B values is also discussed herein. In a comparison of the R/G with the R/B features, as the malignant regions are characterized by higher f PpIX and lower f auto, the R/G ratios should increase with the appearance of PpIX fluorescence in the malignant regions; therefore, the differences between the malignant and normal regions are amplified. In contrast, the value of R/B can be interpreted as the red fluorescence f PpIX normalized by reflection of major illumination, I B; therefore, the contrast enhancement effect is not as good as that observed for the R/G ratio.
As the R/G ratio was found to be the best contrast features by rigorous comparison, its ability to identify the regions of interest was further improved by a series of image processing methods involving classification, morphologic operation, and image registration. In comparison with the conventional ratio images that only enhance the fluorescence contrast by mapping the fluorescence image into scaled-pseudo colors, the novelties of the improved R/G ratio images are described as follows. The possibility of premalignancy was revealed in terms of a dense group of green points, which were classified as the high-contrast R/G values using a dynamic thresholding mechanism. The spatial distribution of the neoplasia was directly revealed on the white-light image, with the color as a function of the absolute R/G values such that relative spatial information of the malignancy distribution is clearly delineated in the oral cavity.
The limitations of this study are twofold. First, pathologic grading was not evaluated due to insufficient image collection. A limitation of autofluorescence in differentiating the different degrees of dysplasia to cancer is that it has been found to be affected by variation in collagen content,10, 22 and the ALA-induced PpIX method is a potential alternative to improve this inefficiency of autofluorescence. Even though this study showed a tendency toward increased R/G values associated with a more severe degree of premalignancy, more rigorous evaluation of a greater number of pathological cases needs to be carried out. Second, whether system detection or manual delineation was more accurate was not evaluated. As the imaging method enabled a wide-area screening of the mouth, while a biopsy was taken from the characteristic part with a size of no larger than 1 cm2, it was difficult to verify the nonoverlapping areas demarcated by the system and the expert. As mentioned in Sec. 1, there are limitations in the differentiation of dysplastic or malignant lesions from non-neoplastic regions such as inflammation, hyperplasia, and hyperkeratosis simply by visual inspection. These confounding regions can be precursor margins of neoplasia and are difficult to discriminate by visual inspection; however, a significant R/G contrast is observed in these areas. This discrepancy can be further investigated in future studies. An additional note on the classification process: this was conducted separately based on the primary intensity of the RGB, R/B, and R/G values. Roblyer 10 proposed a classification method using combined features to maximize the autofluorescence contrast to discriminate oral neoplasia. This classification algorithm may be further compared with the method using combined contrast features in future studies.
The study presented herein demonstrates the superiority of the R/G ratio as a contrast feature to objectively identify neoplastic and non-neoplastic oral tissue in vivo. In addition, image processing techniques were applied to enhance the visibility of the detected neoplastic distribution in the fluorescence images on the corresponding regions in the white images. These advantages lead us to believe that the proposed fluorescence image processing method is of great potential in terms of improving the feasibility of conventional PpIX fluorescence imaging systems as a noninvasive diagnosis modality to assist clinicians in the overall examination of the oral cavity, thereby increasing the accuracy of the diagnosis and prognosis of oral cancer.
This research was supported by the National Science Council of Taiwan (Grant Nos. NSC 92-2218-E-214-003 and NSC 91-2218-E-214-021). The authors gratefully acknowledge the expert assistance of Dr. C. T. Chen of the Center for Optoelectronic Biomedicine, National Taiwan University, in the application of ALA in this study.


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What's In Store
Eclectic wine bar with an art gallery coming soon to NoDa
If you've driven through NoDa recently, you may have noticed the squat black brick building on 36th Street near The Plaza that's been under construction for about a year now. Local artist Nick Napoletano recently painted a multicolored swirl mural on its front facade.
The development will soon be home to an eclectic wine/coffee bar called Artisan's Palate, which will occupy 2,500 square feet of space, according to Greg Godley and Andrew Blumenthal of Legacy Real Estate Advisors. A yoga studio will take up 4,200 square feet in the building, too.
Owner Christa Csoka describes Artisan's Palate as "a community house" and a neighborhood hangout, complete with a coffee house and a full bar that'll serve everything from wine to craft cocktails.
It will also have a kitchen serving small plates that Csoka, a professional chef, said will be "elevated but comfortable," and will change depending on what's in season. The rotating menu will have 10-12 dishes at any time, and also will include charcuterie from Orrman's Cheese Shop.
Csoka's business partner, Christine Alter, is a German pastry chef who will make baked goods that'll be sold each morning.
Other elements throughout the Artisan's Palate will help create a homey feel, Csoka said. The bar and shelving is being done by Carolina Reclaimed, a local company that makes handcrafted furniture from reclaimed wood, for instance.
A nod to NoDa's artistic roots, the Artisan's Palate will also house a small gallery that every few months will feature work from local artists or artisans, from potters to jewelry makers to small-batch bourbon distillers, Csoka said. The gallery will double as a private dining room.
"(The concept) sounds all over the place, but in a way that's really good," Csoka said. "I'm trying to create a space where you can engage all of the senses."
Two empty spaces remain in the development — one is 650 square feet, and the other is 2,500 square feet.
Construction on the building is mostly complete; all that's left is some roof work and tenant upfits, according to the developers. Businesses are expected to open sometime in early 2019.
"We get a ridiculous amount of retail demand for the NoDa area. We wanted to go and supply some neighborhood services to the area," Blumenthal said.

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940 & 960 "Ron", Burgundy Volvo 940 GLE [1993]
A friend is helping me get this car up and running after sitting in a guy's front yard for around 10 years, only briefly driven to move houses once or twice. 199,701km on the clock when I bought it, engine sounds to be happy once it warms up.
Now that it's with me, it's first getting all it's fluids changed and fresh tyres and battery. Poor bugger is still home bound until we can get it blue slipped and road legal again but we've come across a mystery to solve.
At the moment we are having trouble with what we thought was the alternator, got another matching part and installed that but the engine still cuts out when you disconnect the battery. **Check the comments, because my mate is likely to jump in with the technical info**.
We checked the alternator and "the exciter wire seems to be giving 3v which is lower than it should be". Next up he is going to check the cluster behind the dashboard to make sure that isn't.. uh.. doing something circuit related.
Not going to add photos until I can get it to a carwash, it's still covered in leaves temporarily. 😅
The alternator isn't outputting anything (I think). The exciter wire, which is more like an input to the alternator that tells it exciting news to motivate it to start alternating, is reading a low voltage, which may point to an issue with the instrument cluster, which is at the other end of the exciter, and according to @Spac is a known issue in 940s.
Spac @Spac Canberra-ish.
Captain Ledfoot @bgpzfm142 Launceston TAS
Snoopy @Ex850R Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Melbourne.
There is a significant difference between a modern car and an 80s 740 or 90s 940
We slapped five new tyres on it, bled the brakes, flushed the coolant, flushed the oil, and flushed the power steering. It's driving nice, has a low idle and keeps throwing a faulty AMM code. I cleaned the AMM but that didn't solve it so I suppose we'll need to swap it out.
Not pictured: an ant colony we killed. RIP
Also, I totally forgot about these sweet EQs. The stereo sounds great too - bonus!
Cleaned out the pcv? and have you done the rear diff and checked the front suspension bushings?
Haven't done PCV yet or diff oil. I've looked over the front bushings, the sway bar endlinks are pretty toast but everything else is okay-ish
Well this happened
Steering rack blew up?
@DecimalDuck that is ATF from the power steering rack. I'll have to have a look and see if it's the rack or just a hose. That amount of leaking will stop it passing blue slip though.
I should have a spare rack and or hoses
Looks like rack to me, it's leaking from the passenger side dust boot
Oh yeah, these were the old tyres:
Seller was like yeah they'll be fine to drive to Eastwood from Dee Why. Hahahahaha
It's still good
That tyre is only 25% worn


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What is an accreditation? It is a statement of compliance that showcases to potential partners your commitment to maintain certain standards. These industry standards are then sort after as they offer a warm hug for organisations seeking certain expertise. If they have two suppliers and want to differenciate them, then the accreditations listed can help the suppliers to stand out from each other.
Hytec hold an enviable range of accreditations, from Cyber Essentials to being a BSI Platinum Partner and registered against ISO Quality frameworks. These are badges of honour that prove to our customers, partners and suppliers that we prioritise continuous improvement in order to deliver the highest quality services.
We are committed to the ongoing development of information governance and compliance standards.
ISO27001: Information Security
The ISO 27001 standard outlines best practice and security procedures to organisations, from the ground up, it embeds a 'best practice culture'.
It helps avoid incidents such as those reported in the media, when employees lose memory sticks containing sensitive information, defining where and when data can and should be accessed. It helps employees see data and the need to protect it every day, while also helping your organisation to be legally compliant with data security standards.
Hytec are proud to be ISO27001 certified as it shows to potential clients that we practice what we preach. We operate on a best practice basis and can share our knowledge and experience to help get you there.
HSCN Aggregator
2018 marked the transition from N3 to HSCN.
During the transition period, a level of disruption amongst clients was expected and Hytec have been one of the few organisations qualified to advise these organisations. Why? Hytec are trusted by local authorities and healthcare providers for being able to provide clear and concise guidance and advice.
Being an aggregator means that Hytec are able to place clients on to our N3 circuits before assisting them with the transfer to HSCN.
Cyber Essentials
The Cyber Essentials accreditation was launched in 2014 and was developed by the Government to provide a universal framework for all organisations. It says to your clients that you take your cyber security responsibilities seriously, providing a base level that businesses of all sizes can adhere to, ensuring confidence when working with partner organisations. In addition to providing confidence externally, it also provides an additional level of confidence internally, as Managers can feel safe in the knowledge that a best practice framework exists in the organisation.
Hytec are Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certified to ensure that we can get your organisation to where they need to be.
ISO9001: Quality Management
ISO 9001 is the international standard that specifies requirements for a quality management system (QMS). Organisations use the standard to demonstrate the ability to consistently provide products and services that meet customer and regulatory requirements. This showcases to clients and prospects alike that you take what you are doing seriously and have achieved a certain level of quality in your work.
Hytec are perfectionists and believe that our work should speak for itself. This is why we are ISO9001 certified as it showcases the dedication to mastering our craft. We aren't industry leaders for nothing and have worked for nearly 30 years to achieve a level of quality in our work and are not about to let up know.
What do our clients say?
Dedalus Healthcare Ltd
With the national focus on GDPR compliance for personal data confidentiality and the need for thorough system and process security, we are delighted to have achieved ISO27001 accreditation with the invaluable help of Hytec.
Hytec's Consultancy helped us formalise our existing processes against ISO standards, provided advice on writing policies and procedures, and assisted with incident and risk management for our full ISMS (Information Security Management System). Their advice was informative and very professional, and proved especially useful during the audit process. We now have the tools and knowledge to be self-sufficient in maintaining the accreditation.
As a result of the service provided by Hytec, Omnicell was able to quickly support a hospital trust with further training of their new Omnicell automated dispensing cabinets.
Rather than having to attend the site to carry out the training, the Omnicell team were able to use N3 tokens to view the system remotely and provide guidance and support to the customer. This has allowed our service department to deal with requests quickly and efficiently.
In addition to these accreditations we are listed on government frameworks and have developed a Managed Security Service based on our near 30 years' experience.
If you would like to talk to us about any of the information listed on this page, then please get in touch today.


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One encounters all sorts of people here in Wichita, and over the years we've acquired a dizzyingly diverse group of friends. We have friendships with men and women of all colors and sexual orientations and sports team preferences and political opinions. We're friends with some fervid supporters of President Donald Trump and some equally fervid advocates for self-described socialist and potential Democratic rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and we have noticed they seem to have a lot in in common.
Both are true believers in their hero's infallibility, and both are inclined to believe in conspiracy theories that some nebulous and nefarious "establishment" is out to prevent them from making everything right. Both believe that most of the mainstream media are in on it, too.
Trump has lately been "tweeting" to Sanders' supporters that they're right to be paranoid, as he knows all too well how nefarious that nebulous "establishment" and mainstream media can be in stopping a revolutionary movement, and it's a smart move. Sanders' most fervid supporters won't vote for Trump in any circumstance, but from our barroom conversations with the Sandersistas they might well wind up voting for the Green Party or Socialist Party or Communist Party or not voting at all if the damned Democrats don't nominate their guy, even if that means another four years of Trump.
From our seats here on the political sidelines we're nostalgically yearning for a bygone era in our lifetimes when there actually was an "establishment" and a mainstream media to enforce the time-honored norms of civil discourse and international relations that mostly maintained America's and the rest of the world's peace and prosperity. The dirty hippies and the rest of the damn Democrats started the whole "anti-establishment" crusade, and thus set off a "sexual revolution" and a general distrust of time-honored institutions and mores in general, and in the last election a proudly libertine and "anti-establishment" Republican won on an Electoral College victory on a promise to burn it all down.
At this moment the frontrunner in the Democratic primary race is Biden, a relatively sane and centrist by-Democratic-standards, and the Super Tuesday victories he scored to put him in the lead for now, which has our Sanders-loving panicked. Biden was was helped when fellow centrists South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar dropped out and endorsed Biden's candidacy, all of the media reported on Biden's big night, which of course fuels all the conspiracy theories about "the establishment," with Trump telling a rally crowd that there was surely some illegal quid pro quo involved.
As we see it Biden won the lion's share of the "Super Tuesday" vote from rank-and-file Democrats, however, as the elite "establishment" doesn't have nearly enough to account for the lopsided results, and people don't really pay that much attention to what's left of the mainstream media. Most Democratic voters apparently bought Biden's pitch that he'd go back to the days of the President Barack Obama administration.
All of our Trump-loving friends remember that as the dark age of socialist dystopia, and our Sanders-loving recall it as the era when the nebulous and nefarious "establishment" kept Obama from fulling his promise to fundamentally transform America into to a socialist utopia. We were very critical of the slow recovery from the Great Recession that Obama inherited, but after the Republicans won back the House in the mid-terms and slowed the deficit spending the economy started progressing slightly better in the last three years of the Obama administration than it has in the first three years of the Trump administration.
Trump would clearly prefer to run against Sanders, having invited impeachment by attempting to extort dirt from the Ukrainians about Biden. After Sanders and his kooky left ideas suffered a huge defeat on "Super Tuesday" the stock markets all rallied from a severe coronavirus slump, which signals some support for Biden's Obama era policies, but at least Trump can hope to divide the Democrats and suppress the sizable Sanders vote. Which just might work.
However it turns out, we'll hope that some sort of establishment maintains the norms that have so far mostly worked.
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OnePlus has released a new software update for their OnePlus 2 smartphone, the update comes in the form of OxygenOS 2.1.2.
The OnePlus Oxygen OS 2.1.2 software update has been released as an over the air update and it comes with a range of security fixes, and some new features.
Here is what is included in the update:
- Improved UX for preview in Camera
- Performance improvements on app install and launch
- Individual icon customization support
- Fixes for RAW format on 3rd party camera apps
- Russian & Turkish language support
- Lockscreen wallpaper support
- Security patches
- Bug fixes to System Update to improve OTA stability
- General bug fixes and performance improvements
You can check to see if the OxygenOS 2.1.1 software update is available for your OnePlus 2 from the settings menu on the handset.
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Christmas Opening Hours & Delivery Information
In order for you to receive your delivery in time for Christmas, please see the information below, on when our last our date is.
ALL ORDERS MUST BE PLACED BEFORE 11am of the last Order Date.
Last Standard Delivery order date is Wednesday 20th December 2017 for delivery on Friday 22nd December 2017.
Last Next Day Delivery order date is Thursday 21 st December for delivery on Friday 22nd December 2017.
We also have a delivery date of Saturday 23rd December 2017, when an order is received by 11am Thursday 21st December.
Orders received after Wednesday 20th December 2017 on a Standard Delivery Charge will be delivered on or after Thursday 4th of January 2017.
For Collection Orders: Collection can be arranged through the Christmas period but please contact us via email firstname.lastname@example.com to book a suitable date and time with a member of staff.
Free samples can be ordered at any time during the holiday period.
Christmas Period Warehouse Opening Hours:
We will be open over the Christmas Period Between 9am – 12 Noon on the following dates:
Friday 22nd December 2017
Saturday 23rd December 2017
Wednesday 27th December 2017
Thursday 28th December 2017
Friday 29th December 2017
We will then open back up on Wednesday 3rd January 2018 to normal hours of 9am – 4:30pm
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our customers, suppliers and friends all the best for the festive period and look forward to working with you again in 2018.


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The return of the sun has put a much needed spring back in our step and inspired us to find the best spots to soak it up. In this feature, a few well known personalities fill us in on their favourite establishments to do just that.
Fredd Kambo
La Tasca
Most weekends will find me indulging in my addiction for polo and right after I'm done playing club chukkas, I head to La Tasca in Lavington Mall. It's a wonderful tavern with delicious Spanish food served tapas style. The prawns and choricillo (small smoked pork sausage) are fantastic. The host, Maurizio, is charming with a wicked sense of humour. It is no accident that his personality translates to a convivial atmosphere all round. For sugar lovers, try the hot chocolate.
David Muriithi
Ankole Grill
When the sun comes out I usually find myself at Ankole Grill on Galana Rd – usually after an early Bikram Yoga session or a late night gig. It's not because it's a 10 minute drive from my house or it's awesome service…it's the awesome Porridge. They serve a Peanut Butter Sweet Potato Uji (I usually have them add some honey). Thing is, I usually go for brunch alone as I don't want anyone to hear me slurping the last bits….
Akinyi Adongo
The girls and I have a routine every Friday come rain or shine. We all doll up and head to Furusato in Westlands. In all the years we have dined there we have never had a single complaint. Furusato is definitely mid-range looking at their pricing. I always order the exact same thing (for the past eight years!): Pork Gyoza or Salmon Jaw as the starter, Philadelphia roll as the main course and the sweet bean ice cream for dessert.


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ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD. CRACIOUS God, we thank thee that thou hast
u given to thy servants a new object of affection and concern. Let them receive their child as from thee, and in gratitude dedicate it to thee. Will it please thee to watch over its life and health, to unfold its faculties, to make it a blessing to them and an instrument of good to society, wherever its lot may be cast. Help them to feel their obligations to it as Christian parents. Above all wilt thou early sanctify it in all its faculties and affections, and let it become a child of God. And whether earlier or later thou shalt take it from this scene of discipline, may it not have lived in vain ; and this we humbly ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
ALMIGHTY God, the preserver of all thy crea
tures, and the confidence of the ends of the earth, and of those who are afar off upon the seas; we offer up unto thee our united thanksgivings for the signal mercies thou hast vouchsafed to thy servant whom thou hast preserved in his voyage ; that thou hast protected him from every danger to which he was exposed ; and hast restored him to his friends in safety. Write a law of thankfulness upon his heart, and hereby engage him to a diligent and grateful obedience to all thy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
cious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; we give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in our great necessity to send a joyful rain upon the earth, and to enrich the furrows thereof with the plentiful dews of heaven. Thou hast filled our hearts with joy and gladness. We pray thee to continue to us the genial influences of the sun and rain, and to make us truly thankful for all thy mercies, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FOR A PLENTIFUL SEASON. ALMIGHTY and ever blessed God, who mer
cifully suppliest the wants of thy creatures, and art continually giving testimonies of thy gracious providence; we rejoice at this time, with humble thankfulness, in the gifts of thine undeserved bounty, that thou hast caused the earth to yield its increase, and crowned the year with thy goodness. While thou art thus sending down thy blessings upon us, may we be disposed to live in a sober, temperate, and charitable enjoyment of them, and to bring forth the fruits of holiness and righteousness all the days of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
LORD God, who hast wounded us for our sins, and consumed us for our transgressions,
by thy late heavy and dreadful visitation ; and now in the midst of judgment remembering mercy, hast redeemed our souls from death ; we offer unto thy fatherly goodness, ourselves, our souls, and bodies, which thou hast delivered, to be a living sacrifice unto thee; always praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of thy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
ALMIGHTY God, who art a strong tower
of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies; we yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great dangers wherewith we were compassed. We acknowledge it of thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them ; beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us, that all the world may know that thou art our saviour and mighty deliverer, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
alone makest men to be of one mind in a house, and stillest the outrage of a violent and unruly people; we bless thy holy name, that it hath pleased thee to appease the seditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us; and we most humbly beseech thee, to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments, and leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, may continually offer unto thee our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for these thy mercies toward us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FOR THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR. COD of our lives, who art unchanged and unU changeable, without beginning and without end; we render thee our humble thanks that thou hast brought us through the year, which is now closing, by thy mightyʻand outstretched arm. Thy candle hath shone upon our tabernacle, and thy smiles have gladdened our hearts. We thank thee for the care which thou hast extended to us, and the blessings which thou hast bestowed upon us. We have cause to be grateful, and we have cause also to be humble, in our review of the past. Much of our time has been wasted or misspent. O reward us not according to our iniquities, and let not thy compassions cease from us; but graciously prolong to us the day of grace and the means of salvation. Sanctify to us the afflictions which thou hast appointed us to bear, and grant that they may contribute to our eternal welfare and peace. We commend ourselves to thy holy keeping. Prepare us for life; prepare us for death, and for eternity. May we go on our way with new resolutions of obedience, new gratitude for thy mercies, and new vigor to perform thy will. And when our time shall be no more, receive us to thyself in glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Coming of our Lord.
THE COLLECT. ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may
cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility ; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the living and dead, we may rise to the life immortal. And this we beg in the name of our Mediator ; through whom we ascribe unto thee all honor and glory, now and ever. Amen.
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For many students, both their formal and informal sex education occurs at school. As COVID-19 forced schools across the country to abruptly close, many parents took on an additional role as teachers.
President's Trump decision yesterday to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), is devastating to the lives and futures of 800,000 young people – 17,000 of them right here in Colorado. DACA recipients (also called DREAMers) have grown up in this country and have pursued educations, military service, and careers in the U.S., becoming productive, contributing members of their communities. In order to have qualified for DACA, these young people had to pass a stringent vetting process and have no criminal records. The vast majority (95%) are in school or working. As a group, they were predicted to contribute $460.3 billion to the American economy over the next decade. Now, this cruel and pointless action threatens to derail their lives and separate them from their families, their friends, and the only homes they have ever known.
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center stands with the DREAMers. We believe that all human beings, regardless of gender or creed or immigration status, deserve dignity and respect. DREAMers deserve access to the most basic tools required to build a healthy, meaningful life. They deserve to live their lives, to raise families, to contribute to their community without fear of being forcibly removed from it. DREAMers are a part of the Women's Health community. They are our patients, our coworkers, our neighbors, and our friends. And we will continue to provide services for all who need them in our community, regardless of immigration status.
For those who are now living in fear because of the Administration's action, know that you are not alone. For more information on the status of the law or for resources on where to go for help, see Here to Stay or United We Dream.
Currently, Colorado's senators Cory Gardner (R) and Michael Bennet (D) are cosponsoring a bipartisan bill to protect young immigrants from deportation and to provide them a path to citizenship. We are proud of our lawmakers for taking this stand, and encourage everyone to contact them and express your support for this measure.
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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph
The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch collection is famous for its popular porthole-inspired design and its broad octagonal shaped bezel, fixed onto a robust case by eight hexagonal shaped screws. Designs from this collection feature chronographs, perpetual calendars and minute repeaters to name just a few.
Each timekeeping instrument form this iconic collection is fitted with an impeccable mechanical movement, crafted in-house at Audemars Piguet's watch manufacturing facilities nestled in the heart of Switzerland. Other distinct features of the Royal Oak Offshore watch collection include the "tapisserie" patterned dial and the integrated metal link bracelet which tapers at the buckle end.
This sleek men's Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore watch consists of 365 parts and 59 jewels and is fitted on a black rubber strap with a rose gold buckle. The matching 18ct rose gold case features a striking black ceramic bezel with matching push-pieces and a screw-in crown.
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Hamdard Public School, founded in 1993 by Janab HakeemAbdul Hameed Saheb, is designed to contain all educational facilities required for bringing out the full potential of the student and train his/her mind to analyze the situation and problems and come out with a balanced and justified solution. The students are looked after with passionate care, but are not pampered. Our objective is to instill into the students initiative, zest for life, dynamism, compassion, and strength of character.
Residential students are provided hygienic living conditions, excellent academic and religious atmosphere, wholesome food, and plenty of exercise. They are taught to respect the opinion of others and appreciate cultural differences. The school has created adequate facilities for football, cricket, volleyball, squash, table tennis and badminton. The school has in-built inclusions for co-curricular activities like art, debate, drama. The school embraces modern technology in classroom teaching so as to provide the right environment for students to grow in and become techno savvy.
We hope and pray that all of you and your children are keeping safe and well and are following the specific precautions that are essential to self-protection.
Although we are in the midst of COVID 19, which has raised its ugly head across the globe and at home, we have distanced ourselves from its negativities and are trying to turn this unfortunate development on its head.
Please follow the safety guidelines implicitly, keep the elderly isolated and stay safe and do remember us in your prayers.
All of you are in our special prayers as we seek the Creators protection and guidance. We are firm in our belief that all will be well if we look after each other, give each other support and extend our horizons far beyond ourselves to those who are less fortunate and in greater need of sustenance than we are. Now is perhaps the time to give freely and earn the Creators blessings.
The management of Hamdard Education Society is with you in this period of trial.
'After hardship there is ease.'
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We place a high priority on students being constantly in tune with a dynamic Science & Technology environment.
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Indiecita 4ply Baby Alpaca
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Indiecita Alpaca is sourced from Peru; where the alpaca can thrive in their natural environment, and the farm and factory workers are well looked after.
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TV's been on my brain lately. I just finished Netflix's Ozark and started Altered Carbon. Intermittently, however, I've been re-watching episodes of what could be my favorite TV show and is, arguably, the greatest ever: The Andy Griffith Show. My dad loves it, so I grew up watching it along with others like Hogan's Heroes and Happy Days. I've always wanted to articulate the reasons for my affinity and examine why the sixth season marks a drop in quality from which the show never recovers. During this process, I'll be recounting a few facts that influence my opinion of the show and its seasons. For more in-depth information, consult the Wikipedia article. The picture above is from ReelRundown, the one below is from Wikipedia, and the one far below is from The Andy Griffith Show Wiki.
What I like about The Andy Griffith Show is its endearing characters, humorous plots, and lively, if exaggerated, acting. Also praiseworthy is the fact that its content is appropriate for any audience. I'm not one who personally cares about that--I love South Park, for instance--but it's nice being able to watch the show with people of any age. According to Wikipedia, The Andy Griffith Show "aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons, 159 in black and white and 90 in color." Coincidentally, the transition from black and white (seasons 1-5) to color (seasons 6-8) marks the dip in quality as well. I haven't seen any of Mayberry R.F.D. (1968-71) or The New Andy Griffith Show (1971), but I'm guessing they're mediocre if not downright bad.
The Best Years: Seasons 1-5 (1960-65)
Part of what makes the first five seasons special is that the core cast, pictured above, remained the same. Starting out, the show has more of a rural feel to it (characters' diction and accents) that was later abandoned. Andy is consistently pleasant, whereas, in later seasons, he always seems to be pissed off. Opie is at his youngest, naturally, and his most likeable. Similar to many, my favorite character is Barney Fife, played by Don Knotts, who would leave the show after the fifth season to pursue movie stardom, before returning to TV stardom as a regular cast member of Three's Company (1977-1984), and then, again, to film. Other regular characters such as Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), Otis Campbell (Hal Smith), and Ernest T. Bass (Howard Morris) contribute to the show's success. Even guest stars like the Darlings, the Fun Girls, and Malcolm Merriweather (Bernard Fox) serve as welcome additions to an already robust cast. The departures disappoint, however: pharmacist Ellie Walker (Elinor Donahue) in '61, nurse Peggy McMillan (Joanna Moore) in '63, mechanic Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) in '64 who would go on to Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964-69), and Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn) in '65. I always hoped that Andy would marry either Ellie or Peggy, but I was fine with Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut). Because every season is 32 episodes (with the exception of the second, which is 31), there's a lot to enjoy. There are too many great scenes to recall, but what follows are my favorite episodes.
Season 1 (1960-61)
The Not-So-Good Years: Seasons 6-8 (1965-68)
I've already mentioned a few things that led to the quality decrease in the show's latter years--switch to color, Opie's aging, etc.--but what is undoubtedly the main culprit is the departure of some characters and the addition (or increased presence) of others. While several likeable characters exit the show over the course of its first five seasons, the replacements don't add much. The new deputy, Warren Ferguson (Jack Burns), is terrible. Yes, he has a tough role to fill, but he doesn't do anything to endear himself. Similarly, Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), who first appeared in '64, replaces Gomer, but isn't as enjoyable to watch. Unfortunately, Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman), Sam Jones (Ken Berry), and Mike Jones (Buddy Foster) are forgettable at best. Frankly, the show ceased to be funny in season 6, which is why I haven't watched most of the last three seasons. There are highlights, though, that manage to be entertaining and sad--Barney's guest appearances and Thelma Lou's cameo, for example, reminding one of better times for both the characters and the viewers. What follows is a list of notable episodes.
Season 6 (1965-66)
And, though it doesn't capture the magic of the old days, Return to Mayberry (1986), the made-for-TV movie, is worth watching as well. The reunion specials include The Andy Griffith Show Reunion (1993) and The Andy Griffith Show: Back to Mayberry (2003).
Sure, like any work of art, the show has a host of faults, but it is also one that, in seasons 1-5, is able to overcome them. Sadly, most of the cast are dead and gone. This means that there will never be another live-action reunion. Their work will live on, however, in one of the greatest, if not the greatest, TV shows of all time. What sparked this post, besides always wanting to write down my thoughts about TAGS, is that I was recently at a restaurant where I saw an older woman wearing a pink sweatshirt, which read "I'd rather be in Mayberry, N.C." Some days I think I would, too. For those days, The Andy Griffith Show is, as of this writing, available to stream via Netflix. (And no, my blog isn't one big ad for Netflix. I've just been watching Netflix a lot lately.)
Black for Death
Like many, I watched and enjoyed the Netflix original series, Black Mirror. (My favorite Netflix series are House of Cards, Mindhunter, Peaky Blinders, and The Punisher.) It's an ideas show, where, instead of becoming invested in the characters, it's all about the premise--usually how advanced technology is far more detrimental than beneficial for most people. While hit or miss, all episodes are worth watching. The following are my favorites, however, with brief synopses via Netflix and images via Wikipedia.
Season 1, Episode 3: "The Entire History of You" (2011)
"In the near future, everyone has access to a memory implant that records everything humans do, see and hear."
Season 2, Episode 2: "White Bear" (2013)
"Victoria wakes up and cannot remember anything about her life. Everyone she encounters refuses to communicate with her."
Season 3, Episode 2: "Playtest" (2016)
"An American traveler short on cash signs up to test a revolutionary new gaming system, only to discover the thrills are a little too real."
Season 3, Episode 3: "Shut Up and Dance" (2016)
"After a virus infects his laptop, a teen faces a daunting choice: carry out orders delivered by text message, or risk having intimate secrets exposed."
Season 4, Episode 1: "USS Callister" (2017)
"Capt. Robert Daly presides over his crew with wisdom and courage. But a new recruit will soon discover nothing on this spaceship is what it seems."
Season 4, Episode 5: "Metalhead" (2017)
"At an abandoned warehouse, scavengers searching for supplies encounter a ruthless foe and flee for their lives through a bleak wasteland."
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A surprise gift from her late husband will give a young widow the chance to do the hardest thing in the world . . . move on.
On their honeymoon, the new Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Shaw made a pact: No matter the sacrifices along the way, one day they would return to Sunset Beach, North Carolina—this time to buy their own home.
But that dream was not to be. Seven years into a beautiful marriage, Emily is left a widow, heartbroken, and way past caring about anything.
Until a man approaches her, claiming to have something left to her from Ryan. Something secret.
Unsure if she can ever embrace a new life without her husband, but even less sure about continuing to stay where she is, Emily heads to the coast to keep her end of the promise she once made.
Without delay, she becomes immersed in the lives of the locals, including the reclusive bridge tender with an unexpected past. As the community debates over building a new bridge, Emily must decide whether she will build a bridge of her own, one that will take her out of a painful past and into the new life—and new love—that her lost love made possible.
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Brief of Appellant
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State's appeal from an order granting a petition for a post-conviction determination of factual innocence and vacating a conviction for aggravated murder, a capital felony, in the Second Judicial District Court, Weber County, the Honorable Michael D. DiReda presiding
Original Brief Submitted to the Utah Court of Appeals; digitized by the Howard W. Hunter Law Library, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; machine-generated OCR, may contain errors.
Alan Sullivan; Chris J Martinez; Snell & Wilmer; Counsel for Appellee.
Christopher D. Ballard; Assistant Attorney General; Mark L. Shurtleff; Utah Attorney General; Scott Reed; Patrick B. Nolan; Assistant Attorneys General; Counsel for Appellant.
Public record document (some rights may be reserved).
Recommended Citation
Brief of Appellant, Brown v. Utah, No. 20110481 (Utah Court of Appeals, 2011).


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Kumkum Bhagya 27th April 2018 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
The Episode starts with Pragya saying to Servant that they have to change the room designs. She tells King that she will tell him news which will make him mad. She asks him to promise that he will not take punch. She tells that he is one among the six selected singer for the international album. King gets happy and says I have been waiting for this day. He asks her to ask anything. Pragya says you have already given me much and says they have some conditions. She says you have to go to India and stay there for few months.
Aaliya asks Dasi what you were telling Abhi, and says she won't let anything happen without her wish. Dasi says Abhi will love her always. Aaliya says Abhi has no time for all this nonsense and says his assets are increased 10 times more because of me. She says Abhi is changed
now. Dasi says he is in pain and you made him stone. She says he feels need of Pragya and is lost in her memories all day. She says he can't be like you, and is hiding his pain and loves her only. Pragya says I can't go as Kiara is here. King says I will not go without you, and says he will get Kiara admitted in a good school. He says you have to come with me.
Pragya says I will come with you to all countries and cites, but not Mumbai. King says he was a loser to lose you, and says your boyfriend was stupid to leave you. He says if you was not my manager then I wouldn't have punch in my life. Pragya tells him that she became pain of his life and became reason for Dadi's death. He says if he wanted to mingle then he would have chosen her, and tells that he can't break many girls' heart for her. Pragya agrees and thinks if she is doing this with her return. Dasi tells Aaliya that Abhi loves only Pragya. Aaliya asks her not to dream this and says Tanu is his wife now. Dasi says Abhi has married Tanu, but don't let her stay in his room or let her sit with him. Aaliya says if Abhi hears them. Dasi says that's why they don't discuss this and says Pragya might return.
Dasi, Tai ji, Mitali and others talk to Dadi' and Dasi's sister Maasi. Maasi says I will come there. Dasi says Abhi got house build in Delhi. Maasi asks about Pragya and then Tanu. Tanu comes there and gets angry on Maasi. She asks her to come there and see. She then scolds Taya ji and asks him to go to office. She then insults Dasi and stops Robin from giving something to Dasi. She threatens Dasi and says she is not Pragya. Dasi asks God to send Pragya back. Aaliya comes to Tanu and asks her to change her behavior towards family. Tanu speaks rude to Aaliya and asks her to do her work. Aaliya asks what is wrong with her and says everyone is ours. Tanu acts arrogant and tells that she knows that Abhi gave Dadi's position to Dasi and that's why didn't cross her limits. Aaliya asks her not to be egoistic. Tanu says I don't need your suggestion as I am Mrs. Abhishek Mehra, and says you can take my advice whenever you wants. Aaliya says you are dumb now itself and asks her to handle time and ego, and asks her not to forget that she is better option for Abhi than Pragya. She says when you are in trouble, then you will come to me for help. Tanu says we don't want to clash after Pragya is gone.
Pragya, King and Kiara are going to Airport. Kiara tells that she couldn't meet her friends and asks driver to take car back as she forgot rocky and cookie toys. King asks driver to take the car back. On reaching back, King asks Pragya to go and get the toy. Kiara couldn't find her toys. Pragya says she will get same toys. Kiara goes to her room and checks. Pragya asks her to check behind the pillows. Kiara finds doll behind the pillow and thanks Pragya. Pragya sees toys and sees its resembles to Rockstar and Fuggi toys. Song play tere sang yaara plays………
Aaliya tells Abhi about the international concert. Purab asks Abhi to see king's face. Abhi says what I will do.
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It's a morbid thing to think about, especially when you're still in the prime of adulthood, but having a will is very useful when you have responsibilities to others, and you've accrued some estate, whether that be money, business or property. If you're not sure whether you want to do a will, then here are the reasons why it's important to get one now.
Keeps Your Estate In The Family
One of the things you build up in life the most is your estate. It's everything from your belongings, any property you may have, any businesses, and the financial values. If you passed away without making a will, it would be the state who decides where your assets go. This might depend on where you live and what the rules are regarding the situation where a will isn't present. So if you want to ensure that it stays within the family, make it so by writing a will. You lose that benefit of giving it to family, and the family would have a hard struggle to regain ownership of the estate.
It Gives You Power Over Your Belongings
By having a will, you can have a say over where everything goes. You don't need to give your estate to anyone you know if you didn't want to. It could go to a charity you're fond of or perhaps individuals you may be acquainted with but are not your family. The decision on where your belongings go is up to you and only you. You lose that privilege, though, if you decide not to write a will. It can also mean that things get distributed perhaps to people you wouldn't want to receive anything.
Wills Can Reduce Family Conflict
Death can be upsetting, and therefore, family members who remain behind and have to deal with your estate can end up turning sour. Family conflict can occur, and then legal aid like Bannister Preston have to step in. You want to avoid your estate causing problems between family members, and you having a will is telling everyone that these are your wishes and that the decision has been made, whether they agree or not.
You Decide Who Takes Care Of Your Children
A terrifying thought that can come when writing a will is when you have young children. The thought of leaving them now is heartbreaking, but it's important to prepare for all scenarios and one of which is ensuring that there's someone in place, should you ever be unfortunate to lose your life and that of your partners. You'd both want to see your children with respectable and caring adults who have similar or the same morals as yourself. Having a will lets you decide that but ensure that those who would be responsible are told and agree.
If you're thinking about getting a will and either have children, married, or have property or assets, you should certainly have one. Always be prepared as life can sometimes deal a nasty hand.
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Assistant heads are finally to be invited to join heads and deputes as the HAS inches towards becoming the association for senior managers. The first two signings were immediately announced as Iain McKay and Maureen McKenna of Kilsyth Academy (above).
The conference backed calls from the leadership to widen the association's base. Alistair Johnston, the outgoing president, forecast that in five years membership could rise above 1,000. "We now need to market ourselves more, so that senior staff will one day consider it to be the natural thing to join our ranks on appointment to a senior staff post in a secondary school," Mr Johnston said.
Nine years ago, the HAS opted to widen its base by admitting deputes, who now constitute a quarter of the membership of about 400.


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It's hard to think of an industry that isn't being "disrupted," but retail is under especial pressure to evolve or die. Legacy brands from Sears to Payless ShoeSource are closing stores, further corroborating the so-called "retail apocalypse." At the same time, digitally native businesses like Warby Parker, Bonobos and Amazon are opening physical stores, thereby refuting the popular misconception that customers overwhelming prefer to shop online.
With all these changes afoot, retailers are scrambling to re-strategize and navigate a channel-agnostic world where brands that successfully blend the in-store and digital purchasing experience come out on top. Just like machine-human interactions have shown that virtual agents augment the performance of live agents instead of stealing their jobs, physical retail and e-commerce don't have to be antagonistic.
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4-week ethanol production rises by 1.4%
Renewable Fuels Association reports that ethanol production increased 26,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 2.5%, to 1.059 million b/d—equivalent to 44.48 million gallons daily. The four-week average ethanol production rate rose by 1.4% to 1.034 million b/d, equivalent to an annualized rate of 15.85 billion gallons, but was still 2.1% lower than the year-ago level.
Ethanol stocks shrank an additional 1.2% to 20.3 million barrels, the lowest volume since January 2017. Inventories were 11.6% lower than the same week last year. Stocks declined in all regions except the Gulf Coast (PADD3) and Rocky Mountains (PADD 4). Imports of ethanol arriving into the West Coast were 36,000 b/d, or 10.58 million gallons for the week. (Weekly export data for ethanol is not reported simultaneously; the latest export data is as of September 2019.)
The volume of gasoline supplied to the U.S. market ticked 0.1% higher to 9.204 million b/d (386.6 million gallons per day, or 141.10 bg annualized). Refiner/blender net inputs of ethanol also increased 0.1% to 930,000 b/d—equivalent to 14.26 bg annualized. Expressed as a percentage of daily gasoline demand, daily ethanol production increased to 11.51%.
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Burnley Vs Manchester City English Premier League 2016–2017 IST Indian Time Live Stream and Telecast: Manchester City hope to bounce back to the top of the Premier League this Saturday, November 26th, when they travel to face Burnley.
Burnley Vs Manchester City English Premier League 2016–2017 IST (Indian Time), EST (USA Time), UK (British Time), GMT+0 Match Preview and Live Stream
Match: Burnley Vs Manchester City (English Premier League)
Date: November 26th, 2016; 18:00 IST, 7:30 EST, 12:30 UK
Venue: Turf Moor, Burnley
Burnley Vs Manchester City TV Details: Star Sports Select HD1 (Indian viewers); NBC Sports Live, NBCSN, SiriusXM FC (USA viewers); BT Sport Live Streaming, BT Sport 4K UHD, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Manchester, BT Sport 1 (UK viewers);
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The hosting side Burnley is currently in the 12th place of the English Premier League standings after having three defeats, one draw, and two wins in their previous six fixtures. The team is tied on points with fellow middling team Southampton but has a lesser goal differential than the Saints. The Clarets are coming off a humiliating 0–4 defeat in the hands of Tony Pulis' streaking squad West Bromwich Albion away from home at the Hawthorns on Monday.
Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola's powerhouse squad Manchester City responded to their unlucky 1–1 stalemate with Middlesbrough in the previous round with a 2–1 victory over Crystal Palace away from home at the Selhurst Park last Saturday. Ivorian midfielder Yaya Touré netted twice for the Citizens in his first match back in the starting line-up for City. It was the second victory in three games for City, who are currently at third spot in the Premier league table, as the team is on a five-game undefeated spell. City also endured a difficult evening in Germany on Wednesday as Borussia Monchengladbach held them to a 1–1 draw in the UEFA Champions league fixture.
Burnley Vs Manchester City: Head-to-Head Stats
Manchester City have won three, drawn two, and lost one of their last six meetings with Burnley.
Burnley Vs Manchester City English Premier League 2016–2017: Prediction and Betting tips
Manchester City are a favorite in this match and they will take initiative right from the kick-off. Given the statistics, they'll score more in the first half, but the same goes for Burnley, who will maybe even the score at halftime and stir things up in the betting world. The quality and strategy factors will be crucial for Manchester City in the second half, so they will score once or twice, getting the needed three points at the end.
Over/Under Prediction
Over 2.5 Goals
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Man City to Win 2–1


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My client, a large multinational financial services company based in the heart of London are looking for a DevOps Lead to join their expanding DevOps function and lead a team of skilled engineers.
The DevOps Lead is responsible for defining, architecting, creating and running an efficient DevOps lifecycle, including the appropriate tools, environments and processes to enable the deployment of features globally into production both quickly and safely, whilst also ensuring a high availability service that is cost effective and delivered to the IT Business Units. All architected tools, environments and processes must align to the agreed control framework and align to the relevant IT strategies
This is a unique opportunity for a senior technologist with a customer centric mindset to get involved in an exciting position. As a DevOps Lead your primary role will be to mentor and lead a team of DevOps engineers to continuously innovate and develop our cloud platform using the latest cloud, open source and CI/CD technologies.
What you'll do in more detail:
- Design and development of cloud platform features and enhancements using the approved automation and CI/CD tooling
- Recognise areas for improvement within the cloud platform around automation, CI/CD, and platform reliability
- Develop a strong culture of technical excellence and solid DevOps skills within your team
- Promote personal and growth within the DevOps team including experimentation with new bleeding-edge technologies
- Defining an effective development environment for our developers focussed on developer productivity and satisfaction, but continuing to provide effective security measures.
- Act as a DevOps evangelist across the business, helping people understand the benefits, challenges and implications of adopting DevOps, and helping our teams move to this model
- Outline and document the standards for other teams to follow when delivering automation and tooling changes
- Build relationships & collaborate across the Architecture community to establish and implement consistent architecture across all Digital platforms which delivers company future technology needs and approved by relevant governing bodies (Group Architecture Board, CISO, Data governance)
- Define and support continuous delivery approach including tooling and automated testing and deployments
- Management of all environments including maintaining an evergreen estate.
- Proactively manage environment costs to remain in budget and identify opportunities to reduce cost
- Establish, implement and manage access controls for our environments to keep the business safe
- Identify and implement external perspectives to drive improvements to improve quality, increase resilience and reduce downtime
- Identify and own best practice for DevOps and migrate each team to that standard
- Build and maintain a strong relationship with architecture and CIO teams to enable the highest level of understanding of the cloud platform environments, features and stacks
- Research, plan and implement relevant solutions in collaboration with operations, architecture and development teams
- Actively communicate with your Platform product owner to ensure that you are and your team always delivering to the product owners requirements.
- Join sprint planning and retrospectives, and prioritise and manage your work using planning tools e.g. Jira
- Create custom monitoring components to provide deep monitoring of application estate, and integrate ideally to monitoring platforms.
- Manage the uptime of platform systems, and resolve outages (as agreed with cloud operations)
- Ensure that necessary documentation exists for Cloud Operations Engineers to resolve P1 incidents on a 24x7 basis
- Safeguard core DevOps methodologies are implemented to highest standard across environments.
- Ensuring your team members are actively upskilling and sharing knowledge with their team members so cover can be provided where appropriate
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Meet Your Heroes - Kids Arts & Crafts Competition
To express our gratitude to key workers and their families, and to encourage children to express themselves by creating art, Newborn Story Photography, in partnership with ICOS, has organised a childrens' Arts & Crafts competition. After the lockdown, we will be organising a formal exhibition as well, together with ICOS, to display all winning artworks including an award ceremony and an exhibition of photographs of key workers and their families.
VOTE for your favourite artwork:
If you want to participate, you can submit your child's artwork with an email to email@example.com with the artwork or a photo thereof and:
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Or, if you prefer, send us a message on Facebook at NewbornstoryPhotographyStudio
Our Arts & Crafts competition is open to all forms of art: paintings, drawings, ready-made objects, installations and sculptures made using any materials and techniques desired. Participants should not be older than 14 years. Artworks may be submitted by a parent or a guardian.
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Coastal states still rely on a 20-year-old plan to regulate development activities along the coastline as the replacement plan did not materialise even after four years.
With no signs of the new coastal zone management plan on the horizon, the old one cleared by the environment ministry in 1996 was being extended repeatedly. But that too expired in January 2017 after the fourth extension.
"The last extension expired for the fourth time on January 31, 2017. The environment ministry is silent on yet another extension as a result of which coastal states don't have a management plan with them at the moment," sources told DH.
The existing plans are based on the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification 1991. When the old norms were modified in 2011, states were asked to finalise their new coastal zone management plans within two years based on the CRZ 2011 notification. The new plans, however, were to be made once the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, Chennai, comes out with the new high tide and low tide lines. But the institute was tasked for the job only in March 2014 and till date there are no signs of the new tidal marks.
As the alignments of the high and low tide lines shifted in the last 20 years, the new plans may be substantially different from the 1996 ones.
"Notification of the high tide line/low tide line, ecologically sensitive areas falling under CRZ-1 and hazard line mapping are underway," said a ministry official.
Despite the absence of the new management plans to look after the coast, the ministry has in the last three years issued eight amendments to change important areas in the CRZ 2011 notification, paving the way for construction of Shivaji memorial off Mumbai and tall hotel buildings in coastal towns. The amendments were issued on the basis of a report by an expert committee,
headed by space scientist Shailesh Nayak, who was secretary in the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
On Wednesday, Environment Minister Anil Dave launched a web portal for obtaining Coastal Regulation Zone clearances, but did not comment on the delay for having the new coastal zone management plan.
Coastal states use 20-yr-old management plans
Coastal states still rely on a 20-year-old plan to regulate development activities along the coastline as the replacement plan did not materialise even after four years.


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