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- Posted on: Mar 26 2019
We are very excited at this time to be offering some new treatments in our office. I have put into place the ability to test conjunctivitis in the clinic. We can now determine the cause, whether it is viral or bacterial. No more waiting for lab results. This allows me to know immediately the best course of treatment for the patient on the initial visit.
We are performing allergy testing to determine if the chronic use of oral or nasal antihistamines may be exacerbating a dry eye problem. The Allergy Testing consists of 60 plus allergens specific to our Region. This will assist us in determining if treatment of the dry eye is necessary or if through information and education, we can help patients avoid the allergens to which they are being exposed. The use of antihistamines to treat the resulting allergies has a drying effect on the eyes. Dry Eye Syndrome is a chronic disease that responds best when diagnosed and treated early.
The BLADEFREE Cataract Surgery is going well with many patients benefiting from this new technology. As stated before I campaigned tirelessly for BLADEFREE cataract surgery as it is more precise and can be of great benefit to my patients. My staff and I will be happy to determine if you are a candidate for BLADEFREE cataract surgery and discuss the benefits with you.
The new combined glaucoma/cataract surgery called the I-Stent often times reduce the need for additional drug therapy for glaucoma patients and can be performed at the time of cataract surgery. This procedure was approved by the Surgical Center at the end of 2013; and as a glaucoma specialist, I am excited to be able to offer this to you.
I am so blessed to be able to offer these services to the patients who come to me on their own or are referred to me from the Optometry community and primary care physicians. Thank You for being a part of the Summit Eye Care family. I look forward to seeing you and assisting with your eye care needs.
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W. Somerset Maugham seen at his home on the Riviera, he plays with his dogs and walks in his garden.
Short Summary
W. Somerset Maugham "the author and playwriter" is featured. Introductory intertitle reads: "Probably sixty per cent of Mr. Maugham's play and book "fans" are of the gentler sex, and here is Mr. Maugham himself for Eve to see... (in his lovely Riviera home)."
L/S of Maugham on a terrace with the sea visible below. He holds out his hand towards a dove who is sitting on a low wall. The dove flies off. M/S of Maugham as he shields his eyes from the sun and looks out to sea. He turns to face the camera. C/U of the side of Maugham's face. "The author of "Caesar's Wife", "East of Suez", "Our betters", etc., has a large family. Here it is - " Maugham emerges from a large doorway with several small dogs and puppies running around his heels. C/U of Maugham sitting down with the dogs clambering all over him, licking him etc. He laughs. "Mr. Maugham likes to work here - and who wouldn't?" High angle long shot of Maugham walking along a high ledge which seems to be surrounding a swimming pool or pond. The sea is visible below, he lives on a hillside in a grand house it seems. He stands and looks out to sea.
Was item in Eve's Film Review issue number 434 (although paper records state both 432 and 402) - 434 is the number on the title.
Safety print only. Another safety copy found amongst material on "Somerset Maugham Compilation"
- Film ID:
- 1164.31
- Media URN:
- 40252
- Group:
- Eve pictorials
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 26/09/1929
- Sound:
- Mute
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- Black & White
- Duration:
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This is according to her friend, singer Nikki Laoye. There was a report last week that the late singer's grave had been tampered with and her body may have been exhumed and removed from where it was buried so the cemetery could bury someone else there or something like that...can't remember exactly what they wrote, didn't pay much attention to it. But anyway, people who know where she was buried went visiting and slammed the report of her grave missing. Thankfully, her grave is intact.
Singer Zara Gretti, real name Margaret-
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We have a fixed billing cycle. For better management and to avoid misunderstanding, Synchronous sends invoice on monthly basis except for additional subscription within the month. So by default, for all of our customers billing cycle is 1st date of each month.
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NRL defying court order on wall in jumbo corridor: green activist
Environmental activist Rohit Choudhury has appealed to the Assam chief secretary to take action against Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) for non-compliance with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and the Supreme Court's orders.
The activist also sent copies of his letter to the Supreme Court and the principal chief conservator of forest and other senior administrative officers to look into the matter.
The NGT had directed the NRL authorities to demolish a wall constructed on an elephant corridor during extension of its township.
But Choudhury of Lokhoujan, Golaghat, challenged the construction, since it created a major obstacle in the movement of elephants from Karbi Anglong to Kaziranga National Park through the Deopahar corridor.
The NGT had directed NRL to demolish the wall based on the application no. 38/2011 filed by Choudhury.
But NRL filed a review application with the NGT and the NGT dismissed the application on August 3, 2018, and directed NRL to vacate the land within a month.
Later, NRL moved the Supreme Court and the court upheld the order of the NGT on August 24, 2016.
The order said the wall was constructed at the no-development zone declared by the Union ministry of environment and forest in 1996.
But even after the Supreme Court's order, the NRL authorities did not pay heed.
Golaghat deputy commissioner Dhiren Hazarika also asked NRL authorities to demolish the wall in Deopahar reserve forest on or before Thursday. The date was now over and no action was initiated by NRL.
Finally, Choudhury appealed to the Assam chief secretary Alok Kumar to initiate action against NRL. On Wednesday, he urged Kumar to take action as per the provisions of Sections 26, 27 and 28 of the NGT Act, 2010.
The sections invite serious penalty for non-compliance with the NGT's order.
Talking to The Telegraph, the chief general manager (HR) of NRL, Debashish Choudhury, said: "We have not thought about the matter yet. No decision has been taken regarding vacating the acquired land for the proposed extension of township."
Dhiren Handiqui, an official of NRL, said: "We are not aware of any direction of the NGT or the Supreme Court regarding the boundary wall or other development."
Additional deputy commissioner in charge of revenue Utpal Doley said, "The administration will not tolerate the callous attitude of NRL. We will follow the order of the apex court and the NGT and demolish all the construction on the elephant corridor made by NRL."


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Feb 20, 2018 - National Geographic Endeavour II
After a short navigation, we arrived at Urbina Bay located on the western side of Isabela Island. In the morning we went ashore to explore this site, and had a great chance to look for Galapagos land iguanas, Galapagos giant tortoises and finches of different species.
At this site, land iguanas looked very colorful as is the mating season. We saw many males, and a few females near their burrows and some iguanas were sunbathing right in the middle of the trail. Galapagos land iguanas usually feed on vegetation, and as the rains are just starting, several bushes had fruits and bright yellow flowers—just what iguanas like to eat.
One of the highlights today were Galapagos giant tortoises—several were spotted looking for food, while others were resting under some bushes. Our walk took us to the coast, where we saw brown pelicans, sea turtles, Galapagos marine iguanas, and the remains of white coral that was uplifted in the earlies 1950s.
We ended our morning with a refreshing swim from the beach. Some of our guests spotted a very small juvenile shark swimming in the same area. Later on, we returned aboard to reposition to Tagus Cove.
In the afternoon, there were different options for our guests. This cove had perfect conditions, and was very calm, so some of our guests went snorkeling, kayaking and paddle boarding. This place was a great place to find Galapagos penguins, Galapagos flightless cormorants and sea lions.
We got on a late Zodiac ride along the cliffs of Tagus Cove, there we looked for blue-footed boobies, penguins, herons and many green sea turtles. We returned aboard right at sunset time.
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Jasprit Bumrah became the second fastest Indian to take 100 wickets in One-Day International (ODI) cricket when he dismissed Sri Lanka skipper Dimuth Karunaratne at Headingly on Saturday during India's last league match of World Cup 2019. Jasprit Bumrah, who is the No. 1 bowler in ICC ODI Bowlers' rankings, achieved this feat in his 57th ODI match -- one more than Mohammed Shami. Afghanistan's Rashid Khan is the fastest to achieve this milestone, having achieved it in just 44 ODI matches.
When Bumrah first came into the limelight, playing for Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League (IPL), not many took him seriously because of his unusual bowling action.
But his impressive domestic season and IPL performances earned him his first national call in 2016. He made his ODI debut against Australia in Sydney and impressed everyone with his bowling performance. He returned with the figures of 2/40 in 10 overs.
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8 Tips to Running a Successful Locksmith Business
The first of 8 Tips to running a successful locksmith business requires the business owner to follow standard business practices. Standard business practice can be applied to any service-based enterprise but is especially important in the locksmith business because more often than not, it is an owner-operated business. Customer retention by default relies on the client being able to expect that the service they use respects standard operating procedures that constitutes quality and in the case of locksmiths – privacy and trust.
To retain customers and benefit from one of the most important advertising tool (word-of-mouth) a successful locksmith business must:
- Be consistent and honest in prices and quality of service. This is especially important in order to gain word-of-mouth customers. If there are variations in prices of the same product or if one customer is charged a ½ hour travel and his next door neighbor is not, word will get out fast.
- Be available twenty-four hours for emergency service and maintain standard business hours during which the customer can call and expect a call back in an acceptable amount of time (not more than two hours or immediately during an emergency). It would pay to have an answering service once the business can handle the extra cost and still retain profit.
- Be transparent. Since locks are a security business it is essential that the customer know they can trust the locksmith business they choose to use. By providing an address, name, phone number, email address clearly on the invoice or included in advertisements the locksmith is assuring his customers and potential customers that he works with transparency.
- Be punctual. If the appointment is for 2 pm and the locksmith is running late then call the client and let them know. By doing so, the locksmith is respecting the customer and will likely be forgiven for being tardy. No one likes to wait, so planning and adhering to a schedule by keeping in mind additional time eating activities such as traffic, phone calls, and invoicing helps combat leaving the client waiting.
- Be ready for business by ensuring that the products needed for the job are in stock. There is nothing worse than selling a product and then having to substitute another or keep the customer waiting while the locksmith re-stocks. Being ready of course doesn't mean the locksmith has to carry every brand in his van but carrying a full variety of barrels and keys, a selection of locks and functional tools and machinery is vital to running a successful locksmith business.
- Have an online presence. Locksmith websites that are current and contain up to date, relevant content are the business cards of the present. The website should contain a list of products for the customer to choose from, a few client testimonies, current location, times of operating hours, contact information and a phone number inviting queries or appointments.
- Finally the locksmith should be a professional who is presentable, owns the proper tools and ensures the client's home or business is left as he found it.
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Ever heard the whine of a lovelorn medfly or listened to panicky fire ants? At the Web site Bug Bytes, you can eavesdrop on more than 20 species of insects and invertebrates, thanks to digital sound files gathered by entomologist Richard Mankin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Gainesville, Florida. Wiretapping bugs isn't just for fun. Knowing the characteristic sounds of pests and innocuous species might make it easier to uncover hidden infestations (Science, 14 September 2001, p. 1987).
The more than 40 recordings tune in the quotidian, rarely heard sounds of the tiny creatures eating, hunting, cowering, and courting. Amplified many times, they make quite a racket. The rasping of a frightened dung beetle resembles a burst of radio static, for instance. Minute mikes and other sound-sensitive gear can also pick up background din, and the site explains how to distinguish wind and passing trucks from bug sounds.


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I posted this to Facebook earlier:
"It's both shocking and saddening when you read about the population
history of Detroit. At its peak in the 1950s, its number of inhabitants
stood at 1.8 million people - on par with Los Angeles at the time.
Nowadays, its population has dropped into the 600,000s and is smaller
than places like Indianapolis and Charlotte.
The past few decades
have been unkind to Detroit. It would be great if the city one day
reverses its long-term decline and bounces back."
You would think that there would be more shame and outrage present at the fading of a great American city. Instead, few people really care and many mock Detroit and its supporters. This is a city that was once an economic powerhouse and the throne of the American automobile industry; nowadays, it's a place that recently exited bankruptcy and a laughingstock.
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Decline of Detroit
Posted by Andrew-L'autre at 22:25
Labels: Detroit, Facebook, Los Angeles, Thoughts
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I know, Andrew, it truly is a shame and it's going on in a lot of other cities too. I wish people would help Detroit and also use it as a lesson to help their cities as well.ReplyDelete
I actually really liked Detroit. The people I met while I was there were REALLY nice. Sure, there is bad and crime there, but that's true everywhere. I really want to go back and see more of it.Replies
I do hope the city rises again; Detroit has suffered for too long.Delete
Any city that was home to Ted Nugent was doomed to failReplyDeleteReplies
I don't think it's really fair to blame Detroit for that, though, despite what a loathsome individual Nugent is!Delete
I'm totally rooting for Detroit.ReplyDeleteReplies
Same here. Even if not for the city, at least for it's people.Delete
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Protection eye for curses and evil eye
My father killed a snake and put it in fire when we were living in a rent house before 15 years. At that time I didn't consider this as a big issue. I was just 19 at that time.
Now, I am 32 and brother is 30 years old. Mother expired four years before. I am having some thoughts regarding snakes. If we kill a snake it will give a curse. I heard that and studied in some magazines.
He killed because it came to bite us. But at this time nobody is happy in our family. Personal life is not good for any of us. Till date progeny is getting delayed for both me and my brother. My inner heart says that it will be due to curse from a snake.
Chant SRINIVASA ARAVINDALOCHANA over a glass of water and everyone in the family can drink.
This will remove any curse, if any.
Aravindalochana means one who has the eye of lotus. This mantra will protect us from evil eye too.
When somebody has one problem after another non-stop, this mantra will help that to come out of it.
If you are accused of wrong-doing, especially when a case is filed against you, you can seek the help of this mantra to come out of the court case and get back your good name.
Burn your worries away
I want to get my husband's affection. His mother has separated us .now I am alone at my mom's house. Due to his mom he is not caring our 8 months baby also. I am not happy at all for past 1 yr. my in-laws are demons sir. I am in distress. Could you please help me out?
- Do the forgiving exercise for your husband and MIL: "I Vidya forgive you …… (insert your husband's name). You please forgive me". Say it 200 times daily.
- Repeat this for you MIL too.
- Write in a piece of paper "WATER VIOLET, JELLY FISH, WILLOW, WALNUT" and see this paper often and keep it under your pillow while sleeping.
- Chant the mantra "HAM YAM RAM VAM LAM" daily while sleeping. Chant this continuously till you sleep.
- Pour all your complaints and emotions in a sheet of paper and without reading it burn it once you complete one full A4 page. The second day, pour again your feelings and thoughts about MIL etc and burn it. Do it till you feel that there is no more to write.
Come back after 10 days and tell me what happened.
One more request sir. My in-laws should be taught a lesson sir. For that my husband should listen to me only because that much I have been killed by them every second from the day of my marriage. Kindly say a remedy for this.
Do that first. Then I will tell you some technique by which you can change your thinking.
Vengeful thoughts and actions will never help us. Instead we will attract the same type of people.
Removed obstacles for sale of apartment
Mangala Ayre
My husband & I attended the meet at T.Nagar where Naran S. Balakumar taught us about the power of Mantras & released the booklet to us all. That was on 1st Jan, 2010. Since then many things have happened in our lives.
Our apartment in Valmiki Nagar was up for sale since August 2009. Many brokers, friends, and well wishers were trying to sell it for us. Meanwhile, we have moved to Kanchipuram on 17th August. We met Naran before leaving and he advised us to sell.
Nothing was happening even in Dec 2009. Many interested parties would see the house. Will say they will call back, but nothing will transpire. We were making regular visits to Chennai and trying to meet potential buyers.
We attended Naran's 2010 New Year Meeting. He had asked me to sing few Bhajans before the start of the meeting. After the meeting, he advised us to just put Reiki symbol and then release the apartment to the Universe. My husband was fascinated by the mantra, "Lalitham Lambodaram". He began chanting and I began releasing the house with the help of Reiki.
We were scheduled to fly to the USA to be with our grandson and children on April 7th. We were desperate to sell the property before we leave for US. In March, we handed over the responsibility to our builder, who agreed to take a power of attorney on our behalf and sell the house in our absence. Naran advised us to release all thoughts related to the sale and that we needed to do something about it. He also said, "If the price is less, just think it is what you would have spent on the house if it wasn't sold".
Suddenly within 2 weeks, the right buyer came from Detroit. The sale was agreed to our benefit. The registration of the sale took place and we left on the 7th April as planned to the USA with a light heart.
We met Balakumar on the 3rd April and thanked him for teaching us the mantras, the right attitude to have and how to take disappointments along with success.
My husband believes whatever has happened is due to the mantra, "Lalitham Lambodaram".
SIMPLE Steps to Meditation
How to Meditate
Meditation is an experience that no body can teach you. Neither can we go to deep into meditation suddenly as it's a practice and a habit that is formed over a period of time.
Meditation means, to remain silent. Though, thoughts keep appearing. If any thought is present then it's not meditation. How to remain thoughtless?
Remaining Silent With Releasing Techniques
How to remain silent in spite of thoughts? Mind can cling to picture or a mantra. Do we have a mantra for silence? There is no mantra for silence. However there is a technique to create silence. The technique is as follows:
- When a thought comes don't resist it. Say inside you, 'this is my thought'. Thus, you disassociate yourself from the thought.
- Then ask the question to yourself, 'Can I let go this thought?' It will go. You can also say "release". Then it will go. Now there will be at least a one second gap between thoughts. This is equivalent to one hour of meditation. In general, we never have a gap between thoughts. In general we might have ten thoughts in one second.
- If you do not want the "let go" step, then form your own mantra or word. When we say that mantra, we create a gap between the thoughts.
- When a thought comes, interrupt it with the mantra and you will become silent. When another thought comes, say the mantra. The silence in between the mantra is meditation.
Pranic and physical bodies has to be in coordination
Our pranic body and physical body have to be in coordination. Otherwise, we can't meditate. If we regulate our breathing pattern or do pranayama then they will be in coordination. This is because both breathing and prana have the same origin. When breathing is regulated, prana is regulated too.
Pranic body has to be clear of impurities
When the pranic body is clean, then the meditation can be done successfully. Why so much impurities in the pranic field. It's due to the mind. My own sadness and worries create these impurities. With the help of pranayama, one can clean these impurities.
How to acquire a good breathing pattern?
- When you meditate, place the index finger at the base of the thumb on both the hands. Breathing will get deeper and you could meditate properly, as shallow breathing spoils it.
- Don't take the index finger straight away move your finger to the base of the thumb. First touch the tip of thumb with the index finger. Then after some time, move the index finger to the middle of the thumb, and finally the base of the thumb.
- Don't do it mechanically. Feel the breath with a conscious awareness.
- Observing your breathing is also a good way to meditate. This is part of meditation known as Vipasana meditation.
Space Meditation
- After learning to breathe well, do the space meditation.
- Be aware of the space between the chair you are sitting and the wall. Don't look at the wall. Instead look at the space between you and the wall.
- This is known as 'Space Meditation'. Keep the eyes open throughout.
Bach Flower Remedies as Aids to Meditation
White chestnut helps to remove our thoughts, Chestnut bud not to have any distractions and Willow if you think one or the other bothers you.
Chant Mantra during Meditation
It's nature of our mind to cling to something. You can choose a mantra to do that. After sometime you should be able to say goodbye to it. Mantra itself is not divinity. It means constantly thinking about a word, which is a mantra. Ultimately that also should go.
When it will go? We don't know. May be, it's not in this Janma.
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Each Tuesday, The Upshot's newsletter will feature a selection of comments from an article that resonated with our readers in the past week.
An article on women's alleged new attraction to the soft, doughy "dad bod" brought many incisive comments from readers, including some heaping scorn on the very notion. As N.M. of N.Y.C. put it: "Only a man would believe that women like men with a beer gut, rather than a body like a (young) Brad Pitt."
Karen of Phoenix, Ariz.:
My husband and I aren't parents. Do I prefer the dadbod? Does my husband prefer the mombod? The answer to both questions is no. I am 10 pounds heavier, and my husband 20 pounds, than we were when we married nine years ago. Both of us want for ourselves and each other to lose the weight so that we can maintain our health and strength as we enter our 50s. Our weight gain has largely been about less regular exercise due to work schedules, long commutes and other commitments. The weight is easier to gain and harder to lose with age; luckily for us we have the commitment in our marriage and love and caring for each other to see past the unwanted physical changes. I find the whole dadbod discussion rather silly because I think it flies in the face of a new human (and certainly Western) obsession with youth and beauty. I don't buy that anyone prefers the dadbod any more than I do the mombod. Maybe the issue is that men now feel the same pressure that women have long experienced to be physically attractive at whatever cost. Maybe instead of women acknowledging that they do wish their husbands and boyfriends were slim and toned they are really communicating that their priority is a reliable man, who loves them as much as they day they married despite gray hair, a few wrinkles and some new stretch marks. It's about women having realistic expectations, perspective that comes from experience and a modicum of maturity.
Leslie of New York, N.Y.:
I don't think the attraction is as much about the bod as the personality that goes with the bod. A six-pack bod might be nice to look at in a fashion magazine, but getting and maintaining a bod like that takes a lot more narcissism than a dad bod. A dad bod is a visual signal that working out isn't a guy's top priority. That doesn't mean Mr. Dad Bod necessarily has a great personality, but it signals that his workouts and his appearance aren't always at the top of his agenda. Some women find that a good thing.
Shantanu of New Jersey/New York:
There is definitely a double standard in place. My wife is continually complaining about her weight since she had our son, which bewilders me since I think she's beautiful. And I have gained some weight, but I'm O.K. with it.
History of New York:
You neglect to mention that while women may currently have an "alleged new interest in the soft, doughy 'dad bod" (often with beards it seems), gay men's interest in the very same 'dad-bod' type reaches back nearly twenty years to the bear movement.
Honeybee of Dallas:
Rain, sleet, snow, searing heat — nothing kept my husband from sitting in the stands, watching his children play sports and/or ride the bench. He has driven morning car pool for years (and has only 5 days left) and he LIKES it. He used to pack lunches for everyone every school day (including mine) and frequently makes dinner. He folds laundry and unloads dishes whenever needed. He's never missed a school event. He was the parent who rode along without screaming so both kids could learn to drive. When both children were little, he claimed bath time. HE is the parent who cried at the thought of our first going to college. So, yeah, he's got a dad bod. I don't even notice it.
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In recognition of Air Botswana's status as a public and national flag carrying entity, we wish to share the following information regarding the airline current commercial/financial status as well as on the steps underway to keep it airline going. The information should allow the public, in general, to have a factually traceable status, which we will update, as and when necessary, while the on-going steps of stabilising the commercial status of Air Botswana are being undertaken. By way of background it is common cause and already in the public domain that for some years, Air Botswana has not performed satisfactorily, and has from time to time required the on-going financial support of the Botswana Government, as sole (100%) shareholder. In December 2016, and in the above adverse context, the Botswana Government, through the Ministry of Transport and Communications decided to explore possible ways of mitigating the airline's woes, while keeping it running as a national flag-carrier and a key economic enabler in the transport and communications sector. In this regard, in February 2017, an Expression of Interest (EOI) was issued with a view to determining sustainable market-driven and supported possibilities—including, but not limited to strategic operational arrangements such as joint venture(s), new equity partner(s), franchising, concession arrangements, or any other arrangement(s) that may be economically realizable. The EOI process referred to above is one of the initial elements undertaken to inform the way forward. At this stage, the results of the EOI exercise are under consideration, and the Botswana Government, as shareholder, and through Cabinet, is in the process of determining what rehabilitative steps are attainable and should be taken. The process includes looking at alternative or complementary ways of stabilising the airline, within a path which gives regard to existing statutory requirements, as appropriate. This is aimed at maintaining Air Botswana as a viable commercial entity, which will not endlessly seek or require fiscal support. At this point, certain Cabinet instructions are in place to enable the process to move ahead. However, management of the process is still internal to Government; as well as being subject to on-going consultations, which are not akin to some speculative comments, which have appeared in the media in the recent past.
In conclusion, we would like the general public and all other relevant stakeholders to
note that:-
1. Government is actively considering how in order to stabilise and retain Air Botswana as a national flag-carrier, without having to perennially support the airline financially from public coffers;
2. In respect to 1, above an EOI exercise was undertaken in February 2017, as part of supporting any shareholder/owner type-determination whose execution will, and must give regard to statutory requirements;
3. Government is aware of recent media speculation regarding the unavoidable and pending transition of Air Botswana to a self-sustaining institution, but is constrained to comment on such speculation, while still managing what, no doubt, is a commercially sensitive matter;
4. In due course, and at the right time, the Ministry/Government will publicly share what properly ought to be shared. This will include aspects of procurement and any operational or strategic considerations that the interested public, or any relevant stakeholder is entitled to know or examine;
5. Any actions undertaken by Cabinet, thus far, have followed the normal and longestablished
process (es) of making Government decisions.
We trust that this information will not only give you insight, but will provide reasonable assurance, which you can share with the general public to the effect that due formal process has been, is being, and will be followed in addressing any commercial difficulties, which both Air Botswana and the Government, as shareholder, must address in earnest. We assume that you will readily appreciate that we are professionally constrained and cannot comment on any speculative media information. The public can take assurance that, in due course, and at the appropriate time—any information, which ought to and must be shared with stakeholders like yourselves will be provided.
For further details please contact MTC Public Relations Office at 361 2004 or 362 5555.
Thank you.
Kabelo Antony Ebineng


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A vote to restore idea of India
What: The Subhas Bose Institute of Hotel Management presents Calcutta Club The Telegraph National
Debate 2019, powered by Pan Bahar, on Sunday
Where: Calcutta Club lawn
Verdict: The motion was carried
Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Lawyer, MP, Congress spokesperson
India is far too deep, far too rooted, far too diverse, far too argumentative to be redefined.
There is a word in our Constitution's preamble — fraternity. A much-ignored word. That is the idea of India. Fraternity conveys in its essence trust, it conveys reassurance, it conveys security and, in its antithesis, it conveys the three Ds — divisiveness, distrust and disharmony. We, India, are planet earth's most diverse spot.
Of the 30-40 countries that emerged from the yoke of imperialism between the 1930s and 1960s, why is it that India alone is a shinning exception amidst the wrecks and ruins of constitutionalism, which litter the landscape in south Asia, in Africa, in South America? In large swathes of the world, we are the only one that remained a democracy. That is because we have the idea of India largely right, at least thus far. We have remarkable institutional and even more remarkable non-institutional pillars of Indian democracy, which form the core of that idea.
We have reduced ourselves to the dictatorship of one-and-a-half persons.
Never before in 70 years have large sections of the press been compromised, weakened, co-opted, threatened…. The Emergency was the crude, formal, overt action and, therefore, much more accountable. You today have a much more insidious attempt. Judiciary: a clear message is being sent. If you are not with us, we will treat you as against us. If you chant Tussi Great Ho, everything is hunky-dory; if you forget, every agency of the world will be unleashed on you.
Shatrughan Sinha
MP, actor
As an attitude of gratitude, I salute the honourable Prime Minister of India and, of course, the iron lady, the true mass leader, the magician and Bengal tigress, Mamata Banerjee.
Somebody asked me what difference do I find between Vajpayee's time and today's. Back then, it was lokshahi (democracy); today, it is tanashahi (autocracy). There is an environment of fear. We have to restore the India that had harmony. A one-man show and two-men army, this is not going to work…. You are being repeatedly asked to speak up on Rafale. If you say something once, the chhappan-inch chhati will not become chhai inch. It is when you don't speak at all that you give people the chance to think and chant: Chowkidar (pause)… I won't say the remaining bit.
The time-keeper rings the bell and Sinha half-turns and says "Khamosh!" to finish his argument.
Amit Mitra
Bengal finance minister
What did Vivekananda say? Bhulio na neech jati, daridro, murkho, agnya, muchi, mathor tomaar rakto, tomar bhai (Don't forget, the low caste, the poor, the unlettered, the ignorant, the cobbler, the sweeper are your blood, your brothers).
I am amazed by what
Ramakrishna Paramahansa had said. Where is jato mat, tato path? Where did the message of 'many ways fall into the sea' go? I see on television lynching of the minority person. I see and I shudder. I remember graphically four young people from the Scheduled Castes being beaten with a rod…because they were carrying something that they did not approve of. There was beating, beating, beating. That's not what Vivekananda had said.
Demonetisation. Do you know that the cabinet of India did not know? Even the finance minister, I doubt. This is democracy.
Fifteen lakhs would be put into all your accounts. Have you got it? When you are asked later, I am told it is jumla. The governor of the RBI resigns. The CBI is pushed around.
Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote, "I sing the song of equality, where all differences have resolved. Where Hindu, Bouddha, Muslim, Christian have all converged." He's a Muslim. He was a Shyama-sangeet specialist but doing namaz. That is Bengal. That is the idea of India we are debating.
What did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose do? In Red Fort, we had (Gurbaksh Singh) Dhillon, (Prem Kumar) Sahgal, Shah Nawaz (Khan). My mother cut her own finger and received Shah Nawaz Khan on behalf of the Bose family. And I was told, he is your Mamajaan. That is the idea of India.
T.V. Mohandas Pai
Former Infosys CFO; tech investor and philanthropist
The idea of India is strong and resilient and there is no need for any restoration. Look back into history.
The idea of India is the idea of Indian civilisation and culture though the millennia, of a land from Persia to Myanmar, from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, united by our culture, by great saints, by Adi Shankara, by Lord Buddha, and our great epics Ramayana or Mahabharata.
People of all faiths have lived here, this country has welcomed them and continues to welcome everybody.
The idea of India is not the idea of one family… not the idea of the Lutyens media, it's not the idea of a group of people sitting in Delhi and telling us what the idea is.
The idea of India is the idea that any individual not born to privilege can through sheer hard work aspire to be the Prime Minister… of this country.
Your own state has an extraordinary individual, who through sheer courage, sheer perseverance and through sheer right to stand up against tyranny rose to be your chief minister.
Prafulla Ketkar
Editor of the Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece
India is not an idea. India is a living reality for thousands of years. If anything has to be restored, it is the spirit of Bharat. If at all something happens whenever the BJP is in power, the fake narrative factory builds up. Another fake narrative is the Nehruvian idea of India. If Europe has given political democracy, America has given economic democracy, this is the land that has given spiritual democracy. I don't want to be tolerant.
Tolerant is not the Indian way. That's why Swami Vivekananda goes to Chicago and says, I represent the civilisation that goes beyond tolerance.
We don't tolerate each other. Every new path that came in India, we adopted and accepted and respected to be true…. Problem is you know Akhlaq, you don't know Ramalingam. This selectivism is building fake narratives of vested interests. One such fake narrative is that the idea of India needs to be restored. Sorry, the spirit of Bharat needs to be restored and that Bharat lives in our Hinduness, rashtra. The Constitution is the outcome of that civilisation, rashtra. I request you to come out of that prism given by (Thomas Babington) Macaulay, (John Stuart) Mill and (Karl) Marx and come up with the real prism of Bharat.
K.C. Tyagi
JDU national general secretary
Where do I start from, Singhviji? You have made me take notes on a range of issues — justice, liberty, equality, fraternity. So, I am starting from Jammu and Kashmir. Whatever is plaguing Kashmir today is the contribution of the Congress. Be it insurgency or cross-border terrorism. My leader was Jayaprakash Narayan. He had gone to speak to the Nagas, (Angami Zapu) Phizo, Laldenga (Mizo leader). He was sent back from there because the Congress never believed in dialogue. In Bhagalpur in 1988, 2,000 people were massacred. This massacre had taken place under the nose of the secular government. Emergency. My leader George Fernandes was arrested from a church in Calcutta where he was hiding as a priest. We got to know that George would be arrested and killed in an encounter. So, there was democracy in those days. Federalism. The less said about it the better. Seventy times President's rule has been imposed against the non-Congress regimes. The killing of Akhlaque was wrong. We oppose whatever few lumpens are doing in the name of cow slaughter. But whatever bad has happened to India started from your time.


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Toyota: Beating 2017 Le Mans pole time "not impossible"
Toyota believes bettering Kamui Kobayashi's Le Mans 24 Hours lap record is not out of the question this weekend in the final year at La Sarthe for the current-generation LMP1 cars.
The Japanese manufacturer said on the eve of the start of on-track running for this year's 88th edition of the French classic that Kobayashi's pole-winning 3m14.791s effort from 2017 could be within reach if track conditions are favourable.
In 2018, the pole time was 3m15.377s set by Kazuki Nakajima, while last year Kobayashi claimed the top spot with a 3m15.497s.
This weekend, the Toyota TS050 Hybrid is running 7kg heavier than it did in 2019 owing to the new Equivalence of Technology rules, with the car now 17kg heavier than it was in 2017.
However, the chances of getting a clean lap have been boosted by the new-for-2020 'hyperpole' qualifying format, which will see the top six cars in each class from Thursday's first qualifying session getting the track to themselves.
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Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon said any attempt at the lap record will depend on how much grip there is on the track come Friday morning.
"Normally we should be able to run in similar laptimes as previous years," said Vasselon when asked for his thoughts on whether beating Kobayashi's record will be attainable.
"To beat the 2017 pole has already proven twice to be difficult, because we had at that time very exceptional circumstances, especially in track grip. We have never seen again the level of track grip we have seen during that session in '17.
"But I would say theoretically we have a chance to be in the ballpark, and even beat marginally this laptime. It's not impossible, let's say. It will all depend on the level of grip we have on the track, which from year to year is not identical."
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Kobayashi himself said he is keen to better his own record, knowing that the introduction of slower Le Mans Hypercars for the 2021 running of the race would mean that the existing benchmark would stay in place for some years afterwards.
"Once you get the record, you want to break the record [again]," said the Japanese driver. "It's going to be important this year because we have hyperpole, so there's more chance to be alone on the track.
"Once we've got a record this year, I guess it's going to stay longer, because next year we have the hypercar which will be a bit slower than what we have now.
"I want to break the record, and keep it longer. The next 30 or 50 years would be nice!"
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He strode into the waiting room at the oil change place and sat down. He had a little "boonie" hat on like a military man. I had just taken my Mama next door to the place where she gets her hair cut on every other full moon and had took the opportunity to have the oil changed in my vehicle. I had took a seat by the door when I saw him walk in, The Boy With The Shrimp. He was involved with his smart phone. He spoke to me and offered advice about the technicians there, how they did a good job and all. I was shocked that he had anything to say to me.
I had gotten an invitation to join the AARP a few years before when I met The Boy With The Shrimp. I don't see how anyone that attended a Van Halen concert could possibly qualify for an
AARP card but I guess they were just looking at the numbers. It turned out that The Boy With The Shrimp had been looking at my knees. I had decided when I was looking down at those knees to brush my hair one day that maybe they belonged to a girl that HAD been to a Van Halen concert when David Lee Roth had hair so I was very surprised.
The Boy With The Shrimp talked to me about new movies and war, he asked me for my phone number. My eyebrows raised. "To young?" he asked. "Well", I said, "there is more to being a man than a number", and I gave him mine.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not in the habit of giving every young man I meet in the oil change or any other place my phone number but this one was special, The Boy With The Shrimp.
He called. We talked. He asked me out for a date and I said yes to The Boy With The Shrimp.
He had told me he had been in the military and was in a war and had been jumping out of airplanes and chasing bad guys so I knew that I was going to have to keep my fences tight. He could have ruined me if I had been a younger woman, The Boy The The Shrimp, but I had grown older and hopefully a little wiser in all these years of living on God's good green earth.
I'll have to give some of the credit to my Mama for the genetics. I once held a puppy adoption at a local flea market and a friend of the guy that sold leatherwear for bikers followed my Mama around the flea market that day like HE was a puppy and the guy was my age. The next time we visited that same flea market my Mama stopped for a moment and asked me how she looked. She was a motorcycle rider and was riding Harley's when this guy was probably learning to ride a bicycle with training wheels. I told her she looked fine.
The Boy With The Shrimp came to my house. It was a Friday. As he drove to the local Italian restaurant with me by his side with a taser in my purse, his radio was tuned to a classic rock station. I knew I liked this boy who was a man who had been in a war. When "Every rose has it's thorns" was playing on the radio, he asked me if I had any thorns. He threated marriage and flowers but I knew that line and would not bite.
He gave me a light kiss, ever so gently, publicly, The Boy With The Shrimp, while we were waiting at the restaurant for his name to be called. I was thankful that the Pastor and wife of the Church I attended were there also waiting for a table and for the introductions and the pleasant conversation as we waited. We were soon seated and ordered our food. He ordered some kind of shrimp. I do not remember what I ordered. He offered me a shrimp off his plate and extended it in his hand to me. He ate like a man. I loved to watch him eat. There was a young family dining at the table that was next to ours and a little girl almost fell out of her chair and The Boy With The Shrimp was on his feet so fast to lend aid I don't believe lightning could have struck any faster. She was alright.
I motioned with my hands for the Pastor and his wife who were dining at a table near us to pray for me when The Boy With The Shrimp left the table to pay our bill. I was so sick I had to order a glass of sweet iced tea and sipped it slowly as I tried to appease the butterflies that were in my stomach. I believe David Lee Roth DID have hair the last time I felt like that.
He made a good play, The Boy With The Shrimp, but I was to weary of the game and he would have only snagged me anyway with those old lines. I closed my gate after that and entered into what I like to call "The Aunt Bea Years". I knit and crochet brightly colored hats now for soldiers deployed in the war on terror as the memory of that night fades, one stitch at a time, into the glassy sea of gems.
It took "Aunt Bea" from Maybury, USA 2 entire episodes of The Andy Griffith show to almost marry a Sea Captain portrayed by Will Geer. Aunt Bea refered to it as a "beautiful interlude". She was concerned that he loved the sea to much to ever be content at home, so she threw him back in.
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A friend of mine recently turned me on to a jangly indie rock outfit from Ohio that goes by the (I'm assuming) fairly tongue-in-cheek moniker of SPORTS. It did get me thinking about a phenomenon I've noticed more and more as I've grown older. Namely, the topic of conversation has shifted from basement shows, amps and the pains of DIY tours to baseball scores, cursing our starting rotation and whether or not Teddy Bridgewater is the real deal.
I think you can chalk up a lot of this to me not staying as punk as 17 year old me would have hoped, but I think there's something innately similar between watching sports and watching punk shows. There's a feeling of belonging, of history and a tradition and of constantly believing in the underdog.
With that said, it's also funny to name your band after a sports thing. I personally have named two of my bands in this fashion, one being my highschool folk-punk band "Gramatica!", named after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Argentinian placekicker, Martin Gramatica. He led them to a 48-21 rout of the Oakland Raiders in the Super Bowl my senior year of highschool. The other being "NHL," an oft-dormant 80s-hardcore band that I play in from time to time with members of Apocalypse Meow and Tower. We've decided that NHL actually stands for "Nine Hundred Lions" or "Nude Harold Lloyd" depending on the day, how much we've been drinking and what kind of pizza we ate for dinner.
So, in order to not feel so alone in this cold and desolate world, I went out and tracked down some other bands who wear their love of sports on their sleeves:
It sounds like it might be a disease, or maybe one of the weird Latin names that dudes in Norwegian black metal bands give to themselves, is actually the name of everyone's favorite super-buff football referee, Ed Hochuli. Edhochuli the band is from Pittsburgh and make riffy, screamy hardcore with pretty tight names like, "Pizza Party at the Castle (We Totally Won)" and "Sir, I've Been Observing You for Five Minutes and You Have Yet to Say 'Whoo!' Once."
Ten Yard Fight
These Bostonian knuckleheads are partly responsible for one of the weirdest subgenres in hardcore. Tuff guy straightedge is equally known for shout-along breakdowns and horrible guitar tone as it is for guys wearing workout gear and pumping iron before they go on. What does it have to do with sports? Ten Yard Fight was also the name of an early NES football game and they would rock football gear on stage.
American Football
Complex and vaguely mopey emo from Champaign-Urbana, I've always thought it was fitting that the guys called their band "American Football" and not just "Football." "Oh, you mean American Football?" They were one of my favorite bands in highschool and I still dust off their self-titled record when I'm feeling gloomy on a sunny autumn day. The venn diagram of fans of American Football and fans of the NFL has got to be pretty small.
Modern Baseball
Another emo group, this one more recent. I gotta admit, this band has some serious hooks. Open-chord, girlfriend-going-off-to-college pop punk, plus the drummer sings sometimes, which I've always enjoyed. I think this band would've been right up there for me if they had existed when I was 17 years old.
What's with emo bands and sports names? I had admittedly never heard of this band until I started writing this piece. Kinda noisy emo with noodly guitars and half yelled/half sung lyrics. From the punk hotspot of Gainesville, Florida they took on the moniker of Congolese NBA great, Dikembe Mutombo (fun fact, Dikembe Mutombo's full name is: Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo, thanks Wikipedia!) and they also have a record called "Chicago Bowls" on which all of the song titles are the names of 90s Bulls players made into weed puns like, "Scottie Spliffen" "Luc Bongley" and "Tony Kukush" which is pretty damn tight if you ask me. I think they just missed, "Dankness Rodman."
I actually toured with this French doom and gloom outfit on their US run in 2009. They are all a bunch of sweethearts and really loved drinking Southern Comfort, smoking cigarettes and getting into trouble. Their name comes from the Dutch soccer player, Marc Overmars who played for Arsenal and Barcelona in the late 90s/early 2000s. Speaking of Dutch soccer players who would make great band names, how come nobody has named a band "Eden Hazard" yet?
There are a whole host of other sports band names, most of which are more obvious, like Nickelback, Yellowcard, Fastball and The Outfield but I figure you've probably already heard of them and don't need me to tell you anymore.
I also was thinking about how good a name "Diamond Dust" (the substance used to keep baseball diamonds dry so they don't get muddy during games) would be for some kind of space-y disco punk band, and then I found out that there is a band from Vancouver of all places who has already nailed down that moniker. Their guitar player's name is Craig "Riffer" Hare which is about the coolest Dude-In-A-Canadian-Rock-Band name I can think of, so I guess we'd better lay off.
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In Him I Trust
Obviously, COVID-19 has been a scary and rocky road for most of us health care professionals. When ECFMG announced the possibility of writing the USMLE STEP 2 CS exam via telehealth model many thought what else can make us less free(er) from the panic?
The Step 2 CS exam of the USMLE is a cause of heartbreak (and bankruptcy!) among thousands of aspiring physicians. "Where did I go wrong?", students ask themselves.
Every aspiring medical practitioner knows how crucial the USMLE Step 2 CS exam is. Still, there are many students that tend to underestimate the many aspects of this exam. You would most certainly want to pass it on your very first attempt.
Have you ever had that terrible feeling when you attend an exam being unprepared? Or worse, what happens with your life if you FAIL it? Well, guess what, life goes on.
USMLE Steps 2 cs exam assesses the examinee's ability to apply their medical knowledge towards a controlled clinical setting.
As one of the co-authors of First Aid Usmle step 2 cs book (3rd edition, 2009) I know that a great effort has been put together by the first aid usmle step 2 cs team in the form of a book to meet the needs of the student for the usmle step 2 cs exam.
USMLE Step 2 CS is a very unique exam which requires a unique way of preparation. It is an examination that assesses you as a medical doctor before you get to practice in the United States. USMLE Step 2 CS tests you on 3 components


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A new partnership: Sierra Nevada and Stratolaunch join forces
A presentation by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and Stratolaunch investment group, Vulcan Inc., were one of the highlights at Toronto's International Astronautical Congress (IAC2014) on Wednesday, Oct. 1. One day earlier on Sept. 30, SNC announced a new design for an integrated human spaceflight system. The unique Dream Chaser-Stratolauncher design involves a scaled version of SNC's Dream Chaser spacecraft and Stratolaunch's air launch architecture.
SNC and Stratolaunch are discussing a potential partnership where they will use the Stratolaunch launch platform to launch a 75 percent version of SNC's Dream Chaser spacecraft into low Earth orbit (LEO). The Dream Chaser is a reusable, lifting-body spacecraft that can either support a crew of three astronauts or fly autonomously. Dream Chaser is capable of taking off from anywhere in the world and landing anywhere with a runway that can handle a 747 or A320 aircraft.
Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, is known in the space industry as the financial backer of Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne design. One of his current projects is Stratolaunch, an aircraft that services as a launch platform for Thunderbolt, a three-stage rocket, to send people or cargo into both suborbital and orbital spaceflight.
Vulcan Inc. oversees Paul Allen's financial interests. Chuck Beames, along with SNC's Mark Sirangleo, briefed the IAC2014 crowd. Beames currently serves as president of Vulcan Aerospace, a division of Vulcan, and also serves as the Executive Director of Stratolaunch. He joined Vulcan earlier in 2014 as serving as principal director, space and intelligence, to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and overseeing the acquisition restructuring of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Beames described Stratolaunch as a plane with a 385-foot wingspan that can launch up to 13,500 lbs into LEO. Stratolaunch is expected to have its first flight in 2016 with a demonstration space launch in 2018.
There are four primary elements to the air-launch system: a launch aircraft, a multi-stage booster, a mating and integration system, and an orbital payload. Initially, efforts were to be focused on unmanned payloads. Human flights will be considered as operability, reliability, and safety are demonstrated.
According to the Stratolaunch overview, "The carrier aircraft, built by Scaled Composites, weighs more than 1.3 million pounds and has a wingspan of over 380 feet- the same length as a football field. Using six 747 engines, the carrier aircraft will be the largest aircraft ever contstructed. The air-launch system requires a take off and landing runway that is approximately 12,500 feet long. The carrier aircraft can fly over 1,000 nautical miles to reach an optimal launch point."
"Combining a scaled version of SNC's Dream Chaser with the Stratolauch air launch system could provide a highly responsive capability with the potential to reach a variety of LEO destinations and return astronauts or payloads to a U.S. runway within 24 hours," said Beame in a press release.
"This relationship would expand our portfolio to include the highly flexible Stratolaunch system for launching reusable crewed or unscrewed spacecraft, or for rapid satellite constellation deployment," said Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of SNC's Space Systems.
The Dream Chaser-Stratolaunch human spaceflight system supports a multitude of un-crewed missions, including science missions, transportation of light cargo or suborbital point-to-point transportation. The Stratolaunch system is considerably unique in that it is designed to allow maximum operational flexibility and payload delivery from a variety of operational sites, while minimizing mission constraints such as range availability and weather.
The scaled crewed spacecraft design was based on SNC's full-scale Dream Chaser, which has undergone development and flight tests as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program for the last four years.
SNC was one of the three companies supported by NASA in the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCAP) phase of the Commercial Crew Program. SNC lost out to Boeing and SpaceX on the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCAP) phase, the final phase of the Commercial Crew Program. SNC is currently protesting NASA's decision. All work being done under these contracts has been stopped to allow the U.S. Government Accountability Office time to review the protest.
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Palace exec takes 'MRT challenge' during rush hour
After Senator Grace Poe comes Undersecretary Abigail Valte.
Photo from Undersecretary Abigail Valte's Twitter post
GMA News reported today that President Benigno Aquino III's deputy spokesperson, Undersecretary Abigail Valte, accepted the challenge for public officials to ride the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) during rush hour on Monday morning.
Valte, who wore casual clothes and sunglasses, took it a step further by also riding the Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 1.
According to her Twitter account, Valte rode the MRT line from North Avenue in Quezon City to Taft Avenue in Pasay City. She lined up at the North Avenue station at 8:24 a.m. and managed to get onto a train over 40 minutes later. She reached her destination by 9:41 a.m.-more than an hour after she lined up.
Valte then transferred to the LRT Line 1, whose EDSA station connects to the MRT Taft station. She then disembarked at Central station in Manila.
"[I] appreciate all the commuters who bear with the service on a daily basis. We continue to ask for your understanding as we continue to push for improvements," she said in a Twitter post.
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This listing is for a printed pattern, not the actual finished quilt. Upon purchase of a printed pattern, please allow 1-2 business days for the pattern to be shipped.
Skill Level: 2 out of 5 (Confident Beginner)
::: Pattern Description :::
Transparency quilts play with the subtleties of fabric values to create layered, transparent effects. The Triangle Transparency quilt pattern studies transparency using an overlay of triangular shapes. Block construction is achieved using Half Square Triangles (HSTs) and strip piecing to quickly create a 60″ by 60″ lap quilt.
The pattern is suitable for beginners after having established the ability to sew a consistent seam allowance. The pattern also has a lot of ideas and help with fabric selection, which is the key to pulling off the layered depth look of the pattern.
::: Sizing / Finished Measurements :::
Lap: 60 1/2″ x 60 1/2″
::: Materials :::
See image of back cover for materials list for all options.
If you are on Instagram, tag me (@QuiltingJetgirl) and any images of your quilt using #TriangleTransparencyQuilt. Or send an email to yvonne(at)quiltingjetgirl(dot)com with a photograph or a link to a blog post about your quilt.


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Bradyn Poppins...
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Sooooo cute!!! I haven't read the blog in awhile and am so happy for you on the new job!!! Yay! The girls are adoreable! I love Addison's pose in her easter dress! Hope you are doing great.
SO cute is right! I so need a little girl to dress up:) Glad to see all is going well, hope to introduce our little ones here someday. Happy Easter!


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ZK (framework)
From Seo Wiki - Search Engine Optimization and Programming Languages
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An example web application created with ZK
|Stable release
|5.0 / January 26, 2010
|Operating system
|Cross-platform (JVM)
|Ajax Web Framework
|GNU Lesser General Public License / GNU General Public License / Commercial
The core of ZK consists of an Ajax-based event-driven mechanism, over 123 XUL and 83 XHTML-based components,[4] and a markup language for designing user interfaces. Programmers design their application pages in feature-rich XUL/XHTML components, and manipulate them upon events triggered by end user's activity. It is similar to the programming model found in desktop GUI-based applications.
ZK takes the so called server-centric approach that the content synchronization of components and the event pipelining between clients and servers are automatically done by the engine and Ajax plumbing codes are completely transparent to web application developers. Therefore, the end users get the similar engaged interactivity and responsiveness as a desktop application, while programmers' development retains a similar simplicity to that of desktop applications.
In addition to component-based programming in a manner similar to Swing, ZK supports a markup language for rich user interface definition called ZUML.
- ZUML is designed for non-programmer developers to design user interfaces intuitively.
- ZUML allows developer to meld different markup languages, such as Mozilla XUL language and XHTML, seamlessly into the same page.
- ZUML allows developers to embed script in pure Java language (interpreted by BeanShell) and use EL expressions to manipulate the components and access data.
- Declarative high level specification of rich (rather than plain HTML) user interfaces. For example the XUL widget set includes support for trees, comboboxes, bandboxes and sliders [1].
- Embedding scripting support with Java (Beanshell [2]). This is an important benefit as you can use a unified programming language for both user interface and backend programming. Optional support for other serverside Java scripting in other languages such as JavaScript (Rhino [3]), Ruby (JRuby [4]), Python (Jython [5]) and Groovy [6]
- High level Ajax support. User input passes from the browser to the serverside desktop model over Ajax.
- Event-driven component-based model (similar to desktop programming models)
- Support for creating user interfaces using different patterns. A MVC programming approach can be adopted with all events forwarded to a central controller class [7]. Alternatively event handlers can be defined within the page using zscript [8]. The MVC page approach is analogous to Swing programming and the in-page approach is analogous to DHTML programming on the server.
- Support for integrating with existing web frameworks via a JSP custom tag library, JSF support and a Servlet Filter. Has support for Spring and Hibernate.
- Extensible in that programmers that can create new custom UI controls. Groups of controls can be re-used as a macro component.
- Databinding capability via in-page annotations that transparently bind screen controls to the fields of POJOs on the server.
Differences to XUL
- ZK is a server side framework which emits HTML and thus does not depend on client side presence of Gecko making it portable to any browser. ZK takes ZUML (xul and xhtml) serverside pages as input and outputs dhtml for the browser.
- ZK processes user interface logic on the server in Java. This increases choice in the scripting engines and application libraries that can be used to create logic. Presentation effects can be delegated to the browser using the Client-side Actions feature to reduce server load for dhtml effects. Running the application logic on the server in a single application container reduces the amount of cross browser and browser version testing when compared to extensively programming the DOM at the browser.
- While ZK and XUL have an overlapping subset of components ZK has their own unique component sets. The component library can be extended with custom components. Macro components can be defined that are composites of components.
- ZK provides serverside databinding annotations to declaratively bind UI components to serverside data.
- Look and Feel differences.
System requirements
Prerequisites of programming skills
- Basic knowledge of Java or a Java scripting engine language such as Groovy, Rhino (Java JavaScript), JRuby (Java Ruby) or Jython (Java Python)
- Basic knowledge of HTML and XUL
- Knowledge of a scripting language to write the glue logic (running on the server):
- BeanShell (Java interpreter), JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, and Python currently supported.
- Object Oriented Programming. You can choose to do AWT/Swing style programming against the ZK API. You can choose to program one or more custom UI controller classes in Java. This is entirely optional. Alternatively you can choose to use zscript script tags for user interface logic which is similar to dhtml programming.
- Servlet Programming. ZK is built on top of the Servlet API. You can choose to do regular Servlet programming and use ZUML as the page language.
- Ajax. ZK is built on top of Ajax but it automatically converts user input at the browser to Java events at the server so you do not have to either program nor understand browser Ajax.
- Declarative Databindings. ZK has an optional syntax for binding user interface controls to your POJO Java Beans. ZK will automatically call your POJO setter/getter methods with zero programming in response to use input at the browser.
- EL language. ZK supports JSTL style EL.
ZUML (ZK User Interface Markup Language) is a markup language for rich user interfaces definition.
- ZUML is designed for non-programmers to design user interfaces efficiently with the ZUML markup
- ZUML allows developer to meld different markup languages, such as Mozilla XUL language and XHTML, seamlessly into the same page.
- ZUML allows developers to embed script in pure Java language (interpreted by BeanShell) and use EL expressions to manipulate the components and access data.
- ZUML is supported by ZK.
Client-side Technologies
ZK is a server-centric framework. Technically you don't need to know about the implementation at the client side. It is how ZK Mobile running on Java Mobile VM is done.
Since ZK 5.0, the so-called server + client fusion architecture is introduced. Developers are allowed to access the client-side widgets directly if they want to. ZK Client Engine is based on jQuery and provides a GWT wrapper. Technically you can use jQuery-compliant libraries and widgets.
See also
- Books
- ZK - Ajax without JavaScript published by Apress.
- ZK Developer's Guide published by Packt.
- Articles
- Next-Generation Applications Using Ajax and OpenAjax at OpenAjax Alliance
- Zero-code AJAX framework sought at InfoWorld.
- Designing rich AJAX Web interfaces with ZK at Linux.com
- AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries at Smashing Magazine
- ZK and Agile at TheServerSide
- The ZK Framework at Dr.Dobb's Poral
- ZK - AJAX without the JavaScript at IBM Developer's Works
- Ajax with the ZK Framework at deverloper.com
- ZK Ajax Java Web Framework: Ajax with no Javascript at infoQ.com
- Using Desktop MVC Patterns with ZK, Spring & JPA;
- Implementing Load-on-Demand using ZK and Grails
- ↑ Chen, Henri (2008). ZK - Ajax without JavaScript. Apress. p. 125. ISBN 978-1590599013.
- ↑ Staeuble, Markus (2008). ZK Developer's Guide. Packt Publishing. p. 184. ISBN 978-1847192004.
- ↑ Van der Schyff, Andre (2009-03-31). "A look at MVC frameworks". ITWeb. http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/industryinsight/software/vanderschyff090331.asp?S=Software&A=SFT&O=google. Retrieved 2009-04-14. "MVC frameworks provide limited functionality when compared to ZK, Echo and other Java Web frameworks."
- ↑ "ZK Explorer". http://www.zkoss.org/zkdemo/userguide/. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
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Coffee Buddies,
Our own Phat Uncle, a.k.a. @kulikopi, a.k.a. Hendri Kurniawan just got home from his mission as one of the judges in World Championship Barista 2014 (WBC 2014) in Rimini, Italy. And, guess what he brought back to our humble abode in Pasar Santa? No, not just coffee. It's a bunch of championship coffee. Coffee used by the barista champions! The highly, carefully selected beans that compete in the world stage! And, now … those beans will be available for us all in ABCD, Pasar Santa, this weekend. A truly rare opportunity for the geekiest coffee junkies!
So, here are the schedule and menu for our Pop-Up Coffee Bar this weekend:
As usual: we brew as good as we can, and you fill up the Red Tip Jar as generous as you can.
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Effective January 10, 2019, inquiries and correspondence regarding new permit applications, reporting, and compliance matters related to sites in Armstrong and Indiana Counties should be directed to DEP's
Northwest Regional Office. Questions on permit applications under review as of January 9, 2019, and pending enforcement matters for Armstrong and Indiana Counties should be directed to DEP's
Southwest Regional Office. Inquiries can also be directed to
Mining and Radiation Protection permits and programs are not affected by this regional office change.
Because asbestos in certain forms has been determined to cause serious health problems, the DEP regulates the removal, collection, transportation, and disposal of Asbestos-Containing Materials (ACM). DEP does not regulate the removal of
ACM from private residences unless the residence is an apartment with five or more units. Contact your township or borough to find out if there are any local regulations.
The Department of Labor and Industry enforces Pennsylvania's Asbestos Occupations Accreditation and Certification Act of 1990, which requires at least a five-day notification of any asbestos project and certification for the following asbestos occupations: contractor, inspector, management planner, project designer, supervisor and worker.
Federal Government Information:
Understanding Asbestos (PDF)
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental protection is transitioning away from paper to online asbestos abatement and demolition/renovation notifications. DEP held a webinar on Wednesday, March 14, 2018 to introduce and explain the new online system. If you were unable to participate, a recording of the webinar is below:
Online Asbestos Notification System is one of many applications on the Department's
GreenPort website. You will need to create a GreenPort account to access the system if you don't already have one. Regardless of how many DEP systems you want to access, only one GreenPort account is ever necessary. Once you create an account, you can self-register for the Online Asbestos Notification System by clicking on the "Enroll" button at the bottom of the screen, selecting "ePermitting", and then "Asbestos". Thereafter, an "ePermitting" button will be available on the right hand side of your applications screen. DEP's release page details enhancements, new or modified functionality, as well as any bug fixes within the e-permitting application for all programs. Release notes are organized by month. Those having problems creating a Greenport account should call the
DEP Service Desk at 717-787-4357.
Please sign and date the Owner/Operator Agreement Section of the printed copy of the NESHAP project notification form before sending it to the U.S. EPA.
Note: This online system is not for asbestos abatement and demolition/renovation projects in Philadelphia or Allegheny Counties. A search utility providing access to all the online asbestos notifications received by DEP since March 9, 2018 can be found here -
While we strongly encourage the use of the Online Asbestos Notification System, links to the paper notification and its instructions are found below. Please mail paper notifications to the appropriate DEP Regional Office found in the instructions and not the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg. Please contact the appropriate DEP Regional Office or
Craig Evans by e-mail or by telephone at 717-772-3995 if you have questions or need additional information.
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With more than 2 billion adherents worldwide, Christianity has more followers than any other religion. There are many Christian denominations but they can be roughly divided into two: the Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church. The Orthodox Church, largely present in Eastern Europe and Russia, split from the Roman Catholic Church in 1054. Protestant churches split from the Roman Catholic Church later.
Jesus Christ founded Christianity 2000 years ago. Christians believe he was the Son of God whose coming was foretold in the Old Testament. God sent Jesus to take the burden of the sins of humanity. Although Jesus died a painful death by crucifixion, he was then brought back to life by God before ascending to heaven.
Although Christianity is a monotheistic religion, it also embraces the Trinity. This concept holds that God is divisible into three elements, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Christian beliefs and sources of beliefs
Christian beliefs come from the Bible. This includes the Old Testament and the New Testament. The New Testament is especially important to Christians particularly the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John which tell the story of Jesus' life. The Gospels were all written after Jesus' death.
Christians believe that Jesus came to Earth as the Son of God and was born to Mary in a virgin birth after she was visited by the Angel Gabriel. This visit is known as the Annunciation.
Jesus spent his adult life preaching the word of God along with the 12 disciples, simple fishermen he recruited to become 'fishers of men'.
His teachings upset the Pharisees, the religious authorities in the area of Nazareth where he preached. They regarded his teachings, and the miracles he performed, as heresy and plotted to kill him.
Eventually, when he was still only around 30 years old, Jesus was betrayed by one of his own disciples, Judas Iscariot. Nazareth was then under the political control of the Romans and the Governor Pontius Pilate ordered his execution by crucifixion.
Jesus died on the cross but was resurrected three days later and appeared to the disciples. Then God took him to heaven, an event called the Ascension. God allowed his Son to be tormented and killed to take the burden of sin from humanity.
Christian teaching says that a belief in Jesus and God, leading a moral life and repenting from sin allows salvation, life after death and entry to Heaven.