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By Celia Farber
"We expect this trend to continue. While the AIDS industry has convinced Americans of the alleged AIDS epidemic, prosecutors have a hard time finding anyone willing to promote their propaganda under penalty of perjury."
The 2011 Nobel laureate poet Tomas Tranströmer wrote a poem called "To Friends Behind A Frontier," to close friends living in (then) GDR:
I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky.
The letter is now at the censor's. He lights his lamp. In the glare my words fly up like monkeys on a grille, rattle it, stop and bare their teeth.
Read between the lines. We'll meet in 200 years
When the microphones in the hotel walls are forgotten
And can at last sleep, become trilobites.
The poem reflects the feeling of sadness of witnessing capture, in this case, Western Europeans wishing they could liberate friends in East Germany. "Read between the lines. We'll meet in 200 years, when the microphones in the hotel walls are forgotten, and can at last sleep, become trilobites," captures the cycle of mania, hunt, persecution, inside deranged political systems—all from nothing and for nothing. But one day, the poet assures us, the microphones will become fossils; The friends will be free again, and can "meet."
For some reason, these stories have not gotten told. Not even by those of us who have devoted years to chronicling the horrors wrought by the never proven HIV "theory." We got mired in the ego-driven correctomania of "the science"—while the sheer human consequences of the paradigm were overlooked, or tuned out. In utter silence, away from sound and sight, forgotten by all the world, hundreds of people in this country and around the world have been serving time for HIV "crimes" which seem culled from the 16th century, at a time before court room justice was invented.
An accusation. That's all it takes. An angry ex lover, often, turning the tables on a former partner, claiming he or she did not disclose HIV status prior to sex.
Welcome to the world of HIV criminalization—the logical and chilling final station of barbarism in an already upside down world. This is where the psychic prison of a positive HIV test meets actual prison walls, where the brutality, madness and sheer stupidity of the HIV state is fully realized– where the violence upon the marked people is given unbridled reign.
It is a slippery slope, a perpetual Crucible, a place where the accusation seals the deal, and if you are not a witch, well, you would float. We need not have any sympathy. As POZ magazine founder Sean Strub, who is an advocate against HIV criminalization has said, "All HIV positive gay men are one disgruntled lover away from a jail sentence."
In the United States, 37 of our states have statutes on the books which criminalize HIV transmission, and non-disclosure of HIV status. Sentences for those declared guilty easily run as high as 25 years or more. One of the Pennsylvania statutes designates a minimum sentence of life imprisonment, and in one state, Nebraska, the crime can carry the death penalty.
States which do not criminalize HIV transmission are: Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming.
HIV criminalization laws began in earnest in 1990 when the federal Ryan White CARE act passed. This law mandated that states criminalize intentional transmission of HIV to be eligible for millions of dollars in funding for treatment and prevention programs. Some states took it a step further than federal law required, defining intentional transmission as failing to disclose positive status to a sexual partner. The second time the act was reauthorized, in 2000, the requirement that states must criminalize intentional transmission was removed. These quietly woven draconian laws gained foothold also around the world at this time, most popular, not surprisingly, in Northern and Western Europe.
The United States leads the world in prosecutions as well as convictions of HIV antibody positive people, accused of non-disclosure. Some 913 have been prosecuted to date. The second most enthusiastic country is Canada, where there have been 146 prosecutions and 79 convictions. Next is Austria, 55 prosecuted, 55 convicted, followed by Sweden: 50 prosecuted, 50 convicted. Germany, Australia, Norway, Denmark are all close behind.
Here is a random sampling of countries that have a "zero" attached to this—no prosecutions, no convictions: Russia, Philippines, Romania, Latvia, Chad, Mali, Armenia (along with dozens more.)
Point being: Criminalization of HIV positive people only took off in the US and Canada, and in the star-posts of European enlightened post-war democracy. Apparently, in some countries, mothers can now be criminally charged if they pass "HIV" to their babies. This Orwellian society is precisely the nightmare, I must stress, that HIV dissidents have been warning against for many years. It must be dismantled, before any human being on this planet is safe again. (Safe from this.)
You hear of HIV criminal cases only rarely in the media, when local health departments have leaked that a "monster" (male, generally, black, generally) "tried to infect," several hundred women with "AIDS," such as the case of Ghanaian national Henry Assumang, soon on trial in the UK.
Absorbing and refracting deep wells of racism, xenophobia, and anti-immigration sentiment, the frothy language of a typical newspaper account of an HIV case:
"An illegal immigrant may have infected hundreds of women with HIV in a string of one-night-stands, it has emerged. The infected Jamaican reveler prowled nightclubs to pick up women and then spent almost a year unchecked in hospital where he looked for sex with vulnerable patients.
"Health officials have written to more than 400 women to warn them they might have the deadly virus after having unprotected sex with him. The immigrant, who arrived in the UK on a visitor's visa in 2002, has admitted he cannot remember how many woman he has slept with." —The Daily Mail, UK
Vapors, hysteria, moral panic, nothing concrete—all this contributes to the perfect storm for human rights disasters that both sides of the HIV war agree must end. [This may be the only point both sides agree on, in 27 years.]
Though it would appear that the "HIV establishment" (hundreds of pharmaceutically-funded organizations, foundations, activists and lobbyists) laid the groundwork for this nightmare scenario which has for a quarter century relentlessly been pounding away at inaccurate, distorted and wildly inflated HIV statistics and scare scenarios—they too are now trying to slam the brakes on.
Sean Strub, founder of POZ magazine, has made a deeply moving eight -minute documentary that illuminates the deep injustice and plain horror of the situation.
"HIV is not a crime" says the film in the opening sequence, summing up the core sentiment, and referring to a "viral underclass" that is created by the enactment of HIV criminalization laws.
Now, the dissenting, or "denialist" position is that all persons who have been branded as "having HIV" by the numerous testing technologies, are part of a "viral underclass" that they (the denialists) would wish to liberate. This would be done by way of a stark and, for the first time, objective scientific look at what we mean by "HIV," which resides inside the hockey net we call the HIV test.
What does "HIV" signify?
A slew of tests that suggest presence, because the slew of tests defined its presence when they were developed. But presence of what, and more importantly, where?
In human blood? Or in the hockey net. (The tests)
If a person is found not to be carrying a lethal weapon, can they have ever been a threat to another, for brandishing said lethal weapon?
Stop for a moment, ponder with me. We speak of crimes of bodies, bodily fluids, humans being retro-fitted with lethal weaponry in their sexual fluids, and thrown in prison because they supposedly tried to kill another person with no weapon other than their body. If that is not science fiction I don't know what is.
The plot thickens.
In 2009, a newly-minted non-profit investigation agency calling itself OMSJ – The Office of Medical and Scientific Justice – was founded by retired LAPD officer and investigator Clark Baker, who entered the fray by way of the 2008 Semmelweis Society International Whistleblower Conference.
Comprised of detectives, scientists, medical doctors and attorneys, OMSJ has become a kind of Amnesty International of medical abuses, seeking redress to crimes by an industry that has paid $10 billion (since 2009) to settle thousands of claims related to the illegal marketing of products that kill or injure 2-4 million Americans annually. OMSJ founder Clark Baker always refers to the pharmaceutical industry as a "criminal enterprise." Detested by industry-funded organizations for what it calls its "denialist" leanings, OMSJ is scoring victories in a legal realm that is just about as dark as dark gets: HIV criminalization.
Fighting not for the "rights" of HIV positive criminally accused people but for the liberation of them from the system, OMSJ has developed a simple strategy: Rather than question the softly defined rights of HIV positive people, they go after the alchemy of tests and presumptions that fuels a pandemic of misdiagnoses. In this way, they force prosecutors to prove that the person they wish to put behind bars in indeed infected with HIV.
"We've had scores of victories so far," says OMSJ CEO Clark Baker. "In all, HIV-related charges were withdrawn, dismissed, or plea-bargained in 49 cases."
More than 100 cases have crossed OMSJ's windshield since 2009. "In about 1/3 of those cases," says Baker, "the attorneys find one reason or another to ignore what we offer. That narrative involves variations of a young black man who dates white girls in a town where the children of defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges attend the same ice cream socials and school proms."
Says Baker, "Lynch mobs are a tough sell."
In another 1/3 of cases, the defense expresses interest but, for one reason or another, convinces their clients to plead guilty to ten years or more.
In some states, prosecutors only need to prove that the defendant didn't disclose – even when prosecutors make no effort to prove that an infection exists.
Says Baker: "Our successes were typically won by attorneys who coordinated their defense strategy with us."
Asked to put a fine point on how exactly OMSJ sets these condemned people free, or helps to, Baker says: "We review the medical records, which is often nothing more than a health department report that alleges a positive test result. But when we dig deeper, we find that "Doctor A" received a positive HIV test result from an unreliable laboratory that he didn't understand. 'A' refers the patient to "Doctor B," who assumes that 'A' conducted a competent diagnosis. So like outfielders who think someone else will catch the ball, the patient is soon prescribed a deadly psychotropic drug like Atripla that will eventually sicken and kill the patient. But unlike most negligent homicides, the killer signs the death certificate."
The makers of Atripla, Baker points out, Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), currently face multistate lawsuits that allege $100,000 kickbacks to clinicians who unnecessarily prescribe their drugs to healthy patients. ProPublica has found almost a billion dollars in such kickbacks, which doesn't include what wasn't disclosed.
"These are facts that prosecutors, health departments and doctors don't want aired before a jury," says Baker:
"As you can imagine, Doctors 'A' and 'B' are reluctant to admit their incompetence, which is why the prosecution's case collapses. Understandably, our work threatens the credibility of the US Government, drug and healthcare industries, which is why state attorneys general are being pressured to end the prosecutions in their states. Industry-funded activists at LAMBDA, Treatment Action Group and HIV Law & Policy are cynically using the humanitarian pretext to end prosecutions before too many taxpayers learn of the scam that specifically targets black and gay Americans."
Baker says, "Based upon the cases we have examined since 2009, there is strong evidence that 95% of all criminal HIV convictions in the United States involve individuals who were never infected with HIV. The greater implication is that millions of allegedly HIV+ people around the world were probably never at risk of dying from HIV."
Baker believes that he has a "unification theory" that would resolve the differences between the Duesberg position (retrovirus exists but is harmless) with the Perth position (no proof exists for existence of a retrovirus.) (Details of this will emerge over time, and not in this article.)
In an editorial for the journal Haematologica Dr. Etienne de Harven, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, and pioneer of electron microscopy at Sloan Kettering in the 1950s, wrote, on the "fundamental failure" of HIV research:
… The specificity of viral markers depends on the success of virus isolation and purification. Without fully demonstrated success in virus isolation and purification, identification of viral markers is extremely hazardous and can lead to severe misinterpretation of clinical data. A dramatic illustration of this is to be found in current HIV research. In this case, the virus (HIV) has never been properly isolated, since sedimentation in sucrose gradient at the density of 1.16 g/mL was erroneously considered to yield pure virus, systematically ignoring that material sedimenting at that density contains large amounts of cell debris and microvesicles. Therefore, proteins and nucleic acids found in such 1.16 bands are very likely to be of cellular origin and cannot be used as viral markers. Such a faulty methodology has had extremely serious consequences, i.e. the world-wide use of HIV-antibody tests, Elisa and Western Blot, which dangerously lack specificity, as demonstrated in 1993 by Papadopulos et al., in Australia.Etienne de Harven, MD Professor Emeritus of Pathology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Viral etiology of human cancer: a historical perspective Haematologica – Journal of Hematology; 1999; 84:385-389
HIV test kits have stunning disclaimers in the package inserts, stating in different ways over and over that HIV tests are not proof of infection with HIV—a case first made by a group of scientists in Perth, Australia, in a 1993 paper in BioTechnology.
Here is but one of countless examples:
Detection of antibodies to HIV-1 does not constitute a diagnosis of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). A NEGATIVE BLOT is not a guarantee that the causative agent for AIDS is not present. Although a blot POSITIVE for antibodies to HIV-1 indicates infection with the virus, a diagnosis of AIDS can only be made clinically if a person meets the case definition of AIDS established by the Center for Disease Control (USA), the World Health Organization or other relevant authorities…[HIV blot 2:2 Western Blot Assay, MP Diagnostics source: Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society]
OMSJ's team includes Dr. Rodney Richards, formerly of Amgen, who developed one of the first HIV test kits before defecting from the company altogether, in anguish over how misleading "HIV tests" really were.
Says Baker:
"Based upon the 100 plus cases we have been involved in since 2009, there is strong evidence that 95% of all criminal HIV convictions in the United States involve individuals who were never infected with HIV."
In fact, if you press him further, in the highly esoteric but critical discussion of what exactly is wrong with the HIV test and why and how it does not demonstrate "infection," or, for that matter, what is meant by "infection," Baker goes further:
"There is now strong evidence that none of our clients were ever infected with HIV."
Yes, I know.
But let's leave that Ostrich Egg to gestate a bit, and hatch when it is good and ready. This will take time.
Baker points out that health clinics profit from every positive HIV test they get.
"They call it the Magic Effect," says Baker:
"When Magic Johnson retired from basketball, clinics reported that phone calls and testing skyrocketed. Health department busybodies routinely grill patients about their sex lives and partners. Then either call the partners or police about the alleged exposure. When police make an arrest, they leak the story to the media, creating the desired fear and hysteria. Sally's on the evening news and you think, we dated last year – I should get tested. Before you know it, the health department goons are warning you that they will contact the police unless you provide the names and phone numbers of your friends and employers."
Doctors, meanwhile, also benefit financially in a rather shocking way:
"Doctors are permitted to ignore FDA warning labels about the unreliability of HIV tests," says Baker. "Many of these doctors accept kickbacks and trips to Tahiti from HIV drug manufacturers for unnecessarily prescribing deadly drugs to their asymptomatic patients."
It gets worse.
Multi-million dollar AIDS organizations that purport to serve the needs of HIV positive individuals, are now actively seeking to block them from knowing about OMSJ's legal triumphs on behalf of the HIV accused.
On the website for Positive Justice Project: Guidance for People Living With HIV Who Are Threatened With, or, are Facing Criminal Prosecution for HIV Nondisclosure or Exposure, there are 15 "things you can do as damage control,"
And one of them is an open warning to avoid OMSJ.
Never naming OMSJ directly, the group warns:
You may be approached by people who claim they want to help you because an HIV test does not prove that you have HIV or AIDS, or because HIV is not harmful to others. AIDS "denialists" — people who do not believe that HIV is the cause of AIDS and that all AIDS treatments are toxic — frequently approach defendants in cases that have received press coverage, and may be interested in using your case to advance their cause. These people should be avoided because they likely will hurt rather than help your case.
Baker, for his part, says: "Organizations like HIV Law & Policy, Treatment Action Group and LAMBDA have never attempted to prove that their clients are not infected with HIV. The Obama administration, UNAIDS and the UN are trying to dissuade Western governments from prosecuting these cases using the pretext of human rights. It was in 2009 when we started winning these cases that they suddenly had their Come-to-Jesus moment. I would work with any of them to free an unjustly convicted human being. But they won't work with OMSJ. Our door is open any time they change their mind and decide to prioritize their clients freedom over their own personal ideology."
After Yvonne Nicole Andrews left an ex-boyfriend who had repeatedly assaulted her, he turned around and falsely accused her of exposing a total of four men to HIV, none of whom she had ever met. [All four tested negative.] Soon, before she knew what was happening, Ms. Andrews found herself in a Florida prison cell facing a sixty-year sentence. Despite hospital records documenting the injuries, which included a badly sprained neck, severe concussions, and more, and despite overt statements that he planned to kill her, her ex used the laws to become make her the criminal. He was never charged.
The blond, soft-spoken mother of two had languished in county jail for several months when OMSJ contacted her attorney and prepared her defense.
Reached at home just weeks after her release, Andrews told The Truth Barrier:
"OMSJ's attorney saw me while I was in prison, and explained everything. Then, after my attorney and I understood and we all became a team, they went to work. They were amazingly fast and effective. OMSJ broke down the prosecution in no time at all and educated them about the scientific side. These people wanted to put me away for sixty years. My kids would have had no mom. Instead I was out after nine months."
"We had a similar case in 2011," said Baker, "when a rapist accused his victim of HIV exposure. After questioning the victim's doctor in a pretrial hearing, prosecutors withdrew all charges against our client who, if convicted, could have received a 30-year prison sentence and a deportation order."
Andrews' voice breaks when she mentions Clark Baker:
"Mr. Baker to me is heaven sent. He is my angel. I will be in debt to that man for the rest of my life. I can't even express the feelings I felt when they came and told me. Words cannot express it."
"I want my story to be told," she continues," because I want everybody to know the truth. I had no idea you could destroy somebody's life just like that, just accusations, no proof, just hearsay. No idea. I was in prison with a girl who was part of a drug deal gone bad… she ran over a man and crushed his skull. She was in for murder. Her maximum was 15 years. My maximum was 60 years."
She draws a deep sigh.
"Yes, m'aam."
She continues:
"I sat down to write Mr. Baker a thank you letter, but after a week of mulling it over, I still could not find the words. The team at OMSJ, those people are working for a higher power. For all the people who are innocent and don't deserve any of this, but nobody hears them. Nobody wants to hear it. One day it will all come out. The truth will come out."
Ms. Andrews tells me she is delighted and grateful to God to have gotten home for Thanksgiving, and looks forward to spending Christmas with her family. But life is no Hollywood ending for these people. They have uniformly been exposed in local media, both as HIV positive and as criminals. It doesn't go away when the charges are dropped. Their collapsed lives don't miraculously reform. They are classified felons and can't work. "I can't even get a job in a local store," says Andrews. "But I have faith in God. I know he has his hands on me. I want to help others."
Ms. Andrews has never taken HIV medication, nor had any symptoms of any kind. During her 9 1/2 months in jail, she spent most of her time studying the Bible. "I'll be honest with you, when I was in jail I felt safe," she says. Her ex had (and these are just some of the incidents:) thrown her off a porch, body-slammed her, pounded her head to the point of spraining her neck and giving her a severe concussion, threatened to kill her, stalked her, and more. "Now I am out. He knows I'm out. My family and I want to leave this area. I pray morning, noon and night."
Take off HIV/AIDS goggles and put on domestic abuse and misogyny goggles, in order to keep seeing, and keep hearing. Her ex was found to be taking anti-HIV medications, which was discovered once when he was pulled over, and the medicine was in his car. He used to tell Andrews: "I'm sorry you'll never be with another man."
"He was just so insecure and controlling. He beat me physically, abused me mentally and verbally. This man has done everything he could to destroy me. In his mind, it was either death or prison."
Andrews ex had a special trick: Mid beatings, he would call 911, and accuse her of domestic abuse. He is 6 ft 4 inches, 280 lbs, and works in construction. On one occasion, he had another girlfriend jump on Andrews and assault her, while he made the 911 call, and commented: "Don't worry about it. She's going to prison."
"I will keep going strong," says Andrews. "I am not going to give up. I want everybody to know the truth. My heart is just filled with joy. I am so ready to do this. When you're in a situation like this, you feel like you're the only person this has ever happened to. But there are so many. And they all need help. I was incarcerated, and as of now, I am a convicted felon. But Clark Baker is working with me to find new life after this. I have to start my life over. I have the utmost respect for that man and his organization. I would do anything in the world for him."
"I thought this was something I would never talk to anybody about. But I am relieved it's being written and being put out there. Because I am finding out that it's not just me, there are other people in this situation. And they deserve to be heard. A lot of people don't know who to turn to, for help. I was shunned by everybody. When they told me I was HIV positive–when they tell you that, a part of you just dies. It's just gone."
Andrews was told she was positive in 2008.
She continues:
"But now I have gotten educated and I think they are inaccurate in their testing. I have never had symptoms, and never taken medication. They tried, but I didn't take it because I wasn't sick. I'm as healthy as a horse."
I asked her how it felt when she left prison, and came home, on Nov 15, this year.
"Elation, tears," she says:
"I can't even express the feelings that I felt. I got to come home to my family. I made it home for Thanksgiving, and I have so much to be thankful for. Christmas will be even greater. I am just so happy. We need to let people know that there are people that do care about them, and they're not alone."
Additional research for this article by Mark Harris.
For more information about OMSJ, to inquire about a legal situation, or to make a donation, go to http://www.omsj.org
The Truth Barrier has traveled as far as Stavanger Norway to report on this unfolding story. Stay tuned for Part Two, coming soon.


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Nike Magista Obra II FG Football Shoes Static Appreciation
Regarding the story of Magista, we don't really need to describe too much. Two years ago, the birth of the traditional football shoes was completely subverted. The Brazil World Cup finals won honor and praise for it. Today's second-generation Magista, with its new technology, once again shocks our understanding of sneakers. Everyone knows that this is another time Nike has shown their innovative technology on football shoes in front of the public. In order to make the second generation of Magista become "more sensational", Nike will not hesitate to hide it in the previous dark series of publicity photos, which will not only hang the appetite of everyone, but also improve the performance of the shoes. Innovative genes.
The upper is the biggest improvement in this Magista Obra II, but the material combination has not changed. It is still a combination of Nike's Flykint knit material and hot melt film overlay.
In other words, in the past, Nike needed to add coating and friction particles on the upper to ensure the ball control, but this time Flykint's special control of the material texture gave the vamp a three-dimensional concave property. The highest bulge on the upper is located at the most important contact point and has a height of 4.5mm. In order to eliminate the comfort of the uneven upper, the Magista Obra II's upper lining adds a thin layer of cushioning sponge, but this may affect the breathability of the hot summer shoes themselves.
In addition to the heat-sensitive pattern also has its own convex and concave properties, we found that the Magista Obra II has a structure similar to the Flywire flying line on both sides of the upper. In fact, this Nike called the Grip sock, its main function and flying line. The same, to strengthen the stability of the shoes, and is an important part of the overall traction system of the sneakers.
As a pair of Nike's top super shoes, ACC is naturally an essential standard technology.
The dynamic high-top collar made by Flykint has completely changed the appearance of traditional low-top sneakers, but the style of the dynamic collar in the Magista Obra II has also been adjusted. It becomes more in line with the shape of the ankle of the human body, and the fit is also better. However, the arc-shaped design is slightly lacking in appearance, and it is not as smooth and refreshing as the previous one.
The new collar is designed to enhance the comfort of the shinbone, while also using a thicker knit structure to provide extra wrapping and protection for the ankle. The knit material on the ankles at both sides clearly feels thickened. The heel protection cup is built in this time, the hardness is quite ideal, and the protection is no problem. Another small detail is that the height of the heel of the Magista Obra II's Achilles tendon is reduced, which is also considered for better comfort.
Although the generation of Magista's outsole performance is very good, the actual word of mouth is basically good, but Nike is still painstaking in the design of this sole. However, as far as I can see, the Magista Obra II's forefoot is a bit of a return to CTR360, and the combination of the rounded studs brings people back to that era. Nike uses the "Finite Element Analysis" finite element analysis method similar to the Superfly V in the outsole design of the Magista Obra II football shoes. The conical studs are all opened with an irregular gap, which is quite advantageous in terms of flexibility.
The thin knit fabric covered on the front of the insole contributes little to the slip resistance and can be used with the socks. The knit material has good ductility, and the small wide feet and the feet that are not very slaughtered can also be tried.
The details of a pair of sneakers on the insole can usually be added to it. The forefoot and heel on the back of the insole have blue PORON damping material.
to sum up:
The long-awaited second-generation Magista, although I know that some people still have difficulty accepting its appearance, but from his technological advancement and dynamic shoe-leading improvements, it can be seen that Nike is doing a lot of work. . And from the feedback of the original Magista, there is not much damage in it. Whether it is performance or outsole feedback is very good, so our Magista Obra II is a great shoe.

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Hello Beautiful People! I am fresh off my birthday trip to Gran Canaria!
As you all should know by now, I celebrate my birthday every year out of the country. Last year, I went to Amsterdam for my birthday and I was cold and miserable because I became sick due to the change in weather. So, this year I decided I had to be some place warm. You guys know how much I love the Caribbean but since my birthday is during hurricane season, that is always off limits for me. I really wanted to do Zanzibar this year because (on my travel goal list) but the way my vacation days are setup, I knew I could only go as far as Europe.
So what did I do? I researched the warmest destinations in Europe and boom, Gran Canaria came up! I had never explored the idea of going to the Canary Islands, although I have heard people rave about them. This year was my turn to find out what the big deal was. Well, let's just say it lived up to
the my hype!
Where I Stayed:
I stayed at the Sentido Gran Canaria Princess Hotel. I liked this hotel, very clean and beautiful inside. Most of the staff (had one guy I got into it with during check out) was extremely helpful and friendly. The hotel gave me a complimentary bottle of champagne that was in my room upon my arrival to help kick off my birthday. I should've took more pictures of the hotel but I did not spend much time there besides going to the pool. My bad :/
What I Did:
I did nothing during this trip and it was everything! I did not do one excursion or tour. Sounds boring but I loved every minute of it. It was actually how I envisioned my birthday trip. It was just reelaxing as ever. All I did was eat, lay out on the beach, and sit by the pool. The weather was beautiful. Although it was supposed to be in the 70s, it surely felt like the mid-80's. Guess who wasn't complaining though? I am sure you guessed right *wink*
Where I Ate:
Plaza del Faro is a plaza along the water filled with shops and restaurants. This is where I ate for dinner mostly, because there were so many great restaurants to choose from. On my birthday I went to Restaurante Grill El Churrasco Meloneras and the staff sang to me. Can you tell on a scale from 1-10 how happy I was in the video below?
I also milked this whole birthday thing the next night when I had dinner at Pitos y flats Meloneras when our waitress had the live singer sing happy birthday to me. (See video below)
Every place I ate at during this trip had amazing food. You know how I feel about food in Europe (it sucks, no shade). Also did not take picture of the food because…hungry. My bad (again).
Also, did I mention there are palm trees every where on this island? It felt so damn tropical. Me and my island girl self loved it. After dinner walking along the water in Plaza del Faro was the perfect wine down. Also the perfect photo-op to take pics under the palm trees!
Would I Go Back?
HELL TO THE YES. If you are looking for a great place to relax and be great, Gran Canaria is where it's at. This may be a little slow paced for many, as I was probably the youngest adult on the island and everyone looked and moved as if theey were retired, but it worked for me. This getaway was truly peaceful and enjoyable. My birthday trip in Barcelona 2 years was one of the best birthday trips I ever had also, there must be something about Spain…
Anyway, for real this time, next birthday I will be waking up in AFRICA! Ase!


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Labor Day weekend is coming up, and if you're in the DC metro area, there are many activities going on. If you don't have anything planned yet, you might want to check out a few of these events.
Beatles Tribute Festival – Sept. 1 – 5 at the Gaylord National Resort in National Harbor, MD. Abbey Road on the River presents over 50 Beatles tribute bands at this festival honoring one of the greatest groups of all time.
Kennedy Center Page-To-Stage Festival – Sept. 3 – 5. Check out over 25 different local theater groups put on free performances of their plays and musicals. These are brand new works that are being prepared for the upcoming theater season.
Glen Echo Park Art Show and Irish Festivities – Sept. 3 – 5 on MacArthur Blvd in Glen Echo, MD.
Virginia Scottish Games – Sept. 3 & 4 in Alexandria. This interesting Scottish heritage festival features piping, drumming, dancing, and even sheep-herding demonstrations!
DC Blues Festival – Sept. 3 from 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Carter Barron Amphitheater. Come listen to some great blues music by local and national groups. Admission is free.
Labor Day Concert at the U.S. Capitol – Sunday, Sept. 4 at 8:00 p.m. This free concert by the National Symphony Orchestra will be held at East Capitol and First Street.
Herndon Labor Day Festival – Monday, Sept. 5 from noon to 6:00 p.m. on Lynn Street in Herndon, VA. This outdoor festival includes wine tastings and live musical entertainment.


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The Labrador Institute Research Station (LIRS) is located in North West River, Labrador and operates with a year-round permanent staff. The Labrador Institute Research Station was created to provide leading-edge science laboratories and a field station that supports research and education in the remote regions of Labrador.
The Labrador Institute Research Station is part of the Labrador Institute of Memorial University, a leading centre of research, outreach and education, by and for the North. The Labrador Institute Research Station includes multi-purpose space used for employee offices, an archaeology collections room, physical science laboratories (a prep [wet] lab, an analytical lab and a geological sample prep lab), a shared research space, accommodations space with a full kitchen and dining area, a large common room, short-term storage space and field equipment for rent and loan. Internet, wifi, telephones and a boardroom with video-conferencing capabilities are also available at the research station.


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Most of the time people call up a name of something, they hardly bother to know what it means or how the name was originated. In this new post I will discuss what APK file is.
What is Apk File in Android?
An APK stands for "Android Package Kit", this file is normally used by Android operating system majorly for distribution and installation of mobile applications. When an APK file is downloaded on the internet or shared by another user, that person is technically getting an application, the final step is just to install it. Majority of Android apps are downloaded from Google Play Store , only few apps that can't be gotten from play store are from the APK files.
How To Download APK Files From The Internet
There are very many sources of downloading APK files from the internet and you need to very sure its a safe file sharing site, as many APK files are injected with virus and malwares.
I normally download all APK files from APK Mirror, but if you have other sources that are very safe and secure, you can try it but precautions are to be carried out.
Method of Installing an APK File on your Android Device
- Search for the type of APK File you need on the internet, you must certainly have a goal why you need an APK File on your device, try and source this from a very good platform or website so it can be free from malwares and go ahead to download it on your computer.
- Connect your USB device to your computer and copy it to the device you wish to install the APK file on.
- Your device will prompt you if you want it to act as a charging point or as a media device.
- Choose Media device and your Phone Folders will display on the desktop.
- Finally decide if you want to copy or move the downloaded APK File into a chosen located file.
- Find the APK File on your Android phone and click it.
- Scroll down and click install.
- Depends on the security of your Android devices, its normally impossible to allow an unknown file to be installed unless you allow a third party app permission.
- For you to allow a third party application permission, Go to Menu > Settings > Security > and check Unknown Sources in order to allow your Android device to install the APK File into an App.
- After step 7 if your device Third party permission is sorted out, you can decide to open the app or click on done.
Note: If the APK File is actually browsed from your Android device, Just download it and open the file location on your device click it and follow the prompt messages.


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A recent poll found that 42% of millennials know someone who has struggled with opioid addiction. This is a scary number when you consider that opioid use and addiction to other illegal substances are highly correlated events. Find out what this growing epidemic means for coming generations, and what we can do to slow the tide.
NBC News reported that 17% of the millennials polled knew someone in their immediate family that struggled with opioid addiction. 54% of the millennials polled that reported to have seen opioid addiction up close are white, compared to 30% of African-American millennials, 26% of Asian-Americans, and 23% of Latinos. The Northeast has a higher likelihood of millennials coming into contact with someone that struggles with addiction than any other region.
Why do so many millennials know someone who has struggled with abuse?
We've been watching opioid use grow steadily worse over the last few years. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that 11.5 million people reported an addiction to opioids. An unfortunate consequence of these figures is that more and more millennials are beginning to have ties to people that suffer from addiction.
Another dangerous component in the rise of opioid addiction is the rise in people who transition to more illicit substances, like meth, once the opioids stop working. Meth use is becoming a dangerous reality in communities that already struggle with opioid addiction. Meth addiction is much more difficult to treat than opioid addiction, and it can lead to dangerous and violent behavior. Based on the numbers above, it stands to reason that a good number of the 42% of millennials who know someone with an opioid problem will someday know someone who struggles with meth or other illegal substances.
What do these numbers mean for our communities?
There is a real risk that an opioid addiction can turn into an opioid overdose. Studies have shown that people who suffer from addiction are more medically frail than people who do not experiment and that those who survive an overdose are more likely to die due to a drug-related cause in the year following their overdose. Research has also shown that people who survive drug overdoses have a 25% higher suicide rate than the rest of the population. More physicians are calling attention to the fact that people who have opioid addictions are also in desperate need of mental health care as well as medical attention.
Hopefully, the more that we talk about the rates of opioid addiction in our community, the more we can raise awareness and be proactive about stopping addiction in its tracks. Discuss the dangers of drug addiction with your teen or young adult, and make sure they know how to help if someone they love is suffering from addiction.


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An artistic director interested in how art practices can bring empowering messages about climate, and a senior lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts (University of Birmingham).
A social anthropologist researching scientific, artistic, cultural and environmental histories of Brazilian landscapes, with a special interest in climate change, Anthropocene, nature and society, and imagination.
A professor of Geography (Durham University), exploring how 'climate change' is a form of power shaping who we are and how we act in the world.
An interdisciplinary artist and project manager using walking and mapping to explore how people interact with places, drawing attention to human entanglements within a multi-species environment.
An emerging new media artist whose artistic strategies for understanding natural processes reflect previous research as a metallurgist and lifelong interests in nature, photography and science.
A visual artist in analogue and digital media, fascinated by the ways built and natural structures change over time, currently exploring the ephemeral nature of wetlands.
An artist, educator, activist and collaborator across disciplines creating events, performances and projects that invite people into enquiring relationships with each other and the land.
A multidisciplinary artist whose work, often collaborative, is inspired by difficult contemporary and future sociological concerns surrounding issues such as food security and migration.
A reader in Ecological Linguistics (University of Gloucestershire), writer on language, reconnection with nature, the stories we live by, and founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association.
An artist, teacher and storyteller creating experiences for participation with the natural environment, and training as a facilitator in deep listening and the work that reconnects.
Director of Creative Carbon Scotland, supporting the essential role of arts and culture in transformational change to a sustainable future, and a researcher exploring behaviour change.
An independent researcher and creative curator, founding Climate Museum UK as an emerging mobile kit of 'loose parts' that creatively stirs responses to the climate emergency.
An interdisciplinary artist and founder of the Nomad/9 Interdisciplinary MFA, exploring resiliency through poetic intervention and pragmatic engagement, including intimate interspecies works and international educational initiatives.
An artist and researcher exploring eco-social wellbeing by bringing art and non-art practices together in creative practice and offering Ecoliteracy learning for the arts.
A biologist with a research focus on Rewilding and an interest in applying its concepts to integrate human and ecological systems for the benefit of all.
A writer, editor, performer, project-maker and researcher exploring ways of bringing together traditional story forms and science communication with a focus on ecological wonder tales.
A PhD researcher exploring the ways in which encounters with interactive art may offer us different ways of knowing climate change.
An editor of Green Christian and organiser of an environment group, using films, music and poetry to communicate climate change and motivate group formation.
A Climate Ambassador with Physicians for Social Responsibility, a painter and retired research scientist who brings science into art galleries, promoting art that addresses climate change.
An environmental geographer interested in coastal management and nature conservation in times of a changing climate, with a current focus on the Wadden Sea coast.
An independent advisor with special interest in intersections between culture and environment, coordinating the Convention on Wetlands' Culture Network and chairing the Arts & Environment Network
A researcher interested in environmental humanities, focusing on tourism discourses about nature and its ethical values.
A writer and photographer, using these to inform, educate, discuss, and make people think about the world around us and our impact upon it.
A fine artist concerned with place and belonging, informed by the cosmology of African animism within the complex human and other-than-human networks that encompass a landscape.
An artist examining our disconnection with 'nature' and each other via discarded materials, text, performance and video, whose performance commiserates redundant packaging and honours 'natural' products.
A professor of Biology (University College London) whose research focuses on natural and cultural value and the impact of environmental change on biodiversity.
A poet, writer, performer and musician working on tropical forests and land rights, oil extraction, biological diversity, patents on life, biofuels, climate change and much more.
An independent artist, teacher and researcher interested in place seen through the lens of Felix Guattari's ecosophy, working extensively on 'deep mapping', other projects and publications.
A researcher focused on subjects that connect science and design fields and have deep critical and social impact, such as sustainability, culture, heritage and education.
A poet and critic interested in climate change, nonhuman representation and ecopoetics, whose debut poetry collection, 'Significant Other', addresses the effect of climate change on biodiversity.
A postgraduate student researching ecomusicology and ecospiritual music, and a singer and musician exploring ecological themes.
A multi-media artist immersed in current social, political and scientific thinking, whose work encourages thought, conversation and action, focusing on the climate crisis and single-use plastics.
A historical geographer interested in the history of modernity and modern spaces, studying modernity in transnational perspective, geographical frontiers and the nature/culture divide.
A writer and visual artist who has created several environmental poetry installations and collaborated on a dance–poem juxtaposing the natural world and the city in movement.
An interdisciplinary artist-curator, publisher and climate activist endeavouring to reveal creative patterns embodied within our symbiosis with places, environments, natural systems, and with each other.
A writer and filmmaker linking art forms to dialogue around climate issues, whose practice stretches back to theatre-making.
An artist, producer and researcher whose practice is embedded in long-term research and fieldwork, developing a body of work concerned with fear and isolation within society.
An 'undisciplined' researcher exploring how re-presentations — popular culture, arts, media, and scenarios — of futures, presents and pasts shape problem formulations, expectations and action (or the lack).
A climate change dramatist and activist now setting up a community news platform to provide curated, verified user-generated content for grassroots news stories about the environment.
An artist and PhD student using the life cycles and movements of moths to investigate how we can reconnect with the other-than-human through materials and making.
A prose and poetry writer presenting imaginative perspectives on the climate crisis, and encouraging book people to change what they do and how they do it.
A researcher helping arts and cultural organisations to improve their environmental and energy management and understand their inter-dependencies and relationships with natural and human made systems.
A researcher investigating the role of arts venues in the context of climate change, and Founder of ONCA, a gallery and performance space inspiring positive action.
An artist-researcher who develops interpretive and participatory positions within the community, contributes to eco-social actions, and creates interactive artworks to disseminate the community's embodied knowledge.
A professor of Anthropology focusing on how Maya and other societies dealt with climate change: the emergence and demise of political power, ritual and water management.
A poet, research student and sci-art practitioner, interested in practitioner-led discourse and new collaborations to take her Rachel Carson-focused work to events, festivals and conferences.
A visual artist exploring themes of childhood, place and belonging, whose participatory practice and responsive processes aim to help people think imaginatively with themselves and others.
An assistant professor in Politics and International Studies (Warwick University) whose research explores ethical theory in the context of apocalyptic narratives of climate change.
An image-maker, curator, and educator working predominantly with photographic-based mediums to explore our precarious relationship to the natural world.
A scholar in English Linguistics and Translation whose research includes political and environmental discourse, with a focus on ideology, and who is also a cycling advocate.
An independent researcher, project and events manager, and writer on environmental and climate change issues – investigating, supporting and delivering cultural and creative responses.
A vicar of a remote rural parish, exploring how communities can become resilient and sustainable in the face of climate change.
A human geographer interested in the contemporary politics of climate change, how future atmospheres are imagined, constructed, represented and contested and historical geographies of environmental knowledge-making.
A visual artist, writer and essayist whose work's central question is what ecological recovery requires of us, faced with anthropogenic mass-extinction.
An environmental change & sustainability researcher interested in environmental archaeology and public engagement, working on a theatre project to explore climate change's disruption of everyday lives.
A researcher, coach, facilitator and consultant with cultural, arts and heritage organisations, specialising in creative nature-based and mindfulness-based approaches.
A set and costume designer focusing on sustainability, heritage crafts and social history, and associate artist with Art Rise Up, a group merging art and activism.
An educator and researcher networking with artists and scientists on climate change and currently writing climate fiction in an effort to make climate science more accessible.
A renewable energy technologies expert, leading the Zero Carbon Britain research at the Centre for Alternative Technology.
An artist and PhD candidate addressing the Anthropocene through art-based practice in contemporary painting and adopting an intimate, tactile, sensitive mode of painting everyday objects.
A bilingual writer and activist whose works include eco-disaster novel The Butterfly Effect and has worked with international NGOs and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
An academic and artist exploring global environmental change and provisionality in architectural thinking and practice, who convenes the Culture and Climate Change research and engagement framework.
A writer exploring the world through short stories, novels, poetry and non-fiction, who sees climate change as potentially existential for fellow travellers on planet Earth.
An independent contemporary art curator, working internationally and creatively with artists entirely on original commissions, directly engaged with the artist's working process as far as possible.
An historian of air studying how humans have tried to understand the atmosphere, working with media and museums to tell compelling stories grounded in archival documents.
A researching, collaborating, exhibiting artist and curator, using video, drawing, performance, sculpture and narrative that interweave fact and fiction to explore possible sustainable futures.
A writer, artist and educator, producing picture books, a novel and songs, with a background teaching and facilitating arts and sustainability with schools and communities.
A writer, editor, researcher and activist exploring the cultural shift required to live regeneratively and adapt well to the Anthropocene.
A non-fiction writer and documentary maker inspired by dwelling, working and walking in the land and stories of the people who are a part of it.
An artist who co-creates spaces of naming, questioning, healing and desiring in dedication to humans and non-humans who experience intimately the violent consequences of our disconnect.
A researcher, film maker and festival manager creating strategies to deliver sustainability through the arts and research ways to disseminate education in an entertaining way.
An architect, sustainable designer and writer interested in the medium of text, exploring the repercussions of climate change through the lens of calculations, designs and technicalities.
A senior lecturer in Environmental Technologies (Open University), writer and performer of playful attempts at disrupting our relationship with climate change: science, psychology and surreal dance.
A social scientist researching communication and public understanding of climate change, with a background in psychology and interest in creative and artistic approaches to climate change.
A teacher of ethics, literature and academic writing, interested in narrative theory, embodiment, affect, ecocriticism, and climate change narratives relating to future identities in critical posthumanism.
An art curator, educator and writer with a background in the environmental movement, who has created GroundWork Gallery to showcase art and campaign for the environment.
A researcher and writer on performance and ecology, investigating how one 'hears' enmeshed dimensions of the human and other-than-human and the sonic languages of place.


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In the midst of all this, Bodie, the 100 lb. Labrador caught some sort of allergic reaction..to... grass?..and needed antibiotic and a daily foot wash. Now, as I age, wrestling an 11.5 year old 100 pound dog for a foot wash is not that easy since he is 80% lame already and with a foot infection that caused a further limp..Oh. He can be so stubborn. Finally I had to yell at him, "HEY..stop it. I am trying to help you!" I think that this is almost cured...7 days in from infection. Today was true spring. I saw Bodie run a bit.
In the meantime, photo assignments using lighting. We are learning about light balance. I have no patience for using white balance while shooting, but at least I know the button is there and how to adjust.
Some experiments to follow.


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A & J Moving and Contracting Services has the ability to construct modular homes. These homes are built to the same building code used by conventional site-builders. We transport the home to the new site and place it on a permanent foundation where it will be indistinguishable from a stick built home.
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We understand that moving, refurnishing or growing your office can be disruptive to your business, employees and customers. That is why we ensure efficient and timely office furniture installation and reconfiguration, allowing you to get back to business in no time.
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Negative feedback towards new development in N.S. community
A group of people on Nova Scotia's South Shore are declaring not in my backyard.
They are concerned about a proposal that would see a new recycling facility built in the community of Blockhouse.
Dough Johnson runs a restaurant across the street from the site.
"We don't want to be known as the restaurant across from the dump," says Johnson. "Of course we have a patio and we're not sure what it's going to be like in the summertime when they're in full swing, grinding gyprock, where is that dust going to go?"
The recycling company hasn't yet decided whether it will process gyprock at the facility, but it will be recycling wood and asphalt shingles.
People who live in the community worry that property values will decrease.
"I won't be staying here too long. Nope, I won't, because who's gonna live here," says resident Ernie Bolivar.
Nancy Wentzell owns a used clothing store close to the site. She is also part of a group organizing a petition to stop the development.
"That will affect different things, when it comes to that, the environment, the air, the noise," says Wentzell. "So it is a dump in my eyes."
The owner of C and D Recycling, the company that is developing the site, is quick to point out that any material that can't be recycled will be taken to a licensed landfill. He also says there will never be more than 200 tonnes of material on the site.
"The people that want to call that a dump should really educate themselves before they shoot their mouths off," says recycling company owner Dan Chassie.
Chassie says his plans for Blockhouse will be similar to a facility in Dartmouth.
"We have 75 jobs at our facilities and you know, with the amount of material we recycle, it's really disheartening to hear these people who won't give you an opportunity to show them the right story," says Chassie.
Chassie has applied to the municipality for a development agreement. Residents have managed to stall the process for 30 days and say they won't back down, but neither will the company.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Kayla Hounsell.


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- The Egg is a Prehistoric and Global Symbol of Life and Rebirth
- Christian Easter Eggs
- Chocolate Easter Eggs
The symbol of the egg has been tied since time immemorial with the concepts of life, birth, rebirth, and in particular, with the time of spring. It is deeply interwoven with prehistoric creation myths and ancient stories about the creation of life,. It has been given cosmic significance, representing the birth and rebirth of many gods and powerful spiritual beings, on account of its link to life and fertility. The beloved chocolate egg has now come to be the ubiquitous and central image of Easter and the Easter holidays.


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Neapolitan Pound Cake
Everyone needed cake this week, so even though we still have some (pretty dry) Christmas pudding and lots of chocolate in the house, I had a go at the Neapolitan pound cake from Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh's Sweet.
The recipe is available online as part of an extract from the book which was published in the Guardian. Needless to say, my cake didn't look quite like the one in the picture in the paper, although it wasn't too far off. Here's a slice of mine.
The Challenge
There were two challenges to this cake. First, the colouring. I'd tried making a pink cake before, when I made a Battenberg. I don't think I've ever made a cake that went so disastrously wrong. I couldn't get it to turn pink. Secondly, I was baking the cake in my ring pan, and I've had problems getting things out of there in one piece.
The Tin
As I said, I used a ring pan to make the cake, the recipe uses a bundt tin and, although I do have one, it wasn't big enough. To give my cake the best chance of coming out of the tin, I greased it liberally with butter and gave the inside a good coating of flour.
The Batter
First, I whisked milk, eggs and vanilla together. There's a lot of vanilla in the cake, a tablespoon in the cake itself and some more in the icing. There's no such thing as too much vanilla, so that can only be good.
Next, I sieved self-raising flour, plain flour (the recipe uses half as much plain as self-raising) and salt into the bowl of the KitchenAid. I added caster sugar and put the KitchenAid into gear. It hasn't been used for a while. I could tell. Next, I added some diced butter which, the recipe says, should be "soft but not oily". I didn't fancy trying to dice soft but not oily butter, so I did it while it was cold then gave the dice a very quick blast in the microwave.
I added the butter and half of the egg/milk/vanilla mixture and mixed slowly. Then I cranked up the KitchenAid. It was very lively. I had to hold it down. Perhaps it was just happy to be used again. After stopping to catch my breath and scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl, I added the rest of the milk and beat again. I was supposed to do this in two batches, but I didn't read the recipe properly and put it all in at once. It looked like it might have curdled a bit, but it soon smoothed itself out and, from the spatula scrapings, it tasted pretty good.
The Colours
To get the Neapolitan effect, I had to colour a third of the mixture brown, a third pink and the final third would be left as it was.
I started with the brown, which comes from cocoa powder. Now, the recipe says that you should use Dutch processed cocoa powder. Dutch-processed? I had no idea what that was. I looked it up. So, Dutch-processed cocoa powder is treated with an alkaline to reduce its acidity. This gives it a milder flavour and a darker colour. Other than taste, if you use Dutch processed cocoa in a bake that only uses bicarbonate of soda as the raising agent, you might need something extra (like a bit of cream of tartar) to help the cake rise. It's all about the acidity/alkalinity of the mixture. Thank you very much Nigella.
So, armed with all of this new information about Dutch processed cocoa powder, I'd taken myself off to Tesco to find some Green & Blacks (which is Dutch processed). Tesco didn't have any, neither did Marks. I did have some Tesco's own in the cupboard which, I have to say, has been the best cocoa I've cooked with. How would it do though, in a recipe that called for Dutched cocoa?
I put a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder into some milk that I'd warmed in the microwave. The recipe uses 20mls (about as much as in the average cup of tea). You have to make a thick, smooth paste. This is what I got.
I added a bit more milk and mixed and, eventually, I arrived at this.
I mixed it into a third of my cake batter.
For the pink batter I used a paste food colouring. When I made the Battenberg I used gel and, when I ran out of that, liquid. Neither of them had worked particularly well. I did use paste to make my son's birthday cake (dinosaur landscape with volcano) and I did end up with passable lava. My paste was red though, "poppy" to be exact, so I was going to have to be careful. I didn't need very much for my cake mixture to turn pink.
To fill the cake tin, I put a layer of plain batter, a layer of pink and a layer of brown. The recipe tells you to put in two blocks of each colour. I didn't have enough batter so all of my layers got a bit muddled into each other. It shouldn't matter too much, I didn't think, given than the cake was supposed to have a marbled effect. I used a skewer to make a zig-zag pattern around the tin.
The cake went into the oven at 180° fan. The recipe baking time is between 40 and 45 minutes. I checked the cake after 40 and gave it another couple of minutes to be on the safe side. I let it cool in the tin for ten minutes and held my breath as I turned it out. All in one piece, Hooray.
To make the icing, I mixed icing sugar and milk, then I whisked in softened butter and vanilla extract. This was a great way to make icing. There was no icing sugar cloud to deal with, just a nice and smooth milk and sugar paste. Brilliant. I can't think why I haven't done this before.
Here's my finished pound cake,
and here's another picture of it sliced, so you can see how the marbling worked.
Was it worth it?
Well, my icing was a bit on the thick side, and my pink cake didn't come out very pink (you might be able to see the tiniest bit of pink in the picture), but my little boy declared that it's the "best cake he's ever eaten." It's definitely a family cake, although I have a feeling that it's a bit more popular with the children than the adults. I will make it again because it's been ordered as a birthday cake (although with red swirls, absolutely not pink). That's fine with me. Anything that gets me out of making people or animals out of sugarpaste has to be a winner.


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A leading Wakefield manufacturer has announced the acquisition of one of its largest retail customers for an undisclosed sum.
The bold move will see Conservatory Outlet and Newcastle-based Pennine Home Improvements, two of the North's leading home improvement businesses, under the same ownership. Funding to support the deal has been structured by Allied Irish Bank (GB).
As one of the top 2% of fabricators in the UK by volume, Conservatory Outlet manufactures high-quality windows, doors and conservatory products from its 60,000 sq ft facility, supplying to a retail network of 24 installation companies that operate across the UK. Conservatory Outlet is managed by Greg Kane CEO and Michael Giscombe, MD. This latest strategic acquisition is set to take the Group's turnover to £25m – an exceptional five-fold growth achieved in the past seven years.
Greg Kane, CEO of the Conservatory Outlet Group explains: "We're delighted to announce that Pennine Home Improvements and Conservatory Outlet have joined forces, bringing the manufacturing hub of our business closer to the customer than ever before.
"Pennine has been part of our network of retailers for just over three years, and has experienced an impressive 30% growth in that time, largely due to its highly committed management team and excellent internal processes. I'm certain our new vertical partnership will facilitate a level of knowledge-sharing never before seen in this market which will further support the growth and development of both businesses."
Well-known and respected in the North East, Pennine Home Improvements will continue to operate as a separate retail business from its existing industry-leading showrooms in Benton, Gosforth Park, Birtley and Ponteland. Graham Auld, the previous owner and Managing Director will exit the business. Mark Tinnion, the former Brand Director will become Managing Director and work alongside his fellow management team which includes Derek McLaren, Sales Director.
The combined ownership of the two businesses will allow further development of the Group's innovative product offer, processes and service features around the needs of the ultimate end-user.
Greg added: "The deal can only be of benefit to our wider network of independent retailers, of whom we're extremely proud and equally as committed to supporting as ever – if they grow, we grow".
Mark Tinnion, Managing Director of Pennine Home Improvements concludes: "We're really excited about joining forces with Conservatory Outlet and the opportunities for growth that it presents. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, and being closer to the manufacturing process can only enhance that."
Mark Billington and Matthew Fannon represented Allied Irish Bank (GB) on the deal. Mark Billington, Senior Relationship Manager said: ""The acquisition has great advantages for both parties and forms part of Conservatory Outlet's impressive strategic growth strategy. We have been delighted to support Conservatory Outlet since 2014 when owners Greg Kane and Michael Giscombe acquired full ownership of the business and we helped to fund the deal. They have a very successful and fast growing business and we are pleased to assist a local manufacturer to extend their presence as a market leader within the industry following this latest acquisition."
For further information on Conservatory Outlet, visit conservatoryoutlet.co.uk. For further information on Pennine Home Improvements, visit pennineconservatories.com
Advisors on the deal include international accountancy firm Mazars and legal advice provided by Legal advisors were Field Fisher LLP to Conservatory Outlet and Addleshaw Goddard LLP to Allied Irish Bank (GB).


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Vigen Kocharyan accepts delegation of the Advisory Committee on the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
On 6 April, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Vigen Kocharyan received the delegation of the Advisory Committee on the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities headed by Vice President of the Committee Ivana Jelić.
During the meeting, a number of issues concerning the protection of national minorities were discussed.
Vigen Kocharyan assured the members of the delegation that the authorities of the Republic of Armenia attach great importance to the ensuring of rights of national minorities, creation of broad opportunities for the representatives thereof in various sectors and implement a relevant policy in this direction. In this context, the Deputy Minister presented a number of legislative steps that have already been carried out and are planned to be carried out in relation to the rights of national minorities.
In particular, the Deputy Minister touched upon the relevant norm of the newly-adopted Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, which provides the national minorities with an opportunity to be represented in the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the regulations envisaged by the draft of the new Electoral Code of the Republic of Armenia in relation thereof.
Among the steps concerning the sector and those to be undertaken in future, Vigen Kocharyan also presented that laws on national minorities and on prevention of discrimination are being drafted. He underlined that these activities will be carried out in close co-operation with international organisations, representatives of the civil society and the national minorities, with a view to ensuring the exercise of their rights in line with the best European standards.
In this respect, the members of the delegation expressed readiness to assist in the process of international expertise of drafts.
Afterwards, the Deputy Minister responded to some sector-related questions that were of interest to the members of the delegation.
At the end of the meeting, the parties expressed readiness to extend an effective co-operation.


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Oh look. Another post from someone (me) telling you things to remind yourself of everyday, you only live once and life is fab and such – but the thing is; sometimes it's easy to slip into a daily struggle, a routine of nothingness, self comparison, self doubt, negativity and that overwhelming feeling of 'am I good enough? What am I even doing?' Well. Answer is, you absolutely are good enough, and here are 12 daily reminders I'd love you to remember for those particularly shitty days – or, just general prompts to help you understand things, or point you in a better direction.
The past cannot be changed
The past is one of the only things in life that can't be edited, it can't be erased and it can rarely be forgotten. Yup, awful things happened when you were younger – but each hardship is a lesson and each lesson gives you the chance for you to grow. You may have made a mistake a few weeks ago or did something you regret, but yesterday is in the past and today is a new day – don't ever dwell on your mistakes. You're only human and shit happens. Begin again!
Kindness is free
It costs absolutely nothing to be nice; choose kindness and as my old pal Ellen says – 'be kind to one another' – it's that simple.
Smiles are contagious
I remember seeing a poster in a classroom at school that read 'attitudes are infectious, make yours worth catching' – and it stuck with me ever since. If you smile at someone, chances are they'll smile back, and you'll share a lovely little moment. Just like if someone smiles at you; you feel inclined to return a grin. It's like when a parent watches their kid's smiling at Disneyland and they can't help but match their expressions; I love seeing someone smile or laugh at something – I can't help but smile too!
Everyone's journey is different
I tweeted something the other day that really made sense to a lot of my followers. 'Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time to'. You absolutely can't compare how you are or how your life is going to someone else's – remember that people only show you what they want you to see. Social media is an absolute no-go if you feel low – you'll start seeing perfect images of perfect lives – but remember – we all choose to click 'publish', we know exactly what we are and aren't sharing with the world. Everyone's behind the scenes is different, you may be on your chapter 1 and them on their chapter 27, etc etc – just do the very best you can, and strive to be the best you possible. I have life-long illnesses that I struggle with daily – I've accepted that I'll never be able to do certain things or be a certain way – but I do my best with what life has thrown at me – you do you girl!
Positive thoughts create positive things
Try it – they really do!
You only fail if you quit
It's as simple as that – look at it this way; every time you try, you have the potential and the opportunity to succeed – if you don't do it that time, you can learn why not, and how you can go about things next time. If you just point black don't try – obv your going to fail, there's no other outcome! You may as well try and learn, all with the chance of success!
Overthinking leads to negativity
We all overthink things. Make things bigger or worse than they actually are. It's so easily done but a huge waste of time – it will keep any problem a problem, which will keep you stuck inside the same problem until you're able to stop thinking about it. Over-thinking leads you to begin second guessing yourself and creates self-doubt, as well as making you worry, and worry is nothing more than your imagination coming up with a negative outcome. It makes you ask 'what if', and makes you question yourself. Overthinking can't do any good, so… let's try not to, deal?!
Opinions don't define your reality
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. People will talk. No matter what you do or say, how you behave, the way you walk or dress, how you act, or the decisions you make, we will always be scrutinized by others. We allow other people's opinions to not only hurt us, but often at times, to define us. In a world of likes and favourites, we often start to define our self-worth by an approval rating from others. We allow other peoples opinions or what they think about us to influence how we feel about ourselves. Huh?! How does that make sense?! They don't know your journey, where you've been or where you're heading. You know you, and your opinion of yourself is the one you should listen to. You'll never please everyone with your choices – as long as you're pleasing yourself! One of my favourite quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt rings so true – 'Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.'
What goes around, comes around
Karma, y'all!
What are some of your favourite daily reminders? What do you think is important to remember?


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Individuals who undergo lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) are at a high risk for receiving false-positive results, according to the results of a study presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Orlando, Florida.[1]
Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world and is the leading cause of cancer death, with 160,000 deaths in the United States annually. No screening procedure for lung cancer has been proven to decrease the number of lung cancer deaths, and there is currently no consensus as to the best way to screen for lung cancer. Historically, physicians have used imaging tests (such as LDCT and chest X-ray) and sputum cytology to detect lung cancer. New screening procedures continue to be evaluated and refined.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted a study that involved 1,610 patients who underwent screening with LDCT and 1,580 who underwent screening with chest X-ray. All participants in the study were current or former smokers between the ages of 55 and 74. All subjects underwent baseline screening followed by another screening exam one year later. They were then followed for an additional year.
A positive screen was defined as any noncalcified nodule greater than 4 millimeters or any other radiographic finding deemed suspicious for cancer. A false-positive was defined as a positive screen that was then followed by a completed negative work-up or 12 or more months of follow-up with no cancer diagnosis. After analyzing the screening results, the researchers then quantified the cumulative risk of receiving a false-positive result from lung cancer screening. In the LDCT group, the risk of a false-positive result was 21% after one scan and 33% after the second. In the chest X-ray group, the risk of a false-positive result was 9% after one X-ray and 15% after the second.
The researchers concluded that there is a significant risk of receiving a false-positive result with LDCT screening and this could result in a potential economic burden on the system as well as cause unnecessary stress among individuals being screened.
[1] Crosswell JM, Baker SG, Marcus PM, et al. Cumulative risk for a false-positive test using low-dose computed tomography in lung cancer screening. Presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, May 29-June 2, 2009, Orlando, FL. Abstract CRA1502.
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Scientists have determined a chain of mysterious radio signals. These signals are detected from the dwarf galaxy. Dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy. It is away from 3 billion light years.
Breakthrough Listen is a program to find extraterrestrial communications in the Universe. Scientists with Breakthrough Listen have discovered 15 radio bursts. These radio bursts are very fast. These fast radio bursts are called FRB 121102. The first signal was detected on 2 November of 2012. Some other FRBs are also noticed. The most important thing about this FRB is that it was caught again in the year of 2015. Its location was identified after one year. Breakthrough Listen to used tools at Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. They used the instruments more than 5 hours on Saturday to find out the location. In a news, the organization said that they have found out 15 bursts over 4 to 8 GHz frequency.
Statement of Scientists
A scientist of Harvard has theorized that these radio bursts can be the beams which are organized by extragalactic civilizations. The astronomer of Netherland Emily Petroff has also written about the fast radio bursts. She stated that they don't know what is generating radio bursts. According to her, it can't be the work of aliens.
The FRBs Come From Dwarf Galaxy!!
It is very shocking that these radio bursts come from the dwarf galaxy. Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University Canada said on the news that it is very surprising that the FRBs are coming from Dwarf Galaxy which is very small. FRBs are supposed to come from the galaxy which has more stars.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
night of the hallowed eve
I love halloween. I love handing out candy and decorating my front entry. Just wanted to share some of the 'welcome to our home' goodness. I don't have much to talk about as I pretty much had to work late every single day this week. Now I need to scoot out and get some candy...and hide it so the Babe does not empty the stash like he did last year...and then I really think it would be fun to make cake this weekend. The next few weeks are crazy at work as I have deadlines and I am traveling quite a bit, so this weekend I am enjoying a bit of quiet and home life.
Happy trick 'r treating everyone!
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With an industry-wide average 58% of spend going towards services procurement, having a rock-solid strategy and roadmap in place is vital. A lot of practitioners hear the term "services procurement" and immediately think "contingent labor" or "vendor managed services." The truth is a lot broader and deeper than that.
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Big decline in HPV since vaccine
RESEARCHERS have found that the decline in vaccine-type human papillomavirus (HPV) in young women since the HPV vaccine was introduced in the US was higher than expected, despite a low vaccine uptake by 2010, of only 32% for three doses among 13–17-year-olds. The research, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, found that among females aged 14–19 years, the vaccine-type HPV prevalence decreased from 11.5% in the pre-vaccine era (2003–2006) to 5.1% in the vaccine era (2007–2010), a decline of 56%. Among other age groups, the prevalence did not differ significantly. The researchers also found that the vaccine effectiveness of at least one dose was 82%. They said that the higher than expected decline in cases could be due to herd immunity from vaccination, vaccine effectiveness of a series involving fewer than three doses, and/or changes in sexual behaviour that were not measured. "This decline is encouraging, given the substantial health and economic burden of HPV-associated disease", the researchers wrote.
Statin toxicity warning with antibiotics
CANADIAN researchers have advised doctors to take steps to avoid coprescription of clarithromycin or erythromycin with atorvastatin, simvastatin or lovastatin in older patients because of the risk of serious statin toxicity. Their research, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed coprescription was associated with an increased risk of being hospitalised with rhabdomyolysis or acute kidney injury, and all-cause mortality. "Given the frequency at which statins are prescribed (atorvastatin is currently the most commonly prescribed drug in Canada), and the high rate of coprescription seen in our study and in other jurisdictions, this preventable drug–drug interaction remains clinically important", the researchers wrote. "Our study can help convince health care providers about the importance of these interactions." The researchers followed continuous statin users older than 65 years who were prescribed clarithromycin (n = 72 591) or erythromycin (n= 3267) for 30 days and compared them with those prescribed azithromycin (n = 68 478). The researchers have called for more research to better understand antibiotic interactions with non-azithromycin, inhibit cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 3A4-metabolised statins, such as rosuvastatin.
Pollution risk factor for autism
PERINATAL exposure to air pollutants may be a risk factor for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to research published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The research, based on children born to women participating in the Nurses Health Study II, observed significant positive linear trends between pollutant concentration and ASD for diesel particulate matter, lead, manganese, methylene chloride, mercury and nickel. Diesel and mercury were most strongly associated with ASD, and these were positively associated with ASD in both boys and girls. Pollution estimates were based on the US Environmental Protection Agency models of hazardous air pollutants at the time and place of birth and ASD in the children (325 cases, 22 101 controls). The analyses focused on pollutants associated with ASD in previous research. Perinatal exposures to the highest versus lowest quintile of diesel, lead, manganese, mercury, methylene chloride and an overall measure of metals were significantly associated with ASD, with odds ratios ranging from 1.5 (for overall metals measure) to 2.0 (for diesel and mercury). For most pollutants, associations were stronger for boys (279 cases) than girls (46 cases) and significantly different according to sex.
Prenatal iron boosts birthweight
A META-analysis of prenatal iron use, published in the BMJ, shows significant reductions in maternal anaemia, iron deficiency, iron deficiency anaemia, and risk of low birthweight with daily use. It also showed that higher doses of iron were associated with a linear increase in birthweight. The analysis involved 17 793 women in 48 randomised trials and more than 850 000 women in 44 cohort studies. Iron use increased maternal mean haemoglobin concentration by 4.59 g/L compared with controls and significantly reduced the risk of anaemia (relative risk [RR], 0.50; 0.42‒0.59), iron deficiency (RR, 0.59; 0.46‒0.79), iron deficiency anaemia (RR, 0.40; 0.26‒0.60), and low birthweight (RR, 0.81; 0.71‒0.93). The effect of iron on preterm birth was not significant. The researchers also found that for every 10 mg increase in iron dose per day — up to 66 mg/day — the relative risk of maternal anaemia was 0.88 (0.84‒0.92). The WHO recommends 60 mg iron/day. "We showed a positive, linear dose-response relation between iron dose up to 66 mg daily and risk of maternal anaemia, indicating a benefit of giving higher rather than lower doses over this range", the researchers wrote.
Women main victims in intimate partner homicide
AT least one in seven homicides globally and more than a third of female homicides are committed by an intimate partner, according to a systematic review involving data from 66 countries published in The Lancet. Overall, the researchers found that 13.5% of homicides were committed by an intimate partner, but the proportion for female homicides was 38.6% compared with 6.3% for male homicides. Median percentages for all homicides and for female intimate partner homicide were highest in high-income countries (all homicides, 14•9% v female homicides 41•2%) and in South-East Asia (18•8% v 58•8%). The researchers wrote that adjustments to account for unknown victim–offender relationships generally increased the prevalence, suggesting their results were conservative. "Strategies to reduce homicide risk include increased investment in intimate partner violence prevention, risk assessments at different points of care, support for women experiencing intimate partner violence, and control of gun ownership for people with a history of violence", they wrote. An accompanying commentary, coauthored by Dr Rosana Norman from the Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, said the study drew attention to "the enormous difficulties" in measuring intimate partner homicide and the need to improve data. "Improved information about victim–perpetrator relationship is crucial to inform prevention strategies", the commentary said.
PTSD fluctuates markedly
AUSTRALIAN researchers have found that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) levels fluctuate markedly in the initial years after a trauma exposure. The research, published in JAMA Psychiatry, tested the roles of initial psychiatric reactions, mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and ongoing stressors on delayed-onset PTSD. They found MTBI increased the risks of delayed PTSD, particularly in those with no acute symptoms. The prospective cohort study included 785 traumatically injured patients admitted to four major trauma hospitals in Australia who were followed up at 3, 12, and 24 months after injury. Of those who met the PTSD criteria at 24 months, 44.1% had reported no PTSD at 3 months and 55.9% had subsyndromal or full PTSD. In those who had no PTSD within days of the trauma, this status remained constant for at least 80% at each assessment. However, a significant proportion of participants with subsyndromal or full PTSD at baseline had variable trajectories in the ensuing 2 years. Of the 26 participants with PTSD at baseline, 42.3% had PTSD 2 years later. The researchers said their study demonstrated that, over time, there was not a linear relationship between acute trauma response and PTSD and that levels initially fluctuate markedly. "Identifying the factors that contribute to these fluctuations at different points during adaptation will facilitate attempts at prevention, treatment, and relapse prevention", they wrote.
Dialysis iron dosing risks
A LARGE comparative study of the infection risk associated with different intravenous iron dosing practices in patients undergoing chronic haemodialysis has found bolus dosing was associated with an increased risk of infection requiring hospitalisation compared with maintenance dosing. The research, published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, found that although the relative risk was small, the absolute risk of infection was large. The researchers also observed a slightly increased risk of infection associated with total monthly iron doses greater than 200 mg. The retrospective cohort study of haemodialysis patients, using clinical data from 117 050 patients of a large US dialysis provider and US Medicare data, found that of 776 203 potential episodes of iron dosing and follow-up, 13% involved bolus dosing, 49% involved maintenance dosing and 38% did not include exposure to iron. The researchers found that patients receiving bolus versus maintenance iron were at increased risk of infection-related hospitalisation (25 additional events/1000 patient-years) during a 3-month follow-up. Risks were highest among patients with a catheter (73 additional events/1000 patient-years) and a recent infection (57 events/1000 patient-years). "These results suggest that maintenance iron supplementation may result in fewer infections than bolus dosing, particularly among patients with a catheter", the researchers wrote.


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The components of a machine which can help in lifting a load along with creating a rotational movement are popularly called plain bearings. Lubrication in such parts is essential because they have to endure a lot of friction during the time of operation. The places in the machine where the load is supported tend to wear out with time. The use of the most appropriate plain bearings can reduce the amount of wear and tear that takes place. Using the lubricants made by TTV GMBH can make the situation even better. You should know about the most viable and reliable lubricating material suitable to your mechanical device. You can get a relevant full list here by browsing online.
The components of plain bearingsDifferent types of plain bearings may have separately designed parts. But there are some common elements irrespective of the kind which you are using. It is evident that all plain bearings must carry out two vital tasks – supporting a load and creating a sliding/ rotational motion. The components of a plain bearing which carry out the two specifically mentioned jobs separately are called support and Bush respectively.
Reducing friction is vital to your cause
The material used in manufacturing plain bearings must be able to reduce friction when the rotational or sliding movement of the bearing takes place. A mechanical engineer must understand the most suitable plain bearing that they can use to increase the efficiency of any machine. You can also opt for roller bearings if they are ideal for your device. Some of them are, and hence you can operate them even if you do not use any external lubricant.
Friction bearings for multiple purposes
The significance of high-quality bearings increases when the machine needs to operate using higher loads. Friction bearings are excellent because they can handle a lot of weight and pressure. But they will always require the highest-quality lubricant if you want to keep them in good shape. You can get online information about them and understand all their pros and cons. Once you are aware of their advantages as well as demerits, you can take the aptest decisions.
Bearings that require constant lubrication
You may also choose to install hydrostatic bearings in your mechanical devices. They are top-notch in terms of quality and efficiency. However, the maintenance cost of these products can be quite high. You should be prepared to spend substantial amounts on buying and using lubricating materials. Selection of the best and most suitable lubricants also becomes essential. But the results will make sure that you continue using them for prolonged periods without any drop in efficiency.
The positioning of the various components
In case you select roller bearings, you must place them in the most viable position. If the placement is not correct and accurate, you will face multiple issues in operation. The axial will allow you to handle loads in a specific direction. Opting for a thrust position is often the best way to take things forward because it is suitable for multiple courses at the same time.


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